Virgo | Cancer Season 2025
The Universal Overlay
Cancer Season | June 20 - July 22
The Wheel Turns: Welcome to Cancer Season
As the Wheel of the Year crests into the Summer Solstice, we’re not just shifting zodiac seasons—we’re entering a whole new quarter of the year. Summer arrives in the Northern Hemisphere under the quiet leadership of Cancer, a cardinal sign that initiates not with fire and force, but with feeling.
Each quarter of the year begins with a cardinal sign—signs with the sacred gift of beginning. And Cancer ushers us into this new chapter with intuition, emotion, and a longing for rootedness. Unlike Aries’ bold spark or Libra’s airy dialogue, Cancer’s initiation is fluid, quiet, and deep—pulling us into the watery realm of memory, belonging, and the soul’s true desires.
This is the season to turn inward. To tend the soft spaces within and listen. What is your inner landscape trying to tell you about what you truly want? What does alignment feel like—not just in your mind, but in your body, your dreams, your longings?
Where Gemini's previous season brought ideas, social movement, and a thousand crisscrossing possibilities, Cancer asks us to gently prune. Choose a direction. Nurture one or two of those seedling visions into something real, something soul-fed. Let this be the moment you begin to walk the path—not all paths, just your path.
Cancer Season is ruled by the feminine: by the archetypal mother, the nurturing protector, the builder of homes and safe harbors. It invites us to check in with our emotional foundations. How do you feel held in life? Where do you feel safe to rest, to be vulnerable, to soften? This season asks for boundaries—not as barriers, but as loving containers. Boundaries that honor your energy, your privacy, your people, and your peace.
It’s the perfect season for family picnics by the water, for slow mornings and shared meals with those who nourish your spirit. There’s a tenderness in the air. A softening. Notice who you gravitate toward. Is there safety in their presence? Let them feel yours, too.
And while community is a balm this season, so is solitude. Cancer rules the subconscious. This is a dreamy time for journaling, for long aimless daydreams, for fiction that transports you to inner worlds rich with meaning. The heat of the sun drives us inward—not in withdrawal, but in sacred retreat. Gemini’s high mental buzz gives way to a more graceful unwinding of the mind. Let your thoughts drift. Let your imagination wander.
Ruled by the Moon—our ever-shifting queen of tides and moods—Cancer Season is an emotional ebb and flow. Luna changes signs every 2.5 days, coloring the atmosphere with ever-shifting hues. One day, you may feel open-hearted and ready to pour your soul into the world. The next, you may crave silence and sanctuary. Trust the rhythm. Tend to both the internal and external sunburns—what’s been overexposed needs cool balm, not pressure to push through. Let yourself be visible when the mood calls, and tucked away when it doesn’t. Offer that same grace to others. We are all moving through tides.
Across the zodiac, the Earth in Capricorn stands in balance to the sun’s watery sway. This is the ground beneath your barefoot dreams. Let your career, your aspirations, your sense of responsibility offer quiet structure—like a trellis supporting a blooming vine. You don’t need to strive right now. Let the life you’ve built, and are building, hold you. Especially around the Capricorn Full Moon, notice where your longing for mastery and integrity intersects with your emotional needs.
Above all, ease up. Journey through this season with deep breath and long exhalation. Explore soul over speed, roots over reach, presence over performance.
See what you discover when you soften into the soulfulness of summer.How the Season Activates You
Your Dimensional Growth
Sun in The 11th House | Nurturing your Awakening
As the Sun moves through the signs and houses, it shines a light on a dimension of you. This helps you to become well-rounded and develop holistically.
With Cancer Season activating your eleventh house of friendships and awakenings, networks become a focal point. Your analytical mind often seeks organization, but now, emotional excitement takes precedence. Engage with groups or causes that nourish you on a deep level. Collaborative efforts can lead to soulfully aligned progress.
There is a quiet electricity humming through the current of your emotional core—an intuitive genius that, when tapped, can light up the collective. Your imagination is not just yours; it’s a gift meant to ripple outward, to spark inspiration in others. Michael Jackson, a fellow Virgo, embodied this capacity—channeling deep emotional creativity into something that moved the masses.
You don’t need to be on a stage to do the same. Your power lies in offering your imagination freely, especially within groups, through digital spaces, with the use of technology, and as a visionary presence in your communities.
On June 24th, the Sun and Jupiter meet in their luminous annual conjunction—a moment of radiant growth. Jupiter, now exalted in Cancer for the coming year, expands what it touches with soulful wisdom and emotional resonance. This is an auspicious time to envision how your unique brilliance can serve the greater good.
Let your originality unfurl in ways that build connection, stir progress, and breathe life into collective dreams. This season invites you to collaborate from your soulful depths, to imagine fertile futures, and to trust that your emotional originality is a guiding light for the world.
The Cancer New Moon on June 25th is an excellent time to set intentions around the future you envision for yourself and the networks that support this. Nurture groups and technology that inspire and uplift your imagination; they are integral to your soul’s progress.
The animating guide of The Season
Your Lunar Month | Bookends of wisdom
Luna is the ruling body of the season, creating a seasonal ambiance of mood and imagination. She will touch every part of your chart as she ebbs and flows with gentle speed. Her reflective glow brings insights to all aspects of your life. Listen to her intuitive whispers as she helps you ground into deeper alignment from the inside out.
Flowing through the moon's phases and the sacred geometry of your chart, each week invites you into an ambiance of greater refinement, discernment, and soulful devotion.
🌗 Last Quarter Moon → New Moon | Transformation & Sharing
As the moon wanes through your 9th and 10th houses, you’re asked to share what you’ve learned. Your beliefs are evolving—can you speak your truth with softness? Let go of outdated ambitions that no longer hold your heart. Something wiser is calling from the horizon. This is a week to transmute expectations into soulful offerings. Your wisdom becomes medicine when shared with humility and care.
June 25–July 2
🌑 New Moon → First Quarter Moon | Intention, Detachment & Rejuvenation
The Cancer New Moon lands in your 11th house of future vision and collective care. This is your chance to reimagine your role in the greater whole. What dreams do you want to nourish with your precision and insight? Detach from the need for instant clarity—this is a fertile void. Rest in the knowing that even stillness holds purpose. Set intentions that feel emotionally sustainable. Trust the slow bloom.
July 2–July 10
🌓 First Quarter Moon → Full Moon | Initiation & Assertion
The moon activates your 2nd house, asking you to move from raw passion into embodied selfhood. This is your week to assert your creative beauty gently but clearly. A quiet confidence grows from within. Let your inner world guide your outer presence. Initiate what feels soul-aligned, even if it’s subtle. You’re allowed to take up space—let it be space shaped by care, discernment, and sacred purpose.
July 10–July 17
🌕 Full Moon → Last Quarter Moon | Maturity & Refinement
The Capricorn Full Moon ripens in your 5th house of creativity and sacred play. This is a time of maturation—let your gifts refine through expression. Polish your crafts, share your passions, and reflect on how you love. There is deep beauty in the way you nurture others with precision and presence. Own your worth as an artist of life. Release perfection. Embrace joyful integrity.
July 17–22
🌗 Last Quarter Moon → Season’s End | Transformation & Sharing (Again)
The moon passes through Taurus and Gemini, activating your 9th and 10th houses once more. As Cancer Season closes, you return to the big picture. What has this cycle taught you about your path, your purpose, and how you want to serve? Let your voice articulate the truth your spirit has gathered. Share generously. Teach from the heart. Transform routine into ritual. Let the world feel the wisdom of your devotion.
Your Ground and Materialization of the Season
Earth in The 5th House | Devoted Command
In tandem with dimensional growth in our solar season, Earth’s placement, directly opposite the Sun’s reach and exerting energy, shows the dimension of us that has become the fertile ground maturing underfoot. It’s normal to feel like our efforts in a solar season aren’t paying off, but they will, in time, when that sign becomes the Earth’s sign, the ground holding us, embodied and tangible. Look to the Earth sign to tend to what is maturing and growing in your roots and soul, that needs you to be receptive and caring.
As the Cancer Sun draws you toward community and care-based dreams, the Earth in Capricorn brings you home to your own creative spark. Ground your hopes by tending the hearth of your creativity.
Feel the fertile ground of your responsible heart. Let it hold you now with soothing support. Embody your charismatic playfulness as you open to your soul’s path and the processing required to receive and integrate your focused leadership so it can feel at home within you.
The July 10th Full Moon could illuminate where disciplined joy—structured play, creative dedication—can serve your heart’s deepest longings. The duality of our need to shine and become versus feel and receive arises at our full moons. It’s a time to bring your radiant, caring friendship and the roots of your integral command into equal and opposite alignment.
Personal & Continuous aims
Your Radiant becoming
PHASE OF Virgo’s YEARLY SEEDS | Exhaling & Investigating
Separate from the Sun shining a light on our different dimensions through the signs and houses, we have another solar journey—a spiral journey of Conscious Evolution and Radiant Becoming—the path of illumination. I track this journey from your sign’s new moon to its next new moon, with a formula that’s a bit my own.
The new moon seeds you are working with carry the essence of a return to your core sense of purpose. You are on a mission to reignite passion and clarity around the work you do, your daily rhythms and practices, and the curation of a lifestyle that feels vital, balanced, and well.
At the start of Cancer Season, your becoming is in a phase of sacred unraveling as you move into the final quarter of your journey. You are shedding excess and working to return to the essence of what you truly value, enriched by the understanding you have recently gained. Let life become a mirror, helping you see more clearly the patterns you’ve unconsciously created. Prune what no longer resonates. Allow this process to lighten your load and help you exhale.
Around July 2nd, you move into an even deeper phase of unraveling. Mysteries call you to follow threads of psychological inquiry. It’s a time to witness the power dynamics in your life and notice how they are making you feel—integrated or fractured. In that witnessing, you find the power to mend what has been sabotaged in the shadows, reviving the blocked currents of your life force. It’s a time to find your empowered precision through strategic vulnerability and entangling with true hearts.
Your Archetypal Journey
MErcury in The 11th/12th | Potent Inspiration
The planet that rules your sign gives you an archetype—a leading character flavor. This planet is a central part of how you show up and your personal agenda. We go on journeys in the skin of our archetypes, like leading characters in books and films. Your ruler, Mercury, is the Trickster, the Alchemist, the Problem-Solver, and the Holy Fool.
Mercury: The Trickster-Alchemist/Your Ruler | Stage: Transmission to Integration | Signs: Cancer/Leo | Houses: 11th/12th | Aries 8th House-Themed Journey
The Trickster in the Dreaming: Speaking Secrets of the Collective Soul
This Trickster tale began in your 8th house—deep water. The realm of psychic cords, shared energies, secret grief, and sacred power. Something cracked open in that liminal territory—perhaps a loss, a merging, or a buried truth rising to the surface.
Aries brought fire to your emotional underworld. Suddenly, you couldn’t pretend you didn’t know what you knew. Instinct overruled logic. Feeling surged through the system. The Trickster stirred.
Then Mercury moved through your 11th house of Cancer, entering the Transmission phase—the moment the Trickster becomes Messenger. Now, what was once private begins to echo outward. You may feel called to name uncomfortable truths in your communities. To disrupt harmony with necessary honesty. To challenge group dynamics, even where you once felt held.
This is not cruelty—it is consecrated honesty.
It is the Trickster asking:
– Do your ideals reflect your heart, or someone else’s blueprint?
– Can you stay true to your emotional clarity while still belonging?
– What future are you actually feeding with your voice?
And then, on June 26, Mercury enters Leo, your 12th house, and within days crosses into the Integration phase of the Trickster’s cycle. This is a sacred turning. What you’ve learned no longer demands to be shared. It begins to saturate your inner life, lighting up the symbolic realm of dreams, memory, and myth.
You are no longer broadcasting. You are listening.
Not to the group. Not even to yourself as you’ve known you.
But to the vast radiance of your unconscious wisdom.
What you've witnessed in others’ wounds (8th),
what you’ve questioned in the collective dream (11th),
now dissolves into gold inside your inner cave.
This is a time of quiet brilliance.
The Trickster, now a Dreamweaver, speaks through metaphor, prayer, riddle, and image.
This is where the sacred joke becomes a private healing spell.
This is where the soul rewrites its script in the secret language of firelight and intuition.
By the time Mercury stations retrograde on July 18, you’ll be fully inside the mirror of mystery. The Trickster does not vanish—it becomes your inner narrator, shaping how you remember, how you imagine, how you carry meaning in your body.
This is not the moment to explain.
It is the moment to feel the poem forming inside you.
Journal. Dream. Doodle. Cry.
Let the riddles arrive.
Let the metaphors rewire you.
When the time comes, you will speak again—
not with proof,
but with presence.
Not with a quote,
but with a knowing that heals through feeling.
To round out your horoscope, check your natal moon sign’s ‘13 Moons’ stage to see how your mood is creating atmosphere and receptivity in your life. This is also where to head to do personal work and journeys at the New and Full Moons of the season.