Pisces | 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 5th House | Tending to Your light
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 illuminating your fifth house of creativity, romance, and performance, your intuitive nature is in its element. Engage in creative pursuits or activities that bring joy and allow your imagination to flourish. Romantic endeavors may blossom—approach them with gentleness and imagination.
As the Sun begins to illuminate your tender heart, it also awakens your quiet power. This is your season to step into a soulful kind of command—a leadership that nourishes, inspires, and deeply cares. Let your courage be rooted in compassion. Let your presence stir something sacred in others. Lead not with force, but with warmth that invites unity and healing.
Let your vulnerability become your radiance. Bring your imagination to the stage and let your loving essence ripple outward to those who look your way. The world doesn’t need perfection—it needs your heart, unguarded and true.
On June 24th, the Sun and Jupiter join in their annual blessing—this time in Cancer, Jupiter’s place of exaltation. It’s a beautifully potent moment to dream into the expansive power of your soulful heart. What new forms of courage are ready to emerge? How might you embody caring leadership, creative care, and radiant emotional presence?
Let yourself push the boundaries of what it means to be seen—not just as a performer or figure, but as a living wellspring of nurturing light.
The Cancer New Moon rises the following morning, on June 25th at 4:31 a.m. MT. This moon invites you to retreat within, to reflect and plant seeds around how you wish to embody heartfelt care and expressive sensitivity in the coming year. How do you want to shine with warmth that feeds others—and feels safe to your spirit?
The animating guide of The Season
Your Lunar Month | Bookended in connection
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.
Allow yourself to be woven with the poetic soul of Luna’s flow. Find your sensitivity reflected to you with nuanced insight and composed depth. Tend to the inner realms accessed through the tides of your compassionate emotional pull.
🌗 June 20–25
Last Quarter Moon → New Moon | Transformation & Sharing
Your voice has magic, Pisces, and this week you’re invited to share the song of your becoming. With the Moon slipping through Taurus, Gemini, and into your solar 5th house of creativity, you may feel the urge to express what’s been brewing quietly in your inner world. There’s healing in vulnerability. Let your stories, your art, your tender truths spill into safe spaces. You’re not alone. Transformation happens when you risk being seen.
🌑 June 25–July 2
New Moon → First Quarter Moon | Intention, Detachment & Rejuvenation
The Cancer New Moon lights up your solar 5th house, calling you to set intentions from your heart’s deepest well. What does your inner child hunger for? What brings your spirit alive in ways that soothe and spark you? This is a week to retreat gently and dream boldly. Detach from external validation and root yourself in joy for joy’s sake. Let beauty be your compass.
🌓 July 2–July 10
First Quarter Moon → Full Moon | Initiation & Assertion
Your lunar momentum builds as the Moon dances through Libra, Scorpio, Sagittarius, and into your 11th house of community and vision. It’s time to step forward. Take inspired action toward creative collaboration, soul-aligned friendships, or future dreams. Assert your hopes. There’s a fire rising within your watery core—one that longs to be part of the greater weave of humanity. Your intuition is a torch. Carry it forward.
🌕 July 10–July 17
Full Moon → Last Quarter Moon | Maturity & Refinement
The Capricorn Full Moon illuminates your 11th house—your place in the collective. What dreams are truly yours, and which have been adopted unconsciously? Let this week refine your path. With the Moon moving into Aquarius and Pisces, you may need space to release attachments, clarify values, and mature your vision. A deeper wisdom is emerging: you are both the dream and the dreamer.
🌗 July 17–July 22
Last Quarter Moon → Season's End | Transformation & Sharing (Again)
As the season closes, the Moon returns to Taurus and Gemini, echoing where we began. You are changed, Pisces. Share what you’ve learned, what you've felt, how you've grown. Reflect with others. Reconnect to your body and voice. Transformation deepens when it’s witnessed. Your softest insights now hold the most power. Let your soul speak, even in whispers—they will be heard.
Your Ground and Materialization of the Season
Earth in The 11th House | Foresightful Liberation
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.
While Cancer Season opens your heart to romance, expression, and emotional creativity, Earth in Capricorn stabilizes you through long-term dreams and collective purpose. Who are you building with, and for what soul-rooted vision?
Feel the fertile ground of your collaborative and innovative stature. Let this hold you now with soothing support. Embody your radical focus as you open to your soul’s path and the processing required to receive and integrate your authoritative originality so it can feel at home within you.
At the July 10th Full Moon, you may see your role in the wider tapestry more clearly—and feel the grounded joy of belonging. 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 heart and the roots of your aspirational rebellion into equal and opposite alignment.
Personal & Continuous aims
Your Radiant becoming
PHASE OF Pisces’ YEARLY SEEDS | Clearing & Beautifying
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.
Your seeds this year are embedded with a return to your natural state of surrender. As you clear out the closet of a past chapter of life, you release the weight and overlays that have stood in the way of trusting the universe to steer your course with magic, open-heartedness, and faith in the flow of life. Your passion, aligned with this kind of trust, will naturally lead you toward more lit-up directions. You are releasing ego, expectations, and resistance in order to find your true north this year.
At the start of Cancer Season, your yearly seeds of becoming have only just broken ground, emerging from the liminal incubation stage into a phase of taking action, clearing away the debris of a winter phase, and reconnecting with impulse. What truly lights you up and gives you energy? Pay attention to what sparks motivation and allows you to make decisions that might feel contrary to where your energy has recently been. Make a left turn on instinct. Don’t be fragile or discouraged by falls along the way. Right now, it’s more about connecting with passion than succeeding. Be a beginner. Find a little luck along the way. Magic follows your energetic yeses!
Around June 30th, your yearly seeds move further into their spring phase. Like tending a garden, it’s a time to create the right conditions. What soil, light, water, fertilizer, neighboring energies, and challenges are needed for you to thrive? On a more concrete level, it’s a time of becoming more embodied, attending to beauty, and shaping your physical world. Values may stir sharper black-and-white sensitivities—and that’s okay. Sometimes it’s the hard polarities in life that help us recognize how different sides can still offer vital support.
Your Archetypal Journey
jupiter in The 5th house | Overcoming Creative Blocks
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, Jupiter, the Spiritual Guide, the Poet-Saint, the Dreamer, and the Mystic.
Jupiter: The Spiritual Guide/Your Ruler | Stage: Test of Faith | Sign: Cancer | House: 5th | Gemini 4th House-Themed Journey
Theme: Creative Devotion, Soul Expression, and Trusting the Heart’s Voice
This chapter of your life began in the hush of your inner sanctuary. When Jupiter first whispered to you from your 4th house of home and origin, it was asking: Where do you belong, truly? What stories live in the walls of your inner world? What ancestral wisdom or emotional pattern was ready to be rewritten—not through logic, but through love?
That was the seed. A need to find or redefine a sacred kind of safety.
Now, Jupiter has landed in your Cancer-ruled 5th house, but this isn’t the usual lighthearted leap into play and pleasure. This is the Test of Faith—the moment where the spiritual journey deepens, and your joy asks for more than performance. It asks for trust. Vulnerability. Devotion to the divine spark within.
You may find yourself questioning your creative gifts:
Am I good enough to share this with the world?
Is it safe to shine like I did as a child—unguarded and full of wonder?
This phase calls you not just to create—but to reveal something real. To express the soul, even if it trembles. To believe that what you bring forth from your imagination can nourish, heal, and inspire.
And with Cancer here, the muse is emotional. It’s memory, lineage, longing. It’s painting from your dreams, writing from your grief, dancing through your inner tides. It’s play as prayer. Performance as protection. Love as legacy.
Spiritual Invitations:
What is aching to be expressed through me, even if it feels tender or uncertain?
How did I learn to protect my joy? Is it time to set that shield down?
What does devotion to my creativity—rather than pressure—feel like?
Pisces, you are the dreamer who carries the universe in your heart. Now, your task is not to understand the vision, but to trust it enough to give it shape. This is your radiant risk. Your sacred faith. Not to just receive the dream—but to become it.
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.