Scorpio | 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 9th House | Nourishing Your Perspective
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 energizing your ninth house of higher learning and exploration, your transformative nature seeks new horizons. This is a time to expand your mind and embrace different perspectives. Travel, whether physical or intellectual, can provide profound insights. Engage in studies or spiritual practices that challenge and inspire your imagination of what could be.
Tap into the deep well of your nourishing, soulful perspectives. Let them guide you as you reach toward more expansive ways of feeling secure—spiritually, emotionally, and imaginatively. This is a time to explore what it means to believe in a world that is both tender and wise. Share stories and teachings that honor care, women, and the power of emotional truth. Let your vision of a more fertile, compassionate world stretch beyond the familiar edges.
On June 24th, the luminous Sun-Jupiter conjunction arrives, lighting up your chart with rare grace. Jupiter has just entered Cancer, where it is both exalted and aligned with your natural ninth house of philosophy, faith, and far-reaching purpose. This makes the moment especially potent for you. It's time to imagine what soulful expansion looks like when it is deeply rooted in care—what it means to share wisdom that heals, inspires, and protects.
Let this season be a call to rise—to dream wider, believe deeper, and teach from the heart.
The Cancer New Moon on June 25th is ideal for setting intentions around education, travel, or philosophical pursuits. Allow yourself to grow beyond familiar boundaries; transformation awaits.
The animating guide of The Season
Your Lunar Month | Relational Bookends
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.
Woven through the rhythm of the moon’s phases and the houses it illuminates in your chart, each week is an invitation to deepen, shed, rise, and renew.
June 20–25
🌗 Last Quarter Moon → New Moon | Transformation & Sharing
The moon drifts through your 6th and 7th houses, stirring the sacred in the everyday and the intimacy in your partnerships. This week, transformation arrives through what you give your energy to—your work, your wellness, your willingness to be seen in your softer truths. Share your inner life with someone who can hold it. Let the way you love and labor be re-ritualized. Healing happens in the tending.
June 25–July 2
🌑 New Moon → First Quarter Moon | Intention, Detachment & Rejuvenation
The Cancer New Moon lights up your 9th house—your realm of soul philosophy, dreaming wide, and seeing with the heart. This is a potent time to release what you’ve outgrown spiritually and open to new truths. Set intentions that nourish your sense of meaning. Detach from beliefs that once protected you but now confine you. Let curiosity guide your next chapter. Rejuvenate in nature or under the night sky—your soul needs space to breathe.
July 2–July 10
🌓 First Quarter Moon → Full Moon | Initiation & Assertion
With the moon rising through your 10th and 11th houses, a new mission begins to clarify. This is a week of stepping into your soul’s visibility—your purpose, your people, your wider call. Initiate projects that contribute to a future you believe in. Assert your unique gifts. Collaborate with those who honor your depth. You were made to influence the world in ways that heal the unseen.
July 10–July 17
🌕 Full Moon → Last Quarter Moon | Maturity & Refinement
The Capricorn Full Moon illuminates your 3rd house—communication, perception, and daily magic. This week, maturity looks like thoughtful dialogue, discerning language, and wisdom in how you share your story. What you say holds weight. Speak with emotional intelligence. Anchor your mind in rituals that support your growth. There’s refinement in your inner voice—listen closely.
July 17–22
🌗 Last Quarter Moon → Season’s End | Transformation & Sharing (Again)
The moon journeys back to your 7th house as the season draws to a close. This final phase invites you into heartfelt transformation—through the resonance of your being and the harmony of your soul. Share yourself peacefully, diplomatically, and with trust. Let old emotional armor soften into cooperative fire. This is your time to become more committed to valuable partnering.
Your Ground and Materialization of the Season
Earth in the 3rd House | Respectable Community
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 inspires you to seek wisdom, travel inward, and expand emotionally, Earth in Capricorn steadies you through ritual thought, reflective writing, and the discipline of clear communication.
Feel the fertile ground of your respectable mind and connections. Let these hold you now with soothing support. Embody your community focus as you open to your soul’s path and the processing required to receive and integrate your reliable connectivity so it can feel at home within you.
At the July 10th Full Moon, let your ideas become a channel for deep truth. What story are you telling that needs more grounded information? 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 perspectives and the roots of your focused mind into equal and opposite alignment.
Personal & Continuous aims
Your Radiant becoming
PHASE OF Scorpio’s YEARLY SEEDS | Shining & Refining
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 have an essence of revival. It’s a year of redefining your power, your entanglements, and your psychological wisdom. It’s a year to purge what’s no longer lighting your strategic core up to make space for new things to delve into, new underworld to uproot, and new resurrections to attend to.
As you enter Cancer Season, your becoming is starting to feel stronger, more courageous, and more creative in approaching fresh mysteries. You may be more willing to go toe-to-toe with collaborators and foes. It’s all about creative communion and putting your heart into the world.
Around June 30th, you start to move more toward purpose. What does your light serve? What purpose feels right, possibly different than what you set out for it to be. This is a time to trim the fat, make priorities, and organize your shine so it’s more productively pointed. What is the technique of your becoming?
Mars in The 11th House | Soulful networks
Your Archetypal Journey
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, Mars, is the Lunar Hero, the Strategist, the Transformer, and the Psychological Warrior.
Mars: The Lunar Hero/Your Ruler | Stage: The Road of Trials | Sign: Virgo | House: 11th | Cancer-Themed Quest
The Hero in you walks not alone. Mars, your ancient ruler, travels the networks and sacred constellations of your life—those glimmering dreamscapes of vision and collective purpose known as the 11th house. But this isn’t a parade of popularity. This is the road of trials, where your courage is tested not on the battlefield of the self, but in the realm of shared future, ideals, and soul-friends.
n Virgo, Mars sharpens its blade of discernment. Here, your trials come in the form of purification: of your hopes, your group ties, and your soul’s idea of what humanity could be. Who truly nourishes your vision? What ideals actually root you in safety, belonging, and emotional reciprocity—and which are hollow scaffolding, built to impress, not to protect?
Cancer’s themes cradle your journey like a moonlit tide. You're being called to form emotional alliances, to protect what is tender within the collective, and to seek soul-deep companionship in the work of dreaming a better world. But Mars in Virgo demands refinement: are you contributing from a place of integrity? Are your dreams for the future aligned with your body, your nervous system, your capacity to care?
This is not the time to lead from ego—it’s the time to lead from empathy, intention, and sacred effort. Mars here teaches you that true power lies in showing up consistently for your people, even in the small, daily ways. The hero becomes a healer. The warrior becomes a weaver.
Your trials may come as conflicts within community, disillusionment with collective ideals, or fatigue from holding emotional space for so many. But your medicine is strong. You carry the depth of Scorpio’s knowing and the precision of Virgo’s wisdom. Let Mars burn away what no longer serves your vision—and let Cancer remind you why it matters.
You are not just surviving this journey.
You are building a legacy of soul-rooted connection—brick by brick, boundary by boundary, breath by breath.
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.