Cancer | 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 1st House | Grounding your Passion
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.
Happy Solar Return! As the Sun moves through your first house, you're in the spotlight. This is a powerful time for self-reflection and returning to the core of who you are—what lights you up, gives you passion, and spurs your impulses into action.
Embrace the quiet power of your intuition and the grace of your sensitivity—these are not weaknesses, but sacred strengths. Let your emotional instincts be the compass that guides you back to what sets your soul ablaze. Notice what stirs your spirit, what breathes new life into your reflective, caring nature. And just as gently, take note of what depletes you. It’s time to clear away the emotional debris that clutters your path and dims the radiance of your fertile spirit.
On June 24th, the Sun meets Jupiter in their annual blessing—a radiant conjunction that takes place in Cancer this year, where Jupiter now resides in exaltation. This is a season of soulful expansion, especially for your sense of Self and direction in life.
Allow yourself to imagine more. Push the boundaries of who you believe yourself to be. Seek out stories, philosophies, and perspectives that challenge and awaken you—wisdom that dares you to become even more of who you truly are. Let your fire be re-lit by insight, and let passion take the lead in shaping your path forward.
The Cancer New Moon on June 25th offers a fresh start—consider how you want to present yourself to the world. It's an opportune moment to initiate personal projects or make changes that align with your authentic self. Celebrate your journey and the growth that comes with each passing year.
The animating guide of The Season
Your Lunar Month | Bookended in Dreams
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.
With Luna also being the planet that rules your sign, she represents your archetype—a leading character flavor. This cosmic body 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, the Moon, is the Mother, the Hearth-Keeper, and the Historian.
The ambiance of this season is your sacred return—your inner tide swelling with renewal, feeling, and truth. Let each moon phase deepen your sense of self and illuminate the path of your becoming.
June 20–25
🌗 Last Quarter Moon → New Moon | Transformation & Sharing
The moon moves through your 11th and 12th houses, inviting you to release old visions of the future and dissolve outdated dreams. This is a soulful clearing. Shed expectations from others, from the past, from who you thought you had to be. Let your spirit float in the liminal space where endings blur into new beginnings. Share what’s on your heart—not for feedback, but for freedom.
June 25–July 2
🌑 New Moon → First Quarter Moon | Intention, Detachment & Rejuvenation
The Cancer New Moon on June 25 is your personal rebirth. It returns you to the core of who you are. Set intentions not just for this cycle, but for your entire year ahead. How do you want to feel in your skin, in your home, in your heart? Let go of needing to control your evolution and instead plant seeds in soft soil. Rest. Nourish. Dream. This is a time for sacred restoration.
July 2–July 10
🌓 First Quarter Moon → Full Moon | Initiation & Assertion
As the moon passes through your 4th and 5th houses, energy builds in your depth and your heart. You’re maturing now, like a fruit becoming ripe and ready to consume. Assert your imagination and creativity. Initiate new ways of tending to yourself—emotionally, courageously, and productively. Honor your command through your actions. Let your instincts lead. You are allowed to take up space and move toward what supports your radiance.
July 10–17
🌕 Full Moon → Last Quarter Moon | Maturity & Refinement
The Capricorn Full Moon lights up your 7th house—your mirror, your counterpart, your relational growth. This is a moment to mature emotionally within your closest connections. How do you meet others while still holding yourself? What dynamics are asking for boundaries, and which are calling for deeper care? Let your relationships evolve with grace. Commit to love that supports your wholeness.
July 17–22
🌗 Last Quarter Moon → Season’s End | Transformation & Sharing (Again)
As the moon moves through Taurus and Gemini, your 11th and 12th houses are once again activated, echoing the start of the season. The transformation completes its spiral. Share the vision that’s emerged. Release lingering self-doubt. Dream forward. You’ve moved through inner tides and outer reflections—and now, as the season wanes, you return to the ocean of your becoming, wiser and more whole.
Head to the Lunar Workbook’s ‘13 Moons’ and find your natal moon. Find the nearest date to see how your ruler/archetype is patterning and journeying this season.
Earth in The 7th House | Respectful Trust
Your Ground and Materialization of the Season
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.
With the Sun shining in your sign, you’re learning about your own needs, identity, and radiance. Earth in Capricorn, across the sky, calls you to balance this with grounded relationships. What partnerships hold you accountable with love? What is being softly mirrored to you?
Feel the fertile ground of your integral relationships and focused sense of balance and fairness. Let these hold you now with soothing support. Embody your aesthetic focus as you open to your soul’s path and the processing required to receive and integrate your respectful harmonizing so it can feel at home within you.
At the July 10th Full Moon, a mirror may appear—see how intimacy can root you even more fully in yourself. 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 centering and the roots of your relationships into equal and opposite alignment.
Personal & Continuous aims
Your Radiant becoming
PHASE OF Cancer’s YEARLY SEEDS | Aiming & summiting
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.
This season will bring you to the culmination of one yearly journey and seed a new one—a full circle moment at your New Moon on June 25th. Last year’s seeds are ending in a rediscovery of your core desire for stability and security. Sweeping changes are likely starting to be understood with something more about a fresh sense of home—within and without.
As you step into Cancer Season, aim your gaze toward a new horizon. An even fresher vision of home and rootedness than last year. Challenge your perspectives to imagine bigger. Explore new concepts, new philosophies, and new territory. Let this bring a new vision into focus.
Your yearly New Moon on June 25th (1:10 pm MT) is both a summit and a seed. You’ve reached the high point of your solar year—wiser now, and more attuned to the nature of your own radiance. It’s your moment at the top of the zodiac wheel, with Leo’s golden light suspended at high noon. This is a time of glory, yes—but also of gravity. There’s no shame in wanting to step back for a moment, to reflect on what has been, to better understand what is, and to glimpse what could be. From this altitude, a new vision will begin to form. Let it germinate quietly in the dark soil of your inner world. Protect it from the noise. Let it root before it reaches for the sun. Your soul knows the way—align with its ease. In time, the foresight you cultivate now will become the blueprint for the year ahead.
For New and Full Moon work, head to the ‘Lunar Workbook’