Aries | 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 4th HOUSE | Caring for Life
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.
While Cancer Season invites us all into deeper waters of emotion, memory, and security, for you, Aries, this journey lands in the very roots of your chart—stirring your foundations, your inner sanctum, your sense of home. The universal call toward tenderness and protection is amplified in your world, arriving not as a whisper but a visceral ache to guard what matters most.
Your signature Aries fire, so often directed toward bold pursuits and brave beginnings, now softens into something more sacred: a flame that warms rather than burns. You become the hearth keeper this season—the warrior turned protector—standing watch over family, lineage, and emotional safety. There’s a fierce love here. A vigilance that doesn’t fight just to win, but to preserve what is good and right.
This Cancer Season brings with it one of the most fortuitous alignments of the year: the annual Sun-Jupiter conjunction, happening June 24th. Jupiter, newly arrived in Cancer and exalted in this sign, opens a lush new cycle of soulful growth for you—especially in matters of home, belonging, and emotional expansion. Let this be the spark that kindles a yearlong journey of deepening your sense of what truly holds and nourishes you. What would it mean to grow a life from the inside out?
Stretch your definitions of care. Broaden your understanding of family—biological or chosen. Invite imagination to co-author the vision you hold for your future. Emotional wisdom is a strength too, Aries, and this year offers you the chance to cultivate it with grace and courage.
The Cancer New Moon on June 25th (4:31 AM MT) is a luminous moment to press pause and truly feel into the seeds you want to plant around home, safety, and connection. What does security look like for you? What kind of legacy do you want to build? What ancestral stories are whispering through your bones, asking to be remembered, reclaimed, or rewritten?
Let your heart wander back through time, through lineage, through longing—and follow the thread of what makes you feel most alive and most at peace. These roots you nourish now will carry you for years to come.
The animating guide of The Season
The ambiance of The Season Your Lunar Month | Bookended in mind
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.
Shaped by the soul-rhythms of the Moon and the quiet power of Cancer’s waters, this is a season to soften without losing your fire—to nurture your inner flame with gentleness, intention, and emotional truth.
June 20–25
🌗 Last Quarter Moon → New Moon | Transformation & Sharing
The Moon moves through your 2nd and 3rd houses, calling you to shed old attachments to worth, voice, and perspective. What stories have you been telling yourself that no longer support your growth? Let them fall away like dried petals. Share the truths you’ve kept quietly within. This is a time to transform how you speak to yourself and the world—to become more honest, more nourishing, more rooted in care.
June 25–July 2
🌑 New Moon → First Quarter Moon | Intention, Detachment & Rejuvenation
The New Moon in Cancer draws you inward, landing in your 4th house of home, inner child, and emotional ancestry. What kind of sanctuary are you longing for—within and around you? Set intentions to create it, but don’t rush. This week asks for stillness, for retreat, for emotional replenishment. Detach from outcomes and rest in the waters of your own tenderness. You are allowed to just feel.
July 2–10
🌓 First Quarter Moon → Full Moon | Initiation & Assertion
With the Moon igniting your 7th and 8th houses, you are ready to act—but this time, from a place of inspired sharing and heart-centered vulnerability. Assert your trust. Let yourself be seen in your gracious, cooperative, yet precise light. Begin a partnership that lights you up. The initiation isn’t in charging ahead blindly—it’s in choosing to lead with love, listening, and resonance.
July 10–17
🌕 Full Moon → Last Quarter Moon | Maturity & Refinement
The Full Moon in Capricorn illuminates your 10th house, inviting a maturation of your public voice and worldly path. What legacy are you building? What version of leadership feels aligned with your soul? This is a time to refine your ambitions and release outdated goals. Be the kind of leader who nourishes, who inspires through empathy, not ego. Let your fierce heart become a vessel of gentle strength.
July 17–22
🌗 Last Quarter Moon → Season’s End | Transformation & Sharing (Again)
As the Moon returns to your 2nd and 3rd houses, there’s a final wave of integration. Share the wisdom you’ve earned this season—through conversation, through writing, through quiet presence. What you’ve learned about value, stability, and soulful expression wants to ripple outward now. Transform your daily patterns into poetry. Let your voice carry the pulse of a healed, and healing, heart.
Your Ground and Materialization of the Season
Earth in The 10th house | Foresightful depth
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 stirs your inner world, home, and emotional roots, Earth in Capricorn draws you toward your legacy. It grounds you in responsibility, structure, and the long arc of impact.
Feel the fertile ground of what you’ve built in the world, mastered with focus, and the foresightful eye you’ve honed. These things can hold you now with soothing support. Embody your authority as you open to your soul’s path and the processing required to receive and integrate your reputation as at home within yourself.
At the Capricorn Full Moon on July 10th, reflect on how you’ve matured in your leadership—what inner security do you need to step more fully into your calling? The duality of our need to shine and become versus feel and be present arises at our full moons. It’s a time to bring these things into equal and opposite alignment.
Personal & Continuous aims
Your Radiant becoming
phase of Aries’ yearly Seeds | Surrender & rebirth
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.
Aries, your new moon seeds this year have a quality of rebooting life to feel clearer and more passionate. This means taking a wrecking ball to what no longer lights you up, making space to create a new order that’s more alive with breath and light.
As we step into Cancer Season, something about this is still incubating. Bubbles of inspiration may come up one day, and the next, something is ungraspable. Don’t pull the trigger just yet on your fresh trajectories. Gather the subtle messages, the sensitivities wiring some sort of consciousness into being around what you planted at the new moon, and sleep a little extra.
Around June 30th, something should become clearer, real, and impulsive. You may find yourself making moves that are counter to the mode you’ve been in. Decisions that have you cleaning up your life and energy and saying yes to a left turn. Let your impulses steer you, and don’t be afraid of a few bumps and falls. It’s more about connecting to passion than succeeding through the end of the season.
Your Archetypal Journey
Mars in The 6th House | Gaining Skills
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 Solar Hero, the Warrior, the Protector, and the Emperor.
Mars: The Hero/Your Ruler | Stage: The Road of Trials | Sign: Virgo | House: 6th | Cancer-Themed Quest
Your ruler, Mars—the warrior, the one who rises first and burns with divine initiative—is walking a quieter path now. Not a battlefield, but a sacred corridor lined with routines, humble acts of care, and soul-shaping skills. Mars in your 6th house of Virgo is not about the dramatic clash of swords, but the hero who wakes up every morning and chooses to heal, to tend, to refine.
You're in the road of trials stage now in your Hero’s Journey. Not the external trials, but the inner trials that come when the ego is asked to serve the soul. Virgo’s medicine humbles you—asking your Mars to trade its armor for ritual, to measure progress not by conquest, but by devotion to craft, discipline, and healing. You are in the belly of the Hero's Journey—where real strength is tested in silence, in small corrections, in the willingness to notice where you’re off course and realign with purpose.
But here's where Cancer’s overlay on this current journey comes in: you’re not refining for perfection’s sake—you’re doing it to protect what is sacred. To create security through rhythm, to build a life that shelters your softer places, to wield your energy in a way that actually nourishes the world you long to belong to.
You’re learning that the hero can also be the healer. That precision is a form of protection. That tending to the body, the schedule, the little things—is how you honor the vastness of your inner life.
This Mars may feel quieter than you're used to, but its fire is no less holy. It is focused, ritualistic, and fiercely committed to the long road. And it is preparing you—for the next leap, the next call, the next threshold. One you’ll be ready for not just with fire, but with grace.
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.