Gemini | 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 2nd House | Tending to Beauty
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 second house of values and resources, it's time to reassess what truly matters to you. Your adaptable nature often juggles multiple interests, but now, focus on what provides emotional security. Financial matters may come to the forefront—consider creating a budget that aligns with your nourishing values.
With Cancer lighting up your 2nd house, embodiment becomes deeply emotional and intuitive. There’s something about the way you move, speak, and carry yourself—an aura of care that emanates without effort. You exude warmth through your presence, and your perceptual field is infused with emotional intelligence.
In this placement, emotions are intimately woven into how you earn, spend, and save. Your income may rise from heartfelt offerings, caregiving, or soulful pursuits. At the same time, be mindful of spending driven by nostalgia or emotional attachments. Now is the perfect moment to create financial practices that feel safe, nurturing, and aligned with your inner rhythms—perhaps starting a savings account that feels like a nest you're gently weaving for the future.
On June 24th, our blessed annual Sun-Jupiter conjunction arrives, glowing with potential. Jupiter, now exalted in Cancer for the year ahead, expands what it touches—especially when it comes to your material world. This is an invitation to imagine new ways to grow your resources with heart and soul. Just take care not to let the glow tempt you into overspending or financial overreach. Focus instead on expanding income streams rooted in your natural gifts, emotional awareness, and intuitive creativity.
Let this season soften and affirm your perspectives around self-worth, voice, and the emotional body. You are learning how to honor your value not through acquisition, but through experience with what truly nourishes your spirit.
The Cancer New Moon on June 25th is an ideal moment to set financial goals that nurture your sense of self-worth. Invest in what feeds your soul, not just your bank account.
The animating guide of The Season
Your Lunar Month | Bookended in meditation
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.
Tune your mind, body, and spirit to the rhythm of the Moon. This season’s ambiance invites you to ground your eclectic brilliance in care and to find richness in rooted connection.
June 20–25
🌗 Last Quarter Moon → New Moon | Transformation & Sharing
The Moon weaves through your 12th and 1st houses, casting light into hidden corners and calling forth your metamorphosis. This is a time of shedding skins that no longer speak your truth. You may feel pulled inward, quieter than usual—trust this soft hush. Your subconscious speaks in metaphors now. Share what you’re releasing and allow your old stories to dissolve. Your next version is already stirring.
June 25–July 2
🌑 New Moon → First Quarter Moon | Intention, Detachment & Rejuvenation
The Cancer New Moon on June 25 roots into your 2nd house of value and security. This is your moment to clarify what matters to you, and to set intentions around worth—both internal and external. What nourishes you in practical, emotional, and spiritual terms? Release distractions that scatter your energy. Ground your intelligence in embodiment. Let your nervous system rest and reset.
July 2–10
🌓 First Quarter Moon → Full Moon | Initiation & Assertion
With the Moon flowing through your 5th and 6th houses, your words leadership power. This is a week for courageous shining, for organizing your life, and for building a bridge between heart and purpose. Systemize your work, nutrition, and fitness. Then, draw inward toward your rhythmic precision to prioritize and make lifestyle edits. Plant action into your daily rhythm. Let your inner child feel safe enough to shine.
July 10–17
🌕 Full Moon → Last Quarter Moon | Maturity & Refinement
The Capricorn Full Moon illuminates your 8th house, revealing the deeper layers of intimacy, vulnerability, and shared power. Mature insights arise—around your finances, your emotional entanglements, your energetic investments. Honor the boundaries that allow you to stay whole. There may be revelations, even endings—but all in service of your rebirth. Let your mind hold space for mystery.
July 17–22
🌗 Last Quarter Moon → Season’s End | Transformation & Sharing (Again)
As the Moon visits Taurus and Gemini—your 12th and 1st houses once again—you come full circle. What you began releasing at the start of Cancer Season now integrates into your awareness. You’ve met your shadows, deepened your roots, and clarified your values. Now you share what you’ve learned in subtle ways: through your presence, your resonance, your choice of words. A new version of you is emerging—wiser, steadier, and still infinitely curious. Meditate on your power.
Your Ground and Materialization of the Season
Earth in The 8th House | Assured Psyche
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 Cancer Season encourages you to care for your resources and self-worth, the Earth in Capricorn offers the deeper alchemy: the stability of shared power, trust, and intimacy.
Feel the fertile ground of your responsible psyche and allure. Let these hold you now with soothing support. Embody your intense focus as you open to your soul’s path and the processing required to receive and integrate your empowerment so it can feel at home within you.
At the July 10th Capricorn Full Moon, you may see clearly what emotional debts are ready to be forgiven and what soul contracts bring you strength. This is your ground of radical transformation. 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 sensuality and the roots of your precision into equal and opposite alignment.
Personal & Continuous aims
Your Radiant becoming
PHASE OF Gemini’s YEARLY SEEDS | Summiting & Liberating
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 all about returning to the core of your voracious curiosity. Let the wind take you where the scents are sweet, the colors are vivacious, and where connection and information drip freely like nectar to bees.
At the start of Cancer Season, you have only just had your new moon of the year. There is still something seeding in the dark depths inside of you. This is a time to let something ignite within, to hold it close, protected. It’s a time to let the pressures of the outer world be the thing that sparks something new within. Goals, intentions, foresight, and planning are ways to help you detach from what has been.
Around June 27th, what you seeded within, whether consciously or not, will start to break something open in you. The container that was can no longer hold the light growing inside. Lean into breaking open. One part bitter and two parts liberated come with the energy of this stage. The more you resist growth and change, the greater the cracking open will feel. There is excitement and a new future vision on the other side of letting go.
Your Archetypal Journey
MErcury in The 2nd & 3rd Houses | Integrating Information
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 Coyote, the Cosmic Messenger.
Mercury: The Trickster/Your Ruler | Stage: Transmission to Integration | Signs: Cancer/Leo | Houses: 2nd/3rd | Aries 11th House-Themed Journey
The Trickster’s Journey: Transmission & Integration
It began with a spark in your Aries-ruled 11th house in March—a flash of clarity among your people, your purpose, your vision for a better world. There was heat in the collective air—a rebellious pulse beating through your dreams for the future. You felt it not as a plan, but as a pressure: “Change is needed. Speak. Disrupt. Rethink the whole system of what we value.” That’s when the Trickster began to stir.
Now, in your 2nd house of Cancer, Mercury is carrying that bold vision into the realm of emotional worth and inner resource. But this isn’t about comfort—it’s about Transmission. The Trickster is not disrupting now, but delivering insight. What you've sensed deep in your bones—about money, meaning, care, and contribution—is ready to be voiced.
Not shouted. Not argued. But shared, with warmth and vulnerability.
You may find yourself telling a story that carries more than it seems.
You may hear your own voice and realize: this is truth speaking through me.
This is the Messenger phase—where Mercury doesn’t explain. It transmits.
Then, on June 26, Mercury moves into Leo, your 3rd house of expression and connection. A few days later, the Trickster crosses the threshold into the Integration phase. You’re no longer trying to name the insight—you’re becoming it.
Words ripple with meaning beneath meaning.
You find yourself teaching without trying, writing without effort, radiating coherence.
In this phase, you don’t have to convince anyone.
You just have to let it land.
The message is you now.
What began as a radical call for change among your people (11th house),
was felt through your values and nervous system (2nd house),
and now flows outward—through conversations, emails, dreams, jokes, and shared glances—into the everyday world (3rd house).
As Mercury stations retrograde on July 18, you may feel pulled further inward. The Trickster becomes the narrator behind the scenes, remixing memory, mutating language, preparing a new voice that’s been quietly forming all along.
This is a season to speak from the soul, not the script.
To tell the story only you can tell,
and to let your words build a bridge
between your inner truth and our collective tomorrow.
And the Trickster?
Still grinning, still whispering:
“Say it the way no one else would dare.”
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.