Taurus | 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 3rd House | Nourishing the mind
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.
Cancer Season lights up your third house of communication, curiosity, and connection, inviting your steady heart to wander beyond the familiar grooves of daily life. While your earthy nature often seeks solace in what’s known and comforting, this season whispers of deeper resonance hiding in the ordinary—a quiet nudge to listen more closely to the emotions beneath every conversation, every glance, every shared moment with siblings, neighbors, or chosen kin.
Let your journal be a mirror and a vessel. The act of writing may reveal surprising truths and help release thoughts that have lingered too long in silence. Consider short journeys—to the coast, a lake, or anywhere water speaks.
Let the tides reflect the rhythm of your mind, which sometimes questions its own depth and reliability. Feel the waves show you that thought, like water, can be many things at once—gentle, powerful, reflective, and reshaping. Your voice, your presence, your way of weaving words and emotions—these can be the healing balm your community didn’t even know it needed. Allow your inner mama bear to take the lead. Speak with kindness. Listen with curiosity. Connect with soul. You’re being called to be not just heard, but felt.
Our annual Sun-Jupiter conjunction graces Cancer Season on June 24th, casting a golden light on growth, intuition, and emotional intelligence. With Jupiter now freshly arrived in Cancer for the year—a sign where this expansive planet is exalted—there’s a rare opportunity to stretch the boundaries of your imagination and sense of belonging. What if your whimsical mind could be a bridge to deeper connection? What if your sensitivity is the source of your greatest wisdom?
This is a potent time to reimagine the way you think, speak, and listen—not from a place of logic alone, but from the heart’s knowing. Let care and emotion guide your intellect; let empathy widen the reach of your voice.
The Cancer New Moon on June 25th invites quiet reflection on how you wish to express yourself in the world. What does it mean to communicate with soul? To learn through feeling? Set intentions that root your mind in gentleness and depth. Let your words become soft spaces where others feel seen, safe, and understood.
With Jupiter entwined in this year’s Cancerian seeds, the cosmos encourages you to reach toward new levels of emotional literacy and social grace. What would it look like to feel truly secure—not just in what you know, but in how you share it?
The animating guide of The Season
Your Lunar Month | bookended in embodiment
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.
Attuned to the Moon’s rhythms and your soul’s fertile pace, this season's ambiance roots you in your voice, your emotional intelligence, and your subtle power to shape reality through love, presence, and patience.
June 20–25
🌗 Last Quarter Moon → New Moon | Transformation & Sharing
The Moon moves through your 1st and 2nd houses, drawing you into a powerful season of self-reflection. You may feel the urge to shed layers of identity that no longer match your inner worth. Let go of expectations. Share what’s real for you now—what you’ve outgrown, what you’re learning to claim. Your voice, your values, your presence—they are shapeshifting toward deeper embodiment.
June 25–July 2
🌑 New Moon → First Quarter Moon | Intention, Detachment & Rejuvenation
The Cancer New Moon lands in your 3rd house of communication and mind. It’s a tender time to recalibrate how you think and speak. Let softness be your strategy. Set intentions around clearer self-expression and the kind of connections that truly feed you. Rest your voice and honor silence where needed. Rejuvenate your inner dialogue—release harsh inner critics, and instead whisper love.
July 2–10
🌓 First Quarter Moon → Full Moon | Initiation & Assertion
The Moon activates your 6th and 7th houses, urging you to assert your self-acceptance from the roots up. Take bold steps toward nourishing your wholeness, the ecosystem of your life, and the care you give in relationships. This is your moment to initiate beautiful agreements—in relationships, in partnership, in fairness. What have you always longed to let go of and share? Begin it now. Find a balance of giving and receiving, for the deep fulfillment of your soul’s desires.
July 10–17
🌕 Full Moon → Last Quarter Moon | Maturity & Refinement
The Capricorn Full Moon shines in your 9th house of wisdom, expanding your sense of purpose. You may feel called to refine your beliefs, to walk your talk, to share your values in ways that ripple outward. This is a week of soul-deep learning. Don’t be afraid to release outdated philosophies or dreams. Instead, claim the maturity that comes from lived truth. You're evolving your voice of guidance.
July 17–22
🌗 Last Quarter Moon → Season’s End | Transformation & Sharing (Again)
As the Moon travels through Taurus and Gemini, touching your 1st and 2nd houses again, you return to the body. This week completes the cycle you began a month ago—offering a second wave of integration. What have you learned about your self-worth, your needs, your value? Now is the time to live it. Let your body speak your wisdom. Let your sensuality radiate quietly into every space you enter.
Your Ground and Materialization of the Season
Earth in 9th House | Enriched Perspective
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.
Cancer Season tugs on your need to connect emotionally and communicate tenderly. But Earth in Capricorn reminds you that wisdom grows from lived experience. Let grounded beliefs, ancestral traditions, and nature-based knowledge anchor your expansion.
Feel the fertile ground of your perspectives and vision. Let these hold you now with soothing support. Embody your expansive focus as you open to your soul’s path and the processing required to receive and integrate your beliefs so they can feel at home within you.
At the July 10th Full Moon, harvest insights from the path you’ve walked and consider what higher truth roots your heart. 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 curiosity and the roots of your life philosophies into equal and opposite alignment.
Personal & Continuous aims
Your Radiant becoming
PHASE OF TAURUS’ YEARLY SEEDS | From Liberating & Surrendering
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.
Taurus, your seeds of becoming this year have an essence of returning to your core passion for material life, clarifying your voice, and rebooting where your self-worth stems from.
As you step into Cancer Season, the seeds of your light are still in an inward place. They are cracking open, helping you to liberate from old containers that can no longer hold what’s to come. There may be an ebb and flow of feelings from bitterness about what you are shedding and electrified—liberated, to being more of who you are becoming. Lean into the excitement and the envisioning that it brings.
Around June 28th, you step into the end of the incubation phase. Consciousness for what’s to come starts to congeal in the dark of your dreams. Inspiration arises one moment and is ungraspable the next. Shadows of your former self stand before you, asking to be integrated. It’s a mysterious time, at once exhausting, foggy, ethereal, and heart-opening. Open up to what’s beyond you for inspired guidance.
Your Archetypal Journey
Venus in 12th & 1st Houses | Inspiring Yourself
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, Venus, is the Heroine, the Earthy Lover, the Empress, and the Sensitive Appreciator
Venus: The Heroine/Your Ruler | Stage: Meeting the Faery godmother | Signs: Taurus/Gemini | Houses: 1st/2nd | Aries 12th House-Themed Journey
The Heroine’s Journey: Meeting the Faery Godmother
Venus, your ruling planet, connects you to your ongoing story and central archetype.
She begins a sacred passage on June 22, when she meets the Moon in your sign. This Venus-Moon conjunction marks the shimmering gateway into the Faery Godmother stage of your journey—the moment when support arrives, not always from where you expect, but always with magic.
In your 1st house, this encounter is deeply personal. You are the heroine at the mirror, and what you’re seeing now is not just your face—it’s your essence glowing through. You are being reminded of your innate beauty, not just physical, but the way your presence soothes, holds, and empowers. This stage invites you to begin dressing yourself in new symbols of worth. Adorn your body with devotion. Let your sensuality become a source of quiet command.
Then, as Venus crosses into your Gemini-ruled 2nd house on July 4, her magic deepens. She turns her attention to what you value, what you own, and how you tend to your connective resources. This is not just about money—it’s about self-trust. The Faery Godmother now places tools in your hands: talents you forgot, community systems that feel like balm, and the whisper that your soul’s desires are valid. Believe in what you’re worth. Create beauty and stability not only in your home, but in your body and bank account.
But this whole time, something deeper hums in the background.
Your 12th house of Aries pulses behind the scenes—a secret realm of fierce spirit and untamed beginnings. This is where your heroine’s story quietly roots itself in March. You may feel inner stirrings, dreams that flash like lightning, a call to liberate something ancient within you. The Faery Godmother isn’t just giving you lace and roses—she’s handing you a sword wrapped in silk. It’s time to reclaim the wild, radiant part of yourself that once had to hide. You are awakening to secret strengths, and there is nothing passive about this feminine power.
Themes for this Venusian stage:
Reclaiming beauty as power, not performance
Letting softness bring you strength
Attuning to self-worth through pleasure and embodiment
Receiving support that honors both your tenderness and your fire
Trusting your hidden instincts and honoring dreams as prophecy
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.