June 25 brings a New Moon at 4 Cancer, at 3:31 a.m. Pacific time. This lunation follows soon after the June 20 Solstice, considered, calendarwise and in the Northern Hemisphere, to be the start of summer. Following the Solstice, the hours of daylight are growing shorter here.
Cancer, ruled by the Moon, is our cardinal, forward-moving water sign. Cancerian water is like a river. It has direction and destination. It doesn’t stand still.
Cancer is commonly associated with deep feelings, mothering, and homemaking. A Cancerian Sun sign person (I’m one) may be a good cook and love the domestic arts. Cancerians are known as super-sensitive, moody, and empathetic. We can also—sometimes at least—be cranky, brooding, and clingy, like the claws of a crab.
Archetypally, Cancer is a mystery school for emotional safety and healing. As one of the cardinal signs, Cancer’s modus operandi is to initiate, to create (to pro-create!), to protect one’s babies, whether those are human or non-human creatures.
At the June 25 New Moon, the most outstanding transiting aspect is the Moon’s conjunction with Jupiter, now in Cancer for the coming year.
Ancient astrologers cast Jupiter as a Great Benefic, seen to be “exalted” when moving through the waters of Cancer (one year out of 12). During Jupiter’s transit through Cancer, some astrologers expect this to be a bountiful year of opportunities, graced with family reunions, in beautiful homes, with lots of good food and domestic bliss. Maybe. Somewhere.
In a recent post, I mentioned a new book, By Jove! The Astrological Meaning of Jupiter by the preeminent Jungian astrologer, Liz Greene. Based on her 60-year practice and study of astrology, psychology and world mythology, Greene paints a picture of Jupiter’s symbolism that is neither necessarily rosy nor foreboding.
Astrology’s “working hypothesis,” Greene writes, is that “Jupiter symbolizes our quest for meaning… Through Jupiter we somehow ‘know’ we’re connected to a bigger pattern.” Whereas “the astrological Sun is concerned with the individual self, the core of the personality,” Jupiter is more concerned with one’s life purpose and social contributions, for better or worse.
In natal astrology, a strong Jupiterian signature may play out as someone who’s generous and inspiring on the world stage—or someone who’s grandiose, with a sense of entitlement.
While Jupiter’s transiting through Cancer for the coming year for all of us, it makes sense to focus on questions of life purpose, especially with an eye on emotional well-being.
Following after the June 25 New Moon, the next major planetary transit will be the ingress of Uranus into Gemini on July 7. Uranus will travel through Gemini until November 8 when it will go back to Taurus briefly until late April 2026. Then Uranus will travel through the sign of Gemini until 2032.
Uranus changes signs about every seven years. It’s one of the “outer” planets, very far from the Sun. When outer planets change signs, as they do infrequently, we see shifts in events and trends for humanity as a whole.
Uranus is the planetary force of unexpected disruptions and breakthroughs. Gemini is the mutable air sign of open minds and lively conversations. We can expect that Uranus’ passage through Gemini will be accompanied by new ways and means in travel, technology, and information. How about that for stating the obvious!
For the charts of individuals, we look to the house, or areas of life, occupied by Gemini, to forecast where the Uranian innovations will take place. In my birth chart, Gemini occupies the Tenth House of career and public mission, and it’s in the Tenth House where my chart has Venus in Gemini. With Uranus about to move through Gemini in my Tenth House, I’m excited about what I’ll be able to accomplish as a writer over the next number of years.
For everyone, the transit of Uranus in Gemini invites us to be open to unexpected opportunities for learning and sharing information with others. The June 25 Cancer New Moon may be a launching point, as the Cancerian way of being is to create situations of safety, and to make a place to call home.
Blessings for the Cancer New Moon!
Sara
Sara R. Diamond, an astrologer based in the San Francisco Bay Area, is a life-long student and practitioner in several esoteric paths. Her style of astrology combines modern-psychological astrology with insights from traditional astrology. Sara is also an estate planning attorney. In addition, she has published four books on right-wing movements in the United States and earned her Ph.D. in Sociology at the University of California, Berkeley. You are invited to contact Sara via her website at www.SaraDiamondAstrology.com.
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