Cancer 2025 Horoscope
June 21
Sun ♊︎ Enters Cancer ♋︎ (02:42, 00’00)
In Cancer season your way of being and what you are conscious of, is reoriented toward emotional needs (yours or other people’s) and exploring what support means to you. Cancer nurtures and cares so intuitively, its sensitivity to the water in others is its gift. Cancer longs to take the journey deeper into emotions together, but feels (and fears) that it must go alone.
While so much of the forecast is pushing for independence and asking questions about how to assert your agency, Cancer can’t bear to face things head on and struggles to come at anything directly. It withdraws, moves sideways, scuttling aroundabout like a crab, attentive but cautious to how each moment unfolds, and only gradually does it reveal itself and it’s truth.
June 22
Sun ♋︎ Square Saturn ♈︎ (18:35, 01’35)
The Sun in Cancer is sensitive, tender, and is aware of its role as support provider and how it can initiate emotional reflection for the group. It longs to feel things out first and not act until it is assured there is a collective consensus. Which is likely at odds with the impending urgency of what it feels is being demanded of you to be a functional adult living in society.
As the Sun Squares Saturn, expect that staying authentic to yourself will come up against your duty to obligations, or the rules of the state or an authority figure. With Saturn (and Neptune) freshly in Aries, you may notice an intensity around feeling that you are wasting time when you can’t get motivated, or reversely moments when you are raring to go but met with obstacles. Stop sign after stop sign. The fear-based and punishing mentality of Saturn that demands you take responsibility now, will challenge the Sun in cautious, slow moving Cancer, and you may feel like hiding instead of taking action.
This transit may feel like an energetic limit to how brightly you feel you can shine as your true selves. However, you must accept the consequences of your actions (or inaction) if you are to allow this charged energy to pass through. Otherwise it will become trapped and compound the existing fear. If worked with, there is also opportunity for this transit to be stabilising, to develop structure, or for experiencing these same obstacles as something sobering that changes the direction of what we’ve been consciously pursuing. This shift will look like putting energy toward a more realistic and sustainable way of being.
Mars ♍︎ Sextile Jupiter ♋︎ (10:31, 02’51)
Meanwhile, this transit has a bounding energy that makes the limitations put on you by Saturn feel or the more binding. Your actions will feel motivated by your own beliefs and empowered by your understanding of the truth. This day may feel like you are on a bit of an adventure, or that you are leaping from one thing to the next with a lot of energy.
While potentially a lot of fun, this is an impatient energy, and it longs to be channelled into some kind of active cause or communally meaningful task. Be wary of your ego when acting from this more zealous part of you, and consider how much Jupiter (your beliefs) is egging Mars (what you’re doing) on.
June 23
Sun ♋︎ Square Neptune ♈︎ (08:28, 02’28)
This transit brings another challenge in remaining true to yourself, but it comes as an erosion of boundaries, particularly around your ideals and your vision of a perfect world.
Neptune governs the contents of the collective unconscious, it influences through the symbolism of art and dreams, through the emotional waves of mass-experiences, through states of altered consciousness, and through worship (of anything, divine or not). It is representative of the undoing of the Self, the ways we find to dissolve the illusion of isolated consciousness and seek union within the shared experience of the whole.
When the Sun forms a disruptive square to this highly spiritual planet, and while Neptune remains so close to Saturn, it will be extra challenging to stay motivated to get out of bed, let alone engage with life with saintly compassion. This transit is draining of energy and may leave you feeling overwhelmed, and burnt out.
June 24
Sun ♋︎ Conjunct Jupiter ♋︎ (15:16, 03’21)
Your identity and beliefs about the world are merged in who you show yourself to be. Generally, this is an optimistic and revitalising transit that renews a cycle of where - depending on your Rising Sign - you are finding expansion and growth in your life. It has great potential to open you up to new ways of being that are more spiritual or in greater alignment with your truth.
This transit emboldens the Sun to indulge in itself, to give yourself what brings joy, to take up space and ask for more. So close to the New Moon this conjunction colours the emo tendency of the Moon’s domicile with the insurmountable Jupiterian spirit. It is an opportunity for you to tell yourself a new story about the way the world is and what is true, for you.
While applied to a global stage this transit has worrying nationalistic connotations, on a personal level this transit can be an important moment to take a cue from the universe to pursue your joy. Consider in the context of this week, and the whiplash of all this contradictory energy, this might be to rest!
June 25
New Moon in Cancer ♋︎ (10:31, 04’07)
The Moon is much better suited to the watery reactive energies of Cancer, as it has rulership here. When the Sun and Moon align in this sign it is a time where you will come into greater awareness of your emotional needs and how these are often intertwined with the needs of others. This new moon invites you into greater connection and presence with your feelings, not for them to be judged, rationalised, or ‘fixed’, simply felt.
This can sometimes be painful, and when strong emotions arise you may feel a longing to abandon obligations, hide from the world, and withdraw into a shell. However, this lunar cycle is about shifting from bouncing between always fulfilling other’s needs and burning out — to making your own needs known to others. It is so important at this time for you to get clear around how you feel, and what your needs are.
Acknowledge the direction your heart points you when you are alone with your feelings. Name the emotion that comes up, even if it can be explained away, and first allow the experience of this energy to be true. Water, emotional energy, is retained until it is drained, and Cancer will hold on to something long before, and long after if it is not encouraged to process and release.
June 26
Sun ♋︎ Sextile Mars ♍︎ (14:11, 20’41)
This transit can be tapped into for a burst of energy and getting embodied and moving. It promises a great work out with a slightly competitive edge that could be applied to any sports or physical performance work. However it is a Sextile so will be most effective when actively utilised.
Mercury ♋︎ Sextile Uranus ♉︎ (09:44, 29’28)
This transit is stimulating for the mind and can support you in developing new ways of thinking, and getting outside of the box. You may find yourself using words you don’t usually say, or having some kind of harmless miscommunication.
Mercury ♋︎ Enters Leo ♌︎ (19:09, 00’00)
June 28
Mercury ♌︎ Trine Saturn ♈︎ (03:52, 01’44)
This transit further supports the mind in solidifying new routines and new ways of communicating. Having recently left the shy and watery realm of Cancer, Mercury is emboldened in Leo and feels a duty to be open, honest, and authentic. Signing contracts and tasks that require focus or a lot of mental labour are well starred.
Mercury ♌︎ Trine Neptune ♈︎(11:57, 02’09)
The trine to Neptune also provides an openness and imaginative flow to the thinking process, accelerating the detachment process from older approaches which have not been serving how you communicate. This is a great transit for creative writing or brainstorming ideas.
June 29
Mercury ♌︎ Opposite Pluto (07:57, 03’11)
Mercury opposite Pluto puts you in an activated frame of mind, where interactions can seem very confronting and intense. You may find yourself locked in a verbal or text-based power struggle, where both parties are feeling very emboldened and unwilling to back down. The nature of the subject is likely to be Plutonian in nature, about something taboo or that activates the trauma responses. It may feel like you are faced with an ultimatum where you only have two, equally impossible options.
Although it may appear like there are only two options, fight or flight, do or die, it is Pluto’s way to make situations feel more impending than they actually are. Our trauma response is a survival mechanism against that which we fear will destroy us, but it does not know the difference between a harmless rustle in the bushes and a tiger attack. While this will be a challenging transit, and our decision-making may feel driven by fear, it is unlikely to place you in any actual danger.
The best use of this energy is for deep introspection, and turning the mind to whatever you may be repressing — the shadowier content of your thoughts. If you find your thoughts dwelling upon something taboo, or something repulsive, get curious about your feelings of disgust and on what information they are based.
July 4
Venus ♉︎ Conjunct Uranus ♉︎ (12:44, 29’52)
Our relationships, finances, and creative endeavours take on an electric and unpredictable quality. Uranus brings all things unexpected to our life, and conjoined with Venus in Taurus this could look like a chance encounter with a loved one, getting a surprise payment (or bill…), accidents or experiments in the kitchen, or in the bedroom. It would also be an auspicious time to try work something new — maybe something a little quirky or eccentric — into your wardrobe.
This transit may make us feel like we want to jump, physically yes, but also to spontaneously pivot in our social circles, in our tastes in art and music, in what we are making. This energy invites new and alternative ways of expressing yourself, which leaning into is starred to feel liberating.
While Uranus is exciting, its extrasensory nature can also bring stress and anxiety to the body — which is only faintly aware of the energetic chaos pressing in from beyond its sensory threshold. Check in with the body as this date approaches, and while the energy promotes an explosion of new and strange ways to relate, be careful not to overstimulate yourself as this is also a risk of this volatile energy.
Venus ♉︎ Enters Gemini ♊︎(15:31, 00’00)
July 6
Venus ♊︎ Sextile Saturn ♈︎(08:42, 01’53)
This transit brings structure to how you are relating to others, and gives you the energy to approach your obligations and duties diplomatically and with a level-head. It can be useful for working with money and is an opportunity for productive personal conversations. This transit can make you more aware of your boundaries, without necessarily having them breached, or solidify certain attachments and values. It is well-starred for you to act with intention from your values.
Venus ♊︎ Sextile Neptune ♈︎ (14:46, 02’10)
Similar in theme, this wonderful energy makes us more permeable to other people. If utilised, it can be a gentle wave of inspiration which offers an opportunity for deeper expression. You could use this to create or absorb a piece of art, or channel it into nourishing a relationship. This transit also raises an awareness of your values, and supports the ability to express these.
July 7
Uranus ♉︎ Enters Gemini ♊︎ (07:46, 00’00)
Venus ♊︎ Trine Pluto (08:43, 03’00)
Whatever you are unconscious of, repressing, or wherever you are acting with compulsion is here expressed favourably in a social or creative setting. This can be channeling something unconscious for you into your art, or a conversation that gives us clarity and meaningful progress in how you understand yourself, your trauma, and holding in relation to others. Pluto is our fight or flight mechanism, and Venus here offers some remediation and calming energy to this part of your psyche.
July 10
Full Moon in Capricorn (20:36, 18’49)
While the new moon was a moment to get clear around your emotions and your needs, Capricorn is the realisation of those needs. The Saturnian counterpart to Cancer helps stabilise and gives energy for you to enforce your own boundaries. Only by taking responsibility for yourself can you manage your shifting needs for both solitude, and having a vital role in your group of chosen safe people. This lunar cycle teaches that the tidal extremes of committing too much to both will drain you, and only in paying attention to the most sensitive part of you — the heart — can you learn what is actually needed in a given moment.
This Full Moon is a good time to release those feelings that you have noticed yourself storing, and take practical steps toward meeting your needs. Capricorn energies will resource you in this, and will support you to show up, even though it’s tough.
July 18
Mercury Rx ♌︎ (04:45, 15’34)
Mercury Rx ♌︎ Sextile Venus ♊︎ (13:36, 15’34)
There is an opportunity to have support communicating in our more intimate relationships under this transit. While Mercury Rx is in Leo and Venus in Gemini this conversation can be light but honest and help share perspectives. Usually this transit would be without risk of interpersonal drama, but the retrograde suggests there could be some miscommunication, so be careful with your words.
