There are seasons of movement, outward expression, ambition, and pursuit. And then there are seasons like this: where the Sun begins its gentle descent from mind to body, from thinking to feeling, from external seeking to internal arriving.
Cancer Season invites us inward. It calls us home. Not to a physical address, but to the sanctuary of the heart.
As the Sun moves into Cancer on June 20, the wheel of the zodiac shifts into new territory. The mind-centered energy of Gemini Season gives way to the emotional tides of Cancer, inviting a softening, a slowing down, and a return to what matters most.
Where Gemini fluttered with curiosity and connection, Cancer anchors us in feeling, memory, introspection and meaning. This is a sacred portal in the year, beginning on the Summer Solstice, where light pauses and we, too, are asked to pause. To tune into the quiet stirrings within us that may have been drowned out by the noise of the world.
Cancer is a water sign, and it speaks in the restorative language of emotion. Governed by the Moon, it holds within it the soft rhythm of our inner tides, changing and cycling just as the lunar phases shift above. This is a season of tenderness. Of inner healing. Of restoration and remembrance.
To be in Cancer’s embrace is to explore what it means to belong. To feel safe. To tend to the invisible layers of our being, the parts of us that are raw, unspoken, ancient, or quietly aching to be seen. This is where the inner child rises to the surface. This is where the past reemerges not to haunt, but to be healed.
Cancer Season invites us to become both mother and child within ourselves. To give and to receive the care we need. To cradle our emotional bodies with compassion. And to honor that the vulnerability we so often avoid is not weakness, it’s the doorway to our depth, to our truth, and to our real power.
The Medicine of Emotion
As the Sun enters Cancer, emotion is not an inconvenience. It is not something to overcome, suppress, or solve. It is a sacred current that carries us closer to our truth.
Our emotions are not random, they are revealing.
They show us what matters to us, what’s still tender, what’s yearning for nourishment, and where our deeper soul truths reside. During this season, we are invited to feel fully. To let our tears flow if they need to. To let laughter bubble from deep within. To let the heart break open so it can be touched by love again.
This is the season to create emotional sanctuary. That might look like retreating from busy schedules, softening rigid routines, tending to your body with nourishing food and rest, or returning to the rituals and relationships that feel like home.
It might mean making space to cry, to remember, to forgive. It might mean writing down stories that have lived within you for years. It might mean holding yourself through a wave of grief you didn’t realize was still there.
Whatever arises, let it. Welcome it. Honor it. Because within the water of emotion is healing. And within that healing is a reclamation of self.
Cancer as a Cardinal Sign: The Power of New Beginnings
Although Cancer is often linked with the past – our roots, our family, our memories – it is also a sign of initiation. A cardinal sign, Cancer marks the beginning of a new chapter in the zodiac and a fresh season of the Earth. Like the womb that holds and births life, Cancer nurtures the seeds of the future.
This season, we begin again.
But not in the rushed, goal-oriented way the world often demands. Here, we begin again from a place of deep knowing. From a place of alignment with the emotional truth of who we are and what we need. We look back not to dwell, but to understand. To meet ourselves with reverence, and to move forward with clarity and care.
Cancer’s gift is not in moving fast, it’s in moving meaningfully.
Cancer Season 2025 Astrology & Transits
This Cancer Season is rich with planetary movement beneath its still waters. Though it may seem like a time to rest, the cosmos hums with quiet initiations, subtle turning points, and deeper waves of awakening and personal growth. As we lean into the softness of the season, we are also being expanded, stirred, and gently rerouted in ways that may not yet be visible, but will certainly be felt.
The beginning of this season carries a deep blessing, as Jupiter, the planet of growth and grace, recently entered Cancer, the sign of its exaltation.
With Jupiter in Cancer, expansion is found not in more doing, but in more feeling. In more nourishing. In remembering that the richest life is an emotionally connected one. Shortly after, Jupiter meets the Sun in a rare and powerful Cazimi on June 24, 2025, a heart of illumination. Something beautiful may be born here: a renewed vision, a deeper belief in the emotional path, or a reminder that softness can be strength.
Under the Cancer New Moon on June 25, 2025, this current of inner expansion becomes a seed. This is a lunar rebirth not of productivity, but of belonging. What would it look like to root your future in emotional truth? What could unfold if your inner world became the compass?
And just as we begin to plant those quiet intentions, Mercury lights a spark by entering Leo on June 26, 2025, bringing a fire of expression to all we’ve been quietly holding. Our voice begins to rise again, perhaps with more clarity, perhaps with more heart.
Meanwhile, love and desire take surprising turns. Venus aligns with Uranus in Taurus on July 4, 2025, offering breakthroughs in the way we relate, the way we create, and the way we find beauty in the everyday. She then flows into Gemini on the same day, lightening the mood and opening playful, curious threads of connection.
But just beneath the surface, deeper currents continue to shift – Neptune begins its retrograde through Aries on July 4, 2025, and Uranus enters Gemini for the first time in over 80 years a few days later on July 7. 2025.
Both mark the beginning of larger collective cycles, yet they ripple through the personal, too. A new story begins to whisper -one of intuition meeting innovation, and inner knowing calling for outer change.
By the time the Full Moon in Capricorn rises on July 10, 2025, these waters are fuller. Emotion meets structure. Vision meets responsibility. What has been felt is now ready to be formed.
And as Saturn turns retrograde in Aries on July 13, 2025 and Mercury begins to retrace its steps in Leo beginning July 18, 2025, we are reminded once again: the pace may shift, the direction may wobble, but all of it is in service of something deeper. Something wiser. Something more aligned with the truth we’re uncovering this season.
Cancer Season 2025 Horoscopes for your Zodiac Sign
Feel into the emotional tides of Cancer Season through your Rising Sign.
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Aries Rising
Cancer Season brings you home, to your roots, your inner world, and the parts of you that quietly shape everything else. With the Sun and Jupiter meeting in your fourth house, there’s a rare opportunity to rewrite the story of safety, belonging, and emotional foundation. This isn’t about the past holding you back, it’s about learning how to hold it with love.
The Cancer New Moon deepens this invitation, planting seeds of healing in your home, lineage, and sense of self. As Mercury moves into Leo, the desire to express your inner truth through creativity and play becomes louder.
Uranus’ shift into Gemini stirs new ways of thinking, speaking, and connecting, offering freedom through curiosity. And under the Capricorn Full Moon, your ambitions ask to be rooted in something real. Let your inner grounding become the soil from which your future life can grow, strong, clear, and deeply your own.
Taurus Rising
Cancer Season invites you to soften into the spaces of your mind and your voice. With the Sun illuminating your third house, this is a time for slow conversations, thoughtful journaling, and gentle self-inquiry. Jupiter’s Cazimi here offers a blessing, an expansion of your perspective and a deepening of your inner dialogue. You may find that words become vessels for healing, and that the stories you tell yourself are ready to shift.
The Cancer New Moon brings a renewal to your inner narrative, while Mercury’s move into Leo draws your attention homeward,to your fourth house, and the sanctuary of your body, family, and emotional foundations.
As Uranus moves into Gemini, your relationship with worth and value begins to evolve, asking you to think differently about security. The Capricorn Full Moon illuminates your ninth house: your beliefs, dreams, and longings for more. Let feeling lead your thoughts, and let those thoughts open the way forward.
Gemini Rising
This Cancer Season brings you into the tender terrain of self-worth and value. With the Sun and Jupiter lighting up your second house, this is a time to nourish your inner stability, to remember your innate worth, not just mentally, but emotionally and somatically. Jupiter’s Cazimi is a gentle expansion: an invitation to believe in the goodness that’s meant for you.
The Cancer New Moon deepens this re-rooting in self-love, calling you to build a life that reflects what you truly cherish. Mercury enters your third house, amplifying your voice and offering clarity through communication.
Uranus enters your twelfth house, stirring the unseen, dreams, intuition, unconscious beliefs, and opening subtle inner doors. And under the Capricorn Full Moon, your eighth house of transformation comes alive. Emotions may rise. Old attachments may surface. But it’s all part of your unfolding. Let what’s no longer aligned fall away. Let your worth become the compass, not the question.
Cancer Rising
Welcome to your season, dear Cancer. With the Sun moving through your first house, this is your yearly return to self – a sacred reawakening of identity, energy, and embodiment.
Jupiter’s Cazimi in your sign offers a luminous opening: a blessing to begin again, to expand into a more whole, loving version of yourself. This is your time to shed what no longer fits and step into the light of who you’re becoming. The Cancer New Moon marks a personal rebirth, an emotional reset and invitation to choose yourself with deeper devotion.
As Mercury enters Leo, attention turns to your second house: your value, your body, your relationship with enoughness. Uranus shifting into Gemini begins a longer journey of intuitive unraveling in your twelfth house, inviting innovation through rest, dream, and subtle knowing. And the Capricorn Full Moon in your seventh house reflects your growth through relationship. Let others mirror your transformation. Let your new self be seen.
Leo Rising
Cancer Season draws you inward. Into rest, reflection, and release.
With the Sun moving through your twelfth house, you’re in the sacred space between cycles, closing one chapter before a new one begins next month. Jupiter’s Cazimi offers a gentle light in the dark: a reminder that even in solitude, you are supported.
The Cancer New Moon is your invitation to let go. To surrender. To be nourished by stillness and feel your way into healing. As Mercury enters your sign, your voice slowly returns, clearer, more aligned, ready to name what you’ve discovered in the quiet.
Uranus enters Gemini, awakening your eleventh house of vision, community, and future dreams. New connections may call. New possibilities may spark. And under the Capricorn Full Moon, your sixth house comes into focus, illuminating how your daily life supports, or drains, your wellbeing.
What needs clearing? What rhythms are ready to be reimagined? Let rest become your renewal.
Virgo Rising
Cancer Season opens your heart to connection, community, and belonging. With the Sun and Jupiter moving through your eleventh house, this is a time to dream together, to align with those who nourish your vision, and to remember that you don’t have to walk this path alone.
Jupiter’s Cazimi brings a moment of grace, revealing the beauty of shared purpose and reminding you of the power of interdependence. The Cancer New Moon plants new seeds in this space: invitations to collaborate, contribute, and trust your place in the whole. As Mercury enters Leo and your twelfth house, quiet reflection becomes essential. Let your mind rest. Let dreams rise.
Uranus entering Gemini brings sparks to your tenth house, your calling, career, and public presence. A new professional rhythm may be emerging. The Capricorn Full Moon in your fifth house asks: what brings you joy? What creative fire longs to be expressed? Follow what lights you up.
Libra Rising
Cancer Season calls your attention to your path, your purpose, your presence in the world.
With the Sun and Jupiter moving through your tenth house, your work, visibility, and leadership are under the light of growth. Jupiter’s Cazimi offers clarity, a glimpse of what’s truly aligned with your heart’s legacy. The Cancer New Moon invites you to plant intentions for a future rooted not in ambition alone, but in emotional truth and soul nourishment.
As Mercury moves into Leo, your eleventh house of community and dreams awakens, your vision expands through conversation, support, and aligned connections. Uranus’ move into Gemini begins a longer transformation in your ninth house, your beliefs, worldview, and sense of meaning are evolving. What once felt certain may now ask to be reimagined.
And under the Capricorn Full Moon, your fourth house of home and inner grounding is illuminated. Let your outer expansion be supported by deeper inner safety. Let both be sacred.
Scorpio Rising
Cancer Season invites you on an inner pilgrimage, toward truth, meaning, and soul expansion. With the Sun and Jupiter in your ninth house, this is a season of spiritual deepening, a time to feel into the bigger questions: What do I believe in now? What does freedom mean to me? Jupiter’s Cazimi may bring a moment of profound clarity, while the Cancer New Moon opens a portal to plant intentions for learning, teaching, travel, or spiritual devotion.
As Mercury enters Leo, your tenth house stirs with ideas and inspiration, how you express yourself in the world begins to shift. Uranus enters Gemini and your eighth house, beginning a longer cycle of transformation, intimacy, and emotional unlayering. Something old is being disrupted, making space for healing and liberation.
And under the Capricorn Full Moon, your third house of communication and thought patterns is illuminated. Let your words reflect your growth. Let your truth become your compass.
Sagittarius Rising
Cancer Season invites you inward. Into the deeper waters of intimacy, trust, and transformation.
With the Sun and Jupiter moving through your eighth house, emotions may rise that ask to be felt fully and held with care. This is a season of release and renewal, a journey into the unseen. Jupiter’s Cazimi brings a moment of grace, an inner truth revealed, a healing breakthrough, or a quiet shift in how you hold power. The Cancer New Moon offers a tender new beginning around shared resources, energetic exchanges, and emotional vulnerability.
As Mercury enters Leo, your ninth house of vision and belief is activated, your soul longs to speak, to explore, to expand. Uranus enters Gemini and begins to stir the ground of your seventh house, partnerships may evolve in unexpected ways. And the Capricorn Full Moon in your second house asks: where does your worth live now? What do you truly value, and how can you honor it?
Capricorn Rising
Cancer Season moves through your seventh house, illuminating the sacred mirror of relationship. This is a season of connection, of tending to the spaces between you and another, and noticing what those reflections stir within. With Jupiter here too, and joining the Sun in a heart-opening Cazimi, love, trust, and intimacy are all expanding. There’s grace available in how you relate, and in how you allow yourself to be seen.
The Cancer New Moon brings new beginnings in partnership, romantic, professional, or soulful, while Mercury enters Leo, your eighth house activates emotional truth and deeper bonds. Vulnerability may rise as a doorway to transformation.
Uranus moves into Gemini and begins shaking up your sixth house of daily rhythms, new structures want to emerge. And under the Full Moon in your sign, something personal comes into full illumination. Your growth is visible now. Let the world witness what you’ve been quietly becoming. Let love evolve alongside you.
Aquarius Rising
Cancer Season brings you into communion with your body, your rituals, and the small moments that shape your days.
As the Sun and Jupiter move through your sixth house, nourishment becomes sacred. Healing is found in the ordinary. Jupiter’s Cazimi offers a revelation: your wellbeing is not a task, but a devotion. The Cancer New Moon invites fresh intentions for how you care for yourself, emotionally, physically, and energetically.
As Mercury enters Leo, your seventh house of partnership opens: conversations in relationship may deepen, or new connections arise with clarity. Uranus begins a long passage through Gemini, activating your fifth house – creativity, love, and joy may take unexpected, liberating forms.
And under the Capricorn Full Moon, your twelfth house stirs. Something old is ready to release. A cycle is closing. Let the quiet guide you. Let your daily choices reflect the life, and the self, you are ready to fully inhabit.
Pisces Rising
Cancer Season opens your heart to joy, creativity, and the sacredness of self-expression.
With the Sun and Jupiter in your fifth house, life asks you to soften into what feels good, what feels true, and what feels you. Jupiter’s Cazimi here is a blessing of creative renewal, reminding you that your light is meant to be shared, not hidden. The Cancer New Moon invites a fresh chapter in how you play, love, and create from the heart.
As Mercury moves into Leo, your sixth house begins to stir with new rhythms, routines, and healing intentions. Uranus’ entry into Gemini brings long-term change to your fourth house, your home, family, and inner safety may evolve in ways that surprise you.
And the Capricorn Full Moon illuminates your eleventh house of vision and belonging. What dream are you ready to step into? What community is calling your soul forward? Let love lead the way.
