Astrological Weather Highlights June 2025
This past month I've been a little squeezed for time, so I'm trying a different format for June and see how it flows. I've been feeling the call for a shift in how I put together these monthlies, so now seems like the right time to give it a go. Hope you enjoy!
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I'm going to start off focusing on the big ingress news of June as far as I and many others are concerned: Jupiter into Cancer!! Jupiter has been finishing up its time in Gemini and is about to shift to its sign of exaltation Cancer on June 9th. I'm so excited about this change, not so much because of the exaltation rulership but because of the archetypal themes it will highlight. Jupiter in Gemini has been multiplying the sign's scattered nature, leaving communication wires crossed and mental faculties frazzled. The move from Gemini to Cancer, from the airy mercurial to the watery lunar, will help us to bring Jupiterian themes back home. This gives us a heightened ability to secure safety safely, nurture and be nourished, getting comfortable with cozy cuddling… hopefully without too much coddling.
Both Gemini and Cancer are liable to change day to day more than most of the other signs, so in this way it will be a seamless transition. But the kind of changeability that will expand goes from multifaceted mental agility to pliable emotional intelligence. The imagery that is coming through for this juxtaposition is going from a bouquet of balloons fluttering in the wind to a buoyant raft safely floating, adjusting accordingly to whatever turbulent seas it may embark upon, staying securely anchored no matter the state of rising or falling emotional tides.
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Leading up to this the day before on June 8th, Mercury the ruler of Gemini conjuncts Jupiter at the anaretic critical last degree, before it enters Cancer itself. Mercury the great messenger, is ushering and in many ways guiding Jupiter away from its own home domicile of Gemini to new territory. The anaretic last degree is a sort of culminating, rising to the top, essential expression of the archetype being displayed; in this case Mercury blended with Jupiter at the final degree of pinnacle Gemininess. Jupiter extra puffs the whole thing up, overinflating mercurial air, possibly to the point that it expands so far it pops! There can also be an extra playful, happy-go-lucky, silly, optimistic sense to this combo at such an active degree.
As Mercury enters Cancer on June 8th right away it comes into square Saturn conjunct Neptune in very early Aries that Jupiter will also square the next day. It is as if these are two teams, with team Mercury/Jupiter Cancer squaring off with team Saturn/Neptune Aries. Communicating needs of security and expansion of the importance of home boundaries is at odds with the maturing limitation imposed on self, driving this forward with some sense of compassion and maybe even delusion. If utilized constructively, learning the lessons being asked to be enacted, the discussion around home turf and accepting limitations of the self can be the cornerstone these coming transits can be built upon.
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Once Jupiter ingresses into Cancer on June 9th, two days later we have the Full Moon in Sagittarius ruled by the newly exalted Jupiter in Cancer early in the morning on June 11th. This Sagittarius Full Moon is at 21° on the bendings of the Lunar Nodes now respectively at 22° Pisces/Virgo. Having an exalted ruler really amps up the support in this Sagittarian Full Moon, but Jupiter is still applying to square the Saturn/Neptune conjunction in Aries, so there is that tension to account for. Being at the bendings of the nodes indicates this is a crucial development turning point taking place in the current karmic plotline that is unfolding. This is likely instrumental in what is building from and towards the previous and coming eclipses. There is a cherry on top the day of the Sagittarius Full Moon with Chiron in Aries trine Mars in Leo at 26°; if you include the Sagittarius Moon this makes a grand fire trine lighting up vivacious harmony driving the healing of one's self forward.
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In closing out June I'd like to include the other lunation of this month, the New Moon in Cancer at 4° conjunct Jupiter at 3° on June 25th. There is something being birthed at this time with a new lunar cycle beginning in the Moon's home abode of Cancer. This is a great time to renew the inner world of our emotional bodies starting fresh again. That it is conjunct newly ingressed Jupiter in its exaltations is super auspicious, setting the pace and truly kicking off the transit. Lady luck is on our side, positive support abounds, and moods are jovial by default. The plotline is probably going through some type of sea change for the better; the dawning of a new night is invigorating and overall optimistic.
In addition, there are a few other aspects coming through this New Moon including a sextile from Mars in Virgo, the continuing square from Saturn/Neptune in Aries, and a quincunx from Pluto retrograde in Aquarius. The sextile from Mars in Virgo at 4° shows some agreement from defining the fine print, probably with assertiveness in service of whatever is opening up this Cancerian New Moon. The double dose of square action from Saturn and Neptune conjunct in Aries is still very much active even if the Cancerian planets are separating at this time. The limitations/rules/requirements imposed on oneself may not be clear and might get in the way of what's starting under this lunar influence. A quincunx from Pluto retrograde in Aquarius at 3° could be a thorn dug deep into Jupiter's side and vice versa, or alternatively even if not quite in either's line of sight, this is very well possibly the missing link needed for both to turn the page to the next chapter of the story.
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