Cancer Season, a Full Moon, and SO MUCH MORE 🦀
This week's astrology brings a swell of confusion, creativity, AND clarity
This week starts off with nebulousness and (hopefully) ends with some clarity. Or, at the very least, a sober mindset. As Mercury and the Sun prep to exit Gemini—the zodiac sign that’s ALL about hustle, bustle, learning, and sharing—both bump heads with Neptune in Pisces. This sticks your head (and all its pretty, profitable, preemptive ideas) firmly in the clouds. What follows is Cancer season and the Capricorn full moon. Being that the full moon is in the soberest, most practical, and realistic earth sign in the zodiac, it looks to bring some much-needed common sense. Or, maybe it just brings a matter-of-fact conclusion. Either way, it’s a full moon to help get you off Cloud Nine and back to earth. Hopefully.
That is, of course, the gist of this week. Here’s the actual astrology:
June 17 – Mercury squares Neptune, Mercury enters Cancer, Venus conjoins Mercury
June 18 – Venus conjoins Mercury in Cancer
June 20 – Sun in Gemini square Neptune in Pisces, Sun enters Cancer (Summer Solstice, Cancer Season begins)
June 21 – Capricorn Full Moon, Mercury sextiles Mars in Taurus
🌫 June 17 – Mercury squares Neptune
Hazy much? This has a Mercury Retrograde feel in that nothing is clear, everything is nebulous, and there are so many ideas swimming in your brain, you’re unsure of what’s real and what’s not. The good news? You can help lift the fog if/when you channel your cloudy thinking into something creative. This is the day for fantasy and HIGHLY inspired visions. Will you be able to execute them precisely? Probably not, but that isn’t the point…
🤟June 17 – Mercury enters Cancer
The planet of communication (so, that’s writing, speaking, texting, tweeting, thinking, listening, etc.) enters the Moon-ruled sign, where it surfs at a rapid pace. Sensitivity, empathy, intuition, and moodiness follow. There’s a need to strike a balance between emotions and logic, knowing and reasoning.
Here’s some additional food for thought: careful consideration is favored and encouraged. Cancer loves its comfort and security—which includes its privacy. This is an excellent few weeks for verbalizing your feelings, even if it’s just to your journal. Listening is easier…
Get your FULL Mercury in Cancer Horoscope here.
💌 June 17 – Venus conjoins Mercury
A moment for sweetness and love notes. Even if you’re not the poetic type, this brief coming together of the love planet and Mercury in the sensitive, imaginative, and oh-so-sentimental water sign begets a poetry-like expression of your feels. (That, or someone sends YOU a love note, making you feel all warm and fuzzy!) The focus is on careful articulation of emotions…
Get your FULL Venus & Mercury in Cancer Horoscope here.
🌥️ June 20 – Sun square Neptune
Haze alert part 2! Just as the Sun is about to exit Gemini, it squares off with Neptune. Confusion, heightened creativity, and grand illusions result. Instead of fighting the surrealism and brain fog, it would be wiser to use the last bit of Gemini curiosity to explore it. Do a mind map while daydreaming. You may be surprised what conclusions you reach…
🦀 June 20 – Sun enters Cancer ♋
MAJOR SHIFT! Sorta. Every time the Sun enters a cardinal zodiac sign (Aries, Cancer, Libra, Capricorn), a new phase begins. Come June 20, I’ll have your Cancer Season forecast (for paid subscribers), which highlights the ebb and flow of opportunities and challenges that this new cardinal sign season brings. But if you can’t wait until then, here’s a taster:
Cancer season, which runs from June 21 through July 22, is a season of heightened feeling, heightened imagination and hyper-inhibition. During this time of year, you are more compassionate, more intuitive, more sensitive to the thoughts / words / actions of others, and more in need of receiving before giving any type of care, concern, or TLC… Ooh.
✅ June 21 – Mercury sextiles Mars in Taurus
Support. Security. The finishing touch. I hasten to say we’ll see this transit play out more on the world’s stage (a headline about support, safety, and/or aid in one of the ongoing wars, for example), but this is still a transit that YOU can work with. Mercury facilitates a speedy assessment of a half-completed goal or project. Mars gives staying power and grit…
🌕 June 21 – Capricorn Full Moon
Your Capricorn Full Moon Horoscope drops later this week (for paid subscribers), but here’s the gist: in steady, enterprising earth sign Capricorn, this full moon is a significant marking / turning point for your goals, ambitions and entrepreneurial pursuits. It’s time to examine any (unrealistic and) unmet expectations for those goals and let that sh*t go. (After all, full moons are ideal days for release.)
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