Cancer Horoscope for June 2025

This is another transformational month for you, Cancer, affecting in particular your unconscious process of deep-diving beneath the surface layers of your psyche, along with resultant changes to your work in the world and public persona. There is an important stellium in Aries, or your sector of career and profession, that was triggered in the rather intense configuration of the recent Gemini New Moon from the last days of the previous month, governing June. This New Moon event also highlighted an exact Chiron- Eris conjunction in this same sector, which could speak to questions of inner wounding that you could be ready to address. The Eris presence emphasizes the effects of Chiron, the Wounded Healer, and implies that working more closely with issues of your own inner wounding could be very powerful for you now – as relates to your soul intention for this lifetime. These issues arise from childhood trauma that you were not ready to deal with in your younger years. The recipe is to no longer ignore this old residue of ancient trauma but instead to pay loving attention to these walled-off hurt places within you and seek to better integrate them with your more mature and confident adult self. As the June month continues to unfold, you might also find that you are dealing with issues of intimacy and of evolving partnership agreement. The Sagittarius Full Moon of the 11th is another impactful juncture, when issues of self and other predominate and when Jupiter newly in your sign squares Saturn and Neptune in their close Aries conjunction, lighting up your career sector with potential adjustments, evolution, and greater recognition. New wrinkles on inner wounding could additionally emerge. The most important configuration of the month is likely to be the Cancer Solstice in your sign of the evening of June 20th, strongly emphasizing transformation, information, and action. This involves processing both conscious and intuitional information.


The following was written by our wonderful in-house astrologer, Leslie Benson. You can find her at https://www.astrologyforawakening.com/


This June astrology stirs your inner world and outer path in equal measure, beginning with the Gemini New Moon from May 26th in your twelfth sector of dreams, retreat, unconscious process, and subtle energy. This recent New Moon governs the next thirty-days of its lunation cycle lasting almost all of June. With Mercury as its ruling planet, at home in Gemini and trine with Pluto in this configuration plus sextile Saturn and Neptune, this potent event initiates a subtle but potent shift in your awareness. Your subconscious could feel unusually active, bringing forward insights that will help you compost old fears and outdated patterns, allowing you to make space for something new. You may feel a soft pulse of reinvention – quiet, but foundational. Saturn’s recent entry into Aries, joining Neptune there, opens an entirely new chapter; their potent conjunction throughout the summer is just beginning to shape a new architecture for your public life and vocational calling. This lunation could help you attune to the inner call that precedes and weaves with other significant outer changes that will likely be in store for you as you emerge into an entirely new era!

On June 5th, as Venus enters its home sign of Taurus your social sphere comes into focus. This placement encourages a deeper enjoyment of friendships, creative collaborations, and shared values. It may be a time to return to community connections that nourish you, or to notice where the quality of mutual support is present, and you are weaving the threads with your birds of a feather. Reconnecting with what feels connective and life-affirming within your wider networks may offer a surprising sense of security and stability for you, now.

Then comes a major (and exciting!) shift: on June 9th, Jupiter enters its place of exaltation in your sign. This is a fertile and friendly transit for you. It’s important to note that Jupiter hasn’t visited your sign in over a decade. Because he is exalted here, his gifts for you can emerge with more grace, allowing the new you to fully blossom. You may notice an influx of confidence, optimism, and more emotional presence – or perhaps just feeling more at home in your own skin. Jupiter supports growth in self-trust and encourages you to take up space with more courage and clarity. Yet Jupiter’s arrival is not without complexity. He concurrently squares Saturn and Neptune in Aries and touches those important angular first and tenth sectors for you – which could stir tension between your personal expansion and your evolving public roles. You might feel the pull to be more visible or step into new leadership, while simultaneously confronting uncertainty about how exactly that’s supposed to look. Be gentle with yourself. Perhaps success doesn’t mean having it all figured out; rather it is honoring the truth of your process of learning, and allowing yourself space for the breadth and depth of your emotional experience, and grace to follow the non-linear path of your growth.

The Sagittarius Full Moon of June 11th lights up your sixth sector of work environment, health, and routine. Ruled by Jupiter, now exalted in your sign, this lunation may amplify a desire to change how you tend to your body and daily life. You may suddenly see what old and outmoded habit patterns need to shift in order to support your well-being more sustainably. Any storylines around burnout, overextension, or lack of focus may come to a head – and with it, the impulse to liberate yourself from those that are no longer aligned. You win when you can let this Full Moon offer clarity and encouragement to your thirsty soul. Even small adjustments count; they are simply following little sparks of what feels delightful and life affirming and can catalyze big transformations over time.

On June 20th, the Sun marks the Cancer Solstice – entering your sign in what is rightfully called your Birthday season – Happy Solar Return! The Northern Hemisphere summer solstice this year makes for an extra-powerful pivot point. The Sun’s conjunction with Jupiter amplifies your presence and visibility, while the simultaneous squares to Saturn and Neptune bring gravity and responsibility into the mix. You may feel called to reimagine how you communicate or take up space, not from a place of proving, but from an anchoring in self-worth. Two Yods – complex aspects of karmic refinement – further intensify this moment, bringing Pluto, Saturn-Neptune, Sun-Jupiter, and Mars in Virgo into an unusual mutually complex dance of integration. This is multilayered and quite intense and may have you feeling like you’re threading the eye of an invisible needle. You are asked to move with discernment, yet also fierce conviction, especially in how you communicate and wield your power. Consider where precision can serve clarity, and where tenderness can be a potent articulation of your power.

The New Moon in your sign in the last full week of the month, taking place on June 25th, seals it with a potent invitation to come home to yourself. With Sun and Moon still conjunct Jupiter, this lunation echoes the solstice vibes noted above, and begins a new personal cycle steeped in emotional wisdom, self-compassion, and feeling at home in your own skin. The emphasis on Cancer isn’t just about sensitivity; it’s also about inner strength born from feeling deeply. You may notice where old emotional protections are ready to be gently dismantled, making space for new frameworks of care, belonging, and soul-centered expansion. This is a time to reset your emotional compass and remember that your capacity to feel is not a weakness – it truly is one of your greatest gifts and guiding lights.