The astrology of June 2025 unfolds with a sacred tension between care and grief. As the month begins, the two most positive planets in Astrology, Venus and Jupiter, move into their home signs of vitality, nourishment, and abundance. Venus enters Taurus on June 6, and Jupiter enters Cancer on June 9. These transits would typically suggest relief, abundance, and restoration. But in our current world, where Gaza has been starved of aid since March 2 and genocide has ravaged not only Gaza but also the Sudan and Congo, the question becomes: how do we hold hope in the face of so much devastation? Astrology teaches us that we must attempt to hold both truths: the potential for growth, and the reality of grief.

Venus in Taurus and Jupiter in Cancer will bring our attention to the themes of resources, security, and the emotional sanctuaries we are still trying to build amidst collapse. These are soft transits, but softness does not mean weakness. In a time of global brutality, tenderness and community care are revolutionary. This month’s astrology asks us to reclaim communal care as a form of resistance.

VENUS ENTERS TAURUS – JUNE 6, 2025

Venus will remain in Taurus until July 5.

Venus in Taurus is sensual, earthy, and life-affirming. Venus rules Taurus, and when in this sign, Venus wants to feed us. Literally. Taurus governs food, land, pleasure, and resources. How poignant that this ingress happens while the people of Gaza are being starved. While we cannot promise that astrology will provide material aid, Venus in Taurus reminds us of what must be prioritized: dignity, sustenance, and beauty in a world that has forgotten how to care.

This is a time to ask: What are we hoarding? What are we willing to share? And what beauty are we still allowed to create in defiance of erasure?

JUPITER ENTERS CANCER – JUNE 9, 2025

Jupiter will remain in Cancer until June 30, 2026.

Jupiter is exalted in Cancer, which means it is able to function with great dignity here. The planet of expansion, wisdom, and spiritual truth moves into the sign of ancestral memory, home, and emotional protection. In its highest expression, Jupiter in Cancer helps us expand our capacity to care, for ourselves, our families (chosen and blood), and our communities.

But exaltation does not guarantee ease. Jupiter in Cancer will amplify whatever it touches, including grief. Cancer is a sign of both fierce protection and deep sensitivity. We are likely to see increased emphasis on borders, nationhood, and homeland throughout this transit. This is particularly poignant given the ongoing genocide in Gaza. Jupiter’s presence in Cancer will continue to raise global attention to humanitarian crises, but it will not undo them.

We began 2025 with Mars retrograde in Cancer, a transit that brought the god of war into the most intimate of places, the home. We witnessed devastation, dislocation, and a spiritual exhaustion that only comes when the sanctuary is no longer safe. Then came the eclipses. We had the Virgo Lunar Eclipse on March 14 and then the Aries Solar Eclipse on March 29, which only intensified the genocide in Gaza. But now, finally, Jupiter enters the same terrain Mars ravaged. There is potential here for restoration—not in the sense of naive optimism—but as a spiritual reckoning. What have we lost? What are we still capable of rebuilding?

FULL MOON IN SAGITTARIUS – JUNE 11, 2025

The Full Moon in Sagittarius peaks at 3:44 AM EST

This lunation is one of the more promising moments of the month. Sagittarius is ruled by Jupiter, and with Jupiter now in Cancer, this full moon is ruled by an exalted Jupiter, a powerful indication that a restoration of some type may be underway. Full Moons are revelations. And Sagittarius governs global affairs, justice, and the pursuit of higher wisdom.

We may see moral awakenings, whistleblower revelations, or large-scale protests take center stage under this lunation. Already, more people in the U.S. and around the world are breaking their silence around Gaza. The atrocities are no longer deniable, and as the veil lifts, we are watching people risk jobs, reputations, and even safety to speak for Palestine and for the dream of collective liberation.

This Full Moon echoes a truth that many have long held close: the path to healing requires unflinching honesty. We must understand the architecture of harm so intimately that we can begin to dismantle it from the inside out. The walls of silence are cracking. And from those cracks, truth pours in.

Ask yourself: What truth am I now ready to live by? What story must be told? What risk am I willing to take for the world I want to help create?

SUMMER SOLSTICE + CANCER SEASON BEGINS – JUNE 20, 2025

The Summer Solstice marks the longest day of the year and the beginning of Cancer season. It’s a spiritual turning point that reminds us of the ongoing cosmic dance between light and darkness. Solstice energy is sacred across cultures because it affirms that cycles are real, and I hope that this Summer Solstice will indicate a departure from a cycle of devastation and the emergence of a new cycle of restoration.

NEW MOON IN CANCER – JUNE 25, 2025

The New Moon in Cancer occurs at 6:31 AM EST.

The Cancer New Moon is an invitation inward. It brings us back to the emotional center of all this astrology. This is the first New Moon with Jupiter in Cancer, and it opens a new cycle of nurturing, remembering, and rooting.

New Moons are planting moments. Let this one be a prayer. What needs to be protected? Where is the emotional ground you want to grow from? Set intentions around home, healing, lineage, and community care.

CANCER IN YOUR CHART: WHAT TO WATCH FOR

Since the sign of Cancer will prove to be one of the main characters during June 2025, it’s important for you to track where you have Cancer within your own birth chart. We all have Cancer in 1 of our 12 Whole Sign houses. Below, you’ll find where you have Cancer in your chart based on your RISING sign, and also a few of the significations of that house. It’ll be helpful this month to reflect on the significations of your Cancer house, and to plant seeds of action on the Cancer New Moon that you can take within these life areas.

• ARIES RISING: Cancer in your 4th house — Home, ancestry, family, roots
• TAURUS RISING: Cancer in your 3rd house — Writing, communication, siblings, neighbors
• GEMINI RISING: Cancer in your 2nd house — Money, values, survival, self-worth
• CANCER RISING: Cancer in your 1st house — Self, body, personal rebirth, appearance
• LEO RISING: Cancer in your 12th house — Grief, solitude, spiritual renewal, hidden enemies
• VIRGO RISING: Cancer in your 11th house — Community, social impact, future dreaming
• LIBRA RISING: Cancer in your 10th house — Career, public roles, long-term goals
• SCOPRIO RISING: Cancer in your 9th house — Wisdom, publishing, teaching, travel
• SAGITTARIUS RISING: Cancer in your 8th house — Shared resources, debt, death, rebirth
• CAPRICORN RISING: Cancer in your 7th house — Partnerships, love, clients
• AQUARIUS RISING: Cancer in your 6th house — Work, physical health, daily routines, coworkers, pets
• PISCES RISING: Cancer in your 5th house — Creativity, children, erotic power, child-like joy

The Astrology of June 2025 is infused with transits that speak to the possibility of restoration and community care amidst the heaviness of grief. Let this month be a return to the soul of what matters. To hope, not as illusion, but as a decision we make to keep showing up for each other.

May Palestine be free. May Sudan be free. May Congo be free. May all of the places currently struggling against the cruelties of imperialism become freer. May nourishment return. May community care guide us.

And so it is.