First Quarter Moon in Cancer ☽ Apr 4, 2025
artist: Jun’ichiro Sekino Friday, Apr 4 🦀 8:15 pm CDT The restless Aries sun squares the emotive moon in Cancer. The moon rules Cancer, so she is “at home” here. At the waxing first quarter moon, we decide what we will keep from the new lunar cycle. Quarter phases help clarify our plans post-new moon. This quarter follows
Full Moon in Cancer ♋ Jan 13, 2025
artist: Susan Polston Monday, Jan 13 🦀 4:27 pm CDT First full moon of 2025! The January full moon is called the Wolf Moon. The moon will rise at sunset, peak at midnight, and set at sunrise in all time zones. Moon and sun hover between Cancer and Capricorn. These archetypes just want to get
Mars Retrograde ♂ Winter 2024
artist: Phyllis Shafer Mars in Cancer: Sep 4 – Nov 3, 2024 Mars in Leo: Nov 3 – Dec 6, 2024 Mars Retrograde in Leo: Dec 6, 2024 – Jan 6, 2025 Mars Retrograde in Cancer: Jan 6 – Feb 23, 2025 Mars in Cancer: Feb 23 – Apr 17, 2025 Mars in Leo: Apr
Last Quarter Moon in Cancer ☾ Sep 24, 2024
artist: Hugo Alberto Tuesday, Sep 24 🦀 12:50 pm CDT First moon phase of Libra Season 2024! Happy Equinox! The Waning Last Quarter Moon rises at midnight, peaks at dawn, and sets at noon all over the world. [Each year during Libra Season, the new moon will always be in Libra; the full moon will always
New Moon in Cancer 🦀 July 5, 2024
artist: Christian Schussele & James M. Sommerville (c. 1859) Friday, July 5 🌑 4:57 pm CDT Falling halfway through Cancer Season, the New Moon rises slowly above the crab’s tender ocean. Cancer is a water sign representing home, both interior (inner life and emotional security) and exterior (roots and physical space). The crab is as
Cancer Season 🦀 Summer Solstice 2025
artist: Isabelle Simler June 20 (Summer Solstice) – July 22, 2024 Your sun sign is just one planet in your star soup. Curious about the rest? Contact me for a natal chart reading! Every year Cancer season begins on the summer solstice. Can you feel it? Gemini’s wind giving way to Cancer’s sweet rain? Mercurial Gemini sinks
Mercury in Cancer ☿ 2024
artist: Käthe Butcher June 17 – July 2, 2024 Mercury rules the mind, thoughts, communication, and social world. For the last week, Mercury has been spinning “at home” in Gemini. This transit brings significant movement and activity each year. You may move to a new place, for example, or end an important relationship. New plans are
Venus in Cancer ♀ 2025
June 17 – July 11, 2024 With Venus in Gemini since the last full moon, our primary lesson is detachment. It’s not fucking easy. And the thing is, we all need connection and detachment, not just detachment. Balancing these needs brings peace. Still, Gemini’s heart vacillates unpredictably between insatiable nearness and foggy distance. Gemini’s presence is
Mars in Cancer 🦀 2023
artist: Isobelle Ouzman Mar 25 – May 20, 2023 Mars: fiery warrior of the solar system, ruler of the body and its carnal urges. Mars channels fresh, invigorating energy into the body, like the first day of spring. We’re coming out of a pretty brutal Mars Retrograde in Gemini, so breathe a sigh of relief that
Mercury Retrograde in Cancer ☿ Summer 2020
Artist: Raoul Dufy May 28: Mercury enters Cancer June 17: Mercury stations retrograde July 12: Mercury stations direct Planets in retrograde are not actually spinning backwards – it is an optical illusion as seen from Earth due to the fact that all of the planets are traveling at their own respective speeds around the sun.
Wolf Moon Lunar Eclipse in Cancer ♋ Jan 10, 2020
Friday, Jan 10 at 11.09 am PST Artist: Daria Hlazatova Happy full moon! Happy lunar eclipse! The January full moon is called the Wolf Moon. Cold and hungry, packs of wolves would howl through the night around native villages. The moon will rise at sunset, peak at midnight and set at sunrise, and this is true
Mercury Retrograde ☿ Summer 2019
Mercury Retrograde in Leo: July 7 – 19 Mercury Retrograde in Cancer: July 19 – 31 Mercury in Cancer: July 31 – Aug 11 Mercury in Leo: Aug 11 – 29 Planets in retrograde are not actually spinning backwards – it is an optical illusion as seen from Earth. Backwards motion appears to happen when Earth passes
Solar Eclipse in Cancer ♋ July 2, 2019
Tuesday, July 2 at 12:17pm PST Happy new moon and happy solar eclipse!! Eclipses represent rebirth and the dawning of a new age. They take us from light to darkness back to light again. They suggest, by virtue of their potency, a radical shift. Something is subsumed, transmuted. This is all happening in Cancer, the
Supermoon in Cancer ♋ Jan 1, 2018
Monday, Jan 1 at 6.25pm PST This full moon is called the Full Wolf Moon. Cold and hungry, packs of wolves would howl through the night around native villages. The moon will rise at sunset, peak at midnight and set at sunrise. The Sun and Moon in total opposition between Cancer and Capricorn: Shakti and
Super New Moon in Cancer ♋ June 23, 2017
Friday, June 23 at 7.32pm PST Happy Super New Moon AGAIN, third one in a row! New moons can qualify as supermoons because, as stated by Richard Nolle, they may (as may any phase of the moon) occur during perigee, or when the moon is “at or near (within 90% of) its closest approach to Earth