Venus in Cancer ♀ 2025

artist: Marina Kappos

July 30 – Aug 25, 2025

With Venus in Gemini for the last week, social life lightens with the breeze. Geminis are fun, lively additions to any scene. Venus in Gemini is wry, witty, quick to laughter. Her energy shimmers and flutters like a fairy on midsummer’s eve. When Gemini’s wind enters the circle, appreciation grows for those closest to us, especially siblings and best friends. Through deep conversation we reinforce our bonds even more.

Venus in Cancer is the raw power of feminine energy, rising like a mighty ocean. Water signs are emotional and creative in nature. I was born with Venus in Cancer, so for the next few weeks you get to see what it’s like to have my soft-shell crab heart <3

With Venus in Cancer, the heart rolls in and out with the tide. The water comes forcefully; the waves knock you back. But though the waves are strong and our hearts feel weak, we are not weak. When you feel the waves rising high, threatening to send you back into the past, let them come. Don’t fight it.

As we tumble through the waves, see if you can spend time with yourself, get to know yourself. This is an incubation period. Why incubate? To fortify the heart. To stabilize. To cultivate our intuition, our listening ear.

Venus in Gemini vacillates between nearness and distance; Venus in Cancer just wants nearness. Like Gemini, she can be anxious or agitated, but much of this stems from her need for nearness.

What to take from Gemini’s airy kingdom to help us swim across Cancer’s ocean? We’ll take healthy distance. Remember the way distance refreshes the heart, like a cool breeze on a hot day, lifting away codepencency and doubt.

The crab is sensitive, yes. Sometimes irritable. Venus in Cancer is like an exposed nerve, an underbelly, more tender than tender. She is affectionate, deeply devoted, but irrational, easily triggered, always taking things personally. Find solace beneath the waves. Try to tune everything out for awhile, mis amores. Curl up inside your egg, your cocoon, your private sea.

Heads up: we will be deep into Mercury Retrograde at the outset of this transit.

Aug 1: Quarter Moon in Scorpio + Venus square Saturn & Neptune Retrograde in Aries. By far the most contentious day of the transit. At this juncture it is clear which relationships are no longer working. Saturn in particular demands relationships which are supportive and sustainable for the longterm. Those which do not serve us must be let go. Neptune stands by as a grief counselor.

Aug 9: Full Moon in Aquarius 👽

Aug 11: Mercury direct + Venus conjunct Jupiter in Cancer. Gold star day! All things flowing in positive directions, especially on the emotional & social level.

Aug 22: Virgo Season begins 🥑

Aug 23: New Moon in Virgo 🌑

If you were born with Venus in Cancer, this is your Venus Return. To find your personal Venus sign, click here.

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