Everything You Need to Know About the New Moon in Cancer

This Cancer New Moon is lucky and powerful, don't sleep on planting the seeds to your future success!

First, let’s break down the astronomy of this lunation…

The Cancer new moon will reach its peak on Wednesday, June 25, 2025, at 3:31 am PST (in Los Angeles). The peak degree will be 4°07, if you want to calculate it for where you are in the world!

With all new moons, you can work with their energies about 3 days before and after, so if you are reading this and have work or will be sleeping, that is ok! In all things spiritual, it is more about the intention than anything else! So if your intention for your ritual is to work with the new moon energy, then you’ll be just fine!

Speaking of intentionally working with the new moon…

How do you work with a new moon?

🌕 New Moons are empty! They are the beginning of a new cycle.

When we start something, we are planting the seeds for our future. Visioning ahead and aligning our soul’s desires with the energy of the stars. Slingshotting us to our most powerful, authentic, and fun reality.

🌀Think of a new moon as your time to redirect energy and funnel it exactly where you need to go. These moons are cycles of calling in and manifesting. In new moon phases, the energy is ripe for planting and tending to.

Then over the course of the moon phases leading up to a full moon, you tend to the energy and calibrate it for greater alignment. You take notes, ask spirit, and put in work to continue calling in the intention you set on the new moon.

A new moon is a moment of unlimited opportunities, growth, and change.🌑

>> New moons are the fun part of the manifestation cycle where you get to express, dream, play, and envision bigger for yourself. The energy of astrology is what helps you direct that dream or energy you are calling in!

Why Even Attune to the Moon?

✨ As humans made of energy in a world where everything is made of energy, we are susceptible to the energy of the cosmos.

Even when we forget, we are still part of this divine ecosystem. As the Earth relies on the other planets to maintain her orbit, so do we. As the moon affects the tides, we humans, made of mostly water, feel that same energy!

With astrology, we have the gift of foresight and clarity. A system to translate what we are going through and feeling to emerge victorious.🚀 If more people used astrology as a guidance system for life, think of all the positive changes that would emerge in society!

What are the big themes in this lunation?

🎙️ Expressing Deep Emotional Truths

This lunation brings a beautiful, complex swirl of energies. With Jupiter, the Moon, the Sun, and Mercury gathered close in the watery sign of Cancer, we’re being gently (or not so gently) nudged to express what we truly need — but words may not come easily. Cancer speaks the language of feeling, not logic. This moon asks us to soften, listen inward, and learn how to voice our emotional truths with compassion and care.

With all this energy in the 3rd house (3H) of expression, communication, the mind, writing, poetry, neighborhoods, and siblings, there might be a lot to say when it comes to these topics! And not only are the Moon, Sun, and Jupiter here asking us to express and expand freely and safely, but we have Mercury here, the planet of communication! So there is a multiplier here pushing us to speak up. 🎭🖼️🎤🎶📝

But again, Cancer is less about words and more about vibes. You might feel moody, snappy, or crabby, but also expressive in your joy and happiness. We aren’t here to write a novella, but to cry out and say what we are feeling in any format.

As a side note here, there is an opposition from Pluto in Aquarius in the 10H, so make sure what you’re expressing aligns with the grander vision of your life AND of society!

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🌊 Emotional Rebirth, a New 12-Year Cycle

Staying in the 3H, we are looking at the moon in Cancer and Jupiter in Cancer, one of the luckiest placements in the galaxy! Jupiter is considered exalted in the sign of Cancer because the planet of luck, prosperity, and expansion deeply enjoys being in the safe and nurturing waters of Cancer. If you have been following legit any astrologer this year, they have talked about this highly anticipated transit as lucky for many people.

This Jupiter Cazimi and conjunction with the moon is the start of a new 12-year cycle. Think back to 2013 and the themes of what you were starting in your life. This placement is a big legacy moment. A serious moment of reflection and visioning for the next 12 years. Even if you don’t know what you want, where the world will be, or who you will be then; Jupiter is commanding you to dream big!!!!! Expand and trust fall into the Cancerian waters. Let the waves carry you out to see and reward you with all the dreams and riches you deserve when you embrace your truth and raw desires!

Jupiter and Cancer aren’t here to judge your needs and wants; they just want you to scream them from the rooftops, to embrace them by dancing under the empty moon, take a big exhale, and let it all in.

*REMEMBER: this only comes when you listen to your emotions, when you are honest, when you are a dreamer with a big, open heart. This is the Cancerian and Jupiterian conjunction!

🐂 Ground Down and Slow to Speed Up!

In Los Angeles, our new moon chart is a Taurus rising! We also have Venus and Uranus in Taurus in the 1H. Aaaaand the ascendant is conjunct (right not op of) our Part of Fortune! Oooof! So much grounded and lucky Taurus energy supporting this bold expression and expansion.

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♉Taurus is reminding us that when we are excited to grow and expand, we must ground our vision and slow down to speed up. Think of an archer’s bow. If you have ever seen an archer get ready for a shot, they line everything up with perfect precision. Placing their bow in the exact right place, pulling back steadily and strongly to get the maximum velocity. Then, when they are locked in, they steady their aim, making sure that their arrow is aligned with their target. Only after all of those steps are carefully aligned do they take their shot. This is the grounding energy that Taurus is asking us to embrace in this lunation!

If we take that extra steadying breath right before we release the bow, it makes all the difference.

Now, to add Uranus and Venus to the equation. These planets remind us that if we truly embrace our vision from a space of what we REALLY value and love, then we are sure to hit our target. Venus rules over aesthetics, but also values and receiving. Uranus is a planet of sudden expansion and contraction, and Uranus hates authority! So whatever you are building, just be radically honest and you’ll be rewarded! Haha

As a side note, the 1H has a direct opposition in the 7H with Black Moon Lilith in 🦂Scorpio, so there might be an extra spicy feeling of wanting to take up space and embrace your freedom, but at the cost of others. Is it my needs or theirs? Or are my needs being misinterpreted by those karmic and soul contract relationships in my life?

🌑 Uncovering Subconscious Needs

Ok, so the last piece of this chart is in the 12H of the🛌🏽 subconscious, dreams, and the unknown realms. Here, we aren’t always aware of what we have going on under the surface until something happens to bring it forward (or we consult psychics and psychic practices). There is a hard square of tension between Saturn and Neptune in Aries and the Moon in Cancer!

Saturn in Aries was a recent shift, and we are all feeling that firestarter energy of ♈Aries pushing us to embrace Saturn and his structured vision for our lives. Having Neptune conjunct here adds an extra magickal misty layer of hazy intuition.

What are the fears or blocks you are carrying in your conditioning stopping you from expressing your Cancerian truth? Where do you need support and structure? What intuitive inclings are you feeling and how can you embrace the unknown with grounded structure and action?

Squares are often seen as bad, but they create the pressure that💎diamonds💎 are made of! If you let this tension push and pull you, you will emerge victorious and stronger than you ever thought possible. And I have a natal Cancer and Aries square in my chart between my Sun and Moon, so I definitely know this truth. If there were no challenge to overcome, life would be boring tbh.

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What rituals do I recommend for this lunation?

Well, with all new moons, I like to attune to the prevailing energy, which is Cancer water in this case….

Here’s what I recommend: