Astrology Transits: Almost at Cancer Solstice
- Astro Anarchist
- 2 days ago
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Early this year I mentioned that the tarot guide for 2026 was Wheel of Fortune. Huge expansion; so big, that we are not expanded enough to contend with it. The WoF medicine is to keep your eye in the centre. Centre yourself on what is straight ahead of you: the dishes, the delivery, the bill that needs to be paid, the child (or familiar) that is asking for attention. I remember looking at the astrology of the year and it seemed so obvious, and I had hopes and dreams about what my expansion would be, how I was going to grow this site, and my business and potentially expand my offerings. What’s funny is I looked at the astrology of the summer (in the northern hemisphere,) and that’s when I saw things popping off.
And here we are.
Almost at Cancer Solstice. Depending on where you live, this threshold will bring in the light or call in the darkness to bring in the balances of the equinox. But where are we now, as we come to this moment? Perhaps it would help to catch you up on my story a little?
I have lapsed a lot of writing because of my health situation, energy, and circumstances beyond my control. In January Neptune moved into Aries, for the first time in our collective lifetime. This is when they found my ovarian tumor.
In February– Saturn moved into Aries for the first time in 29 years (I have 3 planets and South Node in Aries) and conjoined Neptune on the first degree of the zodiacal wheel. In February and March we had eclipses, and in March I had a radical hysterectomy. The Wheel of Fortune card is a Jupiter card. Jupiter is transiting my first house of body, image, appearance, identity and my rising is in Cancer; which rules the mother archetype and all the parts that were removed. Jupiter is about luck, faith, excess, teaching, learning, benefit. This all checks out.
April had powerful Mars energy: with Mars sailing through its home sign of Aries, lots of agitation, growth, movement, and motion. My best friend stayed with me and helped me through my recovery, cooking, cleaning, and dressing my wound. Wounds/ surgery= Aries. Chiron is still in Aries, and Chiron rules wounding and healing, specifically on an identity level in Aries. Aries is about rebirth and is the spiritual warrior of the zodiac. Aries rules baby animals. It also rules war.
In May Uranus moved into Gemini, which is a big deal that I didn’t get to really write about. Uranus is changeable, surprising, disruptive energy that is well suited to Gemini’s curiosity, duality, pollinating, and social ways. We get breakthroughs and revelations with Uranus. We cannot unsee what Uranus shows us. Uranus’s movement from earth sign to air sign gave us a collective experience of less grounding, less certainty, less rootedness. More questions. Feeling untethered, or unsure, about anything. This is when I started chemotherapy, which felt completely counterintuitive, considering how much better I felt without a 20cm diameter tumor inside me. I wanted to climb a mountain, but instead I have a summer of IV, fatigue, baldness, and trying to get my fitness back. I feel like a senior citizen.
Gemini season is in full throttle and yet it’s been quite difficult for me to know what to say. I started and restarted posts, creative ideas of things I could do. But this WoF year had me just holding on to the centre. Weeding my plants, watering my backyard tree. Friend visits. Health treatments. Sleep.
Now in June, and still in Gemini season, I am coming back. I feel the freight train of impending fire, and the motivation of the narrative of the planets. We are almost half way through the year and there are miles to go yet.
Many of you are feeling this in different ways, feeling a call but not knowing what to do with it. Knowing you are being asked to do something but not quite knowing what. Feeling your worth, your gift, your service so strongly, but not sure about your audience, your path, your steps, your dharma. I am right here with all of you. I am here to help all of you best I can, as I have found the message again.
I am recalibrating slowly. This health journey I have been on has been all about Jupiter. I know other Cancer risings experiencing similar tests of faith, health, devotion, expansion, and blessings. Jupiter will move into Leo at the end of the month.
But not before Chiron moves in Taurus. For me: this is signalling my Chiron return. And this year, I believe, has been all about that so far.
And more on that soon. For now: the time stamps.
June 12th Gemini Uranus squares Lunar Nodes @ 2 degrees,
June 12th Cancer Mercury enters pre-retrograde shadow 16 degrees
June 13 Venus ingresses into Leo
June 14th New Moon in Gemini @ 24 degrees
June 15th Leo Venus sextile Gemini Uranus @ 2 degrees
June 16th Leo Venus trine Aries Neptune @4 degrees
June 17th Leo Venus oppose Aquarius Pluto @ 5 degrees
June 12th (today) is notable because of the T-square created by Gemini Uranus and the Lunar Nodes. This is a tension in time- pointing to the early Gemini point in your chart, your past karma, and your future karma. This is a checkpoint and Uranus will deliver a disruption, surprise, or breakthrough to get you on the path. But what path will you choose? The lunar nodes deal with what is conscious and subconscious. This square will demand attention, growth, and choices. And this square has been mounting since May. Whatever is keeping you locked into a karmic pattern, well it might just break.
For example: Uranus showed me clearly a friend who was betraying my trust and lying to me, a few years ago. Once I saw it- I could not unsee it. Yet it had been quite obvious for months, and I was resisting the information. I did not want to believe it. And then: boom. The effects went far beyond one friend and through a community, leaving the town I lived in, realizing I had placed my flag in quicksand and had to get grounding. 2 years later; I am so thankful for this realization, so that I may deal with my health issues around people I can trust– but at the time it almost broke me.
Uranus is social in nature, and has an element of trauma to it. I don’t want to make this sound terrible, sometimes, the revelation can be really positive- even from the get-go. I have heard of people meeting their next partner under these conditions, or an influential teacher.
My example is pretty extreme, since it happened during some major astrology for me, but ultimately, Uranus deals with who we are in humanity. The greater human story. And none of us are immune to finding out we were wrong. Collectively Uranus is related to uprisings, revolution, bids for freedom, technological innovation and advancement. My Uranus opposition*** led me to become an astrologer.
If this wasn’t enough, we are also hitting our shadow period for Mercury retrograde in Cancer on June 12th, so my guess is that your T-square moment will also set off some memories, and questions, some emotional thoughts and realizations that will continue a story through the retrograde. Cancer rules creativity, gestation of children/ ideas/ projects, mothers and mother wounds, safety and lack thereof, nurturing, healing, holding and protecting, memories, home, and family. So these topics overlaid with your Cancer-ruled house will start to percolate, and it will be emotional. As I write this, I have very visceral ideas about what this all means for me.
Mercury retrograde dates are:
Shadow starts June 12th @16 degrees
Retrograde June 29th @ 26 degrees
Mercury stations direct July 23rd @ 16 degrees
Mercury out of shadow August 6th @ 26 degrees
The Sabian Symbol for 16 degrees Cancer is: The Seed Grows Into Knowledge and Life
It speaks of slow, nurtured growth, and embryonic cells, divine timing, and and taking something all the way, day by day. It suggests how we nurture a sapling to become a strong tree. The need for fertilizing, and daily watering. This can indicate pregnancy for some, or an important idea. Pay attention to what comes up today, as you may carry this through the retrograde.
June 13th has Venus moving into Leo, where she wants to be seen and noticed. Venus here has PRIDE no matter what her orientation is. As I am now bald, slower, less agile, and learning how to move again, this feels counterintuitive to me personally, but we don't always get to choose how these lessons play out. Venus values connection, commerce, exchange, and in this fiery sign, she leads. They call Venus in Leo the diva, and we all know that divas come in many genders. What we will see is uptake on DRAMA, great hair (not in my case,) leadership (or ideas of it), heart led intentions, and some polarization when she opposes Pluto in Aquarius. If we struggle with needing validation, this might come up on this transit, lasting until July 9th.
On June 14th we have a New Moon in Gemini @ 24 degrees. This is an ending and beginning of a cycle that started a year ago. Gemini is about words, reflection, social commentary, duality, siblings, friends, conversation, journalism, curiosity, and understanding. The Sabian Symbol for this degree is A Gardener Trimming Large Palm Trees, and this has a theme of clearing away garbage, what’s ineffective, and what needs to be composted. The clearing is what allows for growth, and there’s this idea of getting to the bare essentials. Remember there was a growth metaphor going in our Mercury retrograde point too. And on that point, the ruler of this New Moon is Mercury in Cancer, in its retrograde shadow, and that means there will be likely some emotional terrain, some memories, and some conflation between fact and feeling. Remember we ALL have confirmation bias, and Gemini wants us to be curious enough to understand the other side. Anyone can spin a tale that suits their narrative, but that doesn’t make it Truth. Ultimately, there’s a growth theme here as we approach Cancer Solstice.
The next 3 days, June 15th, 16th and 17th star Leo Venus as she sextiles Uranus, trines Neptune, and opposes Pluto, in that order. Her narrative looks at supportive surprises, innovations and breakthroughs in the social sphere. Perhaps we are seen, or noticed, or we find a way to engage with vision, spiritual fire, or revelations. Ultimately we will be brought to a tension between our preferences and values, and power dynamics and structures. The more we want to be free, we notice the chains that prevent us from this very thing. This will likely come in the form of relationship dynamics.
Freedom’s just another word for “nothing left to lose.”
-Janis Joplin in Bobby Magee
Remember that Venus in Leo is no wallflower, and that drama will ensue, as the fires will start to burn. After this week, there are bigger fish to fry, with planetary sign changes. Remember the Wheel of Fortune medicine of letting yourself be moved as you keep your eye on the centre: of the road, the day, the task at hand. The outer planets have their designs on us, but we can still enjoy the ride.
Xo Astro-Anarchist
***Uranus Opposition readings available, drop me a line info@astro-anarchist.com
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