Welcome to June, star seeds, and the inspired ethers of Gemini season.
What defines Gemini above all else is curiosity — a deep desire to see, chase, and converse with the unknown and the unexpected.
Gemini not only grasps but also personifies the notion that within the in-between, anything is achievable. This hopeful outlook benefits us all as we approach the hot and sticky days of summer.
On June 9th, Jupiter, our massive gas planet known for luck, abundance, risks, and sometimes overindulgence, exits the high skies of Gemini to enter the nurturing waters of Cancer —an occurrence that hasn’t happened for ten years.
Jupiter finds exaltation in Cancer, meaning the planet reaches its peak potential to showcase its might and generosity. With Cancer symbolizing family and nurturing, the emphasis will transition from communication to caregiving, from whimsical adventures to family life in all its complex, chaotic forms.
June 11th brings the full Strawberry Moon in Sagittarius, imploring us to go somewhere we’ve never gone before, from the micro (dose) to the macro adventure.
On June 20, we celebrate the longest day of the year with the Summer Solstice. This day of days also coincides with the onset of Cancer season — when we are all tasked with examining our root systems to cut away what no longer nourishes, and tend to what does.
Jupiter in Cancer aligns with the sun on June 24th, making it one of the best days of the year to shoot your shot, launch an endeavor or otherwise roll the dice — with the sure knowledge that the fates are conspiring to bring you more of what you need.
On June 25th, the dark New Moon in Cancer arrives. Cancer is ruled by the moon, which makes this the moon-iest new moon of the year. Cancer also reigns over the fourth house of roots and ancestry. Aptly, the lessons of this lunation are relative to where we come from and what we come home to.
With an open mind, palm, and mouth, read on to see what June holds for you. Read for your sun and rising sign.
With Saturn and Neptune moving through your cardinal bonfires, you may feel the push and pull between duty and dreams, Aries.
As the zodiac’s first sign, you are possessed of a singular kind of “little kid” energy, but with these two planets in the mix, you are poised more than ever to become the kind of mischievous adult that children can aspire to be.
Together but not uptight, responsible but not rigid, and fervently putting the fun in functional adult, good on ya.
I recently went sailing with a resplendent Taurus captain.
When the subject of competition arose, she shared, “I want to be good, but I don’t need to be better than anyone else.”
As the sun in Gemini highlights your second house of wealth and worth, I hope you will adopt a similar mindset, aiming always to improve but recognizing that being enough does not require you to be better than anyone, save for who you used to be.
Happy return of the sun to you, Gemini!
A fellow Gemini and Aussie friend of mine recently shared that one of her countrymen, Ander Louis, is in the process of translating Tolstoy’s “War and Peace” into “bogan Australian,” a working-class dialect that leans heavy on slang and ain’t afraid to punctuate with expletives.
“Anna Pavlovna’s drawing room was gradually filling” becomes the more casual and colorful, “Heaps of posh wankers were at Anna’s place by now.”
In trading language but remaining true to the story, Louis has managed at once to both draw a new audience to Tolstoy and venerate a looked-down-upon vernacular.
You are capable of a similar feat this month, Gemini, able as you are to wield words to build worlds — transmogrifying the old to new, dated to daring, intimidating to accessible.
Hello, Cancer! The sun in Gemini activates the attic of your twelfth house of the unconscious mind, hidden enemies, and buried meaning. The twelfth house is the house of endings, but from that fade to black comes the slow, steady breath of all that will yet be.
My pal, the artist and double Cancer Timothy Goldskin, has a long-standing habit of collecting lost children’s shoes that he finds on his travels. When pressed, he told me, “I don’t know what it will be, but if I don’t do it, it will never be anything.”
I hope you will adopt a similar conviction of collection this month, Cancer, as Jupiter enters your sign, and you ready yourself for your solar return and the possibility of anything and all things.
Happy cusp of summer, Leo!
With Saturn (structure, building) and Neptune (dreams, delusions) in a fellow fire sign and Pluto (death and reckoning) moving through your partnership zone, change is afoot and the radical is real.
The author, yung pueblo writes:
“if you measure
the length
of your ego,
it will equal
the distance
between you
and your freedom
if you
are far away
from yourself,
how could
you ever be
close to another?”
I hope you will welcome the summer solstice by closing the gap with an outstretched hand and purposeful step forward.
When discussing art and ambition, my older sister, a brilliant Virgo, admitted, “I want more, but that doesn’t mean I’m not content.”
With the sun in Gemini rising and shining in your tenth house of legacy and career, I hope you, too, will be sated with and grateful for what you have while nursing a patient hunger for what’s next.
Ahoy, Libra! The sun in Gemini shines the headlights on your ninth house of expansion, philosophy, moral code, and how you engage with the strange.
In honor of this, I would like to offer a bit of practical, pocket philosophy from one of your own, to see you through this month and beyond.
Fellow Libra Taryn Toomey sagely advises, “When you’re confused, do the most loving thing.”
May you always deliver and receive this ethos.
Gemini season activates your eighth house of intimacy, death, resources and regeneration, Scorpio.
These are meaty matters, but you generally do not fear the shadowside or the dark underbelly, regarding it as a source to mine from rather than a door to ignore.
For the majority of the month, Venus in Taurus will be treading the soft soil in your seventh house of partnerships, suggesting that if your excavations are romantic, you could very well hit the rich pay dirt of an enduring, resourceful relationship.
I broke bread with an inspiring and recently divorced artist who has recently opened the door to dating. She told me that she doesn’t practice polishing or pleasantries on a first date, cutting quick to the bone and always to the heart.
She explained, “If I’m too much for someone, they’ll never be enough for me.”
As the sun in Gemini raises the chandelier on your seventh house of partnership, Sagittarius, I encourage you to be your fullest freest self.
In doing so, the siren call of the strange will emit from your armpits, a sacred frequency only heard by others that make their home on the outside — the brave and the dangerous who never shy away from an excess of wholeness.
The brilliant astrologer Rob Brezsny takes issue with spiritual folk who espouse, “I am not my body.”
He argues, “This creepy dismissal is an insult and disparagement. It demeans our bodies’ magnificent beauty and besmirches our bodies’ sublime role in educating our souls,” and suggests we exalt in the body’s “boisterous animal elegance.”
As the sun in Gemini highlights your sixth house of ritual, care, and the corporeal form, Capricorn, I hope you will take the opportunity to honor your mortal coil not as the animal that separates you from the spiritual, but the wild one upon whose bare back you ride all the way to enlightenment.
The sun in a fellow air sign is an opportunity for you to get wholesomely high, Aquarius. Gemini season kicks down the door of your fifth house of creativity, conviviality, and the inner child. To access this precious, pint-sized psychopomp, make play a priority.
Hang upside down, find a hiding spot, climb onto the kitchen counter, look up twice as often as you look down.
The sun in Gemini activates your fourth house of origin, Pisces.
There is perhaps no more loaded word in the English language than “mother,” conjuring as it does a deluge of associations and activations.
Because Gemini season reminds us that we are ever and always not only capable of, but responsible for, rewriting the story we tell ourselves, I offer you the words of Rumi, “We are born of love; Love is our mother.”
No matter your relationship to the woman who brought you to life, I hope you will live it full and free, knowing exactly where you came from and what you are built for.
Astrologer Reda Wigle researches and irreverently reports on planetary configurations and their effect on each zodiac sign. Her horoscopes integrate history, poetry, pop culture, and personal experience. To book a reading, visit her website.
