June 2025: New Moon in Cancer 🌑🦀

Reclaiming safety in the sanctity of our own vessels.

Bright and early this morning, at 5:31 AM CST, the New Moon in Cancer entered her full activation; the peak continuing to emanate after-effects for the next few days. Those likely most affected by this lunation are those with strong placements in the early degrees of the Cardinal signs (Aries, Cancer, Libra, and Capricorn.)

This moon is appearing right on schedule, in the midst of a suffocating, sweltering summer as we linger in the hot, uncomfortable emotional swamplands likely brought on by both internally and externally-experienced chaos.

Cancer is not here to poke or prod at these wounds on purpose. She’s gently guiding us inward to try and teach us how to build a sanctum inside of ourselves.

I’ve seen way too many people try to cast this turn inwards as dissociating from the very real issues of the collective, but I have to argue against that: coming back in and tending to your own wounds is a radical, brave, not easy thing to do. If it was easy, everyone would do it.

And I believe that I’ve made this analogy before: what’s the first thing they teach you when presented with a drowning victim? Do not go in after them.

A lot of activists seem to think that not getting in the water in solidarity is a sign of entitlement and false intentions…no.

The people drowning in the water would much rather you be ready to receive them from your stable place on the shore, with the strength to pull the rope of their life ring.

And the only way you’re going to ever be strong and stable enough to do that is if you can stand strong and steady in the face of chaos without getting swept into the waves yourself.

Cue Cancer’s turn with her Mother Moon: you must begin to look inside of yourself and commit to tending and healing all the wounded, vulnerable parts of you and help them feel safe despite whatever is going on in the rest of the world.

Yeah. We said it. It’s time.

You Are the Temple 💫

Why this season can feel notably difficult:

“Cancer is the home to the most delicate, most vulnerable parts of us, those we might have buried deeply as children because they didn’t feel welcome or accepted, because it wasn’t safe to express them.”

-MoonOmens-

This world is moving faster than ever, and yet we’re still operating via a hardware system (our physical bodies) that haven’t evolved in over a thousand years. The telephone itself is still pretty new, all things considered. How the hell are our bodies adapting to everything that’s manifested technologically since?

I probably don’t even have to say it, but, not that well, folks.

We are being programmed to shut down, dissociate, numb, and become dependent on quick, 10-30 second brain-rot dopamine hits to keep going.

I don’t think some group out there is necessarily consciously controlling this. Maybe some are trying. But I feel that really, most of it stems from us, as a society, not valuing or consciously processing our emotions, sensitivity, or vulnerability.

We have long been conditioned to shun the aspects of the Divine Feminine (cyclical, seasonal, nurturing, vulnerable, sensitive, emotional, creative) in ourselves in favor of (not even Divine) Masculine.

I want to make sure the difference is noted. The Divine Masculine does honor his emotions. He sits with them, feels them, allows his mind to process them. He does not run from them. He does not repress them. He does not lean into substances to numb them. He accepts them as part of his experience. He may not express them in the same way the Feminine does, but he does look to her to show him how to move through them and nurture those parts of himself. He cares deeply for others, empathetically so, and uses his knowledge of architecting, building, containing, and providing to offer that to those who need it, including himself.

The ‘masculine’ energy currently running this societal programming does none of those things. It wants to conquer, eradicate, dominate, harass, bully, own, extract, deplete, and strongman its way through life, never allowing itself to be seen as vulnerable, emotional, or god forbid, ‘soft’ (feminine).

Highlight, especially as we are in Men’s Mental Health Awareness Month: you are not less of a man because you allow yourself to experience the emotions you feel. To admit that you’ve been hurt or traumatized or wounded. To ask for help. To ask to be taught how to nurture and care for yourself.

In fact, you’re the Divine Masculine for doing so.

There are a few astrological aspects going on right now, but I really want to center on one that I mentioned in a previous post (still active; now stronger) and really drive home how intense it is - and why you really need to be gentle with yourself.

The Yod (Hand of God) = Cancer New Moon + Pluto + Mars

We are under great evolutionary pressure.

You are not imagining it. It may not be right in your face, but it is absolutely humming in the background, like a traumatized nervous system scanning through hypervigilance. So many people I’ve spoken to over the last week have told me how absolutely exhausted they feel, including myself. Can’t get up in the morning. Catching a nap during the day. Low energy. Low light. Low (zest for) life.

“The Mars-Pluto quincunx reflects frustration and a build-up of intensity without resolution or discharge. During this time, we may experience strong desires that may not be wise to act upon. We may feel contrasting urges and impulses that are hard to reconcile or require a sacrifice that causes a feeling of impotence. This aspect invites us into right relationship with desire and challenges us to practice holding, validating, and honoring our desires without necessarily acting on them.”

-MoonOmens-

You may not know who this is. That’s okay. I’d like to introduce you.

This is Mikayla Raines. 29. Autistic. An extremely hard-working, passionate rescuer of animals and wildlife (Save a Fox Rescue). Mother of a sweet, young daughter named Freya. Loving wife to a gentle giant who supported her in all her animal ambitions. Very visible on social media, with 1.5 million followers, to try to continue to scrape together donations for her rescue as well as others. Reportedly assisted in the saving and care of upwards of 4-figures of animals that came through her hands.

A few days ago, she was alive, here in our third dimensional reality of Earth. She made a decision to not be anymore, after a relentless onslaught of bullying and harassment by a small assortment of online trolls, plus people she had met and befriended in real life, in the same field of work.

“The Mars-Pluto quincunx reflects frustration and a build-up of intensity without resolution or discharge. During this time, we may experience strong desires that may not be wise to act upon. We may feel contrasting urges and impulses that are hard to reconcile or require a sacrifice that causes a feeling of impotence.”

I would be lying if I said I didn’t see the blatant, glaring similarities between Mikayla and myself. Hair. Eyes. Face. Work ethic. Animal devotion. Autistic. Sensitive. Pulled regularly through the waves of anxiety and depression. Affected by the energies of others, even if we knew they were wrong / projecting their own issues. She always responded to the hateful, accusatory comments with grace. But they still leave their mark on our psyche, as I well know.

This is the second instance of close-to-heart hitting suicide of the year for me, the first being within my own family. My mother’s cousin, although I didn’t know him very well, also decided to leave us. By all accounts, he was much like Mikayla and I - very intelligent, creative, hard working, perfectionistic, self-pressured, sensitive, and (likely also) autistic.

Mikayla and my cousin are not weak for leaving. And we’re no stronger than them by staying. I am sad that they were driven to a point where they could feel no sense of safety or support, not only from others, but from within themselves as well. It’s not their faults. Society doesn’t teach us how to do these things - how to feel safe within ourselves - because it goes against the rules of the structure that we created.

The structure that is currently in the process of dismantling itself in an unnerving firestorm of chaos that can put many people on the edge - and push some of us off it.

If you have been treading this line - you are not alone, and you deserve to be listened to. Please be gentle with yourself. Allow yourself to see that these energies are very, very active right now - it is not a personal failing of yours. Take a deep breath.

I’d really like you to stay anyway.

That said - please, please be gentle with others right now. Do not engage with trolls. Check on people if you notice certain words in their posts or unduly negative comment threads. You are not intruding - you are showing them that there really are others around them who care. Who can listen. Who notice.

There are millions of people wishing they could tell Mikayla so many things right now. And I understand. We always think we have more time. We don’t want to be a ‘bother.’ We always think that they just ‘know.’ But let me tell you from deeply personal experience - we ‘know’ that you’re out there in our general proximity or at the other end of a phone. But that’s just the potential of presence.

You don’t need to spend every hour of every day messaging everyone you know to tell them how much you love them. But when you think of them - just send something. A message. An emoji. A funny meme. A picture.

It’s so small. But it’s showing someone else that you notice. That they matter.

And the energy that you put out does come back to you. But you also have to learn not only how to accept and receive it, but how to generate it in you, for you.

🌑 The Sanctuary We Carry Forward

This New Moon in Cancer is not soft and silent in the way we might expect—it carries the tension of this Yod, the “Finger of God” pointing toward necessary transformation. We are being stretched between the demands of evolution, expansion, and emotional truth.

In the midst of this, many of us are realizing:
There is no outer system coming to save us.
There is no structure stable enough, no voice loud enough, no praise consistent enough to hold the grief, sensitivity, or sacred longing of the soul.

So we are asked to build sanctuary where we can—
in the quiet corners of our breath,
in the honesty of our hearts,
in the unwavering knowing that we deserve to be here, just as we are.

This week, a young woman many of you may have seen online—tender-hearted, deeply sensitive, radiant in her love for animals—chose to exit this world.
And while I did not know her personally, her story mirrors the quiet despair so many of us carry:
The pain of being too sensitive in a world too harsh.
The exhaustion of being needed but not supported.
The impossibility of carrying beauty and burden in equal measure.

Let her legacy remind us:
We must tell the ones we love that we see them—now.
We must create inner sanctuaries now, not when we burn out.
We must learn to witness pain without expecting it to be prettied up for our comfort.

Cancer teaches us that protection is not withdrawal—
It’s rightful containment.
It’s claiming the right to be whole without explanation.
It’s learning to mother ourselves and each other with ferocity, not just softness.

If you take one thing with you tonight under this New Moon, let it be this:

“I do not have to be palatable to be worthy.
I do not have to be productive to be held.
I do not have to explain my pain for it to be valid.

My inner world is sacred.
My sanctuary begins with me.”

🕯️ Light a candle. Draw a bath. Speak aloud your name like a spell.
You are here. You are sacred. You are still becoming.