June always brings with it the end of the first quarter of the astrological new year. This year June marks an astrological transition point. The first half of the month will be a continuation of May, whereas the middle to end of the month will bring about a tangible shift. Venus, Mars, and Jupiter will all move from elementally cold to hot signs. Jupiter and Venus move from Cancer to Leo and Mars goes from a steady paced Taurus to the juggling while jogging sign of Gemini. Watch closely as the speed adjusts and how you adapt to it. This is a deeply important piece of medical astrology not often discussed. How to exist with the shifts that often create imbalance through the “winds” of the change.
For those in the northern hemisphere, be mindful if you have a history of heat imbalances. Due to planetary shifts, taking place at the same time of summer, heat will be prevalent in the earthly and celestial atmosphere.
Heat imbalances include the following experiences:
Itching, irritability, and agitation
Impatience
Restlessness
Need for extra electrolytes
Inflammation
Perfectionism & being critical
Tendency to overwork & burnout
Headaches
Heart palpitations
Redness
Dry skin
Blood pressure issues
June 1 | Mercury enters Cancer
When Mercury moves into Cancer the nerves within the stomach and digestive system tend to dance to the tune of emotionality. Mercury will be in Cancer all month because it is going retrograde near the month’s end. A heightened emphasis on bringing the body into the parasympathetic state when eating meals is advised during this time.
June 3 | Moon in benefic embrace (Note times in different locations)
June 3 | Mercury in Cancer square Neptune in Aries
We have a lovely moment where the Moon is in a trine between Venus and Jupiter on the 3rd. This brings a graciousness to the day although the Mercury square to Neptune can bring a haze to the mind as well. Meditation can be enhanced on this day and also could bring the feeling of being on a cloud that can easily lead to a forgetfulness to the everyday essentials of daily living. Be sure to breathe, drink enough water, and eat food. Sexual encounters and erotic practices to elevate the spirit can feel more easily accessible on this day.
June 5| Moon briefly besieged
Whenever the Moon is besieged it is wise to be watchful of your intake. The Moon is the planet of nourishment and absorption. Check in with the amount and quality of food, media, water, and conversation you are letting in.
June 9 | Venus conjuncts Jupiter in Cancer
Cancer is the sign of the stomach, the breasts, and the womb. It is the sign of nourishment, of the mother, and of what we hold most tenderly within us. When Venus and Jupiter meet here, they are two benefics embracing in the most maternal of signs — and the body feels it. There is an expansiveness to the heart, a softening in the belly, and an invitation to receive.
This is one of the more genuinely beautiful transits of the month. Allow yourself to be fed — by food, by beauty, by love, by rest. The body’s capacity to absorb nourishment is heightened under this sky, which makes it an ideal day for a deeply nourishing meal, for gathering with people who fill rather than drain you, and for any practice that opens the chest and heart center.
Be mindful, however, of Jupiter’s tendency toward excess. In Cancer, overindulgence often lands in the stomach first — bloating, heaviness, or that particular kind of emotional eating that isn’t really about hunger at all. Let Venus guide the quality of what you take in, and let Jupiter expand your capacity to truly receive it rather than simply consume it.
June 9 | Mercury in Cancer square Saturn in Aries
Mercury, the ruler of the nervous system and Saturn, the planet of coldness, restriction, and limitation come into a square with one another. This is an ideal day for a massage, sauna, and lots of therapeutic movement. This aspect can also manifest in a very precise manner. Because Mercury is in Cancer, if the stomach and ability to absorb nourishment is hindered, it can create what the old physicians called “ill vapors” that can ascend and cause Saturn in Aries to enact the headaches it already has a tendency to increase in natives with the placement and during its transit. On this day Venus and Jupiter are conjunct in Cancer so this can easily take place through indulgence. Although Jupiter and Venus are benefic, we still have to be mindful of the constellation of forces taking place simultaneously.
The second half of June is where the celestial weather truly shifts — subscribe to read the full forecast, including the Chiron ingress into Taurus, the Summer Solstice medicine, and what the Full Moon in Capricorn is asking of your body.
