The AstroWellness Method with Alina Maganda

This is just a reminder that we are in the midst of Pluto retrograde in Aquarius. And it’s getting in a very tight position with newly intervenous in the sign of Leon. Well, still being in trine with Uranus in Gemini and sextile with Neptune in Aries, faster, moving planets, and Jupiter are all will go through these opposition with Pluto. So it becomes very important to pay attention to this area of the chart. Especially because Pluto itself is involved in the cradle that I’ve already mentioned many times in my previous posts and articles that consist of air and fire element. Pluto, being on the open part of the cradle, symbolizes, mutual ground and golden ration needed to be found in the areas of your chart where you have, Aquarius and Leo. It will bring, seems around your public versus private life, the love you give versus the love you receive, your aspirations for yourself versus in a groups of people and communities and more it could be a lot of tension in the specific area, also because Leo is the king of the zodiac and animal Kingdom, they love to shine, be admired, recognized. They are the rulers, they have big heart. They are courageous, but it also comes with them downside it could be very proud people, they can be seeking a lot of validation. It could be a lot of superficiality within them. Leo is actually very contradictive sign in that sense. Because as many as I encountered in my life, they are very and highly intellectual , but it is challenging for them to use their intellect in the right way for some reason. For example, many of them just like falling into more material life, although deep inside of them, they are very longing for more spirituality, mysticism, and highly intellectual conversations. They are attracted to something shiny, and sometimes they could fall for something that is actually not real, if you scratch it a little bit, you will see it is completely false so the world can be shattered also many times. But Leo needs a stage. So if the lessons that this year brought us are still not being learned, if the space that was required to be emptied in order to receive was not prepared, it will be much harder to navigate not only cancer season, but also Leo season and especially the end of July when we also will have the lunar nodes being switched to the same axis of Leo and Aquarius. This will bring us fully integrated themes between fire and air element, so it will be around initiation, intellect, new beginnings, new way of communicating processing information, asserting things and more  one more thing I want to know is that steel continue to pay attention where these 26° of cancer in your chart because Jupiter is still there and it will also come to the opposition with Pluto, and there would be a lot of action around this degree and it also has been so you need to still work on this area of your chart. Let me know how you feel how it shows up for you and if you would love to read the full article about Pluto retrograde here’s the link for my Substack that I’m trying to grow 🙂

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Today’s energy is very heavy, stagnant, and at times very unbalanced. We are still experiencing the Venus and Jupiter conjunction in Cancer, and to add to that, the Nodes square Uranus, emotional Mercury, which rules thoughts, intellect, movement, and so on, in Cancer squares orderly Saturn in fiery Aries. Critical 29° Chiron in Aries squares Venus at the same degree in Cancer, and dreamy Neptune sextiling transformative Pluto in electric Aquarius does not help either, especially because Pluto is retrograde.

The rest of the picture is pretty much the same. So this day again emphasizes some kind of critical inner work that is happening. Uranus aspecting Pluto also adds this sudden energy that can cause unexpected feelings, emotions, and events, plus Pluto is in retrograde motion.

The energy is very contradictory because the Aries area of our chart is very active, yet we cannot proceed. There are blocks that have been put on the road. There is much inner desire to initiate something, to begin and to start, and a desire to actually make moves and be active. But the energy does not allow it. There is a restriction and restraint that has been put in place.

And as we know, everything that happens eventually happens for our highest good. So this is again very necessary and important downtime. See where your thoughts are taking you, because right now, as I mentioned in my previous post, the heart is receptive. Although things are very fragile and vulnerable, there is a desire for safety, softness, calm energy, nurturing, and a feeling of home, even if it causes some kind of turbulence to receive it or to get to that place.

So your heart will show you the way if you just lean into it. Much of the energy revolves around matters of the heart, whether romantic, family-oriented, connected to the inner child, the home environment, and so on. I feel like this pause and stagnation are necessary right now, even if they may feel like limitation and blocks, because they slow you down. And when you slow down, you can feel and think more clearly. Once you relax and there is no noise, you can actually hear and feel what your heart and your soul are trying to communicate to you. See what you are thinking about, who you are thinking about, and in general, where your thoughts are taking you, because there lies some kind of key. This time is here to find that key and unlock that gate.

With the Gemini New Moon happening in just a few days, things will accelerate and new beginnings will start. Next week also brings us many Venusian aspects, which will again bring this energy with the same themes. Let’s add to that that Chiron moves to Ta**us next week (which is also ruled by Venus) , and we are moving into Cancer season, followed by the Summer Solstice and more. Try to keep calm and do not get provoked, because it is very possible today. Many people may be triggered, not only today but for the next few days, by small things that do not matter. That happens because there is a lot built up inside, and it must find an outlet, as I have mentioned many times. One of the ways is to actually unload all that weight from your heart, make amends, have a conversation, do something that needs to be done, and you know what needs to be done. In general, everyone is different. Otherwise, because there is much tension in the air, it can cause unnecessary dramas, conflicts, and misunderstandings, accompanied by aggression, impulsivity, and sudden things like that. This is also due to Black Moon Lilith in Sagittarius quincunx the Moon and Mars, which are both conjunct in Ta**us. Deep feminine themes, energy and duality are prevailing right now.

With Venus and Pluto retrograde already being in opposition, which is only starting right now and will get stronger once Venus gets to 5° Leo, you must find some compromise between the areas of your chart ruled by the Leo and Aquarius axis. It also does not hurt to look at where your own Pluto and Venus are placed, just to know your own tendencies and energy in matters connected to these planets.
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Well, well, well, let’s see what’s happening now. As I expected, the energy that this so-called benefic conjunction of Jupiter and Venus in Cancer brought was actually very heavy. And as I mentioned, it’s not bad, although some people may feel this way because of this heaviness and slowness. This energy is absolutely necessary, especially for some people, in order to slow down, turn inward, and actually be able to see, or be forced to see, what is happening, where the actions you took have led you, where you are going, and more.

Although it is truly a positive conjunction, it was also very contradictory and very important because of other things that were happening in the sky, like I’ve mentioned in my article dedicated to this subject. It’s not a one-day event. The conjunction may happen on that day, but it was kind of like a gate into the upcoming Cancer season and more, because let’s not forget that the ruler of that event was the Moon, which was in conjunction with the very heavy energy of Neptune, and it was aspecting this conjunction. At the same time, Chiron at the critical 29° of Aries was squaring it, bringing a lot of memories, people, situations, or feelings from the past, especially those that have been occurring in your life for the past eight years around yourself, identity, boundaries, assertion, direction, and more. The area of your chart, like I always say, will be shown by the house where that specific sign is located.

So let’s not forget that Pluto is also retrograde. But the more important thing is that Jupiter in Cancer is exalted, and Jupiter by itself is an expander. Cancer has very heavy water energy and also a habit of going inside of the shell, which we have talked about many times. Venus is also traditionally a benevolent planet, so in a way, it also expands something, but in her own territory. So when these two meet in Cancer, which is also a feminine sign and belongs to the Moon, it literally brings so much of this heavy energy that it can make us very sluggish, slow, and lacking clarity. It can bring an inability to think straight or understand things. This is also because of the Moon’s connection with Neptune in Aries, and also because both Neptune and Jupiter are ruling Pisces, where the North Node is stationed.

You might feel incredibly grounded to the point that you don’t want to move, and you might feel swelling in your feet or hands. Pressure in the head is very possible, as well as general heaviness around the lower part of the stomach or hips. Lymphatic circulation may slow down too. You also can have many cravings for something sweet, dairy, baked, or any other comfort food. The body here really wants to feel relaxed, comforted, and nurtured enough so you can finally think clearly and proceed with something, because we are all kind of in the purgatory zone right now, floating around with a very heavy rock that we are connected to with a thread that still grounds us. All I know is that it’s very strange energy.

So again, I advise you to spend more time by yourself if it’s possible, to turn inward and see where your mind takes you. Do not force anything. Do not make any big decisions. Do not try to restrict yourself or limit yourself in something. Right now, all this expansion is much needed so you can understand what belongs to you, what does not belong to you, what you want in your life and what not, what is bringing you down and draining you, and what does the opposite. This expansion will show you everything, and we are lucky that in Cancer season, we will not experience this conjunction lol.

A lot of things from the past may come into your mind now. What is it going to be about? Again, you can see it by the area of your chart with that sign, but it can be absolutely anything, starting with some people and romantic adventures, and going to some ideas about your career, business, or anything else. It can be connected to your family, to your place of living, to how you belong to anything, to your career, to your relationship with yourself, your relatives, it doesn’t really matter. But something will show up again no matter what. It can be a few things, and you need to be able to distinguish between those things and to assert what is just a promising, hopeful wish that you will fall for again, or a fantasy that you refuse to acknowledge, even if it’s about yourself or your own roles and dreams, and what is something real, raw, and authentic to you.

This is why, again, this expansion and this desire for nurture, comfort, and relaxation are much needed, because the heart is tired of pretending. It wants to open its gate so the soul can come out and claim and receive what is hers. This is why I suggest you not make any decision, not rush anything, and just go with the flow of this energy. It will eventually slow down. We will see so much clarity with this upcoming Gemini New Moon and a very positive influence that is coming right after that, so I really suggest you stay put and wait at least until that day, which is happening already this week on Sunday, or for some people it can be Monday depending on your time zone. Just a few more days and you will receive more clarity, and you will also feel much better.

So for now, it’s really important not to overindulge in anything, not to overstimulate yourself, not to make yourself overly busy, not to over-converse in general, not to overdo anything, because Jupiter has this tendency. So it needs to find an outlet, but the outlet needs to be inside of you. You must turn inward so Jupiter can show you its wisdom there. And the heart right now is open, like I said. Venus in Cancer, and Cancerian energy in general, is very soft and nurturing. So do not aim your direction at anything external. Instead, remember who is important in your life. First of all, this is you yourself, and you need to direct this energy toward yourself.

Note whatever comes through your mind, where your mind goes, and again, do not resist. If you have some kind of emotions, if you want to cry, because it’s very common, let it happen. I myself randomly had a one-minute cry here and there for the past four days. I feel like it’s purging the energy that I suppressed at some point in my life. So this is very important, because it also removes blocks from your body, and you will literally feel much lighter right after, which gives more clarity to your mind and removes these stagnant emotions from your body. You’re doing yourself a favor.

You see, this is why this period is a blessing. Do not expect anything external, like receiving something, because it will not give you that, not now at least. This energy is meant for your inner life, and that outside reflection will come after, once this period has passed. You also need to understand that this work is necessary because you must purge and free space in your body, in your heart, in your energy field, for these external things to actually appear. We are bound to the laws of nature. We are going through the same cycles. So if you want to receive something, you must have space for that. A person who has absolutely no space in their mind, in their body, in their biofield, and especially in their heart, cannot receive simply because they do not have enough space. This is why cleansing and purging are needed absolutely in every area of your life.

Let me tell you, on Monday I just woke up with the feeling that I needed to clean everything, and right at seven in the morning I started to clean the whole house, wash the floors, and I even cleaned the windows lol. After I did that, I also went through the house with sage and Palo Santo. I needed to make sure everything was in harmony and that the energy was flowing in my house. Right after, I did the same thing with myself lol. It was just an inner feeling that this cleansing and purging had to be done, and when I started to write an article about this conjunction, I realized that this is why. And many people actually went through the same thing, feeling that they needed to clean something, release something, let go of something. Everyone feels that some kind of readjustment is happening, or that they are in front of something big in their life, but they cannot yet tell what it is about.

The clarity will come after. Do the necessary work right now. Do not expect anything. Go with the flow of this energy. If it comes to you, pay attention to the signs. The universe talks to you. It reminds you of things. Just be conscious and aware, and you will understand everything, and you will pass through this period like a smooth criminal haha. Have a beautiful day, everyone.

Let’s continue the previous article with the following explanation of this powerful event on each zodiac sign. The ones that will feel this conjunction the strongest are Cancer, Capricorn, Aries, and Libra, especially if you have placements or angles around 22 to 28 degrees of these signs. Cancer receives the conjunction directly, Capricorn receives it by opposition, Aries and Libra receive it by square. These are the cardinal signs, so the transit moves through the main life pillars: self, home, relationships, career, emotional foundation, and the structures that hold your life together. If you have planets there, this transit is touching something personal in your chart.

Cancer, this conjunction happens in your sign, so it can affect your body, identity, appearance, energy, emotional presence, and the way people respond to you. You may feel more magnetic, sensitive, emotional, tired, inspired, visible, or aware that a new personal chapter is beginning, but you cannot carry the new chapter with the same old defenses. Your tip is to take care of your body like it is the actual doorway of this transit: sleep, hydrate, eat properly, clean your space, do not overexplain yourself, and notice what feels like true nourishment versus what only feels familiar.

Capricorn, this conjunction happens opposite your sign, so it can bring important movement through relationships, clients, partnerships, contracts, marriage, or the people who mirror your emotional availability. Someone may offer support, love, care, opportunity, or a clearer reflection of what you actually need from another person. Your tip is to let people show you who they are without immediately taking control of the outcome. Stay open, but do not abandon your standards just because something feels emotionally promising.

Aries, this conjunction activates your home, family, roots, private life, and emotional foundation, while Chiron is still at the end of your sign and the Moon with Neptune is also in Aries. This can feel personal and raw because your story is about who you had to become in order to survive your past. Your tip is to stop treating vulnerability as weakness. Protect your peace, but do not let old defensiveness block the care, repair, or support that may be trying to reach you.

Libra, this conjunction touches your career, visibility, reputation, direction, and the way your work is seen by others. You may receive recognition, support, a client opportunity, a public opening, or a deeper understanding of what kind of professional path actually feels emotionally aligned. Your tip is to stop softening your truth just to remain pleasant or avoid a confrontation of any kind. If you want the right doors to open, your public voice has to match who you are now, not who you trained yourself to be for approval.

The water signs also receive this conjunction strongly, but in a more flowing way. Scorpio and Pisces may feel supported by the trine to Cancer, especially if they have placements around 22 to 28 degrees. This can bring emotional understanding, spiritual guidance, creative openings, love, healing, and a sense that something is finally moving with them instead of against them. But even supportive aspects require consciousness. Easy energy can still be wasted if you do not use it.

Scorpio, this conjunction activates higher wisdom, travel, publishing, teaching, faith, foreign connections, education, and the larger meaning behind what you have been experiencing. Something may help you see the bigger pattern, especially around emotional trust, belief, and where life is trying to move you beyond the old story. Your tip is to say yes to expansion, but not to escape. If a door opens, make sure it is taking you toward truth, not away from what still needs to be faced.

Pisces, this conjunction activates love, romance, creativity, children, fertility, pleasure, visibility, and the part of you that remembers joy. Because Jupiter is your traditional ruler and Neptune is connected to the North Node in your sign, this can feel especially meaningful for your path. Your tip is to let yourself receive joy without guilt, but do not confuse sacrifice with love. The right thing will not require you to disappear in order to be chosen.

The earth signs can also benefit because Cancer supports Ta**us and Virgo by sextile. This is not as dramatic as the cardinal activation, but it can be very productive, especially for body, work, money, communication, health, social support, and practical changes that make life feel better. Ta**us and Virgo can help bring the emotional opening into the material world, which is exactly what this conjunction needs.

Ta**us, this conjunction activates communication, writing, speaking, learning, siblings, local environment, short trips, and the way you name what you feel. A message, conversation, communication, idea, or reconnection can matter more than it first appears. Your tip is to speak simply and directly. Do not overdecorate the truth, and do not keep something inside only because you are afraid of disrupting the comfort.

Virgo, this conjunction activates friends, community, audience, networks, long-term plans, and the people who can support your future. This can bring clients, new companies, social openings, group support, or a stronger sense of where you belong next. Your tip is to stop carrying people who only take from your nervous system. Choose the spaces where your care, skill, and intelligence are actually valued.

The fire signs experience this conjunction through more private, emotional, or transitional houses, depending on the sign. Aries is strongly affected because of the square, but Leo and Sagittarius also feel important movement around hidden preparation, shared resources, intimacy, endings, healing, and deeper emotional honesty. Fire wants movement, but Cancer wants to feel safe first.

Leo, this conjunction activates your hidden life, rest, dreams, spiritual protection, closure, and the unconscious. Something may be happening behind the scenes, on the inner level, inside of you and even if it does not look dramatic from the outside, it can be preparing you for a much bigger shift once Venus and Jupiter move into your sign later on this month. Your tip is to rest before life asks more from you. Pay attention to dreams, private and your own realizations, and what your body is trying to release.

Sagittarius, this conjunction activates intimacy, shared money, inheritance, debt, taxes, grief, energetic exchange, trust, and the places where you merge with others. This can bring support through another person, but it can also expose where emotional or financial entanglement has become too heavy. Your tip is to be honest about what you receive, what you owe, what you give, and what you can no longer carry for someone else on every level and meaning.

The air signs experience this conjunction through value, work, health, and responsibility themes, with Libra strongly affected by square. Gemini and Aquarius may not experience this as emotionally obvious at first, but it can still bring important changes through money, self-worth, routines, health, service, work, and the way the body responds to stress or support.

Gemini, this conjunction activates money, income, self-worth, food, possessions, pricing, and the way you value your own gifts. There can be financial support, a new offer, a better understanding of your worth, or a realization that you have been undercharging or undervaluing yourself. Your tip is to make the practical move. Raise the price, organize the money, feed the body better, and stop treating your natural intelligence as something casual.

Aquarius, this conjunction activates work, health, daily rhythm, service, habits, rituals, and the physical maintenance of your life. This can bring support through wellness, clients, work improvements, or a better routine, but it also shows where your body has been asking for care while the mind kept moving ahead as usual 🙂 Your tip is to make your daily life more supportive instead of waiting for a crisis to force it. The body is not separate from your mission.

Overall, this conjunction affects everyone differently, but the main theme is the same. Look at where 25 to 26 degrees of Cancer falls in your chart. That is where the gate opens. Then look at Capricorn, because whatever happens in Cancer will eventually speak to the structure across from it. Also look at Aries and Libra, because the square shows where adjustment, courage, maturity, or a decision may be required. If you have planets around 22 to 28 degrees of Cancer, Capricorn, Aries, Libra, Scorpio, Pisces, Ta**us, or Virgo, this transit is especially personal.

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On June 9, Venus meets exalted Jupiter at 25° Cancer, technically moving through the 26th degree of Cancer. This is one of the most important conjunctions of the year, but I do not want to reduce it to the usual “love, luck, abundance” language that is everywhere right now. Yes, Venus and Jupiter are traditionally called the two benefics. Yes, Jupiter is exalted in Cancer. Yes, this can bring blessings, support, emotional openings, love, money, beauty, fertility, reconciliation, and visible moments of grace. But reducing this conjunction only to something beautiful landing in your life strips away its deeper and more essential meaning. The real question is whether you are prepared enough, open enough, courageous enough, and honest enough to receive what your heart has been asking for. Can you actually hold it, or will you sabotage it again? You can only receive what your nervous system, your heart, your body, and your inner world are actually ready to hold.

Besides romance, Venus shows what we value, what we desire, what attracts us, what softens us, what we find beautiful, and where we seek pleasure, connection, harmony, affection, and embodiment. Venus is also money, taste, women, beauty, art, skin, sensuality, the body’s relationship with pleasure, and the way we allow life to come toward us instead of always fighting for it. In mythology, Venus, or Aphrodite, has more than one origin. In one tradition she is the daughter of Zeus and Dione, connected to the Olympian order. In another, older and more primordial stream, she rises from the sea foam after the severing of Ouranos. That already tells us that Venus is a very complex and controversial figure. She comes from the waters, from separation, from creation after rupture, from the place where beauty is born out of something violent, ancient, and cosmic. I often say that order comes from chaos, and vice versa. This is the constant death and rebirth cycle that everything goes through. The polarities.

Venus in Cancer becomes deeply emotional, protective, nostalgic, fertile, maternal, and memory-based. She wants affection that feels safe. She wants beauty in the home, food made with love, physical tenderness, emotional consistency, family, roots, and a sense that the heart can finally stop defending itself. In her higher expression, Venus in Cancer is devotional, nourishing, intuitive, caring, protective, loyal, deeply feminine, and able to create a space where other people feel held. In her lower expression, she can become overly attached, sentimental, passive, emotionally manipulative, dependent, moody, possessive, or unable to separate love from fear of abandonment. She can cling to the past because at least the past is familiar, even when it is no longer healthy.

Jupiter is the principle of expansion, wisdom, faith, protection, meaning, growth, generosity, higher law, blessings, teachers, guidance, and the ability to see life through a larger frame. Jupiter does not simply make things “good.” Jupiter expands things. If something is true, Jupiter can make it more visible. If something is unhealthy, Jupiter can also exaggerate it until it can no longer be ignored. This is why even the most benevolent Jupiter transit still requires consciousness.

Jupiter is exalted in Cancer because growth does not always require loud, external, aggressive productivity or performance. Real growth needs a womb. Sometimes life expands only when it is protected long enough to survive. Cancer is the sign of nourishment, memory, void, source, origin, family, ancestry, the mother, the stomach, the breast, the home, the private world, and the emotional foundation that every outer achievement rests on. Jupiter is strong here because true wisdom becomes embodied through care, belonging, moral feeling, emotional intelligence, and the instinct to protect life. Jupiter in Cancer knows that nothing real can grow in an environment that constantly threatens the body, the heart, or the nervous system. And here I am not talking only about external factors, circumstances, or other people. Very often the real question is whether we ourselves are creating an inner environment where something good can actually stay.

When Venus meets exalted Jupiter in Cancer, it is like desire meets blessing inside the sign of the womb, the shell, the home, and ancestral memory. It can bring love, emotional generosity, support from women, family healing, pregnancy themes, home blessings, money connected to beauty, wellness, food, real estate, hospitality, care, or anything that helps people feel safe, fed, and restored. It can also bring the desire to return to someone or something from the past, but that is where discernment becomes necessary. Not everything familiar is meant to be restored. Not every emotional wave is truth. Not every longing is love.

Cancer itself has a mythology that people usually skip. The crab, Karkinos, appears in the story of Heracles fighting the Hydra. While Heracles battles the many-headed serpent, the crab comes to aid the Hydra and attacks Heracles. The crab is crushed, but Hera places it in the sky. What do we learn from this myth? Cancer has its soft, homey, and motherly characteristics, but it also has a protective hard shell. Cancer is the instinct to defend what it is bonded to, even when that protection becomes irrational or self-destructive. Cancers often love to go inside their shells to escape the cruel world, and many times that can become very unhealthy. The crab has a shell because the body inside is vulnerable, just like our soul. The crab moves sideways because perhaps direct pathways are not always safe. It belongs between land and sea, between the visible world and the older waters of instinct, memory, and feeling, between light and darkness.

This is why I connect this conjunction with the necessity of having a ready vessel. The crab protects itself with a shell, but if it only stays inside the shell, nothing will ever occur. Protection can save life, but overprotection can block life. Cancer teaches us how to hold, nourish, shelter, and remember, but it also teaches us where we hide, where we cling, where we confuse safety with control, and where we keep ourselves emotionally unavailable because the old wound still believes that openness equals danger.

Cancer also belongs to the Cancer and Capricorn axis. This is the axis of private life and public life, home and career, mother and father, emotional foundation and worldly responsibility, roots and structure, the inner child and the adult who must build something real. Questions to ask yourself now on the Cancer side are: “What do I need to feel safe? What nourishes me? What does my body remember?” On the Capricorn side: “What am I building? What responsibility am I carrying? What structure can actually hold my life?” When planets move through Cancer, they always speak to Capricorn too, whether you have planets or points there or not. Cancer placements awaken Capricorn placements because the emotional foundation affects the outer life. If the private world is unstable, the public world eventually shows it. If the body is starving emotionally, ambition can become punishment. If the home, family, roots, and nervous system are not addressed, the career and outer identity can become a beautiful structure built on something weak.

The ruler of Cancer is the Moon, so the Moon is the headmistress of this conjunction. Venus and Jupiter may be the ones meeting, but they are meeting in the Moon’s house. On June 9, the Moon is conjunct Neptune in Aries. This matters tremendously. The Moon rules Cancer, Neptune rules the current North Node in Pisces by modern rulership, and Jupiter is also the traditional ruler of Pisces. Yet again, we see how everything is interconnected. This gives the whole day a destined, spiritual, emotional, and psychic quality. Ask yourself what is emotionally real, spiritually aligned, and safe enough to receive, versus what is only fantasy, hunger, projection, or old emotional programming?

So again, Neptune is the modern ruler of Pisces, and Jupiter is the traditional ruler. Jupiter is already part of the conjunction, which means the ruler of the North Node’s sign is sitting with Venus in Cancer while the Moon, ruler of Cancer, is sitting with Neptune. It becomes a back-and-forth conversation between all of them. This can absolutely feel destined, but sometimes destiny gives you the same pattern again so you can choose differently. Sometimes destiny brings back a person, message, memory, or desire so you can finally understand what it was teaching you.

There is also a wide square from Venus and Jupiter in Cancer to Chiron at 29° Aries, and this adds another very important piece. Chiron at the final degree of Aries speaks about an old wound around identity, confidence, assertion, anger, independence, courage, and the right to exist as yourself without feeling bad. The 29th degree is critical. It shows a sign at its final point, where the lesson can no longer stay theoretical. Aries is the first sign, the birth of self, the “I am,” the raw life force. Chiron at 29° Aries can feel like the last examination around selfhood before the wound moves into Ta**us, where the story becomes more physical, material, bodily, and value-based.

So while Venus and Jupiter in Cancer open the heart, Chiron in late Aries asks whether the self is strong enough to receive without collapsing, clinging, defending, or disappearing. This is the wound around identity meeting the desire for emotional safety. You may want love, but can you remain yourself inside it? You may want to be held, but can you stop performing strength long enough to receive care? You may want a blessing, but are you still guarding yourself so much that nothing can actually reach you? This is the crab shell again. The shell has a purpose, but if it becomes your whole identity, it becomes the prison.

Neptune also speaks to endings and beginnings because it has just entered Aries, where it will stay for a long time. Neptune in Aries begins a new collective spiritual cycle around identity, courage, desire, action, heroism, projection, and the fantasy of the self. We are entering a period where we will have to see, again and again, what is real courage and what is ego performance, what is divine inspiration and what is delusion, what is true instinct and what is a fantasy created by the desire to satisfy an unmet need. Because the Moon is conjunct Neptune now, and because Neptune is connected to the Pisces North Node, this conjunction asks us to see through the veil. It is not asking us to stop feeling, but rather to feel without lying to ourselves.

The Moon and Neptune are around 4° Aries, and 4° carries a Cancerian quality in modern degree theory. So once again the Moon brings us back to Cancer, and Cancer brings us back to the Moon. The degree itself repeats the story. We are dealing with emotion, protection, instinct, the body, the home, the shell, and the question of what must be softened so the heart can finally relax. Learn the difference between a boundary and a defense mechanism. A boundary protects life. A defense mechanism keeps you in the same vicious cycle.

At the same time, the Sun is in Gemini opposing Black Moon Lilith in Sagittarius. Gemini is the season we are in, so Mercury rules the season. Gemini wants words, information, posts, conversations, explanations, questions, and movement. Lilith in Sagittarius does not tolerate false wisdom, false morality, fake teachers, inherited beliefs, or the polished story that sounds intelligent but is not actually true. This opposition is very important because Venus and Jupiter in Cancer may create a strong emotional pull, but the Sun opposite Lilith demands truth. Something may feel beautiful, nostalgic, meaningful, or spiritually charged, but that does not automatically make it true. You must see through things and assert yourself. This is Chiron in Aries’ farewell gift and lesson. Like I have mentioned, something from the past may reappear, automatically bringing your attention to some wounded matter again. It might be a blessing in disguise.

Mercury, ruler of Gemini season, is also in Cancer, behind Venus and Jupiter, and forming a sextile to Mars in Ta**us. Mars in Ta**us is ruled by Venus, so again things lead us back to our main characters. Mercury in Cancer operates through memory, feeling, family patterns, emotional tone, and the body’s response. Mars in Ta**us acts slowly, practically, and with determination. This sextile can bring grounded action, but not in a fast, clean, linear way. Things can move like a flash emotionally, then take their time materially. One message can open something quickly, but the real-world process may still unfold slowly. Mars in Ta**us can be obstinate, but it can also be loyal, embodied, sensual, and steady. It helps Mercury bring feeling into action, food, money, the body, values, and practical decisions. Mercury also square Saturn in Aries and this can bring serious conversations, delayed answers, difficult family topics, emotional honesty, or the need to say something carefully rather than impulsively. It gives the day gravity. So while Venus and Jupiter open the heart, Mercury square Saturn asks: can you actually speak from emotional maturity, or are you still reacting from defense? Mercury square Saturn can feel blocked, but Mercury sextile Mars suggests do not overthink forever, do one practical thing. Send the message. Make the decision 🙂

Mars is also the ruler of Aries, where the Moon and Neptune conjunction is happening. So again we see the same chain: Venus rules Ta**us, Mars is in Ta**us, Mars rules Aries, Moon and Neptune are in Aries, the Moon rules Cancer, and Venus and Jupiter are in Cancer. Everything is connected. Nothing in this chart is acting alone. It is tangled, and this whole period is about untangling it step by step. You do not need to understand the whole story at once. You need to find the first true thread.

The Moon also sextiles Pluto retrograde in Aquarius around 5°. The 5th degree carries a Leo quality in degree theory, and Leo is directly across from Aquarius. Pluto in Aquarius is already reshaping the collective, the groups, the future, technology, social systems, communities, and the way power moves through networks. The Moon sextile Pluto gives emotional depth, the ability to see underneath the surface, and the courage to face what is usually avoided. Soon Venus and Jupiter will move into Leo, and eventually they will oppose Pluto in Aquarius, so today’s conjunction is not just a special Cancer moment. It is the emotional preparation before the story unfolds further and wider. Remember, I told you in the June podcast that this month, in my opinion, becomes a bridge to our new yet authentic life and reality.

Pluto is also sextile Uranus in Gemini, while Uranus is in a Mercury-ruled sign. Uranus in Gemini brings our attention to the nervous system, communication, media, language, technology, perception, and the way the mind adapts to the future. Uranus is around 2° Gemini, and 2° carries Ta**us symbolism in degree theory, which once again brings us back to Venus, value, the body, money, feminine energy, beauty, and the material world. No matter how we look at this chart, it keeps repeating the same message through different doors.

Mercury will make this conjunction even more important later in the month. It passes through the same 25–26° Cancer point three times this summer. First Mercury reaches this degree while direct, then stations retrograde on June 29 at 26°15 Cancer, and later returns to this degree again at the beginning of August after the process is complete. This means Mercury comes to review what Venus and Jupiter open. The conjunction on June 9 may bring the blessing, the message, the person, the emotion, the opportunity, the memory, the desire, or the sign, if you are ready. But Mercury retrograde will ask us to review it once again. Reflect on whatever comes up. Is it sincere, or does it have an agenda? Does it fit right in your heart and complete something honestly, or does it still feel uncertain? Stay openhearted and open-minded, but do not abandon discernment.

This Mercury retrograde in Cancer can be connected to emotional and heart matters, language, family communication, ancestral memory, childhood programming, home, belonging, mothers, care, security, and the stories we repeat because they were handed to us before we knew how to question them. Around this time we are also moving through multiple retrogrades, which means life is taking us inward. As I always say, pay attention to what you are feeling inside and be honest. The body will speak before the mind can make the whole explanation sound acceptable.

I have recently started working with genealogical astrology more deeply, and to say it is fascinating is saying nothing. Through multiple generations, you can see the same issue repeating through different family members, different sides of the family, different life circumstances, but the same root pattern. The chart often shows what the family keeps trying to resolve through different people. If you are interested in that work, you can DM me as well, because this conjunction is exactly the kind of transit that brings ancestral patterns to the surface, and you probably feel it.

Now we have to speak about the degree itself. Venus and Jupiter meet at 25°46 Cancer, so we are working with both Cancer 25 as the threshold and Cancer 26 as the active degree. In Rudhyar’s Sabian system, Cancer 25 is: “A will-full man is overshadowed by a descent of superior power.” The keynote is the response of spiritual forces to the integration of personality through positive will-full endeavors. It is the mantle of power, grace, baraka, providential assistance that comes when the personality has been integrated enough to receive a higher force. Here we are not talking about external material success, but internal evolution.

Then we move into Cancer 26: “Guests are reading in the library of a luxurious home.” The keynote is the transference of social privilege to the level of intellectual enjoyment. Here we see wealth, culture, knowledge, private space, comfort, social position, and the ability to relax into intellectual refinement. Again, the meaning is not just luxury, but the kind of protected environment where the mind can read, the body can rest, and people can gather inside a cultivated space. On the lower level, it can become class performance, passive comfort, keeping up with intellectual standards, and material wealth without inner foundation or soul. On the higher level, it is the inner sanctuary where abundance becomes knowledge, beauty becomes refinement, and comfort becomes wisdom. This is perfect for Venus and Jupiter in Cancer. The blessing descends through Cancer 25, then must be received through Cancer 26. First comes the superior force, then comes the question of the house that will hold it. What kind of vessel have you created? What kind of body? What kind of home? What kind of emotional environment? What kind of inner library? If the blessing enters, will it be used consciously, or will it become another comfort that keeps you asleep?

Other degree systems repeat the same theme in different language. La Volasfera gives the image of a fair woman leading a child by the hand, connecting the degree with affection, prosperity, companionship, and hospitality. Kozminsky gives the image of a marksman missing the bull’s-eye several times and finally hitting it on the ninth shot, which speaks to perseverance and finally learning where to aim. Chandra and Omega symbols bring images like pastry makers and fireflies at dusk, which again point to sweetness, nourishment, small lights, craft, food, joy, and the ability to make ordinary life feel touched by something more alive. The dodecatemoria of this degree falls into the Ta**us subdivision of Cancer, adding Venus, the body, food, land, beauty, money, fertility, and material value. So even the degree itself keeps repeating the conjunction: Cancer as vessel, Venus as value, Jupiter as abundance, Moon as ruler, Ta**us as embodiment.

In modern degree theory, 25° is often associated with Aries, and 26° with Ta**us. I would not use that as the only foundation, but it fits the chart very well. The 25° layer brings Aries, the place of will, courage, action, and selfhood, which echoes the Moon and Neptune in Aries and Chiron at 29° Aries. The 26° layer brings Ta**us, which echoes Venus, Mars in Ta**us, the body, the home, food, money, and the material vessel. So again, the message is the same: the emotional blessing must pass through courage, then become embodied.

The timing around this degree also matters. Jupiter last moved through this exact Cancer degree in June 2014. Jupiter crossed 25° Cancer on June 23, 2014, and the exact 25°46 Cancer area around June 27, 2014. The Venus-Jupiter conjunction of 2014 did happen in Cancer, but it was not at this degree. That earlier conjunction was around 7° Cancer, so June 2026, and specifically this conjunction, becomes extremely potent and significant. Jupiter opened something in 2014, then Venus began revisiting it every year, and now Venus and Jupiter finally meet here together.

Venus crossed this 25–26° Cancer area on August 8, 2022, June 1, 2023, July 8, 2024, August 22, 2025, and now June 9, 2026. In 2022, Venus at this degree was trining Neptune in Pisces and opposing Pluto in Capricorn, which already brought themes of emotional desire, fantasy, spiritual longing, and deep longing for transformation. In 2023, Venus crossed this degree shortly before the New Moon in Cancer at 24°56 on July 17, 2023, which planted a seed in this same part of the chart around home, family, emotional safety, nourishment, and belonging. You might have realized something important around that time. In 2024, Venus at this degree was in a close sextile to Uranus in Ta**us, bringing new values, sudden shifts, body and money themes, and unexpected openings. In 2025, Venus passed this degree again in August, so think about the themes around August 21–23. Something may still be developing from that time, and then Jupiter entered this late Cancer zone in November.

Jupiter activated this late Cancer degree in November 2025, then returned to it again in June 2026, just days before Venus arrived to meet it. So look back to early and late November 2025, and then to the days around June 5–9, 2026. What was opening? What was seeded back then? What was asking for protection, safety, nurture, or emotional honesty? What was happening around family, home, the body, women, money, care, belonging, ancestry, or emotional truth? Perhaps, what did you almost receive, but were not yet ready to hold?

There was also a Full Moon in Cancer on January 13, 2025, around 23°59 Cancer, close enough to belong to the same late Cancer storyline. Full Moons reveal, and this one exposed something in the same late Cancer zone. Many people may remember that period as physically or emotionally heavy, almost as if the body itself was carrying something old. If you felt sluggish, sensitive, overwhelmed, or emotionally pressed around that time, it may belong to the same storyline that is now coming back in a different form. It carries beauty, but it also carries responsibility, because receiving what the heart truly desires requires more than wanting it. It asks for emotional honesty, inner clarity, and a body and nervous system that are ready to hold more without turning the blessing into another wound or repeating the same old story. There is an opportunity here to close an emotional cycle and come out of it stronger, wiser, and more powerful, but the heart has to stay open, and the whole inner environment has to be prepared for what is trying to enter.

This can also bring messages from the past, people from the past, memories from the past, or situations connected to the dates I just mentioned. The important thing is to discern between what is real and what your desire or heart wants to hear. There is a difference between truth and the fantasy created by an unmet need, between intuition and obsession, between a blessing and the same trap wrapped in a softer and shinier cover. This conjunction gives us the ability to see things for what they are, but it also gives us the temptation to fall into emotional projection if we do not stay honest. You can embrace what you have learned and rise above the old cycle, or you can fall back into the same illusion, become overly attached, and repeat the same emotional story again. The point is not to harden yourself, not to become cold, mean, selfish, or closed, but to gain wisdom from the emotional experiences that tried to break you. What does not kill you can make you stronger, but only if you actually learn from it. Knowledge is power when you know how to use your experiences. When experience becomes wisdom, it becomes a key.

So this Venus and Jupiter conjunction in Cancer is a blessing, yes. But it is a blessing that asks for honesty, maturity, and preparation. It asks you to take care of and clean the house, literally and metaphorically, the body, the emotional field, the memory, the story, and the place inside yourself where you still believe you must protect yourself from everything you asked the universe to bring. The blessing can enter, but the shell must open. The heart must be strong enough to stay soft. The vessel must be ready.

From the AstroWellness point of view, this is the time to come back to the body in a very simple and practical way. Cancer rules nourishment, digestion, fluids, the stomach, breasts, and the way the body reacts when it feels safe or emotionally overwhelmed. With Venus and Jupiter here, the body may ask for more rest, more comfort, more warmth, more sweetness, better food, and a slower pace, but the point is not to fall into excess or numb yourself with food, memories, or emotions. Choose real nourishment: warm cooked meals, minerals, proper hydration, soups, broths, rice, root vegetables, gentle proteins, calming teas, and anything that supports digestion instead of stressing it. So todays energy can feel beautiful and raw at the same time. People may feel inspired, hopeful, sentimental, nostalgic, or ready to open again, but also tired, overstimulated, restless, impatient, or emotionally exposed. The Cancer part wants safety. The Aries Moon wants movement. So the body may say, “I want to receive, where is the action?,” while the nervous system says, “Calm down, I need space, silence, and protection first.”

Mentally and emotionally, do not rush to turn every feeling into a final answer. Mercury is in Cancer too, and later it will return to this same degree, so a lot of what comes up now may need time to reveal its full meaning. Write things down, notice what repeats, pay attention to dreams, conversations, memories, and body reactions, but do not build an entire fantasy around one sign or one message. Spiritually, this is a very receptive moment, especially with the Moon connected to Neptune, but real guidance should bring you closer to truth, not deeper into obsession, confusion, or chasing. The work is to stay open, grounded, fed, hydrated, rested, and honest enough to recognize what is actually nourishing you.

The signs that will feel this conjunction the strongest are Cancer, Capricorn, Aries, and Libra, especially if you have placements or angles around 22 to 28 degrees of these signs. Cancer receives the conjunction directly, Capricorn receives it by opposition, Aries and Libra receive it by square. These are the cardinal signs, so the transit moves through the main life pillars: self, home, relationships, career, emotional foundation, and the structures that hold your life together. If you have planets there, this transit is touching something personal in your chart. Identify where are you being emotionally prepared to receive more, and where are you still blocking nourishment because pain taught you to survive instead of receive?

The best way to work with this day is to stop pushing things into a direction only because you want an immediate answer. Prepare yourself and your environment instead: clean your space, nourish the body properly, drink minerals, rest if the body is asking for it, and pay attention to the messages, dreams, conversations, memories, and emotional reactions that come up now. This is a time to observe very honestly what is real, what is projection, what comes from an old unmet need, and what actually belongs to the person you are becoming. This conjunction can bring something beautiful, but more importantly, it can show whether you are finally ready to receive without turning the blessing into another cycle of attachment, fear, or illusion. The heart does not need to harden in order to become wise. It needs to become honest. That is the difference.

If you want to understand where this conjunction activates your personal chart, and how the rest of 2026 is unfolding for you, you can DM me to book a reading. I offer Natal Chart Readings, Year Ahead Readings, Astrology of Now transit sessions, AstroWellness Map readings, and deeper genealogical astrology work for those who want to understand family patterns through the chart and many more, including custom ones. Follow here and on my other socials if this work speaks to you, I am building this space with much more astrology, wellness, ancient wisdom, and practical guidance coming. Comment below how this conjunction feels for you, especially if something from the past, your family field, your body, or your emotional life is already speaking louder than usual.

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