Jupiter in Cancer: June 2025 - June 2026
It's time to get real.
On Monday June 9th Jupiter leaves Gemini, its exile, and enters Cancer– its exaltation for the next year!
Jupiter is the greater benefic. It’s the planet of wisdom, philosophy, expansion, and growth, and it’s especially strong and comfortable in Cancer. This should feel great after spending the last year in a sign where it’s been very out of its element.
But it won’t be without its challenges along the way! We’re going to cover its major challenging aspects, as well as the overarching themes and benefits to lean into.
Cancer is a water sign affiliated with the Mother, and it’s the Moon’s only domicile. It’s known for caretaking, nurturing, and intuition: all very lunar qualities. The Moon is affiliated with the body, and Cancer as well is a sign affiliated with the home– our body being the home to our mind and soul.
Higher expression Cancer is all about trusting ourselves and being able to discern faulty suspicion from true inner knowing. It’s having the confidence to trust and rely on our gut instincts.
Cancer is a cardinal sign, meaning it falls during a part of the year in the northern hemisphere that oversees the beginning of a season. The cardinal signs: Aries, Cancer, Libra, and Capricorn, are the leadership-oriented signs. They’re great at starting things and leading initiatives.
But Cancer is the crab. When it leads or starts something, it progresses slowly towards its aims in a side to side motion rather than charging directly forward like a ram (Aries) or a goat (Capricorn) would.
When the Mother archetype is initiating anything, it isn’t just her fate involved. She has to consider those in her care before she does anything. Thus people with strong Cancer energy in their chart are here to lead with nurture somehow, some way.
Taylor Swift offers a funny, quite literal example. She has her Moon and Jupiter in Cancer, and once upon a time was known to have fans over to her house to bake cookies for them.
Many astrologers (myself included) consider the procession of the signs as emblematic of the maturation process. Jupiter just spent the last year in Gemini, a curious sign that doesn’t like to get bogged down or too attached. The Gemini house in our charts tends to be a place where we’re curious about others and the world, but we aren’t necessarily attached, or wanting to get deep.
So it makes sense that during Jupiter’s time in Gemini we’ve seen a proliferation of misinformation and the rise of “AI slop” all over the internet. As Jupiter finishes its time in Gemini, there’s a growing consensus that the internet’s no fun anymore because everything and everyone feels generic, superficial, and hollow.
We also saw Trump get elected and start to implement Project 2025. A project that seemed like a great idea to the privileged people who wrote it– without practical awareness of what’s really needed to run a healthy civil society, or any idea of the needs of the majority of the country who are used to surviving on more modest means.
The “Big Beautiful Bill” that Trump is trying to push through Congress is a perfect example of Jupiter’s transition and makes me very curious how it will play out.
Jupiter in Cancer really knows that people who rely on social security aren’t lazy or in such a position by choice. It empathizes with their actual lived experience. Jupiter in Gemini, on the other hand, isn’t necessarily equipped to employ such consideration.
Will Jupiter in Cancer represent the people coming together in community, needing to deal with the catastrophic consequences the United States will face if millions of people lose their health care, food stamps, and other benefits needed to stay alive in the aftermath? Or will it signal triumph in blocking the bill— reminding us all what’s really at stake just in time?
We shall see.
The concept of a home country is another very Cancerian theme so we are likely to see nationalism flare up in countries all over the globe during this period.
And as I mentioned, any planet’s time in a sign is part of a progression.
After spending this year in Cancer, Jupiter will head right into Leo next summer where it will round out one of the most benefic-looking configurations of the century as you’ve heard me talk about in other videos and articles.
In 2026, when Jupiter enters Leo it will oppose Pluto while they both make mini-grand trines to Neptune, Saturn, and Uranus. Legendary mundane astrologer André Barbault predicted this will be “the most benefic configuration of the century and its interplanetary partnership will work for the best in a splendid relaunch of civilization.” He had a pretty great track record with his predictions, so let’s hope!
Supposing he’s right, we can think of this tour of Jupiter’s through Cancer as a massive build up to however that configuration will manifest in July 2026.
And so like I said, though Jupiter is exalted in Cancer, this trip won’t be without its challenges.
Jupiter will square Saturn and Neptune right off of the bat in mid June. This has the potential to bring up themes of philosophical maturity, practical idealism, compassion, awareness of the positive sides of adversity and challenge, deflated hopes and dreams, grandiose illusions and their consequences, and mundane business obscuring the real roots of one’s suffering.
In the US it’s pretty easy to see how we’re headed to such a turning point, especially when you consider that Big Bill in question, and some of Trump’s other initiatives.
At home you want to think about Jupiter’s progression from your Gemini house to your Cancer house. If you’ve been working long and hard at something, the square to Saturn and Neptune is likely to symbolize a bit of a “make or break” moment. It is likely to demonstrate if something is meant to last, and if so, should reveal what’s needed in order to fortify it.
Jupiter will also square Mars twice and oppose Mars as it traverses the other cardinal signs.
The first square to Mars is from late August to early September while Mars is in exile in Libra. This is likely to be an interesting period as far as the courts, legal, and relationship matters are concerned.
Then we kick off the new year with Mars in Capricorn, co-present with the Sun, Mercury, and Venus as they all oppose Jupiter in Cancer. Mars, exalted in Capricorn, will be conjunct the Sun at 20° the day it perfects, with the Moon at 20° Libra in the final quarter square of that lunar cycle. So that’s looking like a significant turning point.
Then in May of 2026 Jupiter will square Mars once more in the cardinal cross. Mars will be feeling Chiron and Eris’s influence in the late degrees of Aries. Chiron is the wounded healer and Eris is Mars’s sister, known for themes of competition, brutality, and suppressed rage. These influences add tense and tender nuance to this square. With both Mars and Eris lending to themes of conflict and contention, especially while in Aries, I’m expecting this to be a particularly tense time. It’s worth noting the United States is in its Jupiter and Chiron return– and we’ll be in our Uranus return by then as well. On a personal level I’d prepare for this to be an active time that might require competing or putting those conflict resolution skills to work!
You might have heard me mention Kronos and Hades in Cancer in one of my short horoscopes recently. Jupiter will be hanging out with these two Trans-Neptunians during its time in Cancer. Their influences will add interesting nuance to Jupiter’s expression that echo the themes of striving, overcoming, and achievement— particularly on the societal level.
Hades is of course known as the god of the underworld and the dead. In Uranian astrology, it symbolizes disintegration, purification, the part of us and society that must break down in order to rebuild. It lends itself to intellectual rigor, purpose, being useful, service to others- but also, all that’s ill and unpleasant, secrecy, despair, and grief.
Kronos is affiliated with Saturn– known to rule over the harvest, abundance, and time in Greek mythology. In Uranian astrology it symbolizes management, authority, positions of advantage, governments, patriarchal figures, etc.
Together these two can lend themselves to really mastering something through a willingness to transform, but also: a lack of principles, bad character, poor government, poverty, and criminal enterprise.
Which all tracks based off of what we’ve been watching and feeling from governments around the world who are, in theory, supposed to provide a safe, functioning home country environment for its citizens. Hades and Kronos have been in Cancer since around 2010, as we’ve watched cost of living soar while wages have remained stagnant.
Jupiter, Kronos, and Hades in combination can indicate escaping nefarious plots, surviving (but not without some battle scars), financial scandals, the collapse of banks, and inflation.
And so the initial squares to Saturn and Neptune and the following hard aspects to Mars indicate we’re really fighting for some worthwhile cause and being challenged through obstacles along the way.
But that isn’t necessarily a bad thing. In higher expression Jupiter and Mars indicate extremely profound will power, good decision making, successful creative activity, urges toward freedom, and a sense of honor.
It’s safe to say this is going to be a challenging transit as far as global politics and world events are concerned. But individually, if you’ve been working long and hard at something– especially something that requires a lot of nurture or lends itself to themes of justice, caring of others, civil service, or the greater common good, this is likely to be a pretty exhilarating transit that invites you to see what you’re made of.
This will be a great transit for community activities, for strengthening family bonds or working out family issues, anything to do with your home like renovating, redecorating or moving, and anything health related. You’ll really want to take good care of your whole being during this transit– mind, body, and spirit.
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I hope to see you in a session soon! Thanks for reading!