The moon-iest new moon of the year is upon us, folks — and this lunation is getting a heavy, heady dose of amplification from gas giant Jupiter.
The new moon always aligns with the zodiac sign the sun is moving through. In this case, that would be Cancer, with its waxing and waning, intuition and tumult, pinchers and poignancy.
The new moon arrives on June 25th, 2025, at 6:31 am ET at 4° of Cancer.
Cancer is ruled by the moon, which makes this the mooniest new moon of the year. Here, the moon comes home and speaks of home in ways we cannot ignore.
What makes this new moon particularly important is that it aligns with Jupiter — our planet of boons and blessings, who has recently set up shop in the sign of Cancer.
New Moon in Cancer 2025
Jupiter expands all that it touches, and in the cardinal waters of Cancer, that expansion can equate to healing and hurting, dream making and past aching.
The new moon marks the first day of a lunar cycle. During the new moon, the moon is positioned between the Earth and the sun.
The new moon is the darkest of the moon’s eight-phase cycle, and in that dimness lies the point of pure potential, an empty field, an open road and a house taken down to the studs, where the vastness of all possibilities hums.
As Cancer is related to the mother archetype, this new moon, if we allow it, can be a time of radical rebirth.
This dark sky is, metaphorically speaking, a womb — and this go round we get to choose how we want to be fed and by whom.
What is a new moon?
Questions to consider: What do we need to grow, and what does it take for us to feel safe?
Relative to that sacred swig of mother’s milk, the energy right now is fertile AF, making it a high time to get knocked up, sow the seeds of a new dream, cut loose from the umbilical noose and/or set your third eye toward a purposeful shift in mindset.
Under these skies, we are licked clean as newborn wolf pups and get the chance to begin again, fortified by the memory of all that’s been, humble and hopeful, interdependent and tender as the night.
We can make the most of the new moon by being firm and clear as a lucite about what we want — and the measures we are willing to take. The best time to attune to our own crystal visions? Two days before and after the new moon.
Moon water
As Cancer is a moon-ruled water sign, now is a fine time to brew up some new moon water. Find a glass container with a lid and fill it with purified water.
Commit your intentions to paper, write down what you’re looking to call into your life over the next two weeks and what dreams and schemes you would like to make manifest over the course of the next six months.
Write in the present tense as if they have already come to pass, and fold the paper three times toward yourself.
Place the sealed glass vessel outside where it is positioned to receive maximum sunlight and place your intentions underneath it.
If you’re inclined, surround the container with crystals and/or personal items.
Leave the vessel outside during the new moon, where it will charge itself with shadow power. This water can be consumed, used to water plants or used for ritual bathing, cleansing or tea making. It will be infused with the amplified emotional energy of the Cancer new moon.
Other new moon activities to consider: skinny-dipping, shouting into the abyss, a milk cleanse, EFT tapping, and/or sitting in the dark in a tepid bathtub and trying to remember how you felt in utero. Stay until your fingers are pruned and you forgive your mother/feel like your own mother.
New moon in Cancer meaning
Cancer 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 return to; how we define nourishment, gratitude, and connectedness and how we conceive of home as both a container and a concept.
As the moon comes home in the sign of Cancer, so too can we come home to our bodies and back to ourselves.
Cancer equals tending and delivering, roots and binding, blood and breath, milk and bone.
“Between the wish and the thing the world lies waiting.”
Cormac McCarthy
Apropos of its relationship to the divine mother, Cancer understands that survival depends on the strength of our relationships, our willingness to need and be needed, and our ability to honor our urge to belong.
Without connection, there is no memory.
It’s no accident that a group of crabs whose biological imperative is to protect and provide for the collective whole is called a “cast.”
In-kind and in claw, the archetype of Cancer reminds us that we are meant to heal ourselves in and through our communities, to cast our pain to the collective so it can be witnessed, reflected and gathered into a wider net of meaning.
In his devastating novel “All The Pretty Horses” Double Cancer Cormac McCarthy (sun and moon) writes, “In the end we all come to be cured of our sentiments. Those whom life does not cure, death will. The world is quite ruthless in selecting between the dream and reality, even when we are not. Between the wish and the thing, the world lies waiting.”
Here’s to the sacred cycle of wanting, wishing and waiting.
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.
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