June 23–29 Horoscope: A Cancer New Moon to Build On, Plus Mercury’s Theatrical Turn in Leo

This week, after months of mixed signals and spiritual buffering, the sky finally delivers a rare and unified message: Begin again! But for real this time!

Jupiter, planet of wisdom, expansion, and exaggeration, is renewed in the heart of the Sun. The Cancer New Moon follows close behind, and astrologers everywhere have been waiting for this one, because it signals an epic new beginning. Finally, Mercury, patron of language and perception, trades its reading lamp for stage lighting when it enters Leo, where it will stay until early September.

This is a big week! If you’re attuned, you’ll recognize the vibes as the opening lines of a story that’s meant to last.

June 24: Jupiter Conjunct The Cancer Sun 

Jupiter hits what we call cazimi at 3° Cancer: he walks straight into the blazing core of the Sun like it’s a spiritual car wash, emerging with newfound clarity on what really matters. This isn’t vague self-help Jupiter. This is “I fell in love and bought a house with a porch” Jupiter. He knows what feeds his soul. And he wants you to stop doomscrolling and start living like your life has meaning. Because it does.

June 25: Cancer New Moon

Just hours later, the Cancer New Moon arrives to translate that inner conviction into outer change. This moon is flanked by support: it’s conjunct the newly reborn Jupiter and also in harmonious dialogue with Mars in Virgo. It speaks of new beginnings with substance. Think dreams that come with schematics. Yes, it is also in a harsh aspect with Saturn and Neptune in Aries, which may fog your motivation or tangle it in old fears. But these tensions serve a purpose, defining the structure around the seed. This is the most promising new moon we’ll see all year. If there’s something you feel compelled to get started, the conditions couldn’t be any better.

June 26: Mercury Enters Leo

Then, on June 26, Mercury struts into Leo, and unlike its usual three to four week cameo, it’s here to hold court all summer long. A mid-July retrograde stretches this transit into a headline act, running through early September. That means we’ll be thinking in capital letters, using our outdoor voices, and composing flirty texts like we’re auditioning for a one-person show. This is peak performative energy. While Cancer season tends to pull us inward, into memory and feeling, Mercury in Leo flips the camera outward: What’s the story you want to tell? Who do you become when you let yourself take up space, unapologetically? The mic is yours! 

Taken together, this week offers a rare gift: the chance to believe in something new, and to say it out loud, with feeling.

Curious exactly what it all means for you? Check your sun, moon and rising signs, and take what resonates! (Don’t know your moon or rising sign? Celeste can help.)

Aries Rising

Something’s shifting in your inner sanctum. Whether it’s the home you sleep in or the one you carry in your chest, you’re ready to make it softer, stronger, and yours. Think less “rearranging furniture,” more “deciding who’s allowed to knock.” Boundaries are the new luxury.

Taurus Rising

You’re finding new language for old truths. This is about speaking up and saying the thing exactly how you mean it: no caveats, no “does that make sense?” unassuredness. Texts, pitches, confessions, and revelations—they’re all fair game this week. Say it like you trust the echo.

Gemini Rising

Your relationship to enoughness is getting a rebrand. This week asks what you’re accumulating, and more importantly, why. It’s not just about stuff—it’s about value, time, self-worth. Do you want more, or do you want different? Start there. The rest will self-correct.

Cancer Rising

You, but newer. Not reinvention for the feed—actual, internal renewal. This week has “fresh start” written all over it, and you’re not meant to tiptoe into it. Declare the era. Be bold enough to step into who you are before anyone else defines it for you.

Leo Rising

Some doors open to applause. Others click quietly from the inside. This week, it’s the latter. You’re shedding what no longer holds meaning—and clearing space for something truer to take its place. Don’t chase closure. Just walk out lighter than you walked in.

Virgo Rising

Hope isn't naive. This week, it's strategy. You’re tuning into the future you actually want—not the one that’s practical or likely, but the one that feels like oxygen. A wish is forming, and it’s got legs. Let yourself want it out loud.

Libra Rising

There’s a shift happening in your ambition, and not around the chase itself, but the reason for the pursuit. You’re not here to build someone else’s dream anymore. This week hands you a chance to realign with something that feels less like a job and more like a calling. Say yes, even if it scares you.

Scorpio Rising

Your belief system just hit refresh. Not the vague “trust the universe” stuff—something specific is clicking into place. This is the week to widen your lens and chase the thing that gives you chills. Curiosity isn’t a detour. It is the path.

Sagittarius Rising

This week? Hot. Emotionally, spiritually, and yes, physically! Something (or someone, rather) is lighting up your inner volcano, and it looks like transformation disguised as seduction. The deeper you go, the more you’ll realize it isn’t just about sex, but rather, surrender. 

Capricorn Rising

New rules, new terms, new dynamics. A relationship is leveling up, but only if you bring your whole self to the table, messy parts and all. Clear communication will be your best friend. Say what you need. Let them meet you where you actually are.

Aquarius Rising

Your habits are under review. Any mindless “yes” is not going to cut it anymore. You’re craving rhythm, not routine. This week says: live like your body is someone you care about. Because it is. And it’s been waiting for you to catch up.

Pisces Rising

Creativity, romance, chaos, desire: it’s all tangled together in the most delicious way this week. It seems as though you will be experiencing pleasure, whatever that means for you, but more than that, you’re remembering what it’s like to want. Let it pull you under! You’ll come up glowing.