The horoscope is off this week and next for midyear break. However, I’ve prepared one for Cancer Sun and rising as it is your birthday season. This page includes my video reading of the United States chart, and Starcast about the local astrology.
This Weekend’s Astrology — from July 4, 2025
Dear Friend and Reader:
The Moon moves from Libra to Scorpio at 5:33 am EDT, where it will take you through a diversity of emotional states throughout the day. The conjunction to Vesta is a reminder that often what seems to be a sacrifice is really about giving up something that you don’t need, don’t want and is not actually helpful.
Make contact with the things about people you don’t trust and ask yourself if you possess any of these same tendencies. Saturday’s Moon-Juno alignment warns that personal relationships are not an appropriate place for activism; what you want is sincere communication.
At 8:45 am EDT Saturday we have a highly unusual conjunction, shown below, of Venus and Uranus in the very last arc minutes of Taurus. This is a sendoff by Venus, queen of Taurus, to Uranus, making its first exit since it arrived in 2018. These influences joining forces in such an edgy location — right on the edge, have a look (29 degrees, 59 minutes is the maximum value possible) — represents a discovery, breakthrough or moment of liberation.
Let your natural mind do the work; what is called the “unconscious” is really a pool of awareness located just off-stage, where the real information we rely upon comes from. Listen to yourself and you will feel it.
Reading for Cancer Sun and Rising, July 3, 2025
Now that the pressure is off and you are no longer feeling compelled to do things or act on pure necessity, you have your options open — but only if you see them. One of the great skills of applied astrology and an adventurous life is seeing at least two options where you thought there was only one — and more if you can. Thankfully, the multiplying effect is about to turn on to full strength, as Uranus enters Gemini in the zone of your chart from which concepts emerge seemingly from nowhere, your 12th house. Turn your attention inward and feel the space that you contain. Despite the many infusions, incursions and infiltrations of our inner awareness that we experience, the deepest part of you remains unchanged. All that can be affected is your relationship to yourself. So practice the ultimate Tantric act of nivritti — turning toward your own inner gateway and allowing yourself into the vast space you contain. Space is intelligence, especially within you. There, you will find a universe of wisdom and, within some days of devoted practice, the idea that you may be seeking externally. It’s already within you, eternal and unchanged.
New Thing in the World — we will be tracking AI news every day. We have a start, and a backlog of more than 100 articles. The project is called Ice-Nine News in honor of Kurt Vonnegut, his novel Cat’s Cradle and its fictional god Borasisi. If you know very basic WordPress or think you can learn, you’re invited to be on the team. This project is sponsored by Chiron Return and Planet Waves FM.
Coming Soon from Planet Waves…a video reading that covers how the midyear sign changes of Jupiter and Uranus can help you shape your awareness and your journey.
