Cancer Horoscope for June 2013

This is an intense period of time for you, Cancer, and one in which you must be prepared for a series of significant ongoing inner realizations that will take you far beyond where you thought you were. You have a sense of vital internal responsibility that seems to steer you to what is totally right, or considered in some way wrong, but such judgments could also prove illusory. You are full of the surface qualities of life, so that it is difficult to discern which, inner or outer, is the most attractive. Each is a telling path for you right now, in your journey toward wholeness. Your mystical self-expression and your feelings in general, as always, play an all-important role as you come more fully into yourself; as you are and as you will become.

As the month begins, your unconscious process looms large, in the wake of the extremely powerful Full Moon and Lunar Eclipse of late May. This triggered the Uranus-Pluto square that also perfected around that time, and which occupies angular solar houses in your nativity, namely those of career and relationship. Their combined transformational transit is never easy, but it does lead to opportunity — to the extent that you are open. You have been experiencing unusual changes in career objectives that continue to arise in a way that revolutionizes your outlook and steers you away from the commonplaces of consensus thinking. This might be connected to partnership activity as a catalyst and as a determinant for unusual developments there also. Another piece of this idea is that your very concept of relationship continues to morph, and becomes a catalyst for your own metamorphosis, in unexpected ways.

Jupiter is another important planet for you, said to be exalted, or triumphant, in your sign. Due to its late June entrance into Cancer, Jupiter gives your self-concept a huge boost by the time the end of the month rolls around. In fact, during the latter third of the current month, after the Summer Solstice, you will likely be feeling a greater degree of familiarity with yourself and excitement for new opportunities. This feeling begins now, but subtly and through a meditative approach to your own inner domains, the inner being the foundation for the outer.

Saturn and Neptune are also prominent in this month's astrology, which features several different instances of a grand trine being formed, that highlights this aspect between them and for any of your natal planets that occupy the early part of your sign. Therefore, for you, what is greatly emphasized is the power of limitation on the one hand, holding you back, and the potential for imagination, idealism and illusion on the other. The best use of this energy lies in taking spiritual lessons quite seriously now, while allowing yourself to turn inward. Personal creativity might feel almost shut down, which actually enables you to go quietly toward the inside, there to concentrate your thinking toward higher planes of perspective. This would be especially true if you are born in June rather than July. With a look at your actual solar chart you could find which of your other personal planets occupy this same part of the tropical zodiac, namely the first 10 degrees of Cancer.

Mercury Retrogrades as well during the last week of the month, and this too is an indication for you of inner contemplation coming to the fore. The retrograde period lasts throughout July, when you take into account the period of the retrograde shadow, so that this is a weeks-long opportunity to get a better handle on your life by a process of deep reflection. Through this later time of June you are being given important gifts from the universe, and the rule is that you are never given anything that you are not ready for, even though it might prove to be a stretch.