New Moon in Cancer: Coming Home
- Vanja Banks
- Jun 23
- 5 min read
On June 25th at 3:31am PST/ 6:31am EST, a potent New Moon in Cancer arrives, offering us a threshold moment to reconnect with our emotional body, lineage and inner sanctuary.
With Jupiter meeting the Sun & Moon, this lunation amplifies Cancer’s nurturing wisdom, illuminating the soul’s longing to belong—to feel safe, held and whole.
This is a deeply transformative lunation, asking us to unearth our patterns of attachment, safety, and sovereignty. It draws us inward to the source—the womb of creation—and simultaneously pushes us out of it, into unfamiliar territory.
The Primordial Waters: Cancer & Jupiter
Cancer is attuned to the source of life—the dark, fertile waters of origin. In mythology and psyche alike, it is the archetype of the Great Mother: the one who nourishes, protects and creates life. But this same archetype also devours and destroys. This energy reminds us that birth and death are cyclical.
With Jupiter expanding this New Moon, we may feel flooded with emotion, memory, longing, or intuitive clarity. Patterns from childhood—especially those around care, safety, and emotional expression—surface now to be seen and soothed.
This is a moon that asks: Where do you find your emotional foundation?; Who or what has felt like “home,” and at what cost?; Can you offer that home to yourself, without relying on someone else to build it?
The Tension of Fire: Aries Stellium Square
The most potent tension of this New Moon arises in the form of a tight square to a stellium in Aries, where Saturn, Neptune, Ceres, and Eros reside. This friction between Cancer and Aries speaks to a core conflict between emotional fusion and sovereign selfhood.
Cancer seeks to bond—to root deeply, to nest, to nurture. Aries seeks to break free—to blaze ahead, to assert, to become.
But this square isn't just about independence versus dependence. It’s much deeper… At the center of this Aries stellium is Ceres, the Roman counterpart of Demeter—goddess of the harvest, of maternal devotion and of profound loss. Ceres teaches us about the rhythms of nourishment and withdrawal, of abundance and absence. She is not only the one who feeds; she is also the one who grieves her stolen child. The one who, in her sorrow, lets the world go barren. So in Aries, we find Ceres demanding we examine: How do we feed ourselves emotionally, creatively, spiritually?; Where have we over-extended that care and been left depleted?; Are we willing to walk away to preserve our own sacred fire?
Saturn in Aries reinforces boundaries around identity and personal responsibility. It insists we grow up and grow into ourselves—even when it’s uncomfortable. Neptune in Aries dissolves the old warrior archetype and softens the armor, but can also leave us feeling untethered in our selfhood. Eros in Aries ignites raw desire, the passion to live, to create, to touch and be touched on the most instinctual level.
Together, this fiery configuration presses hard against Cancer’s soft shell, bringing heat to the surface. There is a push to individuate, to set ourselves apart from the emotional landscapes we were born into—and to find power in doing so.
This square may bring up a deep need to reclaim what we hunger for, without shame. What are you hungry for that only you can give yourself?
Collectively, this may stir up tension around codependence in relationships, burnout from over-caregiving, or the grief of needing space while still craving intimacy. We are asked to mature our emotional responses—not by shutting down, but by cultivating discernment and personal responsibility in how we relate.
