Navigating the Currents: Inquiry and Integration in the Lunar Cycle of June 2025

How do we find our footing when the ground seems to shift beneath us? This question rises from the astrological landscape surrounding the Full Moon in Sagittarius in June 2025. This bright Full Moon arrives late on Tuesday, June 10th, spilling into the early hours of Wednesday, June 11th, 2025, depending on your spot on the globe. For those on the Pacific coast, it lights up the sky at 12:43 AM on June 11th. This period presents a complex dance of energies, urging us to bring together opposing drives within ourselves and the world around us. By looking at key planetary arrangements and what they might mean, we can gain insight into how to move through this dynamic lunar cycle.

Illumination and Opposition: The Full Moon as a Mirror

The Full Moon, with the Sun in adaptable Gemini facing the Moon in expansive Sagittarius, sheds light on a core tension between thought and feeling, data and insight. Both sit near the 21st degree of their zodiac signs, pulling us to find a balance point. Gemini, led by Mercury, seeks to gather facts and share them well, understanding details and seeing many sides. Sagittarius, ruled by Jupiter, strives for meaning, purpose, a wider view of the world, faith, and freedom. This face-off asks us to find balance between these two ways of seeing. Are we getting lost in the small stuff, or are we losing sight of what is real as we chase grand dreams?

Adding to this mix, a primary focus for the Full Moon's influence comes from Jupiter in Cancer. Jupiter is the ruling planet of Sagittarius, the sign the Moon is currently in. Just recently, Jupiter made a big move into Cancer, the sign the Moon rules, creating a special astrological connection called a mutual reception. This signifies freedom within connection, supporting and celebrating each other without needing to grasp or control. This lack of tense aspects between Jupiter and the Moon emphasizes letting go of the need to cling tightly.\

Shifting Ground: Mars and the Play of Influence

The pull of other planetary forces adds more color to the picture. Around June 15th, 2025, we see Mars in Leo making a square aspect to Uranus in Taurus. Mars, the planet of action, in bold Leo wants to act boldly and express itself, but its square to Uranus in Taurus, the energy of sudden change related to stability and values, can stir up sudden upsets, challenges to established ways, or unexpected changes related to finances or personal security. This square calls to mind current events, like political stress, border fights, and the push and pull for power.

The Moon also has key interactions with Pluto. When the Moon later enters Aquarius around June 14th, 2025, it will line up with Pluto in Aquarius, suggesting powerful shifts or intense feelings related to groups, power structures, or our vision for the future. The interaction between these planetary forces brings out a key theme: the fight for power and control. As the Sun and Moon stand face to face, they turn on energies like the Mars-Uranus square, making a field of stress. This stress shows in many ways, from political fights to personal struggles. The question is: How can we move through these power plays with truth and care?

Feeling the Deep Currents: Chiron/Eris and Saturn/Neptune in Aries

Beyond the bright Full Moon light, there are deeper, slower-moving energies present, adding layers of intensity and meaning.

First, Chiron and Eris are still moving incredibly close together in Aries, only about 33 arc minutes apart at this Full Moon moment. This powerful, direct energy in fiery, action-oriented Aries is about facing and beginning to heal deep, collective wounds. It calls for finding the courage to stand up for those who are marginalized and discovering strength born directly from facing our deepest hurts, both personal and shared. The 33 arc minutes, a number often linked to compassion and unity, reinforces the critical need for fierce compassion in the world right now.

Second, Saturn and Neptune are also sitting very close together in Aries. Saturn represents structure, limits, and reality, while Neptune is the energy of dreams, intuition, and dissolving boundaries. Placing these two together in Aries creates a powerful mix, like a "kettle on a fire." Saturn is the container, Neptune the water, and Aries the fire. This close link poses a key question: How do we hold this intense, boiling emotional energy, this turmoil we might feel inside ourselves and see in the world? This is where the idea of equanimity becomes so important—the ability to stay balanced and centered even when faced with difficulty or strong emotions. It's about being the kettle strong enough to contain the boiling water without tipping over.

Navigating the Clashes and the Moon's Path

As the Full Moon energy settles, the days and weeks that follow bring a series of planetary alignments that can feel challenging. Think of these as strong winds or tricky currents that require our mindful attention and skillful navigation. They aren't easy, but they push us to grow stronger and more adaptable.

We also see tension from Jupiter in Cancer. Around June 15th, 2025, Jupiter squares Saturn in Aries. And around June 18th, 2025, Jupiter squares Neptune in Aries. These are called cardinal squares because they happen between planets in cardinal signs (Aries and Cancer here). Cardinal energy is about initiating, starting things, pushing forward. When squares happen in these signs, the tension often demands direct action and setting things in motion, but the opposing forces make it feel challenging.

The Jupiter square Saturn tension is classic: a push and pull between expansion (Jupiter) and contraction (Saturn), optimism and realism, growth and limits, faith and the hard facts of structure. This can feel like your hopes for growth are hitting a wall of responsibility or limitation, or that the demands of reality are weighing down your natural optimism.

The Jupiter square Neptune tension brings a different kind of challenge. It's a clash between expansive hopes, beliefs, or ideals (Jupiter) and the dissolving of boundaries, confusion, or potential deception (Neptune). This can feel disorienting, like your dreams or aspirations are hard to grasp, or that your attempts to grow are met with uncertainty or a lack of clarity.

These squares, while challenging, are also powerful moments of potential. They force us to confront where we are out of balance. They demand that we find ways to integrate these opposing energies—to be both hopeful and realistic, expansive and disciplined, clear-sighted and compassionate. It’s about practicing equanimity amidst the constant push and pull, the clashing forces playing out both inside us and in the world around us.

While these larger alignments are happening, the Moon keeps moving, shifting signs every couple of days. This quick journey brings shifting emotional landscapes and daily focuses, like walking through different neighborhoods.

• On the evening of June 11th, 2025, the Moon moves into Capricorn, shifting our focus to responsibility, structure, and goals.
• On June 14th, 2025, the Moon enters Aquarius, moving our focus to community, group ideas, and innovation. Around this time, the Moon lines up with Pluto in Aquarius.
• On June 16th, 2025, the Moon enters Pisces, bringing a shift towards compassion, intuition, and surrender. The Moon will join the North Node in Pisces around June 18th, 2025—this points to aligning our emotional state with the collective path forward, guided by empathy and universal connection.
• On June 18th, 2025, the Moon enters Aries, shifting energy towards action and directness. Shortly after, the Moon connects with Saturn and Neptune, already close in Aries.
• On June 20th, 2025, the Moon enters Taurus, bringing a grounding energy, focusing on stability, senses, and values.
• On June 22nd, 2025, the Moon enters Gemini, returning our focus to communication, curiosity, and adaptability.

The Summer Solstice and Shifting Energies

As the Moon makes its way, a significant turning point arrives on Friday, June 20th, 2025. The Sun moves out of Gemini and into Cancer, marking the Summer Solstice in the Northern Hemisphere. This is a powerful pivot point, shifting from Gemini's analytical energy to Cancer's inward-focused, nurturing energy. The Solstice invites us to turn inward, tending to our roots, home, emotional well-being, and life's foundations. With Jupiter already in Cancer, this sign's energy is amplified, reinforcing themes of home, family, nurturing, and emotional expansion. The Solstice is the Sun joining Jupiter in this new domain, reinforcing these themes strongly.

Also, Mars moves from fiery Leo into analytical, service-oriented Virgo on June 17th, 2025. This changes how we direct our energy and take action, from bold performance to practical service and refining methods. And Mercury, already in Cancer, forms a helpful trine aspect to the North Node in Pisces on June 21st, 2025. This connection can bring intuitive insights, help us put words to deeper feelings, and align our thoughts with the collective path forward.

Current Events: A Mirror to the Macrocosm

The themes of this time call to mind current events. The focus on border fights, political stress, and the push and pull for power calls to mind the Mars-Uranus dance, while the call for care and feeling for others lines up with the North Node in Pisces. The ongoing fights and crises around the world stress the need for shared action and a promise to peace.

The rise of digital ways and AI growth, with worries about data safe-keeping and what is right, call to mind the pull of Aquarius and Pluto. These growths ask us to look at what we value, question power, and take in new ways to fix things that help all. As Hillman (1975) noted, each time puts its fears onto the main stories and tools of the time, asking for a deeper look inside.

The social and legal issues brought out in the news, from health care access to racial wrong, stress the need for fair, equal, and care. These issues call for personal and shared action, as we strive to make a more fair world for all. As Greene (1980) saw, the world outside often acts as a mirror showing our inner fights, pushing us to take part in both personal and shared change.

Charting a Path Forward

The Sagittarius Full Moon gives a dynamic trade of energies, asking us to bring together forces that seem to stand face to face within ourselves and the world. By taking in the energies of fierce compassion and equanimity, we can move through the complex parts of this lunar cycle with more knowing, strength, and truth. This period asks us to be both expansive in our vision and grounded in our reality, adaptive while holding firm to what truly matters.

As we move forward, may we all strive to grow peace, balance, and beauty in our lives, and to add to a more fair world for all. The work of Tarnas (2006) reminds us that these planetary cycles do not set things in stone, but give a way to see the playing out of human life, asking us to join in with the archetypal forces at play.