SUMMER SOLSTICE 2025 HOROSCOPES

JUNE 20, 2025 | 10:42 PM EDT

text and image by Shane Powers

The horoscopes I write offer broad strokes based on ancient and modern astrological techniques. Natal astrology consultations express finer detail particular to your sole astrology. Whether you have met with me before or not we can look back, in the present and future together. Book a new client or follow up consultation here.

I write horoscopes from the perspective of the rising sign but you may read for your Sun, Moon or rising sign.

ARIES

Mars, your planetary guide is in the early degrees of Virgo transiting your sixth house, processing and cataloguing the emotional debris of ancestry, home and partnerships that have perished and converted into deep reservoirs of power, ideally not anger. You’re burning off a fever of the past six months as Mars in your sixth house of maintenance applies heat and draws sweat, paradoxically cooling matters of illness and uphill struggles. All afflictions to your quality of life. A burning relief, what you understood as family and a sense of home has revealed its weak spots and can be approached with studied insight. Saturn, now in Aries transiting your first house of mind and body audits personal goals and those who support them with pivotal discernment and sobering circumstances. Avoidance, while obsessing hard over the details may stall opportunities, intimacy and much needed quiet time to grow. Saturn here can deny or commit to new beginnings. Don’t let perfect be the enemy of good as some aspects of your identity see no distant future. Not every wish will be granted. If you receive psychic clues however, follow them. You can afford a bit of risk at this time. The Moon, ripe but waning in Taurus, applies to a beneficial aspect with Mars from your second house of resources. Humbled at this time, you must act responsibly as your own agent. Thread beginnings through endings. Work with what is available and leverage your expectations to outfit only what is needed, nothing less and nothing more; the luxury of the future.

TAURUS

Following some rapid waters months ago the Moon and Venus in Taurus transit your first house of felt experience. This summer you seek peak sensation and spiritual well being through consistency and familiar comforts. The Moon applies to an illuminating aspect with Mars shedding light on your relationship to pleasure, self protection and where it has undermined your generosity within close relationships. Your day to day is unfurling at a pace of a swift breeze. This summer you’re tending to interests that offer you time to cruise at a manageable speed, without the need to blow the horn, tailgate or use the passing lane. With worldly aspirations and recognition in your peripheral view you’re inclined to give more than take. In service to a voice of personal truth. Give alms to personal needs you have placed on a throne. Leaving them flowers, honey and prayers written in salty tears. You’re reveling in aesthetic affirmations that are no longer prone to the whims and confines of influence; so deeply rooted they may have been easily overlooked. Find solace in your skills and practice. You have no need to rush to conclusions or prove anything. You’ve weathered upheavals and followed some detours that have turned once needless obligations into liberating scenic routes. As the Moon soon joins the Sun in Cancer, this summer you are renewing your vows to oneself, a sensualist, dedicated to your most intimate desires within nature’s time cycles. You’re in service to earnest and divine work at this time and poised with moderation that knows when enough is enough.

GEMINI

Mercury, your planetary guide, is transiting the late degrees of Cancer in your second house where it speaks tenderly to the particulars of your relationship to sustenance, finances and what gifts you have to offer at this time. Still gauche to discuss money in our culture, perhaps you’re pondering why you hesitate to speak of it and where money becomes a bewildering mirage. A recent aspect with Venus in Taurus revealed where you must spend time, money or effort on things that come with no visible gratification but uphold the substance of life giving essentials. The Sun is about to meet Jupiter in Cancer offering focus, truth and earthly abundance through a relationship of love or contract; perhaps through the good blessings of your vocation. You’re learning the value of earned and born resources, how to care for, enjoy and share them discerningly. This should feel empowering. Be honest with yourself. The way we treat our resources has ways of mirroring internal struggles and successes. Note when you find yourself on the wheel of hunger, impoverished when dependent on ephemeral pleasures. You're making peace with your financial reality. For the best it appears. From July 18th, Mercury will be retrograde in Leo for about three weeks in your third house of communication and daily rituals. Uranus will have entered Gemini, now transiting your first house of mind and body for the decade ahead. Uranus moves slowly ushering change from the abyss more suddenly than one would prefer but some level of chaos this summer is your magic ingredient. As your interests which hold creative power develop best on nature’s timeline, you’ll be considering if your support systems can stay the course with a lifestyle that exceeds reputation and appearances.

CANCER

Since the spring equinox, Mars left your first house of mind and body where raw emotion may have simmered at the surface for months, distilling procrastination and creative chaos into clarity and sustainable energy. The Moon, your planetary guide, wanes in Taurus, transiting your eleventh house of aspirations, friends and other social conventions. This summer your attention is led from the personal to the collective, breaking and emerging from a shell as the Moon applies to the nudging aspect of Mars transiting your third house of the habitual. After months of feverish reflection and honing the nerve, you’re prepared to take social gambles and worthwhile risks. Sacred doubts persist but underpin the profound sincerity in which you seek the company of others with common vision and meaningful causes to tend to. Perhaps you felt you were going at it alone, an army of one, burning off insecurities, wielding a shield of intoxicating resistance to inevitable change or the desire to be seen for something beautiful you have to offer. You are empowered at this time to voice your needs among the community. Find the words and images that lead others to your offerings. No longer a blank page before you, the ideas that once twinkled around the periphery come center and take form. Show up and be held by networks of support as they are reliable this summer. Self-assured as the Sun joins Jupiter who recently entered your first house, you’re inspired with faith and confidence in the hard work you have done, a labor of love. Jupiter, prolific in Cancer, rewards through open-handed self sacrifice but only if one learns to think, care and speak for oneself in return.

LEO

The Moon, waning in Taurus, separates from a cooperative aspect with your planetary guide, the Sun, encouraging acceptance of the resources and circumstances you are working with, the good and the bad at this time. Operating preferably in solitude or behind the scenes, your vulnerabilities become valuable strengths in positions where you share your talents. Averse to the spotlight, you may contrarily feel doomed to rise to the occasion. Knead discomfort into grace under pressure. The Moon and Sun simultaneously apply to supportive aspects with Mars in Virgo, transiting your second house of livelihood. There is a destined feeling here of being exposed for one’s own good. A willingness to enter the unknown, or map the foundations of entrepreneurship and a life on one’s own terms. Risking something to realize something. Pouring resources into an opportunity and the nerve that comes with it. Presenting not only the refined finished product but sharing the beauty of the underside. The guts of the beast. How the sausage is made will be an essential quality of the outcome. Emphasize the exploration process while cutting no corners with convenience. Blemishes along the way become a coveted patina. The lines between work and play or home and office are thin and separating the emotional from the professional may feel against your nature this summer. As the Sun approaches an aspect of creative chaos with Saturn, rely on a few devils you know if you must. This emerging requires gentleness with a sledgehammer. Sharing the goods, which there are many, in haste may spoil the broth.

VIRGO

At summer solstice, Mercury transits a portion of Cancer that is tender and ripe with possibility but without clear orientation. Method alone is not a solution because here one must figure it out only as one goes. In water signs, Mercury can experience a loss for words because words can not always do your feelings justice. You're managing the ups and downs of communication and shared objectives among friends and associates. Reigning in multiple options and voices, you’re collectively threading a needle; arriving on the same page. Your voice, shared among friends and allies, is an instrument of healing, a medicine. Calm among unrest. You’re spinning a web of engagement, supportive of collective clairvoyance. With Jupiter now in Cancer transiting your eleventh house of shared purpose, you’re seeing more eye to eye and the possibility of achieving great works together is likely. For added support, look to Venus at this time as it is transiting your ninth house of shared knowledge and wisdom, exalted in Taurus, an earth sign of stability and ease, qualities favorable for growth within collaboration. As Mars transits your first house, you may be prone to lament at this time, a state of petty worries. The Moon applies to Mars from a peaceful place in Taurus, offering sound perspective. Summer will become increasingly reflective as Mercury stations retrograde on July 17th in Leo while transiting your twelfth house of paradox. Soon after the Sun enters Leo, its place of power, it meets Mercury, a vital moment where you’ll notice and ideally let go of debilitating thought patterns. Replacing cynicism with liberatory coping skills.

LIBRA

You’re learning how to take better care of yourself so you can better handle times of loss and letting go. Saving your time, energy and resources for rainy days. Steady in Taurus, Venus and the Moon are together in your eighth house of surrender and decline. This is a tender configuration, acknowledging the obligations but also the benefits of relationships, friends or lovers, and a reminder that they can not be taken for granted. Or, how the residual effects of your personal and intimate relationships inform your ability to walk confidently alongside destiny. The Moon and your planetary guide Venus are both ideally placed in Taurus where they are able to cooperate with care and patience. This may be a time for giving more than you receive, to a dream or loved one. Notice also where your comforts come at someone or something’s expense. Or where the comfort had by the support of others can stall your motivation to change course professionally, creatively or domestically. A scarcity mindset which can keep you in cycles of disappointment and perpetually unmet expectations. Fear of lack and loneliness may be a driving factor whether you know it or not and at times this is reasonable. The Moon and Venus together in the eighth house can do everything possible to avoid the discomfort of letting go. An inheritance of guilt, shame and thereby oversharing or over spending can stretch you financially and emotionally. The Moon makes a beneficial aspect to the Sun and Jupiter in Cancer, transiting your tenth house of visibility and influential action. Your essential needs may be met through sharing more of yourself and its charming flaws. Your idea of success stems from integrity and sustainability versus borrowed airtime and forgettable swipes of influence. This is a humbling time of acceptance and applying your gifts of experience to your greatest causes without fear of losing yourself or others in the process.

SCORPIO

Close relationships have taken unforeseen twists and turns over the past seven years as you reconcile to be more at peace with others. In fact, you are tapping vital strength from close partnerships. Perhaps at times, not realizing how good you or they have it. Together, you exchange remarkable passion and emotionally charged conversations embodying core truths. Summer begins with your planetary guide Mars at 2° Virgo in your eleventh house of social circles and the meaningful causes you wish to fulfill in this life. You are the astute planner this summer arranging the fine details of a blueprint that will shift your entire focus. Others will notice and enjoy the fruits of your imagination as you turn dreams into realities that benefit all. There are favorable placements in the relational parts of your chart, therefore apply the same integrity of your personal relationships to your expansive social network. That said, the key here is trimming the fat on your social calendar. Reserving quality time for friends and community you feel the most aligned with, not simply by shiny affiliation. Mars guides your sixth house of worry and illness which may speak to the fussy but taxing associations you’ve kept. Mars is present with the south node of the Moon, further indication of letting go or a release in social pressures, discerning which spaces no longer feed your interests. Simply put, you are prioritizing the great abundance of existing relationships, hassle free. Keeping your community well tended to. So, if and when the earth begins to quake below your feet you will have cultured a trustworthy island of misfit toys.

SAGITTARIUS

Perhaps you’re considering the choice of words and images you have used to craft a perception of distinction. At summer solstice your planetary guide, Jupiter, is in the early degrees of Cancer where it is noble but hidden within the Sun's rays as they are close together in the sky. Near the end of its yearly cycle with the Sun and in your eighth house of idling strength, Jupiter in Cancer bestows blessings through loss, emotional stasis and compromise; a teaching you’ll be heeding off and on until next summer. This summer, find grace and dignity abound in death and endings of all manner. You may feel invisible or mute in relationships of love or friendship at this time. Be conscious of knowing when giving enough is enough and that safety in relationships is ideally a reciprocal merging of attention, trust and mutual sacrifice. Crafting an image of oneself alongside others is at times uncomfortable. You must freefall a bit, straddle unfamiliar faces, distinguishing what is applicable and what modes of upkeep become bottomless pits. Be conscious also of where living or sharing space with others no longer gives you life. Home, as you’ve known it may reveal its changing circumstances like a shell in the surf, where land meets sea. Appearing and disappearing in a rhythmic froth of rarefying entanglements and erosion. Where matters of relating and vocation have become high maintenance, release the valves a bit. Sweating the small stuff will come dead on arrival.

CAPRICORN

Matters of family and homeland may be out of sight out of mind or far from the place you call home but that is what makes them so compelling at this time. You are in protection mode. Tending to the details of what you can and pardoning willfully what you cannot. Saturn, your guiding planet recently entered Aries where it will transit your fourth house for about three years. During this time expect pushes and pulls, loss and endings regarding the foundational facets of life, particularly homeland and immediate family. Topics of ancestry may be complicated, like tilling parched, root laden soil. As Saturn and the Moon make tricky but worthwhile aspects to the Sun in Cancer conjunct Jupiter in your seventh house you can rely on close partnerships at this time to provide support and levity. Saturn in Aries can be restless and avoidant but its contact with the Sun and Jupiter open relief and opportunities to comfort soul-stirring endings or loss on the homefront with healthy boundaries. Navigating obstacles with mastery and a self protective, zero fucks given position. Sometimes home, safety or family is a matrix like any other to be locked into willingly or not. A positive aspect of Saturn’s time in Aries may be the ability to remove yourself, just enough from the flames of drama with the maturity and wisdom to surpass the petty flare ups of Mar’s demands at this time. There is plenty to be learned and gained spiritually, materially and interpersonally during this three year transit. Your lodestars will be your friends, partners and the company of children. Leisure through creative play as well. Your chosen family is where you’ll find substance and strength as some stories from the past rise into the heavens.

AQUARIUS

You’re considering your words wisely. Your thoughts, habits and early childhood pattern recognition as well. Where such ideas emerge from and how close or far they reside in your memory. Where you idealize childhood and where it keeps you enmeshed in other’s business with undue toiling. Your planetary guide Saturn is in the early degrees of Aries, approaching Neptune in your third house where one can abandon oneself for the stories that appear and dissolve, only to appear again as irritable ghosts. Every thought and word you write or speak this summer will count more than usual because they are actively raising a new world. Building worlds is work and the work here is mental, not physical. Your thoughts at this time are in your peripheral view. This work has a sense of sacred privacy, like a baby in the womb; bloody, vital and fragile. You’re mediating the details required to bridge the present and the past, perhaps noticing where you carry burdensome DNA, digging your own holes. From a hole you can only negotiate which becomes tiring. Your body is built of minute systems proportional to a particular environment, like the vocabulary of a given language. When natural order affects the body you must rely on sensitive information and your personal phenology, tending to the particulars apart from the whole.

PISCES

While Jupiter was in Gemini you may have felt carried away by the trivial needs of career and those who you show up for professionally and socially. Your guiding planet Jupiter is now in Cancer, degrees away from the Sun in your fifth house where you’ll soon feel empowered to protect your right to peace, pleasure and creative pursuits. Jupiter separates from a dynamic aspect with Saturn who reminds you that the good things in life can be found in humble and nontransactional places, free of charge. No matter your environmental circumstances, with the right mind set you’ll find sanctuary whether it be a staycation within your four walls or afloat on an island. You’re prioritizing enjoyment and the risk of creative play with levity and less attachment to future outcomes. This includes the risk to love more freely and deeply, or to at least knock on a few closed doors, perhaps the door of someone right before you. Write a recipe for pleasure or pass a love note detailing the intentions of your heart and soul. Love in all of its iterations is in the air this summer and will feed you well where the dull weight of material circumstances could never satiate. Beyond human form, love may come in familiar comforts and interests, reading, writing or exercise for example. If there is hard work to be done this summer it would be physical activity in the most pleasurable way towards peace of mind and a healthier body. That said Mars in Virgo is feverishly discerning. Understanding what sincerely gives you pleasure versus what becomes swollen delights ensures little regrets. Be mindful of where you place and what you put in your body, be it environmental, intellectual or sensual.