June 2025 new moon in Cancer is the most important one of the year heres why

The moon-iest new moon of the year is upon us, folks — and this lunation is getting a heavy, heady dose of amplification from gas giant Jupiter.The new moon always aligns with the zodiac sign the sun is moving through.In this case, that would be Cancer, with its waxing and waning, intuition and tumult, pinchers and poignancy.The new moon arrives on June 25th, 2025, at 6:31 am ET at 4° of Cancer.Cancer is ruled by the moon, which makes this the mooniest new moon of the year.

Here, the moon comes home and speaks of home in ways we cannot ignore.What makes this new moon particularly important is that it aligns with Jupiter — our planet of boons and blessings, who has recently set up shop in the sign of Cancer.Jupiter expands all that it touches, and in the cardinal waters of Cancer, that expansion can equate to healing and hurting, dream making and past aching.The new moon marks the first day of a lunar cycle. During the new moon, the moon is positioned between the Earth and the sun.The new moon is the darkest of the moon’s eight-phase cycle, and in that dimness lies the point of pure potential, an empty field, an open road and a house taken down to the studs, where the vastness of all possibilities hums.As Cancer is related to the mother archetype, this new moon, if we allow it, can be a time of radical rebirth.

This dark sky is, metaphorically speaking, a womb — and this go round we get to choose how we want to be fed and by whom.Questions to consider: What do we need to grow, and what does it take for us to feel safe?Relative to that sacred swig of mother’s milk, the energy right now is fertile AF, making it a high time to get knocked up, sow the seeds of a new dream, cut loose from the umbilical noose and/or set your third eye toward a purposeful shift in mindset.Under these skies, we are licked clean as newborn wolf pups and get the chance to begin again, fortified by the memory of all that’s been, humble and hopeful, interdependent and tender as...