Crossing the Threshold

I’m writing these monthly notes the day after the Summer Solstice in the northern hemisphere, marked by the Sun’s entrance into Cancer. I’ve decided to organize these notes around the astrological ’seasons’ — Cancer season, Leo season, etc — rather than the lunar cycle, because the journey of the Sun around the zodiac describes a universal developmental sequence that, to my mind, is easier to follow. The entire logic of the zodiac was originally anchored to the solstices and equinoxes, observed ritually by human cultures since the dawn of time. There is ancient human memory of this annual solar rhythm.

When the Sun is in Cancer, our focus softens and turns inward, encouraging us to prioritize our sense of emotional well-being and belonging. Cancer represents our emotional and psychological foundations — where we feel nurtured, safe, and unconditionally accepted. It rules the home, the family, children, and motherhood. It is, perhaps, the most human of all the signs, connecting us to the loving bonds that matter most.

In Cancer season, we’re better able to feel our feelings, explore our inner world, and listen to our intuition. It’s a potent time to initiate a healing process. We may find ourselves more emotionally attuned to both our loved ones and to our own unmet needs. Our personal happiness moves into the foreground.

This year, with Jupiter recently entering Cancer — where it will stay until June 2026 — these themes take on a new level of meaning. Jupiter represents the principle of wisdom — the higher plane perspective that helps us understand how the events of our lives fit a broader cosmic pattern. It brings opportunities to explore new realms with a spirit of adventure, knowing we’re supported by a benevolent universe. It opens doors, fosters growth, and expands whatever it touches.

Jupiter in Cancer will elevate the importance of our personal lives and emotional well-being. It will highlight the wisdom of prioritizing self-care, home, and our connection to loved ones and ancestral roots. We might find ourselves less willing to sacrifice our personal happiness for professional success. We are being asked to discover a new approach where our personal contentment is properly valued as the cornerstone of our public success. In the face of the dawning AI revolution, this is the transit that will help us stay human.

Nonetheless, at the beginning of this year’s Cancer season, there’s friction in the air. Sun and Jupiter in Cancer form a square to Saturn and Neptune in early Aries, creating a challenging push-pull dynamic. We might feel torn between a part of us inspired by a bold new vision — and the disciplined routines necessary to achieve it (Saturn-Neptune in Aries) — and a part of us that wants to slow down, spend more time with loved ones, or go within (Sun-Jupiter in Cancer).

Between June 21-23, two potentially explosive Yod formations appear — one with Mars at the apex, the other with Pluto. A Yod is an aspect between one planet (the focal planet) that forms quincunxes to two other planets that are in sextile. This intense pattern creates an inescapable dilemma that demands resolution through a fated or unexpected shift.

This configuration carries the energy of a precision strike, demanding some form of decisive action that cuts through the Gordian knot. In the context of the Israel-Iran war and the tornado of furious debate about potential US involvement, it does not augur well for a peaceful outcome.

On a personal front, this pattern may catalyze some form of sudden evolution that may come in unexpected ways or outside of our conscious control — we might feel pushed into a new direction, yet not necessarily understand why. The deeper invitation is to trust the timing, even if the changes seem incomprehensible to our linear minds.

But while the conflict in the Middle East may dominate the news, the deeper story of this Cancer season lies in an extraordinary cosmic threshold. Here we have to understand this year’s Cancer season in a larger context. For this is no ordinary year.

Since last November, we’ve seen an unprecedented series of planetary sign changes: Pluto into Aquarius, Neptune and Saturn into Aries, and Jupiter into Cancer. This rapid procession of planetary sign changes signals the final push out of the birth canal for the new era dawning on Earth.

And now, on July 7, Uranus will move into Gemini — the last major planetary shift in this sequence. Uranus is the archetype of breakthrough — the sudden release from struggle and unexpected emergence into a new world. As such, it is connected with the liberating experience of birth. With the ingress of Uranus into Gemini, we cross an incredible threshold. This moment could mark the official birth of the New Earth.

When Uranus, the planet of brilliant innovation and disruptive change, moves into Gemini, the sign of learning and communication, we may witness a revolution in our education systems, communications technologies, and media. More profoundly, we may also experience an activation of inner technologies of communication, such as telepathy, multidimensional awareness, and new forms of communion with non-human forms of intelligence. The image I get is of a lightning storm across the noosphere, linking minds across the globe in a dazzling network of thought and telepathic connectivity.

Meanwhile, during Cancer season, Saturn and Neptune move to within half a degree of an exact conjunction in early Aries — the closest they will come to meeting until February 2026. The last time these two planets conjoined was in November 1989, coinciding with the fall of the Berlin Wall and the collapse of the Eastern Bloc. When Saturn, the principle of form, meets Neptune, the principle of the formless, long established structures can dissolve seemingly overnight.

We are entering sacred ground — an extraordinary passage when personal and planetary plot lines converge. Cancer season calls us to ground down in what matters most — love, home, family — even while humanity crosses a historic threshold to a new world.