New Moon in Cancer begins a new chapter

Welcome back to the Essential Astrocast. I am your host, Veronica Perretti, and this is the podcast you listen to when you want to know what's going on up in the heavens so that you can dictate your fate down here on Earth. There's a lot that's been going on. Life has been picking up, momentum is moving forward. Things are feeling simultaneously optimistic and apocalyptic. There's a lot of everything. Everything is full force.

Part of the reason for that is that for a while now we've had mercury out of bounds. Mercury has finally come back inbounds last week, and in the past few days, we had the moon out of bounds and we had a new moon in cancer yesterday. So I am recording this on June 26th.

And we had a new moon yesterday on June 25th, so I wanted to get this out to you as quickly as possible to set an intention with this new moon energy still with us. the moon will still be in cancer all day on June 26th. If you're listening to this today, then we will have the moon move into Leo tomorrow, but that will still be helpful for setting your intentions with the New Moon in cancer, so you can really set your intention.

For any time within the first week, even the first two weeks, but optimal to do it within the first week. And then, you know, my rule about manifestation, and you know my rule about intention setting, if you've listened to the podcast for a while, if you feel in alignment with the energy of the moment and you feel inspired to set the intention, that is the time that you set the intention. If you feel like your energy is out of alignment and.

You're not sure and you're a little bit foggy and you're wishy-washy, then that is not the time to set the intention. So I'm much more interested in you being in alignment with the energy that you want to align with than what's happening in the sky. But of course, we want to harness that energy to lasso that energy of the cosmos and let it help us. So one of my yoga students who I adore was like, I heard that this is the best yesterday and today are the best days of the year.

The luckiest astrology, it's all super powerful, super potent manifestation, all the stuff. Okay?

So I kind of hate it. When people get really into this whole conversation of the luckiest day of the year, and I often write an email on the day that the sun and Jupiter come together every year with the subject line, the luckiest day of the year, simply because it gets a lot of opens and then people pay attention to what I'm actually saying, which is that. It's really hard to have one transit make someday be the luckiest day of the year.

But yes, when the sun joins with Jupiter and illuminates that planet of Jupiter, which is the planet of fertility, abundance, blessings. We do consider that to be a, a good time for manifestation, a good time for being prepared when the luck happens. You know, there's that saying. Be prepared when the luck happens. I think that's the saying. And there's a great, I read Ina Garten's memoir recently and I have to look up the name of it, but I loved her book and the whole idea of her memoir, is.

You are not gonna be able to tell your good breaks from your bad breaks sometimes. And her book is called Be Ready When the Luck Happens. And I think that's a great way of talking about astrology. Be ready when the luck happens. Be ready for the good energy, but don't bank on the transit doing the work for you. Because that just isn't gonna happen.

And I don't like the conversation of the luckiest day of the year because it makes people feel like, well, if I had a really crappy day, is there something wrong with me? And there's nothing wrong with you. There's some really tough stuff in the sky right now. Yes, sun and Jupiter coming together is. Wonderful. We love to see it. Yeah. The new moon conjunct Jupiter yesterday on the heels of that conjunction. Great. Having the sun, the moon and Jupiter together as they are in the sky.

Or they were Tuesday and Wednesday the 24th and the 25th. I told you last week. Circle those days and you know, maybe do something special on those

days. Certainly it's gonna activate whatever is already going on for you, but Jupiter is the amplifier. I want you to remember that no astrology is inherently good or bad because Jupiter, yes, it's wonderful. it is an amplifier. It is an expander. It is helpful to grow things, but not all growth is good. Right now we're dealing with, um, mold in our washing machine, growing of mold in the washing machine. More mold, not good.

We want less mold, so you have to pay attention to is this something I want to grow? Is this something I want to amplify? So I want you to think about that this week as you set your intentions. And more important, because this is a new moon in cancer and cancer is associated with nourishment, with nurturing, with birthing life. It is the mother, it is the womb. What are you, cultivating?

Right now, what are you taking care of and watering and feeding and making sure that you're watering and feeding and caretaking the energies and the people, and the communities, and the projects and the things that you want to grow, that you want to amplify in your life. So I want you to think about this week.

What feels nurturing and nourishing to me right now, and how can I nurture and cultivate and amplify those parts of my life? If you're on my newsletter email list, you will get my questions that I used for my own New Moon ritual. So I send those out for, you know, the New Moon and the Full Moon. and then for my Yoga students and Cosmic Yoga Club, we do this ritual together. We go through these questions together. So if you're on the email list, you'll get those questions.

It's five questions and then an affirmation that you craft for yourself. Um, if you wanna do that ritual, make sure that you're on the email list and you'll get that information. You'll get those questions each month. and I'll be sharing those today when I post the podcast. So that is. What I recommend doing, sitting down, putting pen to paper and getting really clear on what you wanna nourish, what you wanna nurture, and what things are nourishing and nurturing to you.

Because cancer is about, yes, being the caretaker, but also being taken care of. So I think of cancer season as a great time to drop in and. Put a little bit of your time and energy on how you're taking care of yourself. And I know self-care is a buzzword, but I mean real self-care. I mean, what do you really need so that you can show up? Because if you are not taking the time to take care of yourself, whatever that means to you, you can't show up for the people that you love.

You can't be a caretaker. You can't be, a mother, a partner, a good friend without. Taking care of yourself first, and cancer season is always a reminder to make sure that our cup is full, to make sure that we're feeding ourselves enough and we're getting enough hydration and we're moving our body. and so for me, I am thinking, okay, what do I need to add? What do I need to expand? What do I need? What do I need to amplify? I know that I need to make sure that.

I'm moving my body consciously every day. So yesterday it was the new Moon. I said, okay, it's a new moon in cancer. Cancer is the cardinal water sign. I'm gonna hit the pool and do some laps. That's one of my favorite forms of exercise. Something I did very consistently before having my son. And I need to get back to doing that consistently. 'cause I know that it fills my cup. I know that it makes me feel physically good, mentally good, spiritually good. It does a lot of things for me.

So I know carving out that time and making it happen and getting the car and going to the pool and doing all the annoying stuff and dealing with the parking and blah, blah, blah, blah. That time, it's well worth that work because it expands my energy. So what do you wanna expand? And what do you need to do that?

So just thinking about that this week is really, really useful with this new moon in cancer now getting into the logistics of the New Moon in cancer, you know, again, I really, I don't love this. It's the luckiest day of the year. Oh my goodness. Everything is so wonderful. It's perfect. It's fantastic. Yes. Really wonderful. Beautiful manifestations can come out of. this new Moon, it is one of the best new moons in a long time. Apologies if there is some noise in the background.

My cat is very needy today. we had a two day long void moon Monday and Tuesday. So all day Tuesday, when the sun and Jupiter got together on the 24th, we had to avoid moon. The sun and Jupiter were answering to the moon. And the avoid moon is like the moon being out of service. It's like you're on a back country road and there's no self-service. So the sun and Jupiter and cancer, they're reporting into the moon. That's the planet that rules cancer. And the moon is like, oh. Can't reach the moon.

I'm getting voicemail because she's she's out of, out of service range. So that's kind of how Monday, Tuesday felt. Monday, Tuesday was a little bit, you know, in the fog. We had a heat wave here in New York. It was so perfect to have a heat wave with this long void moon 'cause you just didn't really wanna do anything. And taking action during a void moon can be really, Challenging.

I was thinking a lot about the mayor's race in New York because people are super excited about Zora and Momani, or at least people in my algorithm, my part of the internet. And it does feel like a very big shift. He's very young. He's 33. he will, Be a generational change in terms of, the mayor of New York and brings in a lot of fresh, new ideas. Very exciting in my personal opinion, based on my politics.

whether or not you agree with that, I just was thinking like, okay, so New Moon and cancer, sun, Jupiter, but it was in the dark of the moon that he was announced as the winner. And I'm thinking, yeah, it's great. It's Sun Jupiter conjunction day, and we could chalk it up to that. Yeah, but there's a lot of other things going on in the sky, so why are we putting so much on sun Jupiter? Why are we putting so much on Jupiter and the sun joining together?

I, that's what I was thinking and I'm still thinking it through, and it was a void moon when it was announced. But I wanna say, when you make an intention, when you set an intention like we are setting right now. After the new moon has occurred because you set your intention after the new moon has occurred. The time right before the new moon is the dark of the moon. That's the time for releasing. You don't eat the fruit the day that you plant the seed, right?

You have to those of us, that garden, I am not one of you, but I follow a lot of people on Instagram who do garden, and you planted your seeds for your tomatoes. Months ago, right? And now the tomatoes are coming up and they're almost ready. They're probably pretty green right now, but you can see they're about to burst and ripen and be perfect for your salad. So you don't eat the tomato the day you plant the seed. You plant the seed.

You care for the seed, you care for the plant, you water the soil, you take care of it, you watch it, you give it your love and energy. And then eventually you have a ripe red tomato to enjoy in your summer salad. The Zora Momani thing is like, oh my God, it was a lot of work. He put a lot of work in. He ran a really great campaign. He was doing a lot of innovative things. He was very present with the people of New York City. from what I understand, I'm no longer in New York City.

I'm in Westchester, so I'm a little away from it. But from what I understand from my friends in the city. It was the campaign that they were hearing from the most. He was just the most present in doing outreach. So a lot of that work was taking place over a long time. This gets to my point, new moons are not just, or astrology in general. It is not just what is happening today. It is what has been happening for a while.

So one of my, my first business coach, Rachel Cook, used to say that whatever's going on in your business right now has to do with what you did. Three months ago. So what work did you do three months ago? 'cause now you're actually seeing the, the results. So it's the same thing and the new moon cycle. Yeah, we could look at the moon cycle as four weeks, but I like to actually look at moons through the, perspective of an astrologer named Dietrich Pessin.

And she developed this system with lunar families. This new moon in cancer will be the predecessor to a first quarter moon in cancer nine months from now. And that will be the predecessor to a full moon nine months from then. And that will be the predecessor to a last quarter moon nine months from then. And then finally there will be another new Moon nine months later. And so if you look at the moon cycle from. Her methodology, which I have found to be very, very useful in my own life.

You're looking at a three year cycle, and when I look at this new moon, what I think is so interesting is that this new moon, it is in a square to Saturn and Neptune. And if you've been listening to the podcast the past few weeks, we've been talking about Saturn and Neptune joining together in Aries. Neptune moved into Aries. Weeks ago, and then after that, Saturn joined him.

Saturn and Neptune have been together for three years in Pisces, and now they will continue to be co-present in Aries for three years because Saturn takes three years to move through a sign. It is really very, very big time astrology to have Saturn and Neptune. Together for most of this year, their conjunction will perfect in 2026, but for all intents and purposes, we will be feeling them conjunct this entire year.

And this is the first time in our lifetimes that we have experienced Neptune in Aries. While Saturn joining with Neptune, we have seen, we have not seen them together in Aries. So with that we had the Sun Square Saturn, and then we had the Sun Square Neptune, and that just happened this weekend. So Sun Square Neptune was actually on Monday the 23rd. And the sun squaring Saturn happened on Sunday the 22nd, and that was a lot of what I talked about last week on the podcast.

And feel free to go back and listen to that episode if you haven't, or you can listen again for more on that specifically. But what I wanna say is that the sun. Squaring these two planets that are, you know, moving together, moving. They're so close together. Not quite conjunct, but for all intents and purposes, we are considering them conjunct and the sun squaring them, really illuminated what.

This story of Saturn and Neptune is gonna be for us over the next three years, having these two planets in the sign of Aries, which we have not experienced in our lifetime in this sign. So Aries is a sign of the Warrior. Aries is the sign of the initiator. Aries is the sign of the pioneer. So there's some newness there. So I was thinking about it and I thought, you know, all this work that Zoran Momani put into.

This campaign for the New York City mayoral race to become mayor, and now he is the Democratic nominee. He hasn't won, you know, the mayor's race. He's just gotten himself into the general election, all that work he's done. And that generational shift we're seeing is so much more about. Saturn and Neptune and Aries and the sun squaring those planets than it is about the sun and Jupiter joining together. And that's just my 2 cents. And that's because Aries is associated with being a pioneer.

Aries is associated with the youth, it's associated with young and Young people and the new guard coming in, the retiring of the old guard and bringing in fresh blood. All of that is are, those are Aries themes. The other thing about Aries is that it is war. I mentioned it's the sign of the warrior. It's the sign of war. It's the sign of masculinity, it's the sign of impulsivity, it's the sign of violence. These are all themes that we often see.

See with Aries, it doesn't mean that you are an impulsive, violent person. If you are an Aries. We're talking about mundane astrology, we're talking about the collective energy. I am a person with a ton of Aries in my chart. some of those things apply to me, not all of them. And it's really exciting to see someone young, with fresh ideas whether or not you agree with all of them.

And that freshness, that's that optimism, that excitement, that idealism, that looking to the future, all those things could be considered Aries. You know, Aries is also often looked at as the fool in tarot, the fool. Is dancing off the cliff doesn't even know that the cliff is there because he's so innocent. He's so naive that he doesn't realize anything bad can happen to him, and that is in alignment with the. Archetype of Aries. You know, this idea of Aries is the first Zodiac sign.

It doesn't know to be scared, so it raises its hand and says, Hey, I'll go first. And that braveness, that disregard for, any possible risk is inspiring to other people. And maybe it doesn't always work out, but the risk taking itself is. Invigorating. So that's what I have to say about, you know, that whole thing going on. And I've just been watching it and thinking about it. And I wanted to say a few words about it, and I now, I rambled a lot, but I hope it was interesting to you.

We're gonna get into the astrology more deeply now. so the new moon is in a square. To Saturn, Neptune. So what I do like about this new moon, you want to utilize this energy. So again, we're not looking for the astrology to make something happen. The planets don't do things. People do things. We harness the energy and we utilize it. And you're listening to this podcast so that you can dictate your fate.

You can harness that energy and put it in a direction that you want to amplify into a place that you want to grow. there are lots of people Out there that are, you know, not conscious. And so they're experiencing this energy and they're growing things that maybe they don't want to grow. so we saw that with this. bombing happening in Iran and all the things happening in the Middle East right now, and we see war growing.

There was something I saw about, are we in World War III and we don't even know it yet. That would be quite neptunian, because Neptune is the fog, Neptune is illusions and delusions. So there is growth in parts of the world that we don't wanna see. There is suffering that is growing. We do not wanna see that. So again, astrology is not inherently good or bad. It's neutral energy, and we are harnessing it for our own purposes.

And you're listening to this podcast so that you can harness it for positive purposes in your own life and for your community. So the New Moon conjunct Jupiter, squaring Saturn, Neptune, and Aries. What I will say is that with all those planets and cardinal signs, cancer being the cardinal water sign, Aries being the cardinal fire sign, there's a feeling of initiation. There's a feeling of starting of a fresh start.

So regardless of everything I just said, myth busting, everything else that you're seeing on Instagram or TikTok, I do love this new moon. There is a feeling of freshness. There is a feeling of whatever you are putting your energy toward. With this new Moon, we'll be growing and evolving not only the next four weeks, not only the next nine months until the first quarter Moon in cancer that is associated with this New Moon.

Based on the methodology I recommend, But also for the next three years, because as I said, if you look at the Lunar family, this will take us to the New Moon three years from now. So think about what you want to be growing and evolving over the next three years. We just got our school schedule for my son and he's starting preschool in September, which is wild. And. It was so exciting to receive that.

I received it Monday and the sun was of course, squaring Neptune, and it was very much that feeling of, oh my God, this is what the next. Few years of our life is gonna be like, because he's starting preschool. He'll be in preschool for three years before he goes into kindergarten. So you know, he's starting in the twos program. Then next year will be the threes and then it'll be the fours, and then when he's five, he'll go to kindergarten.

And I was thinking, oh my goodness, here we are, new moon and cancer is arriving. We have the sun squaring these. Planet's newly in Aries. This is a new three year cycle and for the first time I'm sitting here looking at a school schedule and quickly realize that there are a lot of days that he's gonna be off. So, you know, just taking in that we are preparing for a new phase of life and that phase of life will be happening for three years. And so think about in your own life what will be.

Happening for the next three years. Where do you want your energy and your focus and your time and your resources to be spent? And it should be somewhere where you want growth, where you want abundance, where you want to be invested. the other thing about this New Moon is that it also bringing in the energy of this yod, so yods are fingers of God. They're also cons. They're often considered fated, and.

That means that there's something in the chart that's being looked at that's being pointed at, and the universe really wants us to move toward it in some way, shape, or form. This new moon with Jupiter, because they're operating as one, the sun, the moon, and Jupiter, we're all together on Tuesday. At Four Degrees Cancer, so you know that if you have anything at Four Degrees Cancer or Four Degrees Aries or Libra, or Capricorn, those are the cardinal signs.

Then this New Moon was pretty profound for you. The New Moon and Jupiter. Were in a textile to Mars in Virgo Mars, newly in Virgo. This is also a fresh feeling, Mars, because as I said last week, we had Mars stuck in cancer and Leo since last September, which was a crazy long. He had a crazy long retrograde, which means that he was stuck in the same signs for a really long time. So we finally have Mars feeling fresh, feeling good. He's excited to get things organized.

He's excited to put some new systems in place. And the New Moon with Jupiter is working with that Mars, which is really nice. So if you need to work on your schedule, if you need to work on creating some new systems, if you need to organize yourself, great New Moon to set an intention around that. But the New Moon and Jupiter, along with Mars are both making what we call an in conjunct or a Quin ConX to Pluto. So Pluto is what that finger of God is pointing at. Pluto is an Aquarius.

I talked about it a ton last year. We had Pluto move into Aquarius in November and. Day there since 2022, he's been going back and forth Aquarius, back to Capricorn, and then into Aquarius again. We finally have Pluto in Aquarius, and he's getting activated by this new Moon and by this Mars. And so Pluto and Aquarius is at the beginning of a 20 year journey. He is helping us figure out what is humanity going to look like in 20 years? How is AI and technology going to impact our society?

How do we want to use AI and technology? These are questions that we're asking with Pluto and Aquarius. 'cause Aquarius associated with technology, it's also associated with, humanities. Social activism, revolutions and rebels, people rising up, people joining together to be a source of power. Pluto was an Aquarius during the French Revolution. We see a lot of themes happening in modern day America that are very similar.

Pluto was also an Aquarius during our American Revolution, so the American Revolution was still going on. When Pluto entered Aquarius, it didn't. Finish until Pluto is at eight degrees Aquarius. So we are still in our Pluto return as a country. I really feel like I'm getting in the weeds today, but the New Moon is just touching on all these very intense things.

And so one of the reasons I think that this New Moon does feel so potent, does feel very powerful is because it is touching so many of these. Outer planets in the chart that are in new signs and creating new cycles and We are in the process of creating new patterns. So the things that you're doing right now are going to create new grooves. New patterns that you fall into, that you get used to, not just you personally, but also collectively.

That's why we have to be very, very aware and conscious and cognizant of how we are taking in information, what information we're believing. We're seeing a lot of deep fakes and AI generated images and videos, particularly when it comes to current events, particularly when it comes to the Middle East, particularly when it comes to what's going on in this country in terms of immigration and people being kidnapped and disappeared without due process.

So we have to be very careful about the information that we're taking in, where we're getting that information and. How we spread that information. So all of those things are themes that we're working with with Pluto in Aquarius, this new Moon along with Mars creating that finger of God pointing at Pluto and saying, the things you're doing right now, the intentions you're setting, where you're placing your energy, it will be.

something that directs towards your transformation in this 20 year cycle of Pluton Aquarius, we don't necessarily know how it's gonna turn out, right? We don't have complete control because other people do things right. We live in a world where we are in relationships to other people, and we not only set intentions and go out and make good on them, we also respond and react to what other people do. And the choices that they make.

So we don't have complete control, but we know that Pluto is a planet that brings into the field of consciousness, this idea of control and power, as well as the abuse of power. So knowing that, knowing that we're working with, this new Moon in cancer, early degrees of cancer squaring Saturn and Neptune, and early degrees of Aries, this is a new start. This is a fresh start, and what you put your mind and energy and resources into at this time will have.

A lasting, and perhaps one might say faded impact on this journey with Pluto and Aquarius over the next 20 years. So you are in this moment crafting your destiny. You are dictating your fate. So choose wisely, be mindful and. Don't let that be a burden, let that be a privilege. Sometimes when the astrology is like this, we can be like, oh my God, I wanna make the right choice. I don't wanna mess up.

All the experiences that we have in our life are helpful in our path of growth, and the only thing you can do is. Pay close attention to the messages that you're getting. Do your best to tune into your intuition and make the best next right step. And that's all we can do. That's all any of us can do. Because we're not working. We don't know the future. We're not working with a crystal ball. So. That is what I have to say about the

New Moon. I wanted to also just mention that as we move through the week on Thursday, the 26th, that's today actually, we have, mercury moving into Leo. So Mercury will be leaving cancer and entering Leo. So what's nice about this is that Mercury in Leo, it. Helps us speak from a place of passion. It is playful, it is social. It wants to have a good time, it wants to be seen. So this is nice going into the summer. It's a good Mercury, and Leo is, it's time to have a little bit of fun.

Mercury and cancer expresses itself through feelings and Mercury and Leo expresses itself through I. Passion. And excitement, also feelings, but just more exuberant, more expressive. So that is fun. And then we have Mercury making a trine to Neptune on Saturday, which is really nice for creative endeavors. So if you have some time on Saturday to be creative, whatever creative means to you, that is gonna be a good day to lean into it. So if you're a writer, right?

If you're a dancer, dance, if you feel creative when you. go for a nice walk, then go for a nice walk, whatever it is, getting in the bath. If that's where you feel your creative spark, then get in the bath, whatever it is. But Mercury is in Leo. The fixed fire sign, Neptune is in Aries, the Cardinal fire sign, I. Very passionate. So follow what excites you on Saturday the 28th. On Sunday the 29th, we will have Mercury again in Leo opposite Pluto.

Mercury opposite Pluto is great for strategic work, so if you've gotta sit down and figure something out, so great day for working on a puzzle. It's a great day for working on something that you just, you gotta kind of. Get into and figure out and get underneath it and understand all the parts. That can be helpful early next week as we move to the 30th. On the first we have, the moon going from Virgo to Libra rather. And then the moon will oppose that. Saturn and Neptune newly in Aries.

so we'll be feeling that Saturn, Neptune on Tuesday, Canada Day, happy Canada Day to all our Canadian listeners. and then I'll be back, next week

to talk more. There's not a ton going on next week until we get to July 4th weekend actually, where there's a lot happening on July 4th. so I have been falling into this. pattern of recording on Wednesday and getting it up Thursday this week. I'm recording on Thursday, getting it up. Hopefully today, Thursday, and this was a long one. I did a lot of rambling. Apologies for that. I hope something I said was useful.

I've been getting in the pattern of recording midweek, so I hope that's working for you guys and feel free to send me messages. You can email me Veronica, at. Veronicaperretti.com and let me know your preferred schedule. I will try to make it happen. I do notice that a lot more people seem to listen when I put it out on Sunday or Monday, but it just hasn't been working for me in my own life to get it out on those days. Make sure you're on the email list.

I have conver cosmic conversation coming up on Monday. Join me and come talk astrology with me. We'll talk about what's going on in the world. I'll answer questions. If you have astrology questions, bring them. I'll talk to you next week and I hope something in my ramble was helpful to you. All right, bye.