CANCER NEW MOON LUNASCOPE
BELONGING
WEDNESDAY 25TH JUNE 2025
10:31 (BST)
Happy Cancer New Moon today.
Although the recent Sagittarius Full Moon tried to restore some balance, it’s clear that the world is tipping further out of it.
Sometimes the pendulum needs to swing to extremes before it can find its centre, and this Cancer New Moon continues that swing by stirring up deep questions around belonging.
It brings the focus back to the importance of home, family, and healthy boundaries, by igniting our instinct to protect what makes us feel familiar and safe.
The Cancer New Moon is bringing important questions to the surface for us to ponder during this lunar cycle:
What does it really mean to belong?
How important are our roots, to feel we belong?
Where do we feel truly safe and secure?
Adding intensity to this New Moon is a challenging square to Chiron, the “wounded healer,” currently in Aries, the sign of self-determination, identity, and independence.
This alignment may intensify feelings of vulnerability, isolation, or defensiveness. Especially around belonging, and feeling safe, because it can bring up old wounds linked to past experiences of being excluded, rejected or unseen.
If painful memories or emotions are resurfacing, especially the ones you thought were already healed, don't worry, you are not regressing. It’s just the Cancer New Moon clearing out any lingering echoes still floating in your unconscious.
It can also intensify the natural instinct to defend our sense of “home,” not just in a physical sense, but also ensuring your personal space is private.
You may find that during this Moon cycle any suppressed issues with neighbours, community or your family, may now have to be dealt with.
However, Cancer's watery wisdom offers a different perspective. It can help us be more emotionally intelligent by showing us where our defence mechanisms have become harmful, and gently reminding us to come back to our hearts, and find compassion.
This Cancer New Moon brings a deeper invitation to acknowledge the pain of separation, without perpetuating it. It reminds us we don' t need to hold on to the victim story, take full responsibility for our actions, and choose a more emotionally mature path.
It is urging us to look at what kind of world are we actually building, and if we are creating a place that values empathy, safety, and shared belonging.
On a more personal note, this New Moon is asking you if you feel safe calling this world home? If not, what needs to change in you, and around you, to make that possible?
Because in order to restore any real sense of balance, this Cancer New Moon can help us cultivate a deeper sense of belonging by feeling more worthy, self-accepting, and I am enough.
A Shamanic New Moon Ritual to help you stay connected - the Full Moon energy is potent the day before, the day of the Full Moon, and the day after.
The recent month, or even years, may have brought deep shifts, leaving many of us wondering where we now stand, leaving us with questions such as:
Where do I belong?
What is my role?
What are my unique gifts?
How can I offer them in a meaningful way?
The Cancer New Moon is an ideal time to pause and reconnect with these questions. Cancer, as a sign, is rooted in emotion, memory, family, and the sense of “home,” not just the place, but the feeling.
It’s a moment to turn inward, away from the noise of the outside world, and reflect on what makes us feel safe, seen, and connected.
Find a quiet space where you can be undisturbed for a short time.
Start by holding a mirror up to your face and gazing gently into your own eyes. Not critically, but openly. Let your focus rest there, not on your appearance, but on what lies behind it. If you stay with it, your mind will likely begin to quiet. In that stillness, your heart can speak. You may not hear words, but you might sense something deeper, and feel truths rising from beneath the surface.
Ask yourself the questions that have been stirring within you, or use these as prompts:
Where do I truly belong?
What makes me feel safe?
What am I here to contribute?
What parts of myself have I been hiding, and why?
Accept whatever the wisdom and clarity that comes bubbling, from your unconscious, even if it’s unexpected. Sometimes our gifts and roles look different than what we imagined.
New Moons are the best time to sow new seeds of intention, so when you feel ready, take a pen and write a list of what you wish to call in. These are not goals in the traditional sense, but intentions of what you need to feel you belong.
Write them clearly and with purpose, and after each one, say aloud: “May it be so.” Let that phrase seal your intention with confidence, as if it’s already in motion.
Once you’ve completed your list, place it on your altar. As each intention is manifested, cross it off your list.
Finally, close the ritual with a moment of gratitude. Give thanks for everything that brought you to this point, even the difficult parts. Gratitude roots us, reminds us of what’s already present, and helps us meet the unknown with more resilience and peace.
I will end this Lunascope with the wise words of Bene Brown:
{“Because true belonging only happens when we present our authentic, imperfect selves to the world, our sense of belonging can never be greater than our level of self-acceptance.”
Bene Brown