Sunlight pours through blooming honeysuckle and wild roses, capturing the golden warmth and lush abundance of Summer Solstice.

The Longest Light: Summer Solstice and the Spirit of Cancer Season

Woman lying in sunlit summer grass, eyes closed in warmth and reverie.
The Sun lingers. Let yourself linger too.

Today, the Sun lingers.

He pauses in his journey, as if the heavens themselves are holding their breath. This is the longest light—the fullness of gold before the great turning inward begins again.

And here you are: open, alive, brimming with possibility.

Today the Sun moves into Cancer, and the warmth of the familiar wants to spread your arms wide to include something or someone new. With this fresh and gorgeous Cancer lens, there’s sweet longing to expand the heart’s circle. You might feel the nudge to gather your people close. To express your love in bigger, bolder ways. To feel them brighter, yet still long to keep them safe.

Within your circle, you might also feel a burning to shift the shape of your family dynamics, your relationships, your very definition of belonging – because you feel yourself growing and expanding toward something you might not yet know the shape of. But the urge to explore it is real.

Red-haired woman running through a sunlit summer field, barefoot and free, hair flying like wildfire—alive with purpose and joy
Answer the Sun’s invitation to bloom in full, erotic aliveness.

This is a moment to feel. To let your sensitivity guide you. Let light seep into every corner of your desire to be alive and whole and lush. Summer ignites an understanding of the eros of life—that creativity is erotic.

The Sun and Jupiter in tandem proclaim:
More is possible.
More love.
More truth.
More safety in your own skin.

A part of you may feel wide open to the “more.” You may answer the call because you feel an urge to sort your space, to clear the table and name what you’re ready to do next. You may feel called to bring order to your outer world, because of some clarity that wasn’t there last week. Or maybe your focus sharpens around how you show up for others, what you give, and how to make it count. You suddenly recognize how you want to show up to serve in the world – and you’re feeling the need to assess what that means and how it’s possible. The challenges that arise are the ignition and the motivation. Let them light you up. Let them call you.

Within that light, that calling, is a beautiful ache—a knowing that change doesn’t always require chaos. Sometimes it only takes a turn of the dial, a conscious clearing of what has overstayed, and the future rushes in like light through an opened door.

The dreams you’ve whispered to stars?
They want your hands.
They want your structure.

And even if your heart trembles a little at their bigness,
you are more than ready to hold them.

Let today be your still point.
Your sunlit center.
The place you pause, just long enough, to feel the light of what’s arriving.

A beam of joy.
A living solstice.
The day that doesn’t end.

Open journal on a windowsill with sheer curtains blowing in golden twilight, symbolizing intention, breath, and quiet new beginnings.

NEW MOON IN GEMINI – MAY 26, 2025

A woman in black sits at a candlelit table, her chin resting thoughtfully on her hand, a book open before her—contemplative, luminous, and still
🌀 Speak it—not for the world, but for yourself. This New Moon is a quiet invocation.
A candle. A sentence. A becoming.

Speak the Dream Aloud

This is not a whispering Moon. Not this time.

The Sun and Moon hold hands in Gemini while Mercury—their shared ruler—sends a clear signal to Pluto: Change is not polite. It is inevitable. This New Moon doesn’t ask for permission to dream. It commands it. It insists on articulation. The words you choose now might be the spell that shifts your entire trajectory.

Mercury trine Pluto:
deep thoughts, transformative words

Gemini Moon:
restless heart, quicksilver spirit

Saturn and Neptune in Aries sextile this whole ensemble, whispering:
Make it real. But make it beautiful. And make it mine.

Let the ritual be simple. Let it be true.


🌙 A SPELL FOR THE NEW MOON IN GEMINI

Light a candle. Take a pen.
Write down one thing you want to say aloud before the Summer begins.

Not something safe. Something true.

Now speak it—even if it’s only to the flame.

You’re not just declaring it to the world. You’re declaring it to yourself.
And to the stars that might be listening.


A Blessing to Close:

May your voice carry.
May your words find the shape of the life they’re building.
And may every truth you dare to name be the seed of your becoming.

🌀 This New Moon is not for silence. Speak, beloved. Speak the dream aloud.

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As always, when my beautiful clients reach out to me to share the progress they’re making on this journey that is LIFE, I’m reminded how very much I love my work and why I’ve been doing it for so long. I truly love to help others recognize and pursue the best in themselves! And I realize all over again how fortunate I am to be one of the lucky ones who gets to do what I love in the world, and see it come back me in so many amazing and inspiring ways. I am so very grateful!

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And now, I just want to share it with you.

“Michelle is a beautiful friend and mentor. As a master astrologer, she has helped me to see my life as the unique, messy, and wonderful adventure that it can be. As a therapist, she has gently and intuitively guided me into making better decisions, despite my stubborn resistance. With Michelle’s help, I have had the courage to start a new business, improve my family relationships, and finally let go of a destructive, twenty-year long alcohol addiction, something that seemed utterly impossible. Michelle is in tune with the magic of the universe, and she is a powerful force for good in this world!”

~Joan Bacot

Thank you so much Joany for writing, and to each of you here on this page, thank you for reading!

Michelle Gregg / Counseling Astrologer / astrology@michellegregg

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