The Solstice and the Jupiter Cazimi

Emotional healing amidst a global crisis

Summer Solstice 2025

This season is alive with fertile cosmic potential. With Jupiter in Cancer, we are witnessing a year of abundance especially as it concerns home, family and emotional safety. What do you want to birth into the world?

Let’s start the celebration of the year’s longest day:

This year’s Summer Solstice arrives on Friday, June 20 at 7:42 PM PT, as the Sun reaches 0° Cancer—the point of year where the Sun passes directly over the Tropic of Cancer, reaching its most northerly possible position (23 degrees 27 minutes north of the equator) and bringing maximum daylight to the Northern Hemisphere.

The Summer Solstice is always symbolically significant, marking the midpoint of the tropical or solar year (using the Winter Solstice as the starting point) and the moment when the Sun is bringing its longest duration of light in the Northern Hemisphere before light exposure begins to wane in the second half of the solar year heading into the Winter Solstice.

In astrological terms, this not only puts the Sun’s power but also its archetypes on full display. Consider the fact that our cognition is generally sharper during the daytime when the Sun is out, and we tend to have more energy as well. The Sun literally brings us energy and also symbolizes clarity, vitality, reasoning as well as creative expression.

Therefore, during the Summer Solstice we are basking in the Sun’s revitalizing influences and celebrating the abundance it affords. Using the Winter Solstice as a starting point, we can also argue that the Summer Solstice is the midpoint of the year from a Solar perspective—the peak of sunlight, and therefore a “manifestation moment” in-of-itself, like a climax in the Sun’s cycle. This makes it appropriate to celebrate our achievements dating back to the darkest night on the Winter Solstice. It is an ideal moment also to reflect on what has been illuminated, what has grown, and what demands adjustment before the Sun’s light duration begins to lessen over the ensuing 6 months.

I promise I don’t hate the Southern Hemisphere

Let me pause here and address those of you in the Southern Hemisphere. Yes, you are experiencing the Winter Solstice right now and therefore the significations are reversed. But you might be wondering, “is Evan reflecting his ‘Northern Hemispheric Bias’ by framing this article around the Summer Solstice?” No! Rather, Western Tropical Astrology was developed in regions of the world that were located in the Northern Hemisphere. In fact, the meanings ascribed to the zodiac signs derive from the seasonal cycles in the Northern Hemisphere.

Let’s look at two obvious examples: Aries and Libra. Aries is zestful and initiatory precisely because it represents the birth of the Spring season, while Libra is beginning to thoughtfully balance the scales as we reflect on the impending winter. These meanings hold true regardless of where on Earth someone is born. Aries Suns born in Australia, for instance, would still reference the significations of Aries. Yes, it seems suspect, but the Tropical Zodiac is inherently Northern Hemispheric due to the geographic position of the astrologers conceiving of it thousands of years ago. This is honestly one huge reason why I always advocate for prioritizing planetary aspects over zodiac signs.

Nevertheless, in my experience, conducting readings for people from the Southern Hemisphere still yields consistent results when applying the original meanings of the zodiac signs. It is truly one of the most confounding things, but again I truly believe that the interaction between planets accounts for about 80% of the meaning in someone’s birth chart and that the zodiac signs themselves are more so contextual background. (For example, I know someone with Mercury in Leo, however, they are about as Geminian as it gets because Mercury is on their Ascendant! The Mercury conjunction to the Ascendant makes them Mercurial more than it makes them a “fixed fire” Mercury which in theory would be less agile than Mercury in Gemini or Virgo). That said, I understand that the planetary rulerships also stem from the original meaning of the signs. I’m not arguing we throw out the zodiac signs — I’m just saying that the aspects hold a lot more weight than most astrologers believe.

Defining Traits of this Year’s Solstice

This year’s Solstice is marked by a noteworthy set of planetary configurations that elevate its importance. The Moon, exalted at 0° Taurus, forms a sextile to the Cancer Sun, grounding the moment with emotional steadiness and the potential for fruitful, tangible reflection. With Venus also in Taurus and Jupiter exalted in Cancer, the chart is saturated with receptive, feminine, and fertile symbolism. This would normally suggest abundance, pleasure, and emotional safety. It would be a nice Solstice for gathering as a group around a plentiful meal. These gatherings can also strengthen bonds between friends, a community or a family. Those of you with Chiron in Cancer can have especially profound healing experiences in your family.

However, complicating this otherwise lush tableau is the square from the Sun to both Saturn and Neptune in Aries. These aspects act as a set of cautions. Sun square Saturn highlights the cost of growth and the limits imposed by responsibility, especially in the realms of parenting, institutions, and social pressures. Sun square Neptune introduces confusion, idealism, or the yearning for transcendence, often at odds with Saturnian realism.

This square from the Sun to Saturn and Neptune can feel like a dilemma: What responsibilities am I agreeing to, and do these responsibilities live up to the ideal conception of my life? Or perhaps we attain the emotional safety we’ve been looking for but now we realize that we now have to take on certain responsibilities as a next step.

The Fateful Double Yod…

There’s also the matter of two active Yods (sometimes referred to as the "Finger of God"), involving Mars, Pluto, Neptune, and Jupiter. These formations are rare, uncomfortable, and often mark periods of unpredictable intervention, divine or otherwise. Yods are notable for the two inconjuncts involved. Inconjuncts are 150 degree angles between planets, akin to someone interjecting with a non sequitur during a group conversation. The energies aren’t entirely opposed nor are they in agreement — they are simply different. When it happens twice in the same configuration, it’s sort of like if you were to apply two different types of force to the same object until eventually something gives or pops. I also like to conceive of it as a knot or tangled cables (like tangled headphone cables after an overseas flight). This entanglement stems from generations of people in one’s family making contradictory decisions or taking incongruent pathways in life. It’s therefore up to the individual to disentangle the energies. And fated, bizarre events can be the catalyst towards disentanglement.

In mundane astrology, Yods point to fateful inflection points that begrudgingly have to resolve the awkward conundrum. There’s a sense that something has to be resolved lest we subject ourselves any longer to the discordant sounds.

Let’s unpack this particular double yod which is forming for the next couple of days. One Yod, connecting Mars in Virgo, Pluto in Aquarius, and Jupiter in Cancer, speaks to technological acceleration clashing with emotional priorities or safety and security needs in the job market.

The second Yod, involving Mars, Neptune, Saturn and Pluto, raises some concerns about military intervention particularly on misleading grounds. Mars and Pluto are involved in both of these fateful Yods, conjuring themes of aggression and forceful, power-hungry action. In previous Pluto cycles, Pluto in Aquarius coincides with advancements in weapons technologies, which in this Yod might put the spotlight on a new type of militaristic weapon being deployed in a global conflict (at the moment, there is an intense focus on the U.S.’s “bunker busting” capabilities).

In the fall of 2024 I highlighted this double yod in all of my 2025 Horoscope videos even though it may seem like a brief, subtle configuration to some from a mundane perspective. But back then I saw it as a significant turning point either in global conflicts or with AI, or both. On the one hand, my psychic senses tell me that a tech company is currently sitting with a new AI model that could be highly disruptive to society, and another part of my brain is wondering if this configuration instead connects to what’s unfolding between Iran, Israel and the U.S. Indeed, Pluto is opposing the WW2 Pluto which I’ve called out in a series of videos dating back to 2022. Pluto rules nuclear power, and WW2 was brought to a close due to the use of nuclear weapons. Therefore, it’s not surprising that nuclear weaponry would be at the center of the tension right now, with much of the discussion pertaining to Iran’s nuclear capabilities.

Astrology is not destiny, however. It merely reveals to us the themes. We still have the power to promote peace and to remember that separateness is an illusion. I’d like to take this moment to send love to all those who are feeling overtaken by more negative emotions. Love powers the universe, and love is ubiquitous, we just have to open our hearts to it.

To summarize, while this Solstice invites us to acknowledge growth and reconnect with what nurtures us, it does so under the long shadow of necessary sacrifice, spiritual disillusionment, and global instability. Start by nurturing and cherishing those closest to you. May it send ripple events that reach every war-torn corner of the world.

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JUPITER CAZIMI — June 24, 2025

On June 24 at 8:17 AM PT, the Sun and Jupiter form a conjunction at 3° Cancer, supercharging Jupiter’s themes of growth, wisdom, and vision. This is known as a Cazimi because Jupiter symbolically enters the “heart of the Sun” upon this alignment.

This is the first Sun–Jupiter conjunction since last May, which took place in Taurus. Notably, the Sun and Jupiter skipped a conjunction in Gemini entirely this cycle, which is okay to be honest because Jupiter is in detriment in Gemini. Now, exalted in Cancer, we see Jupiter’s influence turned toward matters of home, belonging, legacy, and emotional safety.

Jupiter is exalted in Cancer, emphasizing expansion through care. Its themes are familial, ancestral, it effects often therapeutic. Since this is more of a welcoming, receptive energy, I would argue this isn’t really the Cazimi to say “I want more, more more” of some external thing. The invitation is to articulate where your emotional scaffolding needs reinforcing. It’s revealing the importance of connecting with our roots and creating an emotional safe space within our home or among our family (or those who are akin to family). We need to ensure our own cup is replenished so that we can see that we belong and that we have adequate support. From there, we can harness the Saturn square and manifest something in our external environment. But it’s definitely not the time to put the cart before the horse.

This Cazimi holds promise because it can imbue us with a sense of appreciation and gratitude for those who either brought us into the world, raised us, or who have supported us in the absence of family. Besides, manifestation through Jupiter is less about acquisition and more about integrating wisdom or a broader perspective that thereby reveals the opportunities. In this instance, that might mean forgiving a parent, opening your home (or your heart) to others, or reimagining what security looks like in unstable times. This may even be a fertile time literally, with more conceptions or births occurring.

I’ll be back tomorrow with a Cancer New Moon horoscopes and manifestation guide for paid Subsribers. Stay tuned!…