Mercury in Cancer ☿ 2024

artist: Käthe Butcher

June 17 – July 2, 2024

Mercury rules the mind, thoughts, communication, and social world. For the last week, Mercury has been spinning “at home” in Gemini. This transit brings significant movement and activity each year. You may move to a new place, for example, or end an important relationship. New plans are in order. We are now connecting with new friends or reconnecting with old ones. We’re feeling lighter now, freer, more open and optimistic. Gemini also conjures anxiety and nervous energy, so we’re learning not just how to use this wind to our advantage, but also how to tame it, how to calm the mind, relax, breathe deeply.

The summer solstice is nearly upon us my friends. Astrologically speaking that means we are entering Cancer Season.

Cancer is the season of healing, when the mind synchronizes with the heart, when the heart whispers to the mind what they have both known to be true all along.

The crab represents home, belonging, roots, and family. With Mercury in Cancer, the mind wanders softly to the past, to home, to family. This is a cathartic and deeply emotional cycle. Conversation will center on home and childhood.

Cancer is a gentle archetype. The crab is a perfectly happy domesticated creature, a homebody, a cat lover. She is sweet as summertime rain; protective, prudent. Her waters soothe and nurture. As the oracle of healthy self-talk, she will help us carefully yet earnestly ask ourselves the hard questions. This transit lives in the heartbeat; listen closely.

emotional freedom ~ honesty ~ peace ~ openness ~ love ~ understanding ~ healing

This cycle is most favorable for people with natal planets/points in Cancer, Scorpio, Pisces, Taurus, and Virgo.

June 17 (1st day of transit): Venus also enters Cancer // Mercury & Venus form a conjunction. Things are moving and shifting quickly. We don’t know what comes next, but it is social in nature. Connecting with others lifts the heart. Healing & bonding. Gold star day.

June 20: Summer Solstice 

June 26: Mercury trine Saturn in Pisces. Active day; grounding & stabilizing.

July 2 (last day of transit): 1st day of Neptune Retrograde in Pisces + Mercury trine Neptune Rx. Slow and sleepy. Deceit and illusion percolate. Mega water vibes. Guard your energy closely. Don’t take anything at face value. Best course of action: wait it out. No moves.

If you were born with Mercury in Cancer, this is your annual Mercury Return. To find your personal Mercury sign, click here.