Read your horoscope for Mercury in Cancer
Words from the Heart
When Mercury, our cosmic messenger, slips into the subtle streams of Cancer from June 26th until July 10th, we’re plunged into a world of nostalgia, memory, and heartfelt transmissions. During these weeks, it’s harder to parse where our thoughts begin and our deepest emotions end as we flex our inner armchair psychologist on our friends, lovers, and colleagues alike. Or reparent ourselves in journal entries. Or call in the pet psychic for our goldfish’s fit of melancholy. In this watery sign, intuition trumps logic and we are more attuned than ever to what’s being communicated by a weighty pause, a hand on the back, or a catch in the throat.
Emotional Check-in Express
As a pipeline opens between the head and the heart, we excel in emotional check-ins, reading the room, and finishing our bestie’s sentences. Compassion floods the channels, allowing our words and insights to bring a soothing balm exactly when needed. Just remember to test the waters before offering your diagnosis of a deeply-felt situation or airing your own emotional laundry. Something as simple as asking if your listener has the capacity for a conversation will ensure that boundaries are kept water-tight.
In Cancer, the messenger doesn’t shy from stating what it needs to feel safe, nurtured, or secure — so bring your words (and an extra spoonful of vulnerability) to any relationship or dynamic that feels off-kilter. Pour your heart out to a stranger on a train. Write intricately folded letters to your friends, like it’s middle school again. Cover your bathroom mirror in post-it notes of affirmation. And don’t leave home without a travel pack of tissues or your favorite heirloom handkerchief.
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The following horoscopes were written by Stephanie Warner.
Aries & Aries Rising
As Mercury enters Cancer, your thoughts will turn to the people, places, and practices that form your sense of belonging. Whether you’re dusting off a grandparent’s cookbook, gathering trimmings for a chosen family scrapbook, or getting cozy with a crossword puzzle in your favorite room, let your mind be stimulated by everything close to home.
This is a time when you’re especially attuned to nostalgia, memory, and the ancestral stories imprinted on your mind as well as your heart. It’s a great moment to start penning your memoirs or conducting a deep dive into the history of the land you inhabit. For every question that surfaces about your roots, a mental adventure awaits.
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Taurus & Taurus Rising
As Mercury enters Cancer, your curiosity will be piqued when you venture outside your home, so make sure to pack a journal for your field notes. And a satchel to collect bits of beach glass, smooth river stones, or stray feathers that hold an emotional charge for you.
Whether you’re filming the mating dance of pigeons or letting overheard conversations fill the spaces in your poems, let your neighborhood be your muse. And if strangers spilling their hearts to you at the bus stop gets to be too much, excuse yourself into a good book or favorite podcast
By reframing your daily commute or walks around the block as opportunities to learn, you’ll never run out of writing material — or mental stimulation.
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Gemini & Gemini Rising
As Mercury enters Cancer, you’ll be buzzing with ideas about rubbing your two coins together. Whether you’re dowsing for new income streams, monetizing a hidden talent, or exploring ways to invest in yourself — let your intuition guide you.
While you’re creating spreadsheets or firing up that new money-tracking app, there’s a deeper story unfolding. You’ll have an opportunity to rewrite scarcity narratives or generational shame around discussing money with something more compassionate. If you get to the emotional roots of your spending habits and financial hang-ups, your hacks and tricks will be sure to stick.
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Cancer & Cancer Rising
As Mercury enters Cancer, it’s your party and you’ll cry if you want to. Now is the time to probe the way you show up in the world. To parse your deeper emotions around speaking your truth and advocating for yourself with your words. Whether you’re revising your website’s bio, booking a haircut, or adding another piece to an ongoing tattoo, explore your selfhood.
Even as you edit and adjust your outer layers, make sure to bring your focus inward too. Your inner voice will have much to say, but it’s up to you to hold the space for its transmissions. By carving out time each day for a body scan, a guided meditation, or a pilgrimage to the nearest waterfront, you’ll become your own best friend.
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Leo & Leo Rising
As Mercury enters Cancer, you’ll be an ideas factory when it comes to tricks and hacks that support your sacred sleep. Whether you take a long evening bath with your most soothing podcast or prepare an herbal brew to usher you into dreamland, let your intuition guide all of your nocturnal interventions.
You’re also ready to wrangle your most feral thought patterns — the ones keeping you up past your bedtime. And if your mind continues to churn well after dark, journal through the maze of your most challenging mental loops. By inviting the monsters under the bed for a conversation, you might be surprised at how easily they’re defanged.
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Virgo & Virgo Rising
As Mercury enters Cancer, your mental focus will shift to your friends, collective causes, and audiences. Whether you’re using your platform to circulate infographics on issues close to your heart or trading notes on your messiest feelings in the group chat, the hivemind will help clarify your brainwaves.
Active listening in all your group settings will be a powerful ally too, so approach every conference, poetry slam, or chinwag at the watercooler as an opportunity to learn. Don’t be afraid to communicate your boundaries if your sudden popularity as an unofficial confidant to your friends starts draining your cup.
When you workshop your dreams with your cohort, the network of compassionate accountability you create will get you there faster.
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Libra & Libra Rising
As Mercury enters Cancer, your mind will be racing about your career and larger legacy. It’s not enough that your professional path makes sense on paper; you want it to resonate on a gut level too.
This need to bring more sincerity and care to your industry could extend to all your work communications too, so don’t be afraid to adjust your emails for tone or to add a dash of vulnerability to your PowerPoint presentation. Extend your feelers into every meeting and gather the more subtle subtext between the bullet points. If you need a pep talk in the parking lot to carry you through your meetings, be your own cheerleader too.
By modeling compassion and emotional intelligence in the public world, you’ll be leading by example.
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Scorpio & Scorpio Rising
As Mercury enters Cancer, your mind will want something to chew that’s as profound as it is emotionally immersive. So, trust the topics that tug at your heartstrings and the long-term plans that feel right on a gut level. If a learning quest has been going through the motions, it’s time to let your intuition take the reins.
Whether this means deep-diving into a research area that has real stakes or plotting a backpacking adventure to your ancestral lands, make sure that you have some actual skin in the game. By feeling your way through these mysteries, you’ll uncover insights you weren’t actively looking for.
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Sagittarius & Sagittarius Rising
As Mercury enters Cancer, your spidey senses will be tingling when it comes to loans, grants, patrons, and crowdfunding opportunities. Feel your way into the subclauses of every contract and check in with yourself regarding potential collaborators and business partners. If something seems too good to be true, it probably is, but do your background research too.
In the end, whatever merger leaves you feeling unsafe or dysregulated, say “Thank you — next!” In all financial entanglements, it’s what you’re reading between the lines that will seal the deal. By letting your intuition make the final decision, you’ll be flowing with, rather than resisting, these currents of abundance.
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Capricorn & Capricorn Rising
As Mercury enters Cancer, you’ll crave pillow talk with your beloved or bestie — so break out the matching pajamas. Whether you’re probing your person’s attachment style or plunging into the depths of a friend’s emotional landscape, make sure to hold the space with as much compassion as possible.
It’s also the perfect moment to sharpen your active listening skills, but don’t forget to speak your own deeply felt truth too. By breezing through the idle chit-chat to the heart of the matter, you’re sure to learn something new about your most important people.
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Aquarius & Aquarius Rising
As Mercury enters Cancer, the way that you express yourself in the workplace will be up for an emotional refresh. Whether you’re perfecting your signature pottery pattern or learning all of your regulars’ names (and their pets’ too), a few personal touches can help your working self feel more authentic.
And don’t be afraid to bring a dash of vulnerability to your working roles. If you’re someone who runs their own business, launching a live stream or vlog that outlines the ins and outs of your working day could help open up a dialogue with potential clients. By communicating from the heart, you’ll magnetize work that’s on your same wavelength.
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Pisces & Pisces Rising
As Mercury enters Cancer, you’ll be trusting your intuition as you meld it with your pleasure principle. If it feels good, don’t question it — within reason of course. Whether that includes planning a field trip to the petting zoo, a date with a float tank, or a boudoir photo shoot on the beach, decide what feels good and go for it.
And if there are inner scripts to untangle around your right to delight, journal your way through the maze or enlist the support of a therapist. Clarifying what you need to feel safe and regulated will help you plunge to the thrilling depths of these diversions.
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