About this episode

This episode discusses the astrological influences of the week from May 31 to June 7, 2026, focusing on Mercury's entry into Cancer and its implications for family and emotional well-being.

2026 doesn't let up. It's been cycle after cycle turning over, things ending, things starting, the ground rearranging itself under us about once a week, and all of us trying to absorb that as the soft, finite, easily-overwhelmed water-bags we actually are. A lot of it has been genuinely thrilling. It's also been exhausting, and if you've spent part of this year horizontal on a bathroom floor recalibrating, you're in good company. June is where the year finally exhales, and this week is the first real stretch of that exhale. It opens loud and then goes nearly silent. We're coming out of a Full Moon in Sagittarius — big, candid, allergic to subtlety, chasing the next horizon like it owes us money — and that carries through the weekend and into Monday. After that, the volume drops to almost nothing and stays there. Mercury slides into Cancer on Monday, which parks our heads in the same watery corner where Venus and Jupiter have been camped for a while now: the part of the chart that runs home, family, roots, who feels safe to you, and what you need in order to feel held. Jupiter's been doing slow repair work in that spot for nearly a year, in a place that was an absolute knife fight…

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