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June 2026 Inmportant Dates

AKA my notes on The Astrology Podcast’s June Forecast, hosted by Chris Brennan and Leisa Schaim. Calendar designed by Paula Belluomini and timeline graphics by Madeline Coates at honeycomb.co.

The month starts out with a Venus-Jupiter conjunction in Cancer, though when she enters Leo her opposition to Pluto will bring up themes of power and control. Mercury will gear up for a retrograde as Mars nears a conjunction to Uranus. Jupiter enters Leo for the next year, putting him in opposition to Pluto as well. Mercury retrogrades right before a conjunction with Jupiter, effectively delaying a benefit for us. I’ll put the news recap at the end this month since the video came out late, but it does have some astrological community news at the very end!

June Forecast

June 1st - Mercury enters Cancer This activates the energy already going on in Cancer with Venus and Jupiter.

June 3rd - Mercury square Neptune With Mercury (4♋) squaring Neptune (4♈), this was a day of confusing communications. After leaving their domicile, Mercury is operating on a more emotional level, and Neptune makes things more Impressionistic than exact. This can be good for artistic expression and reactivates the Saturn-Neptune conjunction, which is not yet at 10 degrees of separation.

June 8th - Auspicious Election (not pictued)

One of the best charts of this year, it takes place around 3:30PM local time, which should give you Libra rising. The Ascendant ruler Venus is in the 10th house and applying to a conjunction with Jupiter, making this a good chart for work and career, public image, aspirations, dealing with superiors. The 10th house ruler, the Moon, is in Pisces and applying to a trine with Jupiter and Venus with mututal reception. Thus even though the exact conjunction is the next day, the Moon placement on June 8th is extremely positive. The downside is Mars in the 8th house, meaning this isn’t the greatest chart for debts, taxes, and shared resources. Mercury is also squaring Saturn, so there is some possible hampering of communications, but in a day chart they should be surmountable.

Note: this entire day is a very good day because of the Moon in Pisces being extra helpful to Venus-Jupiter, though any time around the conjunction is fortuitous.

June 9th - Venus conjunct Jupiter

Going exact at 25 Cancer, this is the most fortuitous aspect of the year (note: Jupiter is exalted in Cancer). It confirms relationships, brings peace, and offers empathy and understanding to us. This is more freed up from malefic influences than last year and we can find ourselves caring for others or being cared for, enjoying the good things in life for awhile, and generally availing ourselves of life-affirming energies. This is a particularly good aspect for proposals and marriages, and is also the last round of Jupiter cleaning up the mess from Mars’s retrograde in Cancer from 2024-25. The World Cup is also happening just after this, bringing good vibes for the event.

June 10th - Mercury square Saturn

June 13th - Venus enters Leo This sets her on a path of opposing Pluto, though this is a blessing through the Leo sector of our charts generally and will hearken back to events from August-September of last year.

June 14th - New Moon in Gemini

Venus is approaching an opposition to Pluto in the background, and the lunation’s ruler Mercury is slowing down in preparation for a retrograde, so some of our efforts begun around this time will have to be redone a couple times. Mercury seems to be heading towards a conjunction to Jupiter, but isn’t able to fully complete it, so we may get a bit of a fakeout or see something positive put on hold for awhile.

June 17th - Venus opposite Pluto This aspect brings underworld themes, power struggles, and trying to bring love and creativity in the face of war (Mars is squaring them by sign as well). In relationships this can be obsession or having a hard time letting someone go after a separation. This may also manifest as the Leo area of your chart needing growth and creativity, while the Aquarius house needs to be dug up from the depths, with both needing your attention at the same time. We may also see individuals trying to shine among the collective.

Once Jupiter joins her in Leo, though, we’ll have a period of positive and affirming energies going through our charts in this third quarter of the year. Leo is more of a mixed bag later on, but for now things look pretty good!

June 21st - Sun enters Cancer This solstice will be especially bright as the Sun activates some of the previous positive energies in our charts and it could be a good time for family reunions and parties, though we’re gearing up for some complications ahead.

June 25th - Sun square Neptune There may be some confusion and lack of clarity around this time.

June 28th - Mars enters Gemini

This ingress immediately ramps up for a conjunction with Uranus (03♊), though Mars did get a weak sextile from Jupiter before this ingres. Something lightly held back the worst impulses of this conjunction while it was out-of-sign, but the harsher things will get louder at the end of the month here. The US was founded under not only Uranus in Gemini, but specifically under a Mars-Uranus conjunction–the Civil war started under a conjunction and ended under a copresence, and dropped the bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki under this aspect as well. We have four of this aspect coming up over the past few years. General significations are uprisings and revolts, military and/or technological innovations (the trine to Pluto in Aquarius is good for disruptive technologies), as well as radical liberation. In personal charts this can help us think quickly and innovate with new ideas, but not necessarily lasting ones.s

Particularly striking is that this aspect goes exact on July 4th, baking it into the U.S. solar return chart for the year. There’s a strong element of surprise here: squares coincided with military attacks, and the last conjunction coincided with Trump dodging an assassination attempt and Biden dropping out of the presidential race.Venezuela, Cuba, Lebanon, and Taiwan also have strong Mars-Uranus signatures.

Overall, this is also the time of new beginnings. The seeds of new thing, including positive developments in our lives, may be planted now. We may feel a greater need for freedom and innovation in the Gemini parts of our charts, and Mars pours gasoline all over that spark. Mars can also add greater speed and energy to areas of our chart where we are trying to innovate. We can become versatile and think quickly, but we have to be careful not to get too scattered around this time. Something comes out of left field and it can be invigorating, but we may also want to try and not act too impulsive.

June 29th - Mercury stations retrograde, Full Moon in Capricorn

The lunation heightens the energy that’s already going on, as it squares Saturn just like the last one.

June 30th - Jupiter enters Leo This begins a one-year transit through Leo, and he’ll have a loose, sign-based conjunction to Venus as she finishes her transit of the sign. We have some growth and confirmation of good things going on, though Jupiter is now approaching an opposition to Pluto that we’ll really be feeling in July. We will want to show off and expand, though Pluto makes us want to dig into deep places or control information and resources.

Jupiter-Pluto can also bring up themes of wealth and justice, including one of the biggest US fast food worker strike in 2015, which was part of securing a right to unionize, and corporate mergers being blocked.

May News Recap:

The US-Israel war on Iran was punctuated by a Mars-Jupiter square on May 4th and a destructive Mars-Pluto square on May 26th. Though there’s been a fragile ceasefire, the US catalyzed a round of missile exchanges right around the 4th, and then again the 25th-28th saw more fire back and forth on mainly military targets. We’ve avoided economic disaster so far with different countries draining their oil reserves, but they’ll run out soon. Astrologically, the Mars-Uranus conjunction in June-July will likely see the next development (previous flashpoints occurred on Mars-Uranus squares), and long-term the next eclipse season in August-September, as U.S. & Israeli conflicts with Iran and across the Middle East generally have coincided with eclipses over the past few years.

The Mars squares corresponded with other explosions worldwide as well, including a deadly accident at a fireworks factory in China (Mars was on the descendant and Jupiter on the Midheaven). The second Mars square saw Russia send an especially large volley of missiles into Ukraine, destroying cultural sites in Kiev. An aerospace facility in residential Southern California saw a chemical tank overheat (Mars-Pluto) and nearly explode, but a crack in the tank relieved some pressure. A slight sextile from Venus to Mars with reception at the exact sextile added a cooling energy, and indeed the evacuation orders were lifted at that time. Other disasters around this time may have been ameliorated by this. A chemical plant in Oregon saw a deadlier explosion, and a Jeff Bezos-owned space facility saw a massive explosion that wiped out the entire launch pad.

The Mars-Saturn-Neptune conjunction in Aries from April into May also saw (the start of) an outbreak of a rare Andean Hantavirus strain on a cruise ship, and a strain of Ebola with no vaccine broke out over a contested province in in the Democratic Republic of Congo and into Uganda. A Mars-Saturn square with Mars in his other domicile Scorpio saw a massive outbreak in 2014. Mars spreads the virus like wildfire, while Saturnian authorities try to stop the spread and raise public awareness.

Pluto’s entry into Aquarius has shown society trying to tackle the advent of AI: the Pope issued a decree about it, graduation speakers at colleges got booed for praising AI, an AI used in graduation speeches missed people’s names, and one speaker told the students it’s their generation’s mission to destroy AI. Pluto’s station was activated by a Mars transit in May, bringing big stories to light. Erin Brokovich also launched a crowdsourced map of AI data centers in the US so people can better voice their concerns about environmental, community and local cost impacts for projects that are largely approved behind closed doors (another Pluto signification).

The Saturn-Neptune conjunction in Aries, activated by Mars’s transit, saw a scandal in India around an astrologer in government. Chris found this trends more broadly with backlash against the occult: Evangeline Adams’s and Alan Leo’s astrology lawsuits were under Saturn-Neptune conjunctions, Adorno’s writings criticism of astrology in the 50s, the Gocquelins’ research on statistics and birth data with the Mars effect emerging, the Satanic Panic and Reagan’s astrologer scandal in the 80s.

In politics, the May 13-15 meeting between Xi Jinping and Donald Trump revived another Saturn-Neptune signature: the United States’ “strategic ambiguity” about the degree to which it recognizes and supports the ROC in Taiwan while establishing and maintaining relations with the PRC in mainland China. We should expect further developments here during the Mars-Uranus conjunction in late June/July (first in a series of four) and the Venus retrograde in Scorpio this October-November. The US oil blockade of Cuba has also continued, with a federal grand jury in Miami reopening a criminal case against Raul Castro on the recurrence of a Saturn-Neptune conjunction. The current government celebrates its founding July 26, 1953, which was under a Mars-Uranus conjunction–another Mars-Uranus conjunction will peak this July, making it a time to watch out for.

In domestic US news, a 1982 amendment to the Voting Rights Act of 1965 was overturned by the Supreme Court, forcing people to prove explicit intent of racial discrimination in redistricting and making said proof harder. Mars, Saturn, and Pluto were in Libra and Uranus was in Sagittarius during the original act, and now it was overturned with Mars-Saturn in Aries and Uranus in Gemini, opposing it. Red states immediately began gerrymandering to disenfranchise Black neighborhoods as much as possible. The US Uranus return is showing us whose “freedom” this country was actually founded on and the way slavery and its legacy are baked into the nation.

In smaller astrology news, an individual in France is attempting to trademark the term “astrocartography/ie” in the entire EU after successfully getting one in France, and is immediately sending cease and desist letters to anyone else practicing this. Seeing as this is an entire field of practice, the popularizer of the most common techniques himself only trademarked a stylized version that has now lapsed, was not the first person to draw planetary lines on a map, and has no relation to the person trying to trademark it, it’s a pretty big ethical dilemma for astrologers. Chris connects this to Saturn-Neptune as well–trying to corral structures around a technique whose origins and practices are too nebulous to trace to a single person to begin with. There are two petitions about it, and other astrological organizations are looking into legal options as well.

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