🍓Full Moon in Sagittarius🍓

the plot continues

Quick announcements!!!

My books are still open for the rest of June. Just added some more evening and weekend availability. I’m excited to see my Gemini and Cancer loves for their Solar Return, Saturn in Aries babies to talk about their Saturn Return, and everyone else who needs a guidepost in this moment.

For personal mental health reasons, I have been off Instagram for the last month and have no intention of going back on anytime soon. If you’ve tried to reach me there, send me an email instead. Be sure to share this good news (and this moon letter) with your friends and lovers <3

xo, J

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If last week found you in the midst of chaos, at the end of your rope, and beyond sick of your same old problems, you’re certainly not alone.

Per usual, the dramas of the planets reflect the dramas playing out here on earth. Mercury met Jupiter coalescing big ideas. But then immediately squared off with Saturn delaying the impact of those breakthroughs. Meanwhile Pluto was going down into the gutters of growing pains. Right now though I want to focus on Venus and Jupiter, and what’s going on with today’s full moon.

Last Thursday, there was a sweet sextile aspect between good guy planets Venus and Jupiter. Venus-Jupiter link ups usually bring a sense of sweetness and relief. So what gives? Why were the vibes such a mess? Well during this aspect, Venus and Jupiter were respectively at the final degrees of Aries and Gemini, signs where they are not great at their job.

Venus, the planet of connection, was in the final degree of Aries where she struggled through a retrograde all spring, making selfish moves and putting herself out there in uncomfortable ways.

Jupiter was in the final degree of Gemini where the planet of faith has overthought every tiny decision for the last year. That last gasp of Jupiter in Gemini was perhaps too perfectly illustrated by the inflammatory, chaotic and (mostly) text-based falling out of Donald Trump and Elon Musk.

Jupiter in Gemini brought us everything to believe in and nothing to believe in all at once. As I wrote in my Notes app last week, “I’m obsessed with data, but I often miss the most important points.”

Venus and Jupiter meeting up one last time in the signs of their detriment reflected a final conversation of mutual reassurance. A “we can do this” hail mary. But can we do this? Well, maybe not in the way we’ve been doing it. The planetary conditions are improving and so can we.

As the kids say: farewell to my flop era.

On Friday June 6, love planet Venus returned to her home sign of Taurus, the best condition she’s been in since mid-January. Then on Monday June 9, Jupiter moved into Cancer, the sign of his exaltation. Together, these upgrades will carry us through a gorgeous new moon in Cancer on June 25, and continue through mid-August when Venus and Jupiter kiss at 14º Cancer. For the next several weeks, we’re feasting, experiencing the best astrology of 2025.

But why does this moment still feel so sticky?

Always happening during Gemini season, the full moon in Sagittarius is a time when information spreads rapidly, tricks are more common than treats, and despite the chaos, the plan gets laid out on the table. With mutable signs, it’s not that something is happening, it’s that everything is happening.

The full moon in Sagittarius peaks on the night of June 10 and comes to full luminosity at 3:43 AM ET on June 11. The full strawberry moon. I always listen to Frank Ocean’s “Strawberry Swing” from nostalgia, ULTRA on repeat to mark the occasion. The apocalyptic lyrics really hit this year.

When we were kids, we hand painted strawberries on a swing

Every moment was so precious, then

I'm still kicking it, I'm daydreaming on a strawberry swing

The entire Earth is fighting, all the world is at its end

Just in case, an atom bomb, comes falling on my lawn

I should say and you should hear I've loved

I've loved the good times here, I've loved our good times here


// The full moon in Sagittarius is part of a moon cycle family that relates back to:

A first quarter moon in Sagittarius on September 11, 2024,

and a new moon in Sagittarius on December 12, 2023. //

But I want to take us a bit further back in “history” for a real touchstone of what the full moon in Sagittarius can reflect.

It was around the full moon in Sagittarius in June 2020 that the George Floyd protests reached a fever pitch. Curfews were enforced in an attempt by city and state officials to quell collective action. Trump went into a bunker in the White House basement. It was also around this time that lockdown restrictions were lifted as major cities began reopening businesses to “get back to normal.” As we all know though, nothing went back to normal.

Now back at another full moon in Sagittarius, with huge protests over ICE raids erupting in Los Angeles, and the Trump administration responding by sending in the National Guard and Marines against the will of state and local governments, we’re reaching a new fever pitch. After five years of trying to put the genie back in the bottle, the plot continues.

In 2020, Jupiter was in Capricorn, a sign where the planet of expansion is a fish out of water. In Capricorn, Jupiter has to be scrappy and fight for everything from the ground up. Now, Jupiter is in Cancer where he has agency to take up space and do what he wants. This year’s full moon in Sagittarius is much more empowered than the one in 2020.

Quoting his translation of the brilliant astrologers from the Islamic Golden Age, Professor Ali A. Olomi sums up what Jupiter in Cancer can reflect on a collective, political, world astrological level:

“While not all good, Jupiter in Cancer does signify a shift. A shift away from the central power of corrupt rulers to the emergence of something different; diplomats who struggle for peace, [a] coalition of smaller rulers and local leaders struggling for justice and peace, and most importantly power centralized in the people themselves.”

Though this view on Jupiter in Cancer from the Medieval Islamicate tradition may not be as effusively positive as girlies online are painting it, the shared viewpoint is: there’s something to believe in again. If the last year was about questioning and losing faith, the next year will be about finding something to believe in again.

What’s clear is that the systems that have always failed us will not save us. This is true in geopolitics and also true in our personal little lives. Nostalgia is beautiful, but it also isn’t going to get us anywhere. As it ends, it begins. Let’s make some good happen here and now.