Welcome back to another episode of Astrology with Alice.

I'm your host Alice Bell.

In today's Monday, June ninth, I am back from my travels to Italy.

I'm feeling so much more inspired this week.

Sometimes you just need to take a couple days off from work.

I mean, I still worked a lot while I was on that trip, but just time away to rEFInd your creativity.

So I'm really thankful that my job and working for myself allows me to do so from time to time because I just have greater clarity of what I want to be doing moving forward.

And I also feel like that clarity is because of the quickly approaching full moon and Sagittarius that is happening this week.

Before the full moon takes place, though, Jupiter will be moving into cancer actually today June ninth, and Jupiter is going to be in this sign of cancer until June thirtieth, twenty twenty six.

So this is a huge transit that's going to define the next year for you, and this Jupiter transit will point to where you're about to start noticing more growth, greater opportunities where you might want to further your education.

Keep it more of an open mind or just feel more free.

So we'll definitely be talking about Jupiter throughout this episode a lot, and also the full moon and Sagittarius.

Like I just said, that's happening early morning Eastern on Wednesday, June eleventh, so a little bit later in your day if you're in time zones ahead, But because it's happening so early on Wednesday, really Monday and Tuesday of this week, we're feeling that build up to the full moon.

So definitely expect the next couple of days to be quite busy, and you may have more going on at work, or maybe there's greater social activity and connection with people, or you're having a lot of ideas and important realizations come to you about what you want to put your energy towards next, or what you might want to change in your life.

So before we get into these two major transits for the week and everything else happening over the next few days, I just have a couple of announcements.

So last week I released Saturn Transit Stories episode here on the podcast and also on YouTube with Diagrams Part one, So that was going over what it's been like for people and the stories they wrote in about having Saturn transit through houses one through six of their chart, and I should be releasing part two this Thursday, which will cover houses seven through twelve, So stay tuned for that.

Going to be wherever you listen to podcasts and also on YouTube as well.

And if for some reason it gets delayed because it it is a lot of work and I'm working really fast to compile it all, it will be out the following Thursday, but I'm really aiming for this Thursday, and then I will be sending out a free newsletter on substack this week all about my observations I notice with Jupiter transits and just kind of like I didn't want to make it so structured, but more an organic conversation about Okay, here's what I've noticed a lot with Jupiter transitting through these specific houses of the chart, or the best Jupiter transits for dating, or what it's like when Jupiter aspects your mars.

So like a lot of little tidbits that tie back in with Jupiter transits in honor of Jupiter now being in cancer and also in that newsletter, I am doing a full rundown of all the places in Italy that I have found astrology themed art.

So if you have a vacation coming up to Italy you plan to go there in the future, these are definitely some spots you may want to add to your itinerary.

And I've been adding to this list for about five years now, Like every single time I go to Italy, I try to find another spot where there's astrology themed art or even like a temple that's like the Temple of Jupiter.

I have a couple of those on the list.

I've also been to this place called Neptune's Grotto, so it's just like a fun hobby I have and I wanted to share those spots with you, so stay tuned for that coming soon.

And with that being said, let's get in to the astrology for the week ahead.

We are starting the week off on Monday, June ninth, with the moon in the final degrees of Scorpio.

So if you'll recall it wasn't the moon was in Scorpio throughout all day Saturday and all day Sunday, and it's finally wrapping up that transit early on Monday.

However, it will be opposing Uranus in Taurus in the early morning Eastern on Monday morning, right as the workday is getting going, so at the start of your day you may feel a bit unsettled or anxious.

And at the same time, the moon is void, of course, so there may not be as much momentum or energy or activity taking place until the moon changes signs and moves into Sagittarius.

That's going to happen right around eleven am Eastern, and so once the moon leaves Scorpio, you may feel like less emotional or less heavy or tired, and more like, Okay, I have a lot to get done.

And there's that push of motivation that comes in right around the eleven am Eastern and from that point on we're officially in full moon territory.

So the second half of Monday into Tuesday as well will be the peak busy period of not only this week, but out of the entire month.

So started this week, this is a time of seeing work get wrapped up more fully or become more visible, like maybe you're preparing to launch or announce something, or you're finally seeing results from whatever you've been putting energy into and developing over the last couple of weeks.

This could also be a couple day timeframe of making realizations about what you want to put your energy into next, or what aspect of your life you may want to make changes or minor adjustments to, or there may be something that you want to release from your life that is holding you back or is preventing you from reaching that next new chapter that you want to go into.

So keep that in mind for Monday and Tuesday, and also just Sagittarius moons in general that'll be present at the start of this week.

We'll have to do with maybe having a greater interest in learning, travel, spirituality.

So that could look like reading more books, doing research on different subjects, maybe investing time into learning astrology, or you could literally be traveling to another country or simply like a different city.

You may take a greater interest in another culture and want to brush up on your foreign language skills, or you're simply keeping more of an open mind to new topics, new subjects, different points of view.

I just see Sagittarius as let's look at the bigger picture and what might I be missing and how can I further my education in certain areas and take different viewpoints into consideration.

So I now want to switch gears and focus a bit more on Jupiter entering cancer because that is a huge transit that's happening this week.

So Jupiter moves into cancer on Monday evening.

It's going to be in the sign until June thirtieth, twenty twenty six, so a little over a year, and Jupiter is exalted in the sign of cancer, So that means it's a sign it does super well in and it's more likely to bring up the positive manifestations that are associated with this planet and bring in that positivity to whatever house it's transiting in your chart.

So just looking at like what does Jupiter, what does that planet mean in general, and what is its transit signify Jupiter transits have a lot to do with where you might want to grow and expand in your life, where you could want to ridge yourself of anything that is holding you back that feels restricting.

Freedom is so key with Jupiter, and if you don't feel this sense of freedom or independence in an area of your life, when Jupiter comes along, it's like there's this strong urge to change something so that you can have more of that flexibility.

I also think of this planet as being very spiritual, and it's a lot about keeping more of an open mind being interested in different cultures, spiritualities, different life beliefs and being open to that.

So you could be injecting that kind of open mindedness into the themes represented by the house it's transiting.

So it's really important to look at, like what sign does cancer rule in your chart?

And how are the Jupiter themes of wanting to further your education there, keep more of an open mind or have greater freedom in that part of your life and the ability to grow and expand and learn new things.

How is that all becoming a greater interest there?

And typically Jupiter does bring with it improvements to the house in which it's transitting, or if it happens to be moving across any planets or angles in your chart.

So to give an example, maybe if you have Jupiter about to move into your fourth house, so this would be an aries rising chart.

There could be improvements you're making to your living situation.

Maybe you're wanting to move to an apartment or a home where you have more space to be free, so quite literally bringing that sense of like freedom and flexibility and happiness into the home life.

Or it could be that something there's like this happy event taking place with family members or you're noticing improved relationships with family, Whereas if you have Jupiter about to enter your seventh house, so this would be a Capricorn rising chart, maybe you're starting to feel more of a willingness to date or keep an open mind to the types of people you meet in the partnerships you're establishing, or a very significant and positive relationship experience is about to take place for you.

However, there are definitely other instances where Jupiter can feel overwhelming and it can amplify existing problems you have in that part of your in a certain part of your life and make them unavoidable.

So that's same Jupiter through the seventh house transit.

If you're kind of on the rocks way someone you're dating, or you're feeling restricted in that relationship, Jupiter could push you to set yourself free and into partnership.

So it can it really has these dual significations.

That's where it's important to just listen to what is your intuition telling you about a situation and how is that becoming a bigger focus and an area of your life that you want to see improvements made to over the next year.

And just going back to the topics of like spirituality, travel, and education.

For a second, all of these areas that Jupiter represents.

Oftentimes it's like you want to inject more of that into the house of your chart that Jupiter's activating.

So Jupiter through the tenth house might literally mean that you are traveling more for work over a year long period, or there's foreign or opportunities, or it could be that teaching or writing.

Definitely, Jupiter themes are playing more into your role and like how you're seen publicly in your career.

So on the one hand, we get these themes of the house in which Jupiter is moving through amplified for this year long period, and then we also get cancer themes in general, because that's the sign that Jupiter will be in for everyone.

So looking at cancer themes that will be brought up prominently from now until summer of twenty twenty six will involve home, family, nurturing yourself, maybe examining your past.

Cancer has a lot to do with nostalgia in the literal past or your childhood, those all being a bigger underlying theme.

So ways this could play out could be wanting a more stable home life for yourself, maybe finding greater enjoyment in the place where you live, in your closest relationships, Like maybe you don't have so much of an urge to travel and go to far away places.

It's more like, Okay, I want to keep it closer to home.

Maybe not so much.

If you are a scorpioizing in Jupiter's your ninth house, I could play out a little bit differently, But overall, Jupiter and Cancer emphasizes these closer familiar relationships and the sense of security in your living situation and your home life.

Could also be that you get more into hosting, decorating, maybe you want to move be interesting to see with like mundane astrology and looking at what's going on in the world, will will there be improvements to things like the housing market, or will news topics involving the home be a bigger deal over the next year.

And as I mentioned how Jupiter's exalted in Cancer to compare and contrast, it's interesting to look at what happened when Jupiter was in the sign of its fall in Capricorn during the year of twenty twenty.

So that was a year where we really didn't feel Jupiter much at all.

It had like no power in the sign of Capricorn, and we were restricted with COVID to stay in side and no one could travel, and it was a hard It was a very difficult year for pretty much everyone.

So it'll be interesting to look at like how different Jupiter does in the sign of its exaltation and Cancer versus how poorly it did in the sign of its fall in Capricorn back in twenty twenty.

So, yeah, this is another big transit we have going on in twenty twenty five.

And if you're having difficulty deciphering weight, which of these transits do I place precedents on for the next year, I would say definitely take Saturn and Ares into consideration, which is what I'm putting those podcast episodes on out about now.

And I would combine the Saturn and Aries transit with the Jupiter in Cancer and then also the eclipses in Pisces and Virgo, and all of those three combined will really give you the full picture of where is change, where's growth?

Where am I putting more energy into throughout twenty twenty five and into early twenty twenty six specifically.

And one final thing I want to say for Monday is that Mercury is also now in cancer moved into cancer on Sunday the eighth, and as of Monday, it'll be squaring Saturn in Neptune and aries.

So there could be some type of tricky miscommunication that comes up on Monday, or maybe you experience a delay or a minor frustration with communication based work or handling details or even doing planning surrounding travel.

It might be that writing or speaking work requires more time, effort, in patience on your part, or you could be overthinking or slightly spiraling about something someone says to you, or just being very sensitive with how you're picking up on the way people are communicating.

So this is just something to be aware of and maybe try not to take things super personally, or just know that there ma be delays and things might get a little frustrating throughout Monday.

Okay, let's at last move on to Tuesday, June tenth.

We are still building to a full moon and Sagittarius all day, so Tuesday is yet another busy day again.

We're feeling those themes of Sagittarius still present, So see how on Tuesday you may be drawn to learning about different subjects, or you may have greater inspiration for ways in which you can share your ideas and your knowledge with people, or your thinking in bigger picture terms about your life, like what are your core life beliefs, what's your bigger purpose?

And how are situations you're facing now tied in with this grander scheme for you?

So it gives you that ability to really step back and look at, Okay, how is the work I'm doing now, or how are the responsibilities I'm in charge of now getting me towards this bigger goal And if anything communication related or detailed tasks and information felt or frustrating on Monday, expect these areas to flow more easily on Tuesday, as Mercury will now be building to a sex style with Venus and Taurus.

So this is actually really great for communicating within relationships and getting your point across or tending to creative writing or brainstorming and being calm and focused and the ability to maybe stay put on one specific task or one piece of writing for a longer amount of time.

The connection with the Taurus energy really gives it that stability.

And then within relationships, maybe you're wanting to open up and communicate about how you're feeling and your emotions for someone or something you're going through, because remember Mercury is currently in the sign ruled by the moon, which is cancer.

So it's like there's more emotions injected into how you communicate, how you write, and how you get your point across.

Okay, let's move on to Wednesday, June eleventh.

Now, so the full moon goes exact early on Wednesday, right around three forty five am Eastern.

This will be later in the day for time zones ahead, so maybe more of your mid morning or your early afternoon, but the full moon will be taking place at twenty degrees of Sagittarius.

So anyone with mutable sign chart placements Pisces, Virgo, Sagittarius, or Gemini right around this twenty degree marker, so I would I would honestly say between fifteen and twenty five degrees of those signs.

You're gonna feel this full moon more intensely than other people would, and you'll want to blend the theme of the full moon, which is activity, change, seeing results, and making bigger realizations with the themes of the planet or angle that might be involved in your chart.

And for everyone though you're looking at the Sagittarius world house of your chart and you're noticing how there is greater activity happening there and you may be experiencing change in that part of your life, or there's bigger realizations coming up.

So let's run through some general themes by rising signs.

So Fire sign risings, this full moon is a lot about your personal identity, your creativity, how you express yourself, and maybe realizing how you can focus on activities and hobbies outside of work, Whereas for Earth sign risings, this full moon would bring up more to do with mental health and your emotions and things going on in your personal life or your home and family.

And then for Air sign risings, this full moon will be a lot about relationships and coming together and connecting with people or making realizations about do I want to get closer in this relationship or am I better off without this person in my life?

And then finally, for Water sign risings, this full moon will bring about greater activity within your career and may have you feeling more productive or there's opportunities coming through with work, or you're realizing what do you want your relationship with work and responsibilities to look like.

The full moon is the most active time of the month and it's the midpoint of the current lunar cycle that started on May twenty six with the new moon and Gemini, So very much a time of seeing results from whatever you've started over the last two weeks and wanting to reach out to people, wanting to join in on community or group activities, or having greater visibility and more of a reception to whatever work or opportunities you might be announcing.

And in a similar way to how the moon has this maximum light, this maximum visibility in the sky at the time of the full moon, that symbolism can be applied to your own life where it's like a light bulb's going off and you're having clarity about maybe topics that concern the Sagittarius Wruldhouse of your chart or any planets that are being hit by this full moon, and you're realizing how you can change, release, or prioritize that area a bit more.

This full moon actually does look pretty pleasant as well.

So it's ruled by Jupiter, and as we just one over, Jupiter's now in Cancer, the sign it's exalted in the sign it thrives in, so I would expect to see more positive results coming through that Sagittarius world house in your chart, and maybe also the cancer world house of your chart too, seeing how the themes of those two are combined a bit.

So I'm just thinking of a Sagittarius rising chart, for instance, with the full moon in the first house Sagittarius, but then also Jupiter moving to the eighth house, and how are first house and eighth house topics getting both brought up maybe in a more positive way at this time, Like maybe it's that something involving a relationship and going deeper with someone is really important to that person at the moment, or the healing work and the therapy they're engaging in is helping them understand and make realizations about who they are and what they want to prioritize moving forward.

So I'm definitely excited for this full moon and the rest of Wednesday after it goes exact is spent coming off of that full moon energy, but you may not feel as tense inside, like there's a release that's occurred, and the moon will immediately come into this trine with Mars and Leo, which will give you this positive boost of energy to accomplish whatever you need to get done on Wednesday or also it could give you the courage to be more direct with people or sure about what you want to take initiative on and put energy towards.

And then a little after ten pm Easter and the moon moves into Capricorn.

So I want to get more into that for Thursday and Friday though.

But one thing I have to say is that the moon moving into Capricorn kicks off this interesting configuration with the moon triggering this square building between Jupiter and Cancer and Saturn and Neptune and aries.

So following this full moon, you may feel this pressure to grow or restructure a certain part of your life, and that will very much involve the car or null sign houses of cancer and areas in your chart.

That aspect between Jupiter and Saturn is going to go exact this weekend.

But notice how the first feelings of a little bit of tension or just a strong desire to act on or make a change in those two areas start to come in as early as Wednesday or Thursday, with the moon triggering it from this other cardinal sign.

And now we are to Thursday, June twelfth.

The moon is in Capricorn all day on Thursday, So if looking back at like the start of this week, if you felt easily excitable, or you had a lot of emotions come up, or you felt kind of like all over the place, like everything was amplified, expect to feel more grounded and focused come Thursday and Friday.

So you may actually be more productive on these two days than you were in that whole lead up to the full moon, and it could be easier to stick to a routine, accomplish work, tend to other response abilities that need to get done.

And on Thursday, the moon's also making this pleasant trine with Venus and Taurus throughout the first half of Wednesday Eastern and lucky for you time zones ahead, that's more of your entire day.

So it just shows how there may be real enjoyment and peace coming from sticking to a routine and getting work crossed off your to do list.

Or it could be that you're honoring relationship commitments and feeling more secure in friendships or with someone you're dating, or feeling more solid in a current partnership.

And then also the moon will be opposing mercury and cancer at the same time, so kind of echoes what we saw earlier on in this week.

On Tuesday when we had the Mercury Venus Sex style, but on Thursday again, there could be this theme of having more emotion in your communications with people or the way you write.

Maybe you're opening up and getting a little bit more vulnerable or injecting more of your emotions into your writing, or there could be this balance you're trying to strike between thinking about work and responsibilities versus needing to think about your personal life and your home and your family, and needing to tend to both of those two areas at once.

And that brings us to Friday, June thirteenth.

The moon is in Capricorn all day again, so those themes surrounding work, productivity and reflecting on what responsibilities are worth your time will still apply to Friday too.

However, the moon will be void, of course, so it's really not a day of outreach or initiating anything.

It's for wrapping up projects, completing anything that you didn't fully finish earlier on in the week.

And you could feel lower energy on Friday, so try to find time to relax a bit, especially because the whole first part of this week with looks like it's going to be pretty busy and a bit chaotic, and if you do want to make weekend plans for Friday night, think about doing something a bit more low key where not a lot of effort or organization is needed.

And then for this week I've decided to group Saturday and Sunday, June fourteenth and fifteenth together because they're very similar in energy, like basically have the same transits, and also for the sake of time, because we've spent so much time going over Jupiter and cancer and the Fullman and Sagittarius, So for both Saturday and Sunday, the moon will be inn aquarius.

So you may feel this shift to wanting to be a bit more social for the rest of the weekend, and there could be group activities that are coming up, or like some type of community event you want to be a part of, or you're just naturally coming into contact with more people.

I would say another way this might play out is wanting to try out a new experience and changing up your routine and craving a bit of change and variety.

And that also has to do with another transit that's going on simultaneously this weekend, and that's Mars and Leo building to a square with your honest and Taurus, and that will be building all day on Saturday into early Sunday.

And this is right as Mars prepares to leave Leo where it's been since the middle of April, and it'll be shifting into Virgo early next week, so it gets this one last boost, this one last hit from your honest, which is definitely a more chaotic transit which often brings up unexpected change or this sudden quality to Mars traits like sudden irritation, getting angry quickly out of nowhere, or just having stronger emotions or reaction surface, or there could be this urgent need to swiftly cut something out of your life or into situation that you're sick of, like it's this desire to break free very suddenly.

So if you are kind of feeling that way, like you've completely had it with a situation or a relationship or even the way you talk to yourself like a mindset, you could want to step back a bit first and just be a bit wary of making an impulsive decision in the heat of the moment and just take a step back to reflect on is that actually a decision I really want to make?

At this moment, And maybe it is that these these feelings of irritation or frustration have been building for a while, and this transit does give you that confidence to break free of something, even if that's just breaking free of a restriction you've placed on yourself.

There's just this greater desire to be more independent, free, or just true to who you are with this transit.

So it could be helpful to look at what houses are ruled by Leo and Trus in your chart, and how are you seeing changes coming in in both or maybe one of those areas of your life, or how are the changes taking place in one of those houses influencing developments that are taking place in the other one.

So, for example, with a Leo rising chart, Mars is transitting the first time house currently, and it'll square your honest in your tenth house.

So maybe it's that you're wanting to break free of restrictions in your career, or you're wanting to make a sudden decision regarding a project with work or a career opportunity, or where you want to be headed with work and your responsibilities in the long term.

One last thing I'll say about Mars, You're honest is that it is a more accident prone transit.

So just try to be present this weekend, don't rush as you're going about any activities that are planned, and take your time and be patient if possible.

And then finally we're wrapping this week up with one final aspect that I want to go over, which is that Jupiter, which is now in Cancer, is forming this exact square with Saturn and Ares over the weekend.

And this is the third and final square that we will have experience between these two planets over the last year.

But it's the first one that's happening across cardinal signs Areas and Cancer.

The other two were across Gemini and Pisces, so it is a bit different.

But I guess if you want a reference point to compare this too, you could look at how is there a bit of tension or a desire to change or really focus on growth in the Pisces in Gemini ruled houses of your chart, and how now is that energy shifting to the Cancer and Aries world houses.

What's different about this aspect also is that Jupiter is in a position of power with this square because it's in cancer, the sign of its exaltation and Saturn is in aries the sign of its fall, so Jupiter has the upper hand to come out, to come out on top.

And maybe this square is not felt in such a negative or heavy way, but more like, Okay, I need to restructure this part of my life so that I can have the growth that I want, and feeling more optimistic about these decisions that you're making for yourself, so greater hope for this one, and just noting over, maybe how are there certain themes tied in with the cancer and areas world house of your world, houses of your chart that you've outgrown, and how do certain situations need to be changed so that you can keep expanding or setting up structures that will last you for the next several years in these two areas of your life.

So on one hand, feeling ambitious, but also knowing that you need to reel it back in and put in more effort and be a bit patient first before you can see the full growth of Jupiter take place, and then the rest of Jupiter's transit through cancer will be free of exact saddern aspects.

So in a way, I'm glad it's happening this early on with Jupiter and cancer and so that way the rest of this transit from July twenty twenty five to June of twenty twenty six, we can kind of have Jupiter free to expand and grow in the cancer world house of your chart and be held back as much.

So it's not the calmest note to end on with this week, but there's so much happening over the next few days and it's hard to keep track of all these moving parts at once, so just take it kind of like one transit at a time and see how they all add up to this bigger picture of shifts and change that are happening for you at the moment.

And we're going to pick up back next week with Mars entering Virgo, which will be great for routine health productivity and getting back on track there.

But I hope everyone has a great next few days, and also stay tuned for Saturn Transit Stories Part two coming soon.