Clashes of Water and Fire: The Truth of the Spirit and the Complexity of Emotion (June 21-25, 2025)
The Sun, Jupiter, and Mercury are in the sign of Cancer. With this combination, one would tend to expect a deeper sense of emotionality, connection, focus on home, family, domesticity, and rootedness in group identity. We will of course be looking at all of that over the next month in particular with the Sun, and over the next 12 months with Jupiter.
It doesn’t quite feel like the cosy little Hobbit-Cove where you have your cheese, tea, and a mountain of blankets. This feels more like a fight for the Shire.
Why is this so?
Because (from the astrological perspective) Neptune, Saturn, Borasisi, Chiron, and Eris in Aries are squaring these bodies in Cancer.
For reference, Borasisi is associated with the False Light Dynamic and Eris is the rage of the Feminine at being excluded. You may request access to older articles in the comments or via Instagram if required, but they’re not the biggest players here.
We started seeing this energy come into play from June 15 and it will continue to do so till June 25, when we see the Cancer New Moon making aspects to most of these bodies.
In this article, we will look at the deeper basis of the philosophy and spirituality beneath this quintessential clash between Water and Fire.
Too much fire, and the water turns to steam and evaporates.
Too much water, and the fire is extinguished.
For the two to work in harmony, you really need to understand what they both bring to the table.
For creative ways to think about this combination, watch the movie ‘ Elemental’ . It’s a wonderful animated film that explores different compatibilities, understanding of individuality, dating styles, caste-ish differentiation, and family ties.
Asian peeps … you’ll see a lot of yourselves in it.
FIERY ARIES
The Aries energy is all about the Truth of the Self.
The challenge is to understand
(1) What is the Self?
(2) What is Truth for that Self?
What Spirituality ultimately leads you to is the awareness that you are not your Body, your Mind, your Emotions, your Karma, or anything you can actually put a label on.
There is a point I want to doubly emphasize here:
Spirituality and Emotionality are NOT the same thing.
A lot of what people call their emotions are ego programs and unprocessed trauma and karma.
You must understand that saying ‘ I feel this ‘ does not mean that you are operating from your highest truth. It is one expression of your being.
You can have the most gifted psychic in the world but those gifts are subject to compromise if that person is unwilling to look at themselves as a being first.
Unprocessed emotional trauma can become a major psychic and spiritual backdoor that clouds even the best sight. And so much of what you feel and sense is also dependent on how much you suppress…
There is a correlation between emotionality and spirituality, but it’s not a one-to-one equivalence.
So what is spirituality about?
Getting to the non-corporeal essence of yourself is the work of spirituality.
It is that Self that you need to truly come home to at this time.
Eventually, that Self will dissolve and return to the Great Vastness that is Spirit.
When Spiritual insight or alignment occurs, be it from within, or through an externally-focused awareness of connection with the greater presence of The Divine, there are no real words for it.
Feelings come close as metaphors, but that actual awareness is … something undefinable.
It’s like how the best description of a fruit will never come close to the actual taste of it or your feelings about it.
But once you have had that experience, you know it.
There are some words that come close … but remember that they are proxies of the actual experience.
And when you touch that level of consciousness, there is nothing that needs saying.
You just know / are / be / feel / whatever approximate word works.
Most of what a person thinks themselves to be is a product of programming and conditioning. And the more earnestly you walk this path, the more layers you strip off till you arrive at … something.
That’s why spirituality and the death of the ego go hand in hand. And those who have experienced it fully and truly will not write volumes about their personal experience and the pathos of it.
For what is the use of holding onto something you have transcended?
They may describe a process but there is no attachment to it.
When you live as yourself from this space, there is only Truth.
Not multiple truths. Just Truth. The Truth of Pure Being.
Presence. That’s It.
So this is really the core of what Saturn, Neptune, Borasisi, Chiron, and Eris are calling you to find in different ways.
There’s no denial of your trauma or the hurts of the world. There’s no illusion about what you are or are not. There’s no neglect by you on what is your responsibility to address. There’s no strain on you because you are no longer carrying what is not yours.
There is simply Pure Presence that is as natural and effortless as Life itself.
And when you live from that place, Life enriches you in the darkest spaces and on the brightest days.
There’s no way of expressing it unless you have lived it.
At least this is the aspiration.
For most people, their expression of self will be more egoic. Not ego as in arrogance, but ego as in the personality that was shaped through experiences, memories, and so on leading to the mind’s perception of selfhood. They associate Self with the neurobiological wiring and generated conscious awareness that allows this physical vessel to function.
And for those with a lot of resentment, bitterness, anger, trauma, and despair … the expression of Aries that emerges through these pressures can be raging, deeply depressed, violent, inwardly collapsed, or combinations thereof. Even if you’re not the bullying kind, bullies will want to overstep their boundaries at this time and at the very least you need to be in a safe space or have means of defense.
If this is you, you need to find the right kind of support to help you through this.
And as always, do not take anyone’s effort for granted or assume you are entitled to their time and services.
No matter what is happening to you, how minor or how dire, with the challenges in the skies, you’re going to be asked to see if you can come closer to that state of ego-awareness (and for the rare few, total ego-death). And that challenge is likely to come from Jupiter, the Sun, and Mercury in Cancer.
The test is on your ability to manage your emotions in your home space, or wherever it is in your life that the trigger is being presented. Because the way you manage your emotions - or how you allow them to get the better of you - will shape your ability to experience that deeper aspect of Truth-As-Self (or not).
Just remember that these triggers occur in different spaces depending on your chart and life circumstances.
So let’s get to the lessons of Water.
WATERY CANCER
Where do we learn about life in this incarnation?
It begins in the mother’s womb, and through those present in your earliest years of existence. That is when so much of who you see yourself as being is formed.
It is the energy of home, family, rootedness, and that sense of belonging or group context from which you individuate as a personality. Food, traditions, and culture go a long way in shaping our memories and emotional responses.
Astrologically, it is the representation of the Crab that sees the depths others cannot dive to and walks sideways on land. The Crab that has a soft underbelly despite the hard casing of home that it has on its back.
Whilst these bodies in Cancer do not necessarily mean a family dynamic is going to be triggered in the home space, it is likely to evoke emotional responses that trace back to power imbalances in early childhood.
That is why family-of-origin work is key in understanding your own psychology, which is in itself, a gift in helping you navigate your spiritual path. Not the same fields but at times they can complement each other.
In a very 3D sense, the Cancer-Aries clash can manifest as disagreements with authority figures in the home or domestic space. Who gets what room? How should one cook for the family? Who’s the breadwinner and who sits beneath them? Who should be seen and not heard? Who decides on what life looks like?
If it’s not the home directly, it’s still about authority seeking to limit your expression of feeling, being, and comfort.
Even if you currently live alone, if this is a vibration you were familiar with in the womb and early upbringing, you can still be triggered by it.
Ideally, you want to find a way where people can expand the idea of the home, family, and domestic space, in ways that include rather than exclude.
That doesn’t work though when the hidden price of inclusion is drainage and submission.
Souls who truly love you will want you to be happy to be who you are.
They will not clip your wings or make you believe you are something that you are not.
This is a time where a lot of you will see the truth of your home life, your emotions, and how you co-exist (or not) within whatever space you have to negotiate.
If you have to pretend to be someone else and numb your emotions, that is not ego-death… just repression.
Whatever you choose to do, do your best to come from that space of inner Truth.
This is where meditation, facilitation, inner work, therapy, and whatever you do to find clarity, come in.
But it really has to be you making your decisions.
Even if you have to take a hard step, do so with a clear conscience and no malice in your heart.
Hard to do, but sometimes that’s what it takes.
If you are one of those blessed souls who have true harmony and acceptance in your family of origin, culture, home, domestic life, etc, then enjoy it. Celebrate each other, go have meals together, and just be together.
For those who have the blessing of family by choice, celebrate these people who love you. Who show up for you. And who want you to be happy.
That is genuinely the best expression of this Fire-Water combination that I can think of.
Souls who appreciate each other, who grow together, who walk together, and who bloom in their mutual admiration and tangible support.
Beneath the paywall, you’ll find a list of astrological key dates and alignments that correspond to this energy.
If you have the means to support my work and make this sustainable for me to keep doing, do your part. I already give more than enough.
And if you don’t have the means, enjoy what is already provided, cite appropriately, and do your part to get the work out there by sharing, etc.
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