How to Find Your Joy This June, According to Your Zodiac Sign

Relish the ride to the end of the rainbow, astro babes. June’s cosmic mix is ombré and open wide, an invitation to shift gears and shimmy towards a new perspective. It is a multihued month for letting our lives tumble joyously into a brand new light, emboldened by the audacious belief that we can change our minds at any magic moment.

Ruled by the limber, curious Gemini Sun, the energy is all about the breath. Governess of what we take in and put out, Gemini’s pollinator butterfly vibes reveal how we are metabolizing experience and where our nervous systems are ready for a retune. Paired with Gemini’s ruler, Mercury, rolling retrograde through Cancer’s sensitive beachy waves, and a Full Moon Lunar Eclipse in wild pony Sagittarius, we are asked to consciously choose to chase the exuberant feeling of our own expansion.

Consider your precious permeability this June. What are you breathing in? What do you allow to take up residence within the boundaries of your biosphere? Select your content with care, remembering that there are as many possible lives as there are skin cells to slough off and turn over. And if you can believe it, you can see it, astro babes.

Read on for your sign’s tip for sparking joy this June, and get ready to relish even more of your radiance…

GEMINI OR GEMINI RISING

The month of May asked you to release attachment to certainty and simply float on Gemini, content to catch a wave of feeling and ride it wherever it led. And now, the fullness of your birthday season washes you onto sunlit beaches, graced with hot-blooded clarity and the urge to get closer to whatever needs your strong touch. Put your hands on your life, Gemini. Feel its warm skin and beating heart, letting your fiercest feelings go first.

Find Joy In: Bold Declarations. Do not let fear-mongering Mercury retrograde talk run the show. ‘Tis your season for sharing whatever has been secreted. Let open lips open your channel.

CANCER OR CANCER RISING

May was a ghostbusting month for confronting past histories to power up your future, Cancer. Now June’s energies activate your sense of spiritual subtlety and emotional fine-tuning, asking you to calibrate the currents of your life. Without going nutso over every excruciating detail of your existence, consider how your attention to small movements fuels bigger shifts. The way you do one thing is the way you do everything right now, Cancer. Let your dollhouse of tiny desires become the whole wide world.

Find Joy In: Small Pleasures. Whether it is the cream swirling into your teacup or a new freckle you have discovered on your forehead, June’s attention to the fine-grained will have you feeling fine.

LEO OR LEO RISING

May’s medicine taught you about contained competence, Leo, as you embraced the self-sufficient feeling of creating solid shapes. June’s energies get deliciously shiftier but are no less strong for it, asking you to dilate and let a wondrous rush of growth just come through you. What petals are naturally unfolding towards the sun? What is already rapidly unfurling like time-lapse photography? Coax yourself forward with your own inevitable evolutions.

Find Joy In: Vividness. Whether it is a snow cone soaked in cherry red flavor or an anthem packed with fat, juicy beats, June wants you to saturate your colors and come fully alive.

VIRGO OR VIRGO RISING

May was a queenly emotional ride, Virgo, as you embraced the adventure embedded in every feeling tone. And now, June’s energies want you to get on top, reclaiming your potent place at the center of your life. But before you rush to flex your power move muscles, remember that this journey to celebrate your competence is about getting cozy with the challenges. What you do not yet know or “can’t” yet do is exactly where your power lies.

Find Joy In: Discovering Your Edge. Take June to discover the deliciousness in what might seem difficult, having fun with friction and relishing both the territories you have mastered and the turf you have yet to claim.

LIBRA OR LIBRA RISING

May asked you to trace the stories embedded in your scar tissue, Libra, embracing each mark of your precious personhood. Armed with all of it, June invites you to come alive to the adventure, fueling up with the anticipation of your next open road. As you stand poised to pursue your desires, consider the difference between your own wishes and what the world wants from you. This month is for making the mood boards and moves that are utterly bespoke, leaving conventional cravings in the dust.

Find Joy In: Breaking the Mold. June is your month for releasing the tried to find your truth, challenging convention to get closer to what you really, really want.

SCORPIO OR SCORPIO RISING   

May was built for beautiful boundaries, Scorpio, as you learned to find liberation in your limits. June’s energies ask you to lean back into these borders you have constructed, traveling inward without apologizing or explaining to anyone. Consider the spaciousness available in small disappearing acts, whether it is a day spent without your phone or a delay in immediately responding to an external demand. This month asks you to exercise your right to retreat, no matter how it is received.

Find Joy In: Going Off-Grid. June invites you to check out to check in, letting time off and away, power up your trust that you can’t “miss” anything truly meant for you.

SAGITTARIUS OR SAGITTARIUS RISING

May was for calibrating your speedometer, Sag, as you practiced powering up with the fine art of not pushing the river. June’s medicine continues this lesson in sweet release, asking you to embrace the feeling of weightlessness. How can you touch your own life more lightly? Start by noticing what habits and relationships bring out your “cling” and slowly unclutching to let them evolve in their own wild way. Beauty lies in the boldness of stepping off the edge of solid ground.

Find Joy In: Healthy Detachment. June’s subtle touch invites you to back away from stuck situations, letting more of the light in as you learn to let go.

CAPRICORN OR CAPRICORN RISING

May invited you to relax your uphill muscles and settle back into the sensation of already wholeness. And this month wants you to remember even more of your innate worthiness, as you refine where you are devoting your precious energy. Treat even the most mundane moments as a chance for prayer, Cappy, remembering that wherever you place your attention will grow under your gaze. June is your altar. Grace it with only the most valuable bits.

Find Joy In: Sharpening Your Senses. Bear witness to this wondrous world that you are a part of cultivating by attending closely to everything from the scent on the breeze to the color of a bird’s wing.

AQUARIUS OR AQUARIUS RISING

May asked you to rest into your organic authority with greater ease, Aquarius. And now June invites you to celebrate the “is-ness” of things, beckoning you to let it all present itself in real time without having to alter a single thing. Regard the cracks with a sympathetic gaze. Circle around the challenges like a curious cat, seeing all angles. June wants you to roll the sounds of your life around in your mouth, letting the meaning melt into being without having to bite down.

Find Joy In: Slow Motion. Whether it is R&B jams or an all-day roast, June is your invitation to get lusciously languid, savoring the sensation of having all the time in the world.

PISCES OR PISCES RISING

May asked you to feel the feelings without having to get stuck in sensation. And June builds this mediumship muscle, inviting you to consider your role as a creative “channel.” Start with simple explorations, noticing the act of making dinner or drawing a bath. Whether it is a final stir of a soup or a finishing touch on an elaborate project, it all stems from the same source, Pisces. Bearing witness to all manner of births will seed your magnum opus all on its own.

Find Joy In: Your Prized Possessions. Explore acts of creation by finding pleasure in the objects that surround you, marveling at where they came from and how they were made.

ARIES OR ARIES RISING

May was fantasy-flavored, here to teach about the pure power of imagination. And now June’s energies ask you to land firmly in the present, taking a good look around you at everything that is damn good. What if it could feel even better because of its inevitable evanescence? Let the last bite of a delicious meal fill your whole body with ecstasy. Turn the goodbye on a phone call into an ode to the power of love. The so-called “dying of the light” is your call to arms right now, Aries. Show up shining for this day only.

Find Joy In: The Ephemeral. Celebrate all kinds of rainbows, finding lasting pleasure in the glorious glimmer of what will not last.

TAURUS OR TAURUS RISING

May asked you to follow your own life teachings, swapping any outsourcing for homegrown wisdom. June’s medicine extends this notion of essentialism, reminding you that everything your heart needs is already close at hand. What feels tantalizingly trouble-free right now? Get carried on the currents that want to carry you, leaning into the people and parts of life that relish you exactly as you are. Sing along to the pop songs, Taurus, trusting that it can truly be as easy as ABC.

Find Joy In: What Loves You Back. From the beauty cream that sinks effortlessly into your skin to the friend that always texts you back, ‘tis the season for the boomerang bounty.

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