Weekly Horoscopes for the Week of June 20 by the Cut

Frida Kahlo, a Cancer.
Photo-Illustration: by Preeti Kinha; Photos Getty

On Tuesday morning, the sun enters caring, introspective Cancer. During the month ahead, your attention may shift from the world around you to the one within. If you’ve been neglecting your inner life, ignoring your need for security or companionship or healing in favor of constant socializing, this is the time to make things right. If you’ve felt distant from your loved ones, Cancer season offers a chance to find your way back to each other. Then on Wednesday evening, love planet Venus enters lighthearted Gemini, preventing things from getting too sentimental, and encouraging you to see the beauty even in relationships and experiences that aren’t necessarily profound. You won’t take yourself so seriously that you forget how to laugh, how to flirt, how to simply take pleasure in the company of the people around you.

Though caring for other people makes your life richer, it can also be stressful. The more invested you are, the more vulnerable you are to being hurt. The more you cherish and value a relationship, the more you have to lose. When you’re feeling particularly pessimistic, you worry that loving isn’t worth the risk, that it can only come to a painful end. This week, your job is to be brave enough to keep caring for others anyway. Because right now, love won’t make you weak or depleted, but the opposite: strong and fearless and ready to fight, because you know what you’re fighting for.

Sometimes it surprises you (though you know it shouldn’t) when others are as firm in their convictions as you are in yours, when they prove themselves to be your equal in determination. Your first instinct in these situations might be to brace for conflict. What other result can there be when two stubborn people butt heads? But this week especially, competition isn’t your only option. If you’re open to it, you might discover something better instead: a friend willing and able to stand by your side, to fight just as hard for you as you do for yourself.

No matter how charming or fun or well-liked you are (as a Gemini, it’s probably very), there are still moments when you feel invisible. You know that people enjoy your company, even admire you, but you fear that they just aren’t paying close enough attention to actually see you. It would be easy, this week, to respond by becoming louder, impossible to ignore. But see what happens if you give others the benefit of the doubt. You might be surprised by just how perceptive they really are, and how much they value you — not just the mask you wear in public, but the real you — after all.

Lately you’re hyper aware of just how much in this life lies completely outside of your control. You cannot force those in power to develop a conscience they do not have. You can’t even persuade certain people who are close to you to act in the ways you wish they would. The sun rises and sets, and…