With the Sun shining in Cancer this week, we have the Full Moon in Capricorn, Jupiter's passage into Leo — making good on the promise we left last week — and Mercury, which, after stationing, at last begins its retrograde. It is a week of thresholds: places where something culminates and something begins again.

The Full Moon comes about when the two luminaries stand opposed from one end of the sky to the other: the Sun in the first degrees of Cancer, a guest in the Moon's house, and the Moon across from it, in Capricorn. There she reaches the height of her light in the place where she governs least — Capricorn is her exile, the cold and arid earth of Saturn. She is a luminary full of brightness and, at the same time, far from home: the image of one who reaches the summit of something in a territory that is not her own, and who therefore sees with clarity what she is cut off from, in a place where she cannot fulfil what she longs for.

The Cancer–Capricorn axis that this Moon lights up is that of home and world, of care and duty, of the lap that welcomes and the structure that demands. After a whole week meditating on what nourishes us, the Full Moon shows us the other shore: what is built with discipline, what endures through work and time, the necessary cold of Saturn that gives form and limit to what care has made grow. It is a moment of reckoning — to see what has ripened and deserves to be gathered, and what still asks for effort, patience and restraint.

And the departure foretold is fulfilled at last: on 30 June Jupiter leaves Cancer, its place of exaltation, and enters Leo. The greatest of the benefic forces leaves the sign of withdrawal and settles in the house of the Sun — the fixed, regal, radiant fire. The generosity that protected and overflowed in Cancer's shelter now changes its tone: Jupiter becomes magnanimous, creative, turned outward, generous as one who gives in public and in broad daylight. It is the abundance that wants to shine and be recognised; and it brings, for that reason, its own shadow — excess, pride, the will to take up the whole stage and to measure worth by applause.

While Jupiter moves forward, Mercury makes the opposite motion. After refusing, last week, to leave Cancer, it stations and begins to draw back — retrograde, retracing its own steps. In the sign of the Moon, the mind turns inward and backward: to memory, to what was left unsaid within the home, to old conversations and family matters that ask to be revisited. It is a time to review before affirming, to reread before signing, to listen to what haste had left unheard — and to reckon with the misunderstandings, the delays and the words that get crossed when thought runs counter to the clock.

There are, then, two tempos living side by side: one that opens the door forward, in Leo, and another that calls us back to the threshold we came from. The image of the week is that of an adorned doorway — the gateway one crosses when one stage is complete and another begins, the brief celebration at the entrance of a place raised by work. Before crossing, one looks back and takes stock of what was built; in crossing, one carries what proved solid and leaves behind what was only weight.

At bottom, the whole week returns us to the same question: what is already ready to be celebrated and crossed, and what still asks us to go back before moving on — and what, from the threshold, truly deserves to come with us.