Your free Cancer horoscope for today, this week and this month. Unearth your Cancer star sign – dates, attributes, traits, character & more!
Today’s Cancer Horoscope:
As Venus and Mercury spend their first full day together in a nostalgic and reflective part of your chart, heart and mind are not only on the same page and both focused on the rear view mirror. With the Sun just 11 days away from joining them here, this is a chance to get a jump on the month long wind down of your old solar year before it begins. However, unlike when Venus and Mercury met up here last year, this time you have Mars in Cancer and he is already opening old doors while you are just beginning to close old doors.
Weekly and Monthly Cancer Horoscopes:
Cancer Weekly Horoscope
The week not only begins with the Moon in your relationship sector but just as Mercury, the planet of communication is spending his last full day in your friendship sector. It was their friendly aspect over the weekend that helped to compound Mercury’s friendly aspect to Pluto, in his first full week in retrograde motion in your relationship sector. While Mercury will leave on Tuesday, this sets the scene for what will continue to be a good week for friendship and relationship building. Meanwhile, the Moon will go on to have a significant impact on two very different areas of your chart. Returning to your financial sector in the early hours of the week, the Moon will fuel your financial instincts and imagination for the last time before Saturn turns retrograde here and before Jupiter leaves next week. Yet just as important will be the Moon’s return to an adventurous part of your chart on Wednesday. These adventurous lunar vibes are a taste of things to come, ahead of Jupiter’s return next week for the first time in over a decade.
Cancer Monthly Horoscope
There is a mix of the expected and the unexpected this month, giving you the confidence of knowing that it won’t be business as usual, with one month simply running into the next. What you would expect at this time of year is to have the Sun spend the first three weeks of May in your sector of friendship, teamwork and networking before beginning the wind down of your old solar year on 21st May. Also expected is that Venus and Mercury, the planets that rule the heart and mind will also make that same step, with Mercury leaving your friendship sector on 4th May and Venus on 9th May. This is when Mercury will give you a chance to get your head around closing old doors and making sense of the past, giving you a head start before the wind down of your old solar year begins. For Venus, this is more a chance to take your heart on a nostalgic trip down memory lane. Also expected at the start of the month is that the focus is still on your financial situation and money matters, with Jupiter and Saturn, the two most powerful planets in the solar system still in your financial sector, where they have been since December. However, while the biggest change will happen mid month there is already change in the air thanks to Mars’ return to Cancer last month. By the time you move into the new month, Mars has been in Cancer for a week and the launch of this new Mars cycle is still in its early days. Not due to leave until 12th June, Mars will spend the whole of May forging new paths, opening new doors and at the same time fuelling your passions, drive, competitive and warrior spirit. Even before you start winding down this current solar year, Mars is forging paths that your new solar year will benefit from. Meanwhile, the biggest game changer is Jupiter’s departure from your financial sector on 14th May, leaving Saturn to keep the focus on money matters, with a retrograde turn taking things into review mode. This frees Jupiter, the largest and most significant planet in the solar system to join forces with dreamy Neptune in your sector of adventure, travel, learning and discovery.
About Cancer:
Cancer Attributes
Zodiac Symbol: ♋
Zodiac Sign: 🦀 The Crab
Cancer Birth Dates: June 21 – July 22
Element: 🌊 Water
Planetary Ruler: ☽ Moon
Color: White
Quality:Cardinal
Most Compatible Signs: ♑ Capricorn, ♉ Taurus
Lucky Day/s: Monday, Thursday
Lucky Numbers:
Cancer Traits
Strengths: Emotional, imaginative, loyal, persuasive, sympathetic, tenacious
Weaknesses: Insecure, manipulative, moody, pessimistic, suspicious
Likes: Art, dining with friends, hobbies, helping family and friends, relaxing whilst surrounded by water
Dislikes: Criticism of close family, discussing personal life, strangers
Cancer Character
Those of the star sign Cancer can be very difficult people to become acquainted with. They can be profoundly perceptive, devoted and emotional – being very attached [READ MORE] to and caring intensely of home and family affairs. Cancer folk are very perceptive and sensitive of the pain and anguish experienced by others, and will shoulder compassion towards them.
Like Pisces and Scorpio, Cancer is of the element water. They are as such heavily influenced by the emotions within their heart, which can give rise to them being detached from the surrounding world. With their planetary ruler being the Moon, the lunar phases afflicts upon Cancer folk sudden transitory emotions which they have no control over. This adds further turmoil to their already heightened emotional state, all as if they (and their family and friends) didn’t already have enough to contend with.
During adolescences, those of the Cancer sign need to be nurtured with care and compassion, same as they generously afford to others, as they lack the capability to cope and safeguard themselves. If they are reared without sufficient love or patience, it could later in life result in unpredictably in their mood, and self-centered or selfish behavior. Their compassionate nature renders them speedy to support others, and equally speedy to retreat in conflict. When Cancer folk do decide to stand up to a fight, they often grossly miscalculate their foe, picking a fight with someone much stronger than they realized. If the Cancer sign has made sound choices in their life, then they can be very happy and content with an harmonious home and a loving family. [READ LESS]
Cancer and Friendship
Cancer folk will happily engage with new people, but will however seem distant and avoiding of those that they believe their family will not approve of. They [READ MORE] immediately hold respect for people they have just met and are able to communicate freely. This is due largely to their intuitive and compassionate personality, which means they can initially connect with a person at an emotional level, as opposed to an awkward, curious and superficial question-and-answer exchange. Cancer mostly enjoy social interaction within intimate surroundings such as at home, where they can feel more secure, in control, and where they can be more perceptive. Their downside is that their compassionate, intuitive and emotional nature can be a challenge for pragmatic people to understand. [READ LESS]
Cancer and Family
Of all the signs in the zodiac, Cancer are the most deeply caring of family relationships and of the home. Being intensely sentimental in character, they will be [READ MORE] ‘the’ family member that fondly perpetuates the memories of family, often by keeping extensive photo collections, maintaining a family tree, or organizing family get-togethers and reunions. If they have achieved contentment and security within their own life, then they can make for wondrous and deeply caring parents, always in sync with the emotions of their children even after they’ve grown up and moved out of home. [READ LESS]
