Cancer Horoscope for August 2012

This is somehow a pleasant journey, Cancer. In spite of the confusion of shifting values you are feeling good, especially for these first two weeks of the month, completing the cycle that began with the recent New Moon in your sign. This is not to say that your trials are over, far from it, accompanied as they are by the massive transformation of your entire relationship dynamic; although it is also truly said that with knowledge comes power. Enlightenment continues to come to you in sudden bursts of insight that seem like bolts from the blue but actually originate within the depths of your own mind and heart. Later in the month Venus settles further into your sign and you are feeling both the joy and the pressure of relating.

As the month begins, you are riding the wave of the recent New Moon in your sign from the middle of July. This has given you a good feeling of being comfortable in your own skin, although you have been somewhat beset by trials and will continue to be so, as the current month unfolds. Your relationship dynamic is changing rapidly, and as well your concept of what you do in the world, and the two are linked. You are also philosophically pulled to dream work, accepting the unconscious wisdom of the body and tuning in to angel guidance or your own inner voice. You do well to pay heed to these intuitional pulses of information from deep inside, even though the strictly logical approach of consensus thought warns you not to.

There has been a strong move on your part away from ordinary thinking about career or anything else, and toward your own intuitional sense. A metamorphosis is going on that is far from complete and that comes to you in fits and starts. It might be that important partners in your life are helping you with this quest, or perhaps there is a reaction back the other way in which your rather sudden career moves could be affecting your relationships. Your relationship dynamic is transforming and can prove difficult to the extent that you fail to recognize the extent of your changes there. All this is ameliorated when you can rely on your deep process of intuition to guide you through.

Mercury is also retrograde in your resources sector, meaning that your values and also your finances are in flux right now, which can be troubling. At the very least these matters could be under consideration for deeper refection. This theme of resources, financial and otherwise, is up for you right now, so that issues could arise of material versus immaterial concerns or of mundane versus the startling clarity of inner numinousity. Your sector of home, family and tribe represents another powerful factor for you right now and is the area of your chart where Saturn resides. You find that you have more energy for this important part of your life, and also that things do not necessarily go smoothly in this area. There are also important lessons to be gained which once mastered will have the effect of granting you a greater sense of overall security.

Detailed Monthly Forecast

With the Full Moon of late evening, Wednesday, August 1st, taking place in your sector of intimacy and of personal evolution, you are seeking equilibrium between self and other, and reaching out for a balance within yourself also. Your dreams are especially powerful for you now, and could supply answers that you seek for in vain within your waking life. There really is less difference between these worlds than you might suppose, which is one of the important philosophical truths of this time period. The symbolism of your life, just as in dreams, has much to tell you about what is going on inside you.

With the Last Quarter Moon of Thursday, August 9th, you are even more contemplative, and are engaged in mulling over the happenings of the cycle up to now, with the intention of making better sense of them in terms of inner priorities. This is a powerful time for you, when Mercury has just stationed and is still very slow-moving and therefore more powerfully configured in your resources sector, and when Venus, planet of relationship and artistic impulse, has just entered your sign. Everything is a bit murky and confused, but this in itself carries a message, not to rely entirely on the simple logical interpretation of your situation.

The late Leo New Moon of Friday, August 17th, brings fresh energy to your process and a new sense of purpose. You are still very much in the midst of transformation and relationship considerations. Issues of home and family take on added importance at this critical juncture, and you might begin to recognize the extent to which they contribute to your own sense of psychological security. There are wounded places inside yourself that do not always come readily to your awareness, and these might be more present to you and therefore more present for your healing them.

With the First Quarter Moon of Friday, August 24th, all these issues become sharper in focus as potentially, tensions arise to vex you, and to challenge the initiatives that you have been attempting to foster over this past week. Illusion competes with discovering your deepest truth in these matters, so that it is difficult to tell them apart. As always, you benefit from letting your inner wisdom rise to the occasion, and trusting in the essentially beneficence of the cosmos to guide you though.