Cancer Horoscope for September 2016

This month is devoted, Cancer, to unlearning and then re-learning what shapes your worldview and basic systems of belief. If that seems too abstract, consider that everything you do is based upon unconscious premises that are now being made more conscious, and thus more available to your mental process for purposes of planning ahead, and for understanding just what drives your goal-orientation and your intentions for partnership with others. Your very sense of what relationship means for you is changing, and is expansive, idealized, and filled with unexpected profound meaning. As you mull over your desires and drives, you may well find changes in your ideas for how to take your charact Eristic energy forward into a more livable future. One important focus of these rather intense times comes to be utilizing, for the betterment of the society that surrounds you, what only you yourself have on store, deep inside.

As the month begins, you are feeling the profound shift in energy represented by the very strong Solar Eclipse and New Moon of early on the 1st. This configuration features retrograde Mercury conjunct positive and expansive Jupiter, an ally to those of your sign, indicating that you are entering into an entire monthly cycle of serious introspection. This New Moon takes place in the sector of your chart that represents communication and learning, and thus your mental process is turning to self-reflection and to investigating, potentially re-learning, nearly everything that you thought that you knew. It is hopeful that you will come out the other side mentally refreshed and with greater assurance that you know what you know, and that your interior attitude fully supports your outer one.

Other major features for you, this month, are indicated by the several combinations of modern planetary archetypes that are triggered by the timing of this New Moon, and thus remain powerful factors throughout the month. These are: constricting Saturn in collision with numinous and mystical Neptune, and also Saturn versus the revolutionary impulse for change represented by trickster Uranus. If these potentially antithetical elements combine in a less than constructive manner, which is what you need to beware of, then there could be confusion and illusion regarding what you believe, together with a nay-saying inner criticism that shoots down new ideas and compassionate impulses as un-real or impractical. On the upside, with Saturn invoked there is a strong commitment for grounded intentionality that spreads from daily activity to outer world presence and efforts toward meaningful career moves. This combines in a favorable way with the potent idealism of Neptune and the innovation in attitude represented by Uranus. You are readying yourself this month to launch new ships upon the high seas of these climactic times, and later this fall to follow though with the actualization of these ideals, in studied and considered deeds.