Cancer Horoscope for July 2013

This is a powerful time of empowerment for you, Cancer, and a thoughtful and almost meditative one as well. With Mercury retrograding through your sign, nothing appears the same as it was. You will come out the other side by month's end, a little mixed up but definitely further along that when you started. You have all the keys at your fingertips, and have, perhaps, only to find the will to use them, and the daring within your thought process to make sudden departures away from previous norms. The universe is calling you to attempt a mystical slant-wise approach to all your conundrums, so that they disappear as they were and become minimized from the standpoint of this slightly different perspective, as though you were able to apply new combinations to old locks.

As the month begins, you are excited, and also a little scared, at the magnitude of the changes coursing through you. This is another big month for you, as your birthday time unfolds, in terms of the pressure to continue to make changes in alignment with the evolutionary arc of your development that you have undertaken, in secret contract with your higher Self, somewhere long ago and far away. The past few days before July 1st might have been a little intense, since the recent Quarter Moon from the last weekend of June made important aspects to both Pluto and Uranus in angular sectors of your solar chart.

Mercury is also retrograding through your sign, and likely contacting key personal planets as it does, giving you a meditative pause from the rat race pressure of events in these modern times. Mercury's retrograde can be considered to last all month when you take the extra two weeks of its retrograde shadow into account. The station to direct motion on July 20th represents a shift in the energy that will make the reflective and inward turning nature of this period of time even more poignant.

Since Pluto is highlighted now, and located in your opposite sign, symbolizing relationship issues, you are in a long-term phase of accumulating important transformational realizations concerning how you connect with significant partners. This process will continue to take place within you at different levels, and for different degrees of intensity — those that are more difficult and others that are mere nudges in a particular direction — until your soul's intended result is reached. You can cooperate with Pluto and make your own path easier by recognizing that something inside you is changing in a fundamental way, and trying to stay as open as possible to your process.

Uranus in square to Pluto was also triggered by the recent lunation, continuing into the first week of July. Located in your career sector, Uranus symbolizes sudden departures from what was expected, so that you might be witnessing surprise career moves that you perhaps didn't even know that you had in you. These are illuminating in demonstrating to you how much you need your own unique viewpoint to be honored. There could be intuitional leaps that cut corners to information arising from somewhere deep within you, and you do well to pay close attention to what you can glean in this unorthodox fashion.

The big news for you this month is the Saturn-Neptune trine in your growth sectors, which is marvelously enhanced by the entrance of Jupiter into your sign, making a grand trine in Water. You will likely feel quite comfortable, and even lucky, also inspired, especially through the first three weeks of July, and at the same time a bit foggy and confused. The energy of Neptune is to go beyond the physical for new ideas, information and inspiration. You are calling in angel guidance to help you with necessary perspective shifts that will prepare the way for further transformative experiences in the late fall.

Simultaneously, Saturn in your self-expression sector creates a slow-down and a focus there, and also grounds your aspirations in practicality, so that this becomes an excellent time for producing visionary art of some kind, or for expressing yourself at extremely deep levels. All in all this is a pivotal month for you , wired up not for action but for inner contemplative work.