Cancer
From the start, this is not just a month where there needs to be some guardrails in place when it comes to a balance between work and play, but they need to remain in place for the rest of the year. With all four planets in your career sector in retrograde motion and no planetary activity in your busy work sector since earlier in the year, this isn't typically an active point in any professional year. For you, November and December are usually the busier months of the year. Meanwhile, while the Sun will always end October in a playful and creative part of your chart, he doesn't return until 23rd October. Yet from day one, both sides of life's fence are all of a sudden going to power up and it will stay that way for the rest of the year.
It is all to do with one of the smallest players in the cosmos and the outsized impact she is going to have on both sides. While Juno, the queen of commitment will leave a playful and creative part of your chart on 1st October, nine days after Mars returned to fire up your romantic and creative passions and fighting spirit for the first time in two years. As well as leaving you with the resolve to follow your heart, when Juno leaves and he takes the wheel, Mars will be firmly in charge and with something to fight for. At the same time, this will not only see Juno return to your work sector, but straight into a friendly aspect to Neptune, the planet of hopes and dreams in your career sector.
Juno will go on to form a friendly aspect to all four planets in your career sector between now and the end of the year, as will the rest of the planets that will follow in her footsteps. With Neptune retrograding back out on 22nd October, Juno will lend her resolve to the chasing of old professional dreams. Adding more fuel to this is not only the Moon's return to your career sector from 6th October to 8th October, but with the Full Moon on 7th October able to act as a catalyst. Where Juno leads, a host of planets will follow, including Venus and Mars, who are set to meet up in your work sector for the first time in 19 years. For now, until leaving your communication sector Venus is more focused on getting the communication lines open and especially on the relationship front.
Cancer
While the Sun won't return to your romantic sector until 23rd October, the point in the year when the solar spotlight will always shift onto matters of the heart and all things romantic, the month not only gets off to a romantically charged start, but it will stay that way all month and into next month. There is also a changing of the guard on 1st October that will change the dynamics, while making this a powerful day for drawing a line in the sand. This is the day that having returned in November 2024 for what is normally a three month transit through your romantic sector the asteroid Juno, the queen of commitment finally leaves.
Juno has been working all year to give you the resolve to follow your heart and time to update your romantic resolutions. As she leaves, Juno will pass the torch to Mars, who had returned nine days earlier. As well as giving Mars something to fight for and a better sense of where to channel his romantic passions and fighting spirit, this is when the focus shifts from setting resolutions to putting this into practice. Meanwhile, Mercury will not only return from 7th October to 30th October to give your heart a voice and to put heart and mind on the same page, but a retrograde phase will bring him back for a do over next month.
Mars is in your romantic sector for the whole of October and while he will have left by the time Venus, the planet of love returns next month, by then he will have set things up for her to bring things home. Meanwhile, thanks to the Moon's return to your romantic sector from 22nd October to 24th October, there will be romantically charged lunar vibes to welcome the Sun when he returns on 23rd October. Meanwhile, with no planetary activity in your relationship sector, with the Moon here until 2nd October and then returning again from 27th October to 29th October, these will be important points in the month for checking in and becoming more emotionally engaged and aware.