Cancer Monthly Forecast

This is a month that makes sense of why the lunar nodes have been policing your work/life balance all year and why this has become more important than ever. By the time you reached the end of April, the Sun had been gone from your career sector for 10 days and with Venus having just left the day before this is when the push to get this professional year up to speed should have ended. While Mercury was still here, still in his early days back in direct motion he wasn't in any hurry. Yet how April ended and how May will begin are two completely different realities, for it is just as you move into the new month that Mars, the planet of passion and the warrior planet of the cosmos arrives. Mars is the last of the faster planets to move through your career sector this year and here for the whole of May and into the early weeks of June, rather than dialling back this professional year is catching its second wind. It has been two years since Mars was here and while Mercury is giving you the intellectually savvy edge needed to work smart, these could be some of the busiest six weeks of the year, rivalled only by a busy start to the year. Meanwhile, the reason for a need for balance is that while this will see Mars leave your sector of adventure, travel, learning and discovery, Saturn and Neptune are staying on and they won't be ignored. At the same time, while the Sun will always spend the first three weeks of May in your friendship sector, with Venus having just returned and Jupiter leaving on 26th May, this is an important month for your social life, friendships, teamwork and for both personal and professional networking. However, the biggest need for the right work/life balance will come later in the month, when the Sun returns to a nostalgic and reflective part of your chart on 21st May to begin the month long wind down of your old solar year. This will be followed by Venus' return on 24th May, with a chance to take your heart on a nostalgic trip down memory lane ahead of her return to Cancer next month. However, it is on 26th May that Jupiter will return to begin the 13 month wind down of your current 12 year Jupiter cycle of expansion.

While there is no planetary activity on the romantic front, a Full Moon in your romantic sector at the end of April has given matters of the heart a boost, at what is nearly always going to be the least active point in any year on the romantic front. The Moon managed to move through during Mars' final days in an adventurous part of your chart, with their friendly aspect bringing together a mix of romance, passion and adventure that you have hopefully been able to hold onto. Mars is just leaving as you move into the new month and while things are taking a busier turn and especially professionally, this gives you something to hold onto. Your romantic sector will remain empty until the Moon comes full circle, moving through your romantic sector again from 21st May to 23rd May, making these some of the most romantically charged days of the month. It is a different story on the relationship front, where three months after returning for what is normally a three month visit to your relationship sector and to begin her first deep dive into your relationship needs and priorities in four years, instead of preparing to leave the dwarf planet Ceres is instead slowing down ahead of a retrograde turn on 15th May that will keep her here until December. As you move into the new month the Moon has just left your relationship sector, something that allows you to begin the month emotionally engaged from the start, but also with a sense of the support available. The Moon was here when Venus, the planet of love returned to your friendship sector and just as a week after turning direct in your communication sector, the asteroid Juno is back in the game. Venus will connect directly with Juno in the early days of the month, getting the month off to a good start on the communication and relationship fronts and when it comes to friendship and relationship building. The Moon will come full circle with another chance to check in from 26th May to 28th May.