Cancer Weekly Horoscope

This week is pushing you forward one moment, then telling you to take a step back the next. Monday, the 20th, is quite an extreme and even hectic day in the skies above, and it is all because messenger Mercury is going to form a pair of back-to-back conjunctions in Aries and your 10th House of Career and Professional Reputation, which are going to feel like a bit of a jolt, to say the least. Mercury will first conjoin karmic Saturn in this ambitious sector, and then it will align at the same degree as warrior Mars only a few hours later. Saturn is all about tradition and building a firm foundation for yourself, while Mars simply wants to push ahead and make things happen, regardless of how stable the ground beneath your feet might be. With chatty Mercury in the mix, you could find yourself pinging about like a pinball, having important conversations or beginning exciting projects one moment, only to turn around and face red tape or other hurdles as you attempt to dash off towards the finish line. A VIP or other supervisor could prove a bit of a nuisance, or perhaps it feels like they are micromanaging you; try to maintain a cool head because you may feel provoked or simply be ready to lose your cool at the drop of a hat, but you don’t want to do that in a professional environment, or anywhere else it could negatively impact people’s view of you.

You get to take a backseat approach starting on the 24th, when alluring Venus will leave her home sign of Taurus and your 11th House of Social Groups, after having been on tour since late March, and flies into Gemini and your sleepy 12th House of the Subconscious until May 18th. The 12th House is more about endings and letting go, rather than beginning anything exciting or developing a current relationship, so consider this as the moment to clear your mental decks of any old baggage or toxic behavior that might be getting in the way of your relationship status. That way, when Venus enters your sign, you’ll be in perfect shape to receive her beautiful bounty, but until then, put on some rose-colored glasses and see where the wind might take you. That being said, it’s easy to get carried away with the fantasy, so remember that if something seems too good to be true, then it probably is.

Uranus follows Venus’s lead the very next day, and enters Gemini and your 12th House of Endings, where it will remain until 2033. This is just the beginning of a long-term cycle of slowly yet surely letting go of things which no longer serve you, but Uranus is the planet of surprise and loves to throw you curveballs, so you could have plenty of ah-ha moments or pivotal events happen right out of the blue in the coming years as you let go of old habits or dependencies. The 12th House is also very creative territory, so you may feel more artistically inspired during this time; be sure to let the Muse out to play whenever you can, as that will be a great way to process Uranus’s somewhat erratic behavior.