Cancer Weekly Horoscope

Life is about to kick things up a notch, Cancer! The 9th arrives with a beautiful New Moon in Scorpio and your 5th House of Romance and Creativity. This is a wonderful opportunity to plant the seeds of something that could bring a lot of happiness into your life, so don’t be scared to dive into something special and new, whether you’re leading with the heart, or standing center stage where everyone can see you. This sector is all about the things that bring a smile to your face, meaning you have cosmic clearance to pursue all kinds of lovely things, all without worrying what other people might think or say. This energy is for you, so even if it takes a little time to get off the ground thanks to Mercury retrograde, it will still prove wonderfully rewarding.

Speaking of Mercury retrograde, come the 13th that planet finally wakes up from hitting the snooze button in Scorpio and your 5th House for the last three weeks. Now that the cosmic communicator is waking up and getting back to business, Mercury is going to put his foot to the gas and send you off into the future. When the planet of communication retrogrades through this fun-loving and creative sector of our chart, we often come into contact with old passion projects or relationships that were never brought all the way to fruition. Now, however, it will be much easier to engage with the things that bring you joy without feeling like you need to bend over backwards to make it happen. If this cycle brought any old flames back into the picture then this shift can give you the clarity required to decide who belongs in your life and who should hit the road once and for all.

They say home is where the heart is but for the last six weeks you might have felt like there wasn’t enough room for your heart or any other emotions in your life. Since the beginning of October, romantic Venus has been retrograde, first hitting the snooze button in Scorpio and your passionate 5th House before backing up into Libra and your domestic 4th House. Venus tends to deal with romance, among other things, but the 4th House deals more with platonic and familial emotional issues, so it is possible things have felt a little lackluster at Chez You as of late. Perhaps you kept butting heads with a sibling or roommate, or perhaps you simply felt out of touch with everything around you, not to mention suddenly being so over the decorating scheme you loved just a month or two ago.

Whatever it was, Venus is waking up on the 13th, and will finally begin blessing us all with her bounty once again, so you can start to feel a little less like you’re living in the movie Room. It will take a few weeks for Venus to reach her normal cruising speed, and in the meantime, you’ll be slowly but surely returning to that place of satisfaction you were at before the retrograde started; once you’ve cleared that territory you can begin to welcome new and exciting opportunities into your life.