CANCER HOROSCOPE for AUGUST 2024

CANCER/CANCER ASCENDANT

The New Moon of August 4th begins the month, in your 2nd house of values & prosperity:

To the extent this is about personal autonomy, is great to focus your natural financial genius, to support being able to do your own thing, to do with material security. And perfect to have Venus involved, to be as creative as possible about monetising your talent. And bringing charm & intelligence to any financial/biz negotiations.

Because Pluto in your 8th house can be so lucrative, if you can manage mutually beneficial scenarios with the people you are inextricably financially interdependent with. Of course this reveals any power dynamics lurking under the surface, but as I said, ideally Venusian diplomacy keeps it sweet, for healthy mutual advantage?

I mean as much as biz/family/money situations, this is equally relevant for love/sexy romantic entanglements. Passions may be running high, but you are kind of the protagonist; in terms of choosing how much to share your feelings, with a very particular point of view about your desired version of relationship dynamics. So if any control freakery here, just saying you may be an active player-know what I mean?

Hopefully Venus conjunct Mercury, trine Ceres in your love/partner sector is a chance to share beautiful feelings, with the special people in your life. Realistic, mutual support matters.

So we need to talk about your 3rd house, of ideas and communication:

Venus into your 3rd house from Aug 5th, just on time for Mercury in your 3rd house turning retrograde:

Suddenly you are charming & sweet as hell, with the gorgeous capacity to coax any conversation into caring connection, you are famous for. Which is lucky, because any latent misunderstandings or tetchy disagreements also suddenly reveal themselves. Ooh this could be a bitch fest, if you were tempted to react to certain people’s idiocy or your own crabby moods?? But of course you choose wisely, to cultivate intelligent conversations instead, to work stuff out right?

So when Venus direct meets Mercury retro, exactly conjunct August 8th. An ideal moment to figure out certain conversations, that are ready to be finessed. A bit of healthy compromise goes as long way, to make the effort to appreciate one another’s point of view.

A helpful attitude. As  Venus cruising forward for the rest of the month, wants your most promising conversations to evolve. As Mercury retro, into your 2nd house from Aug 16th has you bitching & obsessing about the details of whoever is supporting your point of view, or not? Again, ideally you take the time to finesse the relationships that matter, whilst ignoring any weirdos trying to do your head in…

Especially Mars conjunct Jupiter in your soul sector, exact Aug 14th. You get how much you are energised so much more, tuning into your inner world & spiritual/creative inspo- than worrying too much about the white noise of the world/relationship dramas around you? Working on lovely relationship with yourself, and whatever sense of divine connection fills your cup is the real turn on here. Cosmic, self aware, creatively inspired Cancer magic is such a buzz mid month.

Then ok, the Full Moon of Aug 20th in your 8th house, brings your attention back to the imperatives of relationship dynamics. This is where passions are really running high, whatever feelings have been brewing all month are fully revealed! Luckily Sun conjunct Mercury retro, in your 2nd house, opposite this Moon, is a chance to get real about your own intentions. The better to be as clear as possible, with the people that really matter to you. So worth the effort, to embrace empowering vulnerability-this is your superpower, right?

 Image: unable to find original credit, for this gorgeous picture.