2017 Cancer Horoscope Preview

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Cancer Horoscopes, Year 2017: Summary/preview of the year ahead for the zodiac sign Cancer.

2017 Cancer Horoscope Overview

The following is an overview horoscope for the zodiac sign of Cancer the Crab for the year 2017.

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Cancer Horoscope Preview for 2017

Areas of Expansion in 2017 for Cancer:

Your Cancer 2017 Horoscope points to areas of life that are destined to expand and grow.

Home
Family
Attachments
New Beginnings in Business
Romance & Love
Play
Creativity
Children
Hobbies

Until October 10, 2017, your inner world, family life, domestic activities, and domestic arrangements continue to expand and grow. Relations with family can be especially pleasant and supportive. You might move to a new home, likely a bigger one, or expand real estate holdings. Some of you can get a mortgage or support that allows you to expand your home base. Family itself can expand, or there might be an addition to your home. Some might take on a roommate for example, or bring more friends to their home. Others might pool resources with a partner and move in together. Entertaining in the home can be emphasized, if that is something that makes you happy. Otherwise, you can experience a stronger sense of peace and privacy in your home life.

Because Jupiter is the natural ruler of your solar sixth house of work and services, some of you could be working from home or your work can be related to home and domestic affairs.

Generally speaking, more positive energy is brought to your domestic world, and long-standing problems with family might be put to bed. Do be careful about overextending yourself with home improvements, or larger accommodations that are beyond your means. Your personal life tends to overshadow your professional life or material activities during this cycle. Relationships with family can improve significantly now, although pre-existing problems might be magnified initially.

On a more psychological level, confidence in yourself and feelings of security increase during this period.

Potential negatives: Excessive money spent on home improvement, too much emphasis on the home to the point that other areas of your life suffer, or some unwillingness to expand your horizons. Avoiding or escaping responsibilities is a stronger potential in March and August to September. Uncertainty in your career or lack of definition of your life plan and lack of direction can be a struggle and can impact your feelings of security and family life. There can be a conflict between partnership and family life. You may be wanting to please too many people, and overdoing things leaves you exhausted, as it seems there is never enough time and energy to meet all your needs. Another potential problem is feeling the need to frequently have to choose between staying close to home or sticking with familiar paths versus sticking your neck out, traveling, or expanding.

However, throughout this period but particularly in August, stronger energy is available for enjoying the most positive effects of this transit. There may be increased resources available to you for improving your home life. Work and home combine in wonderful, constructive ways.

For the most part, you are likely to feel emotionally secure and supported during this cycle. This is a time of nest-feathering. It’s an intense, fruitful time for psychotherapy and purging as you are willing to look at the root of problems. It’s a good time for long-term financial planning and strengthening your financial picture through some form of pooling of resources. There can be more power and resources available to you to establish yourself, especially through a home or property, but also for long-term business endeavors.

From October 10th onward, your creative, playful, and romantic side expands and grows. This is a powerful time for self-expression, new forms of entertainment, and romantic explorations.

Your focus turns to having a fun time, enjoying life, and expressing yourself in freeing, rewarding ways. Your romantic and creative worlds begin to expand and grow. You are learning to express yourself playfully and creatively without apology, and you are more willing to take some personal risks in order to do so!

Romantic opportunities tend to abound during this cycle; or chances to kick back and have fun, express yourself in unique ways, and pursue hobbies and entertainment are abundant. Creatively speaking, you can be filled with ideas and plans for realizing a dream.

This can be a fertile time on many levels, physically and emotionally. This position is associated with casual dating and exploring romantic possibilities.

This enhancing, supportive influence is with you until November 2018.

Potential negatives: Excessive emphasis on, or attention to, having fun to the detriment of other life departments. Throughout this transit, you may need to come to a balance between attention to work and health routines and attention to romantic and creative needs.

However, for the most part, you are likely to feel supported and confident during this approximately year-long cycle. Stronger times for all of these matters occur starting in December when creative expression and imagination are powerful. Matters of the heart can be magical. There can be wonderful connections made through travel or educational endeavors, or shared adventures. A lover, child, or friend can open your mind or heart to new experiences. Creatively speaking, you can be well-received and your audience is likely to expand. Your sense of drama expands now.

Areas of Contraction and Lessons in Simplicity:

Work
Health
Daily Routines
Partnerships
Negotiations

Your Cancer 2017 Horoscope points to areas of contraction, restriction, and necessary “slimming down” in order to test for stable foundations. There are always areas of life that require more simplicity. Tests may be part of the picture as you learn that life with only growth and expansion can run away with itself.

Until December 19, 2017, the areas of your life that require a “back to basics” approach involve the sector that rules are associated with the sector of your chart that governs work, health, daily routines, employees, pets, and habits. There may be tests of sorts in these areas of life as if the universe is checking that the foundations are strong. Things built on weak foundations may crack under the pressure of these tests. Those that are strong will endure and strengthen.

This influence began December 23rd, 2014, and will be with you until December 2017. It can be felt most strongly earlier or later in the cycle, depending on whether you were born earlier or later in the sign of Cancer. This year, those born with 21 to 30 degrees of Cancer Ascendant and those born July 13-22 are most directly affected.

Tests can come to work and working relationships during this cycle. Responsibilities in your daily life can weigh heavily – they appear magnified. Do be sure that you are tending to your responsibilities, and not letting them pile up. Some of you might even experience some form of loss or scandal on the work front, or possibly some heavy-handed activity and power plays from co-workers, although this is only a small possibility.

For those of you unhappy with your job or out of work, you are not likely to jump to grab just any position now. You are looking for something mature, long-term, and reflective of your values. Because you are more discriminating now, the pickings might seem to be slim. There can be confusion about where you are headed, ultimately, in your professional life.

The monotonous part of your work can seem harder to take, and it’s up to you to work on restructuring enough to make it work for you. Try not to see flaws and complain. Take it upon yourself to make whatever adjustments you can that will improve your working conditions.

This can be true of daily routines, not just working conditions. Health matters might be a little more problematic than usual. However, these are generally small problems designed to give you a kick in the pants to take better care of your programs.

While the work we do may sometimes feel too routine or boring, it can also give us a strong feeling of purpose. We want to be needed, we want to help and support others, and to do our share. If you’ve been overdoing a supportive role, which is quite possible with excessive Sagittarius on the cusp of your sixth house, or if you’ve been scattering your energies and haven’t truly noted just how much you do, then Saturn here will stimulate you to tidy up. In the end, you can, in fact, feel more joyful about the services your provide and the support you give, after taking a realistic look at these things and making the necessary adjustments.

However, while Saturn squares Chiron this year peaking in April and November, you might wrestle with a desire to escape the duller, seemingly lifeless elements of your routine. Your work or health could seem more overwhelming or restrictive as a result of a strong feeling that you need to focus on bigger and better things. Seek ways to balance your activities and responsibilities. As well, watch that you don’t fall into bad health habits when unhappy. Saturn-Chiron is an energy that tends to trigger some of our deepest vulnerabilities and tendencies to self-sabotage on health and work levels can emerge now.

Because the ruler of your partnership sector is in your solar sixth house, work and partnership can be connected in some significant manner during this cycle, such as meeting a partner through work or services or working with a partner.

This is also an excellent time for simplifying and structuring your life. A very supportive Saturn-Uranus influence is with you in 2017 until November that helps you tremendously to enjoy the benefits of this transit. It’s particularly excellent for getting into a healthy routine that benefits your career and long-term goals. You are in a better position with bosses, teachers, and other people in a position of authority, who recognize your efforts. Working life becomes more enjoyable and reliable – steady but with just enough challenges to keep you motivated. It’s a great year to find your “calling” or to get closer to doing so.

You also have an influence that boosts your home and family life through improved routines, peaking in August. The ability to work from home or to get an excellent routine going between work and home improves your daily life tremendously. Family can be more supportive of your work, or your job better works around your family life so that you can enjoy both more fully. You’ll find that the major key to happiness at this time is moderation. You gain more satisfaction from being productive and managing your time well.

From December 19, 2017, and onward, the areas of your life that require a “back to basics” approach are associated with the sector of your solar chart that rules close personal relationships, such as marriages and other committed partnerships, long-term associations, open enemies, negotiations, agreements, and contracts. There may be tests of sorts in these areas of life, as if the universe is checking that the foundations are strong. Things built on weak foundations may very well crack under the pressure of these tests. Those that are strong will endure and strengthen.

This influence will be with you until the year 2020. It can be felt most strongly earlier or later in the cycle, depending on whether you were born earlier or later in the sign of Cancer. This year, those born with a Cancer Ascendant of 0 to 2 degrees, and those born in the first two days of Cancer, are most directly affected. (This will extend to 10 degrees and 10 days in 2018).

For those of you who are in committed partnerships, there can be some strains on your bond during this cycle. A partner might feel like a “heavy” in your life, and any feelings of restriction that you feel or have felt in this area of life may seem magnified in your mind now. A partner might also seem cautious, distant, critical, or defensive. You need to open your mind to the possibility that a partner is providing you with important life lessons – about traditions, simplifying your life, and responsibilities. Do not automatically discard what they have to say. Take your time on this one. If, however, a partner is challenging you to the point of breaking, then steps need to be taken to improve the situation.

For those of you who are not in committed relationships, it is quite unlikely that you’ll enter a new long-term partnership or commitment rashly. Some of you might begin one, but will do so quite cautiously and carefully. Some of you might be attracted to older or more mature and established people as partnership “material”. This can be a make or break period for many of you. If you decide to make a commitment to someone, it’s likely to be a long one.

Those of you who are single might nevertheless feel some angst or pressure. This lack in your life might suddenly seem magnified, like a gaping hole in your life. You might lose hope, temporarily, that you’ll ever find a strong, committed partnership. Feelings of loneliness may run deep this year, but the universe is sending you a message through this experience regardless. It is awakening you to a need. In time, you will find ways to satisfy this need.

Some of you could be making a commitment this year. A relationship can encounter some tests or complications, but if it’s strong, it will weather the storm and you could decide to take it to another level. If not, remember that relationships “lost” during a Saturn transit to your partnership sector generally are not good for you in the long run. This is a time when you may be seeing the less flattering side of others, and through your relationships, of yourself as well!

With Saturn opposing your Sun at some point during this cycle, you might feel that you’re not often getting what you want. Others may be restricting you, or at least that’s how you might perceive things, and you may not be at your best in terms of overall energy. Some areas of your life may seem to be breaking down before they get better. There can also be bone and teeth problems – something that often happens with hard Saturn transits. Tidy and organize your life as much as possible in order to minimize the challenges.

Opposition from others can take many forms, but the lesson here is to strike a balance. There will be times when you long for a life with few restrictions and responsibilities. However, some responsibilities and restrictions are necessary. Seek ways to balance your life in terms of pleasures and responsibilities. Don’t turn your back on commitments and traditions entirely, and aim to learn and grow as much as possible from the challenges you face.

The last time Saturn transited this area was from 1988-1990. Saturn does very well in this sector of your chart because Saturn is the natural ruler of your solar partnership sector. As such, the benefits can be great.

Areas of Excitement, Innovation, Independence, and Speed: Career, Reputation, Status

Your 2017 Cancer Horoscope points to areas of your life that seem to speed up so that you can take some risks, innovate, and revolutionize.

In March 2011, you entered a lengthy cycle in which career and public image matters can be unpredictable and unusual, but also inspiring and exciting. This influence continues throughout 2017 and beyond –until March 2019.

Your career, professional projects, reputation, and public image continue to speed up, stimulate, and open up this year. These areas of life can be unpredictable – the wild card area of life – but also highly stimulating and innovative. You can bring fresh insight into your work. You can also learn to let go of limiting self-consciousness. As long as you don’t push it too far, you can free yourself from some of the fears you have of not living up to others’ expectations, particularly those of parents or society in general.

This may be a time when you take an unexpected turn in your work or in your life path or direction. Make sure you don’t jump on a bandwagon that is impractical. Also, while you prefer to set your own pace in your work, try not to become a loner in your professional life. Others can have important input. By nature, you are not the biggest of risk takers, but more courage is with you this year for breaking into new paths.

Challenges in these areas of life may peak in March, August, and September. For some of you, there can be gossip to deal with or challenges finding a balance between your studies and your responsibilities. Watch that you don’t let either slip in preference for the other. You may be dealing with wild cards, unexpected events, wilfulness, and desire for increased freedom on both career and home fronts, and you can feel torn between the two or overstretched at times.

Until November, wonderful energy is with you for gently pushing the boundaries and making progress. You are more able to manage your need for accuracy and attending to details and your desire to innovate and express your individuality, particularly related to your work. You might also build or rebuild your reputation now–as a reliable and responsible person. 2017 is a powerful year for balancing your needs for security and excitement – you have the opportunity to get to that sweet point this year.

Areas of Change, Purging, & Transformation: Partnerships, Money, Shared Assets, Intimacy, Self-Worth

Your 2017 Cancer Horoscope reveals areas of life in which change and transformation take place. It’s a time for “out with the old, in with the new.”

Attitudes towards partnerships, close personal relationships, compromise, and significant others continue to transform this year. This is due to Pluto’s presence in your opposing sign – a long-term visitor. Last year, communications may have opened up and you were exposed to new ideas, choices, and opportunities.

More challenging periods are possible this year, particularly in March and August, when family or domestic matters can seem to be at odds with a partnership. You will be pouring more energy into your personal life, domestic pursuits, and family activities now, and this can cause some friction in a partnership. The temptation is to do it all–and to do it all in a big way–but there is a natural limit to energy levels and your time, so don’t burn yourself out.

In 2017, the Moon’s Nodes and eclipse activity continue to affect your sectors of learning, transportation, and communication, but this influence ends around May, peaking after a Lunar Eclipse in February gives you a final push towards managing the demands of daily life more effectively.

A new eclipse set shakes up shared finances, material and emotional support, and your intimate life. This is a time for reaching a settlement or making changes in the way you depend on others.

This newer theme in 2017 involves evolving finances. You will be called upon to strike a balance between your own needs for security and comfort and the same needs of other people, such as those of a significant other. You are learning to ask for what you deserve, and to take charge of your earnings. The North Node in your finance sector from May forward points to a real need to manage your income, resources, valuables, and talents. Work on balance between independence and interdependence, and between holding on and sharing, particularly around the eclipses in February and August.

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