2018 Cancer Horoscope Preview

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Cancer Horoscopes, Year 2018: Summary/preview of the year ahead for the zodiac sign Cancer.

2018 Cancer Horoscope Overview

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Cancer Horoscope Preview for 2018

Areas of Expansion in 2018 for Cancer:

Your Cancer 2018 Horoscope points to areas of life that are destined to expand and grow.

Romance & Love
Play
Creativity
Children
Hobbies
Work/Routines
Habits
Health

Until November 8, 2018, your creative, playful, and romantic side continues to expand and grow. This is a powerful time for self-expression, new forms of entertainment, and romantic explorations.

Your focus turns to having fun, enjoying life, and expressing yourself in freeing, rewarding ways. Your romantic and creative worlds expand and enliven. 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 lasts thirteen months and has been with you since October 2017.

Potential negatives: Excessive emphasis on, or attention to, having fun to the detriment of other life departments. Through much of 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 from December 2017 to August 2018 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. This is a powerful time for love relationships, particularly from January to September 2018.

From November 8th onward, your work, daily routines, and health endeavors begin to expand, improve, and grow. This is a time when your work projects or duties improve, or you have increased opportunities for employment. You can be so confident in your ability to take on projects and endeavors, however, that you overload your plate, so do watch for that. However, this can be a rather magical time for your everyday life and health in many ways, and these areas of life have endured somewhat serious or difficult energy in recent years, so it can come as a nice relief. This influence is with you until December 2019.

During this transit, you find more joy in your work (as long as you don’t overload), self-improvement endeavors, and taking care of your health. If you provide a service to others, it is likely to prosper, largely because you’re enjoying it more. You are especially successful in hiring people to work for you, if applicable, and improvements to your working environment are likely. It can be easier than usual to find employment now. You may get a new job during this cycle or significantly improve an existing one. Work tends to be very available to you. You can be very focused on what really matters to get ahead, and recognition for your efforts may be forthcoming.

You are proud of how useful you are to others during this cycle. The more integrity and honesty you bring to your services, the more “payback” you will receive. Health is likely to prosper now, and medical procedures or programs, if necessary, are more likely to be successful. You are bringing fresh and original ideas to the work you do and the services you offer. Overload or the magnification of problems surrounding work can be experienced during this cycle. There is a tendency now to focus on the details of your work, and you might sometimes feel a little overwhelmed with monotonous tasks. There may be an inclination to put on some weight if you don’t watch your sweet tooth, but in most other ways, health can be a fortunate area of life as long as you’re not slack with it.

Your work might involve more services or the assisting of others during this cycle, and for some, health-related or healing professions can be attractive at this time.

Challenges may occur sporadically from December when there can be conflicts between pulls towards work and pulls towards a partnership, or you may suffer the consequences of taking on so much that you have trouble taking time for yourself.

However, for the most part, this is a good time for appreciating what you do, for developing your skills, for finding work, and for working relationships.

Areas of Contraction and Lessons in Simplicity:

Relationships
Negotiations
Agreements

Your Cancer 2018 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 2020, 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 1 to 11 degrees, and those born in the first eleven days of Cancer, are most directly affected.

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. 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!

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.

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 your experiences. The benefits of this transit are great, even if they sometimes feel slow to make themselves known! Incidentally, the last time this theme occurred was from 1988-1990.

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

Your 2018 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 have been unpredictable and unusual, but also inspiring and exciting. This influence continues until March 2019. However, from May 15th to November 6th this year, a new theme is introduced before returning to complete this one. This represents a hint of an upcoming cycle beginning in March and lasting until 2026. In 2018, this theme is divided as follows:

Until May 15th, and then from November 6th onward, your career, professional projects, reputation, and public image continue to speed up, stimulate, and open up. These areas of life can be unpredictable – the wild card area of life – but also highly stimulating and innovative. You can bring fresh insight to 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. You may have surprised a few people in your life! 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 valuable input that you might miss while you’re busy being independent! By nature, you are not the biggest of risk takers, but more courage is with you during this period for breaking out along new paths.

Challenges in these areas of life may peak early November and mid-December. For some of you, there can be gossip to deal with or challenges finding a balance between your studies or romantic life and your responsibilities. Watch that you don’t let either slip in favor of the other. You may be dealing with wildcards, unexpected events, wilfulness, and desire for increased freedom on both career and relationship fronts, and you can feel torn between the two or overstretched at times.

However, take this opportunity to break out of a mold and live your career or reputation more authentically.

From May 15th to November 6th, you enter a lengthy period in which friendships and group associations can be unpredictable and unusual, but also inspiring and exciting. You are more attracted to people who are free-spirited, individualistic, and possibly even eccentric. Your social life is bound to be very colorful now and in coming years. Note that this influence kicks in more consistently from March 2019 forward (until April 2026).

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

Your 2018 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.

Challenges with this theme are more likely to occur in late November, when work or health matters tend to clash with partnership goals. You will be pouring more energy into your work and everyday pursuits or routines 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 2018, the Moon’s Nodes and eclipse activity continue to affect your sectors of 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 theme in 2018 involves evolving finances. You are 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 until November 6th points to a real need to manage your income, resources, valuables, and talents. Work on a balance between independence and interdependence, and between holding on and sharing, particularly around the eclipses in January/February and July/August.

From November 6th forward and lasting for one and a half years, the true North Node is in your sign. This points to a genuine need to learn how to rely on yourself, which ultimately will bring you more joy and opportunity.

As well, in mid-July, the first eclipse in a set occurs in your sign. This eclipse set will play out more fully in 2019, but you do receive a push now. This up and coming theme involves finding a balance between partnering and independence. Your personality and your partnerships evolve in important ways. Personal appearance, your body, your image, and your independence become areas of special focus in the second half of 2018.

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