2020 Cancer Horoscope Preview

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Cancer Horoscopes, Year 2020: Summary/preview of the year ahead for the zodiac sign Cancer.

Some themes continue from last year, some are left behind, and others are all-new. The Sun is in Cancer from approximately June 21 to July 23.* This forecast also works well for people who have a Cancer Ascendant. See also the full Cancer Yearly Horoscope for 2020.

2020 Cancer Horoscope Overview

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Areas of Expansion in 2020 for Cancer:

Your Cancer 2020 Horoscope points to areas of life that are destined to expand and grow.

Partnership
Social Bonds
Negotiations/Agreements
Intimacy
Emotional & Financial Support
Debts
Self-Growth

Until December 18th, 2020, your relationships continue to receive a boost of forward-moving energy. This cycle that lasts over a year (until December 2020) helps you succeed in partnership or improve your relationship status/situation.

Your partnerships, relating abilities, and powers of negotiation begin to grow and expand. New partnership opportunities can arrive now, or the chance to bring fresh energy to an existing committed relationship emerges. Relationships entered into now are generally successful and happy — they are mutually beneficial. Sometimes, this transit absolves an existing partnership, but if this is the case, it is likely to come as a relief, or it is a “blessing in disguise.” Meeting someone better for you at this point in your life may be a reason for this, although it’s important not to jump into something new blindly. Your ability to get along with others is enhanced as you are especially willing to compromise, and you are more appealing than usual.

The positive potentials of this transit are many: You can negotiate more successfully, and, if applicable, win in legal matters. Legal matters or challenging relationship problems from the past can be resolved, and more casual disputes can be settled amicably as well. You may find yourself taking on the role of consultant or advisor, or you could benefit from help from same. Good publicity may come your way. If your career has you working with or before the public, you can safely expect increased popularity now, particularly if you do counseling or negotiating in your job. Relationships and partnerships benefit from expansive, warm energy, difficult relationships may be absolved, and/or successful new ones are entered into during this period.

Jupiter rules your sector of work, health, habits, and routines. Any of these things can be tied with partnerships during this time. A romantic or business partnership could form through your work or through connections you make in your pursuit of lifestyle changes, or a lifestyle change/makeover may result from collaboration. A partnership may strengthen as you work together or pursue the same/similar health program.

This can also be a time when shared beliefs, interests, and ideologies are a focal point in a close relationship. For some, a significant person comes into your life with common educational goals or belief systems, possibly through long-distance connections, schools, or publishing/online activities. For many of you, you are attracting people who want to help, who are on your side, and who take a strong interest in you.

Potential negatives: You may be attracting partners who are more concerned with freedom than with pairing, or who seem to be quite extravagant or full of themselves. There could be troubles associated with an existing partner’s extravagance or demand for freedom.

However, for the most part, you are likely to enjoy an improved social life during this cycle. You learn a lot through your experiences and interactions with an important “other.” From February to October, you are in an excellent opportunity period for taking advantage of the benefits of this influence. This can be a time for enjoying alternative or extra-curricular activities with a partner or for connecting with someone significant through mind-expanding experiences or non-routine activities. A partnership can be a source of inspiration, and the realization of a happiness goal seems more likely now through the support or positivity of a friend/partner. Another influence from April to November is powerful for making alliances.

From December 19th onward, there is a wonderful, refreshing new focus on your private world or intimate life – a possible deepening of a relationship, or an increased understanding of your inner workings. This can be a boost in your relationship with yourself! Your intimate life enlarges and expands, bringing you more joy and new discoveries. During this cycle, you learn to embrace inner change in order to feel more empowered. There may be more opportunities to find support, financial and/or emotional, but you should be wary of living on credit and borrowing too heavily from the future.

This influence is with you for the most part until December 2021 and it’s time to grab opportunities that help you to feel empowered and on top of your life. Conversations are deep and lead to fruitful discoveries. Sexuality is richer. There can be benefits and support coming your way through or from others, whether it’s money back from the government, an easier time getting loans or mortgages, a partner’s income increases or you inherit something valuable. Combining your resources, talents, and/or money with those of a partner can improve your financial outlook. You might also benefit from managing others’ resources and talents without the “teaming up” part.

These things can be related to your work, routines, or health pursuits since Jupiter rules these things in your solar chart. There may be a metamorphosis of sorts related to your job. Research, healing, or managing others’ resources can figure strongly in your work this year. Or, the work you do can transform your lifestyle in a major way.

Potential negatives: Taking on too much debt or relying too heavily on others for support. Be wise when/if lending and borrowing.

Otherwise, it’s a strong period for opening yourself up to others and for feeling more confident about your emotional depths. This is a period when you can quite successfully purge yourself of some of your inner demons, guilt, and buried psychological problems. While there can be some reality checks at times during this cycle, December is particularly powerful for self-discipline and getting things sorted in these areas of life.

Interestingly, while these areas of life are set to expand, a concurrent influence as you will read in the section below contracts the very same life departments. This can mean some alternating between the two, but ideally, you’ll find a good balance between the two.

Areas of Contraction and Lessons in Simplicity:

Relationships
Negotiations
Agreements
Intimacy
Debts & Support

Your Cancer 2020 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 March 21, 2020, and from July 1st to December 16th, 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 is with you on and off until near the end of 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 21 to 30 degrees, and those born from July 14-23, 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.

Those who are single and wanting to stay that way can nevertheless find this period difficult because others seem more withholding or people in your life seem to be blocking your initiatives or non-supportive for the time being.

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.

There is more joy in these areas of life due to a concurrent influence explained in the first section “Areas of Expansion” above. This helps you really get things sorted this year.

In January 2020, Saturn meets Pluto in this area of your chart, presenting a powerful time for breaking something down and rebuilding anew. Something needs to change!

From March 22nd to June 30th and December 17th forward, the areas of your life that require a “back to basics” approach are associated with the sector of your solar chart that rules intimacy, sharing, and shared finances, or money and property that comes from a source other than your own personal income. 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 is only just getting started this year. While it’s weaving in and out of influence in 2020, you’ll experience it more consistently from December 17th forward. Saturn will transit this area of your chart until March 2023.

This transit is felt more strongly earlier or later in the cycle, depending on whether you were born earlier or later in the sign of Cancer. In 2020, those most directly affected by this transit are those born from approximately June 21-23 and those with an Ascendant of 0 to 2 degrees Cancer.

Tests can come to your financial and intimate worlds during this cycle. You may be dealing with fears of surrendering yourself, emotionally or financially, to others. Support from others may not be as forthcoming as it has been in the past. For example, a partner’s income may be reduced, or another form of financial support may be taken away or decreased during this period. This requires you to assume more independence in terms of making a living.

Emotionally, there can be a feeling that others are not as supportive. There can be delays or difficulties in general when it comes to getting what you want or need from others. Intimacy may seem to dry up before it gets better.

However, it’s a strong time for handling financial matters, especially debts and taxes, in a logical and realistic manner. These are unlikely to be drastic changes, but rather more on the lines of slow but sure progress, little by little. While this period can be a tad difficult at times, particularly when Saturn forms a quincunx to your Sun or Ascendant, there are some dazzling spots, making it a rewarding period overall, particularly if you focus more on long-term benefits and less on short-term frustrations. Saturn occupies a sign that it rules, Aquarius, during this period, and performs well here as a result. The last time Saturn moved through Aquarius was from 1991-early 1994.

As well, there is more joy in simplifying these areas of life. You’re productive and committed. You may very well make an important commitment or form a powerful alliance or attachment. In December, Saturn meets Jupiter in this area of your chart, and you can benefit from some self-discipline in these life departments. It’s a powerful time for positive lifestyle changes. You’re straightening out key areas of your life. It’s a good time for gaining a supporter or some backing.

Areas of Excitement, Innovation, Independence, and Speed: Friendships, Social Life, L0ng-term Plans, Happiness Goals

Your 2020 Cancer Horoscope points to areas of your life that seem to speed up so that you can take some risks, innovate, and revolutionize.

All year, a lengthy transit continues 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 the coming years. Note that this influence lasts until April 2026.

March and April are particularly strong for bringing new and improved or progressive energy to your relationships. In fact, networking may connect you with experiences that help you grow. Contacts made now can encourage you to become more independent. You’re adapting very well to situations and people in your life. It’s a pleasantly sociable time for the most, even with some unpredictability. You are exploring the ability to detach a little and enjoy non-committed, light, and pressure-free connections with others.

You can meet people who seem to be sharing the same destiny as you are, or who you connect with in surprising ways, and this can seem sudden or unexpected. Humanitarian pursuits can be attractive, too.

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

Your 2020 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 October when the need for more privacy tends to clash with partnership goals. However, you have super support for these goals this year, particularly in January, although this can also take you out of your comfort zone, and then April to November especially when the urge to better your situation in your life regarding your connections is powerful. Power struggles and conflicts are possible in the process. With a deeper understanding of your needs, however, you’re in a better position to advance your goals.

Alternatively, this can be a time when someone helps and encourages you to connect with ambitions, goals, and desires you never knew you had, or when a relationship goal has a similar effect. Even jealousy can help reveal your desires now.

In 2020, the Moon’s Nodes and eclipse activity continue to pull up questions of independence and partnership, but a building theme emerges this year regarding work, health, mental health, and rest. It’s a time for finding a better balance.

The true North Node is in your sign until May. This points to a genuine need to learn how to rely on yourself, which ultimately will bring you more joy and opportunity. It’s time for you to reach a balance between partnering and independence. Your personality and your partnerships evolve in important ways. Personal appearance, your body, your image, and your independence are areas of special focus continuing this year. There can be important relationship changes now.

From May forward, however, the North Node transit encourages connecting with your purpose, spirituality, and balancing attention to physical and emotional health. The North Node in your sector of endings, spirituality, and privacy now and through most of next year, 2021, points to a real need to connect to your inner world, as well as to help and support others, as these things can bring wonderful benefits and much joy to your life.

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