2023 Cancer Horoscope Preview

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Cancer Horoscopes, Year 2023: 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 2023.

2023 Cancer Horoscope Overview

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Areas of Expansion in 2023 for Cancer:

Your Cancer 2023 Horoscope points to areas of life that are expected/destined to improve, expand, or grow.

Career
Public Image/Reputation
Social Standing
Responsibilities
Friendship
Networking
Business Income
Happiness Pursuits

Until May 16th, Jupiter is at the top of your solar chart. It has reached the chart’s peak, and it helps you shine! Your ambitions, career, business goals, and reputation grow and develop. Your talents and skills are recognized now like never before. Much of the hard work you’ve put in continues to pay off and is rewarded – or at the very least, recognized.

This influence spans two date ranges, with the first wave having occurred last year, and the second one continuing this year until mid-May:

from May 10-October 28, 2022,
and from December 20, 2022-May 16, 2023.

You’re now on the second and final step of this transit.

You are in the limelight in some way during this cycle. Although it’s a great period for expansion and recognition on a professional level–and you should take advantage of it–choose your projects carefully. It’s best not to take on more than you can handle. Watch also for gossip or mishandling of information–be wary of situations that could easily blow out of proportion or be misunderstood.

For the most, it’s a booster period for your reputation or status. It can be a time of significant progress in the outer world, a fortunate change in status, and/or increased recognition.

People more readily or openly recognize your accomplishments now. Health, habits, or routines could connect closely with your career. You feel more motivation to put in the effort and work to achieve your longer-term goals and ambitions.

You can find yourself in a position that truly suits you, and you tend to take great pride in the work you do. More prestige or a higher social standing are possible. You can be quite charismatic in a position of authority or responsibility. Advancement in achieving an important goal can occur at this time in your life. There can be significant enhancements to your reputation or public image. Perhaps most importantly, you have more faith in your goals and aspirations during this period of your life.

It’s undoubtedly a time when believing in yourself, your competency, and your ability to take the lead opens up opportunities for you. Efforts to boost your health and wellness or daily routines can pay off, encouraging you to reach your highest potential. It can be a time of a promotion or a position of leadership. Or, your work comes to the attention of the public.

It’s a good time to take advantage of this period in your life to expand your reach.

From May 16th onward, your connections to others, group associations, and friendships expand and grow. This influence begins in 2023 and continues until May 2024, lasting a little over a year. It’s a pleasant, supportive transit that only comes around approximately every 12 years.

During this cycle (lasting May 16, 2023, to May 25, 2024), social and happiness goals receive a boost–it’s now the time to feel considerably more confident about the future. You’re gaining confidence in your ability to set plans in motion that will allow you to accomplish some of your most cherished hopes and dreams.

Happiness goals are the focus–and it feels good to plan, enjoy, and dream.

This transit can seem to fill you with new ideas, dreams, and hopes. You are planting seeds, so to speak, aiming to get started on projects that will reap the rewards in the future. While this can be exciting, try not to take on more than you can handle. Your vision is quite optimistic, and you might overestimate what you can do down the road! However, one or two projects can be inspiring and also quite innovative. Remind yourself that more is not necessarily better and that sometimes “less is more.”

With more contact with others, whether it’s about an expanded real-life group of connections or online, you are sure to come up with new ideas and gain inspiration. Others can point you in new directions. There can be a cause that you work towards enthusiastically. A new work project or health pursuit can excite you and bring you into contact with interesting, helpful people. Business income should increase.

It can also be a time of budding friendships and/or group involvement. New people may come into your life and seek your companionship, or existing friendships refresh and enhance. Opportunities to advance or new learning experiences can come through associates, friendships, and networking. For some, this can be a vital time for an internet business.

People can be friendlier than usual to you, and you may benefit from group connections or mingling. You are popular within groups, and circumstances have a way of turning in your favor. Your curiosity about others or the community awakens or blossoms. During this life phase, you can accomplish wonders with your initiatives or causes that you believe in.

You’re also in great shape to enjoy the fruits of your recent labor, promotion, and successes. You display more tolerance of others, and you’re inclined to take interest in alternative subjects.

Potential challenges: Over-emphasis on activities that take you away from your practical responsibilities, too often.

However, for the most part, you are likely to take advantage of this period in your life to expand your social life and friends base and dream up exciting new paths for the future. It’s also a powerful time to lead a group, organize, and start up a new endeavor, especially an innovative one.

On another level, a working relationship can become friendlier, or you might work together with a friend. Sharing a goal, particularly related to improved health or daily affairs and routines, can bond you with someone during this period.

Areas of Contraction and Lessons in Simplicity:

Intimacy
Debts & Support
Shared Assets
Personal Psychology
Sharing & Learning
Beliefs & Outlook

Your Cancer 2023 Horoscope points to areas of contraction, restriction, and necessary “slimming down” 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 7th, the areas of your life that continue to 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 suitable and good will endure and strengthen.

This influence began in 2020 and is now coming to an end.

It’s felt more strongly earlier or later in the cycle, depending on whether you were born earlier or later in the sign of Cancer. In 2023, those most directly affected by this transit are those born from approximately July 15-22 and those with an Ascendant of 23 to 30 degrees Cancer.

Tests can come to your financial and intimate worlds during this cycle. You may deal 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, there can be a reduction in a partner’s income, or another form of financial support goes away or decreases during this period. Whatever the case, you might assume more independence in making a living.

Emotionally, there can be a feeling that others are not as supportive. There can be delays or difficulties, in general, with 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 it can be slow growth, it’s real and long-lasting.

While this period can be a tad challenging at times, particularly when Saturn forms a quincunx to your Sun or Ascendant, there are some dazzling spots, making it a rewarding period overall, mainly if you focus more on long-term benefits and less on short-term frustrations.

For one, Saturn occupies a sign that it rules, Aquarius, and performs well here as a result. The last time Saturn moved through Aquarius was from 1991-early 1994–you could experience similar themes you did then, if applicable. For another, Saturn often brings on enough realism to help you get yourself on track.

Especially in February, your need to perform and accomplish in the outside world doesn’t seem to mesh smoothly with equally powerful nudges to specialize or get serious about your inner world or intimate life.

Fortunately, you can find some 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. You can benefit from some self-discipline in these life departments, and it’s a powerful time for positive lifestyle changes. It feels good to straighten out key areas of your life. It’s also a good time for securing a supporter or some backing, although this can take some trial and error.

From March 7th, the areas of your life that require a “back to basics” approach are associated with the sector of your solar chart that rules higher learning, belief systems, travel, and adventurous experiences. There may be tests of sorts in these areas of life, as if the universe is checking that the foundations are strong. Those things built on weak foundations could crack under the pressure of these tests. Those that are suitable, however, will endure and strengthen further.

This influence runs from March 2023 until 2025/2026.

You feel this theme strongly earlier or later in the cycle, depending on whether you were born earlier or later in the sign of Cancer. In 2023, those most directly affected by this transit are those born from approximately June 21 to 28 and those with an Ascendant of 0 to 7 degrees Cancer.

Tests can come to your belief system or learning endeavors during this cycle. The need for reliable, solid, practical training can be apparent. You might scrutinize the belief system you have held to date and question your faith – in others, yourself, and life itself. You are seeking out practical and workable solutions to problems.

Your ability to leisure-travel or engage in higher learning can be limited during this period. Travel may be for business purposes only, if that. You may not be as adventurous, preferring to stick to home and your neighborhood, or perhaps for some, stuck there.

This can also be a period of teaching others what you’ve learned or sharing your experiences and guidance.

The term of this transit is one of greater realism and practicality. You feel more capable of meeting your responsibilities. Life feels robust and stable, and you are likely to more strongly benefit from this influence when Saturn officially forms a trine to your Sun or Ascendant (this year for early Cancers, and upcoming years for the remainder of Cancers).

This could be a time when you meet or finalize a partnership with someone from a different culture or distance.

You are likely to enjoy many opportunities to set your life in order. Saturn transiting in harmony with your sign helps stabilize you. Mind you, Saturn is not always at ease while here, particularly in March when this transit begins. Career, reputation, or outside responsibilities can interfere with your pursuit of a more structured lifestyle elsewhere. It’s a good time, however, to deal with problem areas that you’ve been clinging to but have prevented you from moving on and expressing yourself authentically.

This is also a valuable time for the learning and study of practical skills and brushing up on your knowledge. You’re challenged to look at life and your future more realistically and practically. There can be significant accomplishments in publishing or education for many of you.

While this influence is in effect, sharing ideas and beliefs can be gratifying and rewarding. You could find that structuring time spent on communications is most beneficial. Saturn teaches the lessons of moderation and emphasizes quality over quantity. Unplugging regularly and focusing more intently on priorities when you are plugged in can be especially useful for you.

Certainly, disruptions in your personal or private life can distract your efforts to buckle down at times. However, it’s a generally auspicious time to form permanent alliances that positively influence your life. Older and mature people can come into your circle. Especially in April, June, August, and October, learning and teaming up with others through study groups or friendships based on shared beliefs and interests can benefit you. It’s a good time for laying down plans and forming or cementing long-term friendships.

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

Your 2023 Cancer Horoscope points to areas of your life that seem to speed up, allowing you to 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 free-spirited, individualistic, and possibly even eccentric people. Your social life is bound to be very colorful now and in the coming years. Note that this influence lasts until April 2026. You’re over halfway through this transit in 2023.

You might bring new and improved or progressive energy to your relationships. In fact, networking may connect you with experiences that help you grow. Contacts you make now can encourage you to become more independent. Still, you could find moral or financial aid through group or friend associations during this cycle. You might go through a significant lifestyle improvement as a result of networking, pursuit of a cause, or group connections.

In truth, you’re adapting very well to situations and people in your life. Still, you might feel thrown for a loop sometimes, as you can’t seem to rely on your social life as you may have in the past.

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. Particularly in late March and early May, your open-mindedness to new ways of approaching your life or thinking creatively can bring opportunities for engaging new experiences that take you out of your regular routine.

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

Areas of Change, Purging, & Transformation: Partnerships, Shared Assets, Intimacy, Friendships, Happiness Pursuits and Goals, Career

Your 2023 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.”

Until March 23rd and from June 11th forward, attitudes towards partnerships, close personal relationships, compromise, and significant others continue to transform. This is due to Pluto’s presence in your opposing sign – a very long-term visitor Pluto has been in this area of your solar chart since 2008, and it will continue here until the year 2024. However, it’s transitioning out of this sector in 2023.

During this cycle, aim to arrive at a deeper understanding of your needs from your partnerships, whether these are romantic, platonic, financial, or therapeutic in nature. These connections are complex and sometimes complicated during this period, but they also hold the potential for rich learning experiences. Power struggles are possible, and it’s best to take an honest look at fears of failure, success, and betrayal that can emerge.

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

February is particularly strong for resolving the conflict between partnering and career or outside responsibilities. Work and partnership matters can feel fated or meant to be. A person or relationship goals can motivate you to pursue your ambitions.

From March 23rd to June 11th, a new Pluto theme is with you. While it’s only a sneak preview of a transit that will stick around for years to come, you’ll see some changes in 2023.

Attitudes toward dependencies on others, finances, and intimacy begin to transform. This very long-term influence points to a time to make empowering changes and choices. This influence changes how you connect with others on intimate levels and your passion projects. Dealing with the darker or more hidden aspects of yourself can be transformative. Healing activities and abilities can figure strongly.

This influence is only just beginning and, once it takes hold, will be with you for many years to come.

In 2023, the Moon’s Nodes and eclipse activity continue to pull up important themes regarding sharing, contributing, friendships, romance, and creativity. It’s a time to find a better balance.

The North Node continues to transit your solar eleventh house until mid-July–a strong calling to pay special attention to friends, groups, community, and happiness goals. These areas of life are a source of much joy and interest as you seek to make improvements here.

You’re challenged to balance your personal life with your connection with others and the community. You’ll explore your need to connect with a cause, group, or community. One of the primary keys to happiness is learning to team up with others successfully instead of going it alone or pushing too hard to stand out from the crowd.

From mid-July forward, the North Node transits your solar tenth house, and you get a taste of this theme after April’s Solar Eclipse. These influences challenge you to embrace and improve your career, life path, responsibilities, and reputation. You may be called upon to sort out your life plan. It’s about discovering your needs to balance your professional and personal life. Nurture your desire to feel accomplished and to meet your responsibilities for the best results this year and the next.

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