Cancer Monthly Horoscope
August 2020 Horoscope: Predictions for Cancer
We’ve divided our 2020 monthly horoscopes into 3 groups (or decanates) per sign for more accuracy. Remember that if you know your Ascendant, read forecasts for both your Sun sign and your Ascendant sign. If you know your birth time, but don’t know your Ascendant, be sure to see How to Obtain Your Astrology Chart here.
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See also Cancer Good Days Calendars and This Month in Astrology.
Overview for this Month: Cancer (All)
August 2020 Monthly Horoscope Overview for Cancer:
You might often find yourself in the position to lead, manage, or take charge this month, and it goes rather smoothly, dear Cancer. Even so, there is a stronger focus on settling in and getting comfortable. Creative problem solving comes easily, particularly when you apply your thinking to practical and professional matters. You're more decisive and confident in August, although as the month progresses, your curiosity can diffuse your focus somewhat.
August is strong for income boosts, career connections, and focused building of special projects. You may be motivated to make money, ambitious to improve your situation, or healthy and friendly competition encourages you to shine. Workable solutions to problems tend to come intuitively. Ideas are progressive and exciting, and conversations, although possibly a little rough around the edges, are learning experiences. You might gain support or backing for a work or life-path goal, and this feels good.
The Sun transits your solar second house until the 22nd and Mercury from the 4-19. There can be good news, ideas, and research regarding comfort and security matters or income. It's an excellent time to develop your talents or put them to good use, pursue hobbies for material gain, or establish yourself in a particular field. You might flesh out an idea with practical details to make it more workable or marketable.
The Full Moon on the 3rd can pull up financial or intimacy issues. You might reach a settlement or make changes in the ways you depend on others. Matters that were previously hidden or left unacknowledged may illuminate. There can be big feelings, but also some impatience. Enthusiasm for reaching your goals skyrockets, and you can be thinking up big plans that excite you.
Venus spent an unusually long time in the sign just behind yours, and on the 7th, it enters your sign. This transit has given you ample time and opportunity to process your feelings and connect with your emotional and romantic past or to nurse some old hurts before gathering the strength to move forward. Until September 6th, you're more expressive and sure of your needs and affections. People appreciate your style and the traits you express naturally. This cycle puts the focus on pleasure and love.
Uranus turns retrograde mid-August, and for the next five months, things tend to calm down on the social front. It's a useful period for processing recent changes and events with friends, and it benefits you greatly, helping prevent impulsive, regrettable decisions. When you act from your heart rather than merely reacting to others and circumstances, you do yourself a service.
You approach your finances from a new, refreshed perspective, particularly after the New Moon on the 18th. It's one of the best periods of the year for money-making ideas. It's also a good time for getting down to brass tacks when it comes to planning and dealing with your practical affairs. You might make some resolutions related to business, finances, and boosting your sense of security. If you're looking to earn more, this can be a time to seek out new channels.
Mercury and then the Sun head into your communications sector on the 19th and 22nd, respectively. These transits encourage your desire to talk, share, learn, and connect. Getting and keeping in touch with others can benefit you. It can be a busy time of thinking, talking, moving about, and learning. It can also be a scattered period in spots! Because demands on you–and your own interests–can be very diverse at this time, it can be challenging to work on a particular project with exclusive focus. Even so, it's more about discovery and branching out than specializing. Fun new interests or exciting news and topics can figure strongly now.
Cancer (Born June 22 to July 1) and Cancer Ascendant 0 to 10 degrees Cancer:
August 2020 Cancer Horoscope: Love, Career, & General Trends
August 2020
The Sun this Month: Central Focus, Consciousness
Until August 21st:
The Sun continues to transit your solar second house. This is the most "financial" period of the year for you. You might have a more materialistic view of life for the time being, or you have an increased interest in your own possessions, during this cycle. You are more attracted to objects and possessions that give you a sense of comfort, status, or luxury now.
You probably should be on the lookout for a tendency to create your own financial stress due to extravagant spending habits. At this point in the year, you are unlikely to take many risks, however, and you can be quite resistant to change. This is a time when "comfort zones" are more important to you than usual--you value the familiar.
From August 22nd forward:
The Sun is illuminating your communications sector now, suggesting "busy-ness" and movement. You are exploring and searching, making connections, and paying more attention to your immediate environment. Social interaction is in emphasis during this period, and is, for the most part, light-hearted.
Give other people a little extra time and attention, notice their efforts on your behalf, and strengthen your connections. You are more curious and alert than usual, and you could be quite busy with errands, paperwork, phone calls, and light socializing. Much energy is expended in understanding and adapting to your immediate environment. Siblings, neighbors, close relatives, friends, and co-workers may play a more important role than usual in your life during this cycle.
You are more interested in exploring your own neighborhood than you are of something entirely new. This is not a time of big adventure-seeking! Rather, it's a time of little adventures close to home.
Neither is this a time when you are especially focused. In fact, you could have a finger in many pies right now. You are especially resourceful, and you could find yourself enjoying (or seeking) attention for your intellectual know-how. The ability to express and communicate your ideas is extremely important to you at this time. You are eager to investigate new things, whether scientific or technical.
Venus this Month: Love, Romance, Social Life, Comfort, Pleasure
Until August 7th:
Venus continues to transit through your solar twelfth house now. The twelfth house is a sector of endings, privacy, and mental health, and with Venus here, it's possible that you are reviewing your feelings for someone, or enjoying a more private love life for the time being. You may not be open with your affections for whatever reason now, and this shouldn't be a problem—it may be difficult to articulate, verbalize, or intellectualize your feelings for the time being. Doing some soul-searching as well as an enhanced ability to perceive other dimensions in love can lead you to a deeper understanding of your own love needs and possibly of a love relationship. Love might involve some form of sacrifice or simply a lot of giving and lending of support as opposed to receiving during this cycle.
From August 7th forward:
You could find it hard to deny yourself much of anything during this cycle! This is a time when you naturally let loose your softer, receptive side. Romantic matters, as well as pleasure-seeking activities, come to the fore now. You are more likely to pay closer attention to your physical appearance and mannerisms, aiming to improve and enhance your attractiveness. Others find you especially agreeable and cooperative. You are more gracious, well-behaved (superficial if you are not careful!), and likable now. Take advantage! It's a time when you turn heads, and it's also a period for extra attention to pleasures, pampering, and enjoyment.
Mercury this Month: Communications, Learning, Connections, Transportation
Until the 4th:
Mercury continues to transit your solar first house. During this cycle, you are more communicative than usual. However, this doesn't necessarily mean that conversations are at their best right now, simply because you are more interested in expressing yourself than listening! You are especially alert and a little cerebral now. You have a receptive audience for your ideas.
From August 5-19:
With Mercury in your solar second house, this is a strong period for analyzing your cash flow, income, and earning power. You are more practical and rational in your approach to finances during this period. With your conscious mind focused on money and possessions, as well as personal values, this can be a strong period for gathering new money-making ideas.
Alternatively, it could be a time when you tend to fret over your finances. Conversations tend to be practical rather than frivolous now. Financial gain may come through communications.
From August 20th forward:
Mercury is right at home in the third house and offers a natural curiosity, facility with words, and the ability to multi-task successfully. More time spent on the phone, writing emails, in the car making short frequent trips, chatting, running errands, communicating with neighbors and siblings, visiting friends and relatives, and doing paperwork is likely now. There can also be a tendency to fuss over insignificant matters now, however.
Also, "information overload" is also a possibility. This may be a busy time with neighbors, classmates, siblings, and community affairs. Your interests are especially varied now and perhaps scattered. It's an ideal time to pick up information from your environment and the people in it, as your tendency is toward a certain level of intellectual detachment just now. Your mind is often distracted, particularly when circumstances call for you to stick to the routine, so this is not the best transit for focusing on one task or project.
Your mind is especially inquisitive during this cycle, when learning, short trips, and other forms of communication and making connections, appeal strongly. Some are fidgety or nervous during this cycle, perhaps due to increased errand-running, phone calls, and the like. Others enjoy the challenge of tackling a variety of subjects. As well, talking, writing, and studying can be good ways to handle stress.
Mars this Month: Energy, Drive, Courage
All month:
Mars continues to energize your solar tenth house now. You bring much energy, enthusiasm, and drive to your career or to directing activities in your life during this cycle. You may be quite competitive during this period, preferring to achieve and accomplish things on your own. This attitude can, in some cases, be seen by others as an instigating or otherwise offensive energy, so be aware of that possibility.
This is a strong time for directly pursuing your goals, and, if you need that extra push or oomph to get a plan going, particularly a professional one, or to assert your desires, then this is the time. You are self-motivated, and your enthusiasm can be harnessed if you so choose.
Note that Mars sticks around this area of your solar chart for much longer than usual–until January 6th, 2021.
Overview Horoscope:
August 2020 Monthly Horoscope Overview for Cancer:
You might often find yourself in the position to lead, manage, or take charge this month, and it goes rather smoothly, dear Cancer. Even so, there is a stronger focus on settling in and getting comfortable. Creative problem solving comes easily, particularly when you apply your thinking to practical and professional matters. You're more decisive and confident in August, although as the month progresses, your curiosity can diffuse your focus somewhat.
August is strong for income boosts, career connections, and focused building of special projects. You may be motivated to make money, ambitious to improve your situation, or healthy and friendly competition encourages you to shine. Workable solutions to problems tend to come intuitively. Ideas are progressive and exciting, and conversations, although possibly a little rough around the edges, are learning experiences. You might gain support or backing for a work or life-path goal, and this feels good.
The Sun transits your solar second house until the 22nd and Mercury from the 4-19. There can be good news, ideas, and research regarding comfort and security matters or income. It's an excellent time to develop your talents or put them to good use, pursue hobbies for material gain, or establish yourself in a particular field. You might flesh out an idea with practical details to make it more workable or marketable.
The Full Moon on the 3rd can pull up financial or intimacy issues. You might reach a settlement or make changes in the ways you depend on others. Matters that were previously hidden or left unacknowledged may illuminate. There can be big feelings, but also some impatience. Enthusiasm for reaching your goals skyrockets, and you can be thinking up big plans that excite you.
Venus spent an unusually long time in the sign just behind yours, and on the 7th, it enters your sign. This transit has given you ample time and opportunity to process your feelings and connect with your emotional and romantic past or to nurse some old hurts before gathering the strength to move forward. Until September 6th, you're more expressive and sure of your needs and affections. People appreciate your style and the traits you express naturally. This cycle puts the focus on pleasure and love.
Uranus turns retrograde mid-August, and for the next five months, things tend to calm down on the social front. It's a useful period for processing recent changes and events with friends, and it benefits you greatly, helping prevent impulsive, regrettable decisions. When you act from your heart rather than merely reacting to others and circumstances, you do yourself a service.
You approach your finances from a new, refreshed perspective, particularly after the New Moon on the 18th. It's one of the best periods of the year for money-making ideas. It's also a good time for getting down to brass tacks when it comes to planning and dealing with your practical affairs. You might make some resolutions related to business, finances, and boosting your sense of security. If you're looking to earn more, this can be a time to seek out new channels.
Mercury and then the Sun head into your communications sector on the 19th and 22nd, respectively. These transits encourage your desire to talk, share, learn, and connect. Getting and keeping in touch with others can benefit you. It can be a busy time of thinking, talking, moving about, and learning. It can also be a scattered period in spots! Because demands on you–and your own interests–can be very diverse at this time, it can be challenging to work on a particular project with exclusive focus. Even so, it's more about discovery and branching out than specializing. Fun new interests or exciting news and topics can figure strongly now.
See our Time Line Forecast report for a personalized forecast for the year ahead.
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See also general trends for Cancer in 2020.
See also detailed 2020 Yearly Horoscope for Cancer.
Cancer (Born July 2 to 12)
AND Cancer Ascendant from 10 to 20 degrees Cancer:
August 2020 Cancer Horoscope: Love, Career, & General Trends
August 2020
The Sun this Month: Central Focus, Consciousness
All month:
The Sun highlights your second house now, and your focus is on material affairs and comfort issues. Security is a driving force for you at the moment, and you might find that you are especially interested in accumulating possessions. What you have and what you don't have come into focus--what makes you feel comfortable, your sense of security, and what you value.
This is the time of year when personal finances and possessions receive maximum attention. Pour your energy into your work and your finances, and you might just be able to take your ideas to the bank.
Extravagance with your pocketbook is something you may want to look out for, however. If you find yourself itching to make unnecessary purchases, know that at the root of this urge is the desire to pamper and comfort yourself. Nothing wrong with it, but there are inexpensive (and even free) ways to make yourself feel good.
This is not the most eventful time of year for you. You are more inclined to dig in your heels and hang on to what makes you feel most secure than to take big risks.
Venus this Month: Love, Romance, Social Life, Comfort
Until the 17th:
Venus continues to transit through your solar twelfth house now. The twelfth house is a sector of endings, privacy, and mental health, and with Venus here, it's possible that you are reviewing your feelings for someone, or enjoying a more private love life for the time being. You may not be open with your affections for whatever reason now, and this shouldn't be a problem—it may be difficult to articulate, verbalize, or intellectualize your feelings for the time being. Doing some soul-searching as well as an enhanced ability to perceive other dimensions in love can lead you to a deeper understanding of your own love needs and possibly of a love relationship. Love might involve some form of sacrifice or simply a lot of giving and lending of support as opposed to receiving during this cycle.
From August 18th forward:
You could find it hard to deny yourself much of anything during this cycle! This is a time when you naturally let loose your softer, receptive side. Romantic matters, as well as pleasure-seeking activities, come to the fore now. You are more likely to pay closer attention to your physical appearance and mannerisms, aiming to improve and enhance your attractiveness. Others find you especially agreeable and cooperative. You are more gracious, well-behaved (superficial if you are not careful!), and likable now. Take advantage! It's a time when you turn heads, and it's also a period for extra attention to pleasures, pampering, and enjoyment.
Mercury this Month: Communications, Learning, Connections, Transportation
Until August 9th:
Mercury continues to transit your solar first house. During this cycle, you are more communicative than usual. However, this doesn't necessarily mean that conversations are at their best right now, simply because you are more interested in expressing yourself than listening! You are especially alert and a little cerebral now. You have a receptive audience for your ideas.
From the 10-24:
With Mercury in your solar second house, this is a strong period for analyzing your cash flow, income, and earning power. You are more practical and rational in your approach to finances during this period. With your conscious mind focused on money and possessions, as well as personal values, this can be a strong period for gathering new money-making ideas.
Alternatively, it could be a time when you tend to fret over your finances. Conversations tend to be practical rather than frivolous now. Financial gain may come through communications.
From August 25th forward:
Mercury is right at home in the third house and offers a natural curiosity, facility with words, and the ability to multi-task successfully. More time spent on the phone, writing emails, in the car making short frequent trips, chatting, running errands, communicating with neighbors and siblings, visiting friends and relatives, and doing paperwork is likely now. There can also be a tendency to fuss over insignificant matters now, however.
Also, "information overload" is also a possibility. This may be a busy time with neighbors, classmates, siblings, and community affairs. Your interests are especially varied now and perhaps scattered. It's an ideal time to pick up information from your environment and the people in it, as your tendency is toward a certain level of intellectual detachment just now. Your mind is often distracted, particularly when circumstances call for you to stick to the routine, so this is not the best transit for focusing on one task or project.
Your mind is especially inquisitive during this cycle, when learning, short trips, and other forms of communication and making connections, appeal strongly. Some are fidgety or nervous during this cycle, perhaps due to increased errand-running, phone calls, and the like. Others enjoy the challenge of tackling a variety of subjects. As well, talking, writing, and studying can be good ways to handle stress.
Mars this Month: Energy, Drive, Courage
This month:
Mars continues to energize your solar tenth house now. You bring much energy, enthusiasm, and drive to your career or to directing activities in your life during this cycle. You may be quite competitive during this period, preferring to achieve and accomplish things on your own. This attitude can, in some cases, be seen by others as an instigating or otherwise offensive energy, so be aware of that possibility.
This is a strong time for directly pursuing your goals, and, if you need that extra push or oomph to get a plan going, particularly a professional one, or to assert your desires, then this is the time. You are self-motivated, and your enthusiasm can be harnessed if you so choose.
Note that Mars sticks around this area of your solar chart for much longer than usual–until January 2021.
Overview Horoscope:
August 2020 Monthly Horoscope Overview for Cancer:
You might often find yourself in the position to lead, manage, or take charge this month, and it goes rather smoothly, dear Cancer. Even so, there is a stronger focus on settling in and getting comfortable. Creative problem solving comes easily, particularly when you apply your thinking to practical and professional matters. You're more decisive and confident in August, although as the month progresses, your curiosity can diffuse your focus somewhat.
August is strong for income boosts, career connections, and focused building of special projects. You may be motivated to make money, ambitious to improve your situation, or healthy and friendly competition encourages you to shine. Workable solutions to problems tend to come intuitively. Ideas are progressive and exciting, and conversations, although possibly a little rough around the edges, are learning experiences. You might gain support or backing for a work or life-path goal, and this feels good.
The Sun transits your solar second house until the 22nd and Mercury from the 4-19. There can be good news, ideas, and research regarding comfort and security matters or income. It's an excellent time to develop your talents or put them to good use, pursue hobbies for material gain, or establish yourself in a particular field. You might flesh out an idea with practical details to make it more workable or marketable.
The Full Moon on the 3rd can pull up financial or intimacy issues. You might reach a settlement or make changes in the ways you depend on others. Matters that were previously hidden or left unacknowledged may illuminate. There can be big feelings, but also some impatience. Enthusiasm for reaching your goals skyrockets, and you can be thinking up big plans that excite you.
Venus spent an unusually long time in the sign just behind yours, and on the 7th, it enters your sign. This transit has given you ample time and opportunity to process your feelings and connect with your emotional and romantic past or to nurse some old hurts before gathering the strength to move forward. Until September 6th, you're more expressive and sure of your needs and affections. People appreciate your style and the traits you express naturally. This cycle puts the focus on pleasure and love.
Uranus turns retrograde mid-August, and for the next five months, things tend to calm down on the social front. It's a useful period for processing recent changes and events with friends, and it benefits you greatly, helping prevent impulsive, regrettable decisions. When you act from your heart rather than merely reacting to others and circumstances, you do yourself a service.
You approach your finances from a new, refreshed perspective, particularly after the New Moon on the 18th. It's one of the best periods of the year for money-making ideas. It's also a good time for getting down to brass tacks when it comes to planning and dealing with your practical affairs. You might make some resolutions related to business, finances, and boosting your sense of security. If you're looking to earn more, this can be a time to seek out new channels.
Mercury and then the Sun head into your communications sector on the 19th and 22nd, respectively. These transits encourage your desire to talk, share, learn, and connect. Getting and keeping in touch with others can benefit you. It can be a busy time of thinking, talking, moving about, and learning. It can also be a scattered period in spots! Because demands on you–and your own interests–can be very diverse at this time, it can be challenging to work on a particular project with exclusive focus. Even so, it's more about discovery and branching out than specializing. Fun new interests or exciting news and topics can figure strongly now.
See our Time Line Forecast report for a personalized forecast for the year ahead.
Get your unique Personalized Horoscope for the year ahead—over 100 pages long—for a detailed guide to your best days and your most challenging days for attracting love, career success, communication, and more.
Know More About Yourself and Others
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Love & Romance Forecast Report
Love outlook for the year ahead. Try our Love & Romance Forecast report.
Romantic Compatibility Reports
Try Cafe Astrology's in-depth
romantic compatibility reports, including the Synastry and Love Ties reports.
See also general trends for Cancer in 2020.
See also detailed 2020 Yearly Horoscope for Cancer.
Cancer (Born July 13 to 22)
AND Cancer Ascendant from 20 to 30 degrees Cancer:
August 2020 Cancer Horoscope: Love, Career, & General Trends
August 2020
The Sun this Month: Central Focus, Consciousness
Until August 11th:
The Sun continues to move through your solar first house. You experience a renewal of energy and vitality now, and it's a strong time for increased personal confidence. The emphasis is on self-expression, what kind of impression you make on others, and beginning new personal projects.
You are a little more self-centered than usual, and this is quite natural and healthy as long as you don't take it too far. You are more decisive and forward-looking now, and you put more faith in your own abilities. Physically, you are likely feeling strong. This is an excellent cycle for making personal changes in your manner or appearance, and for any self-improvement endeavors. Personal projects that you begin now are likely to blossom nine months down the road.
From August 12th forward:
The Sun highlights your second house now, and your focus is on material affairs and comfort issues. Security is a driving force for you at the moment, and you might find that you are especially interested in accumulating possessions. What you have and what you don't have come into focus--what makes you feel comfortable, your sense of security, and what you value.
This is the time of year when personal finances and possessions receive maximum attention. Pour your energy into your work and your finances, and you might just be able to take your ideas to the bank.
Extravagance with your pocketbook is something you may want to look out for, however. If you find yourself itching to make unnecessary purchases, know that at the root of this urge is the desire to pamper and comfort yourself. Nothing wrong with it, but there are inexpensive (and even free) ways to make yourself feel good.
This is not the most eventful time of year for you. You are more inclined to dig in your heels and hang on to what makes you feel most secure than to take big risks.
Venus this Month: Love, Romance, Social Life, Comfort
Until August 27th:
Venus continues to transit through your solar twelfth house now. The twelfth house is a sector of endings, privacy, and mental health, and with Venus here, it's possible that you are reviewing your feelings for someone, or enjoying a more private love life for the time being. You may not be open with your affections for whatever reason now, and this shouldn't be a problem—it may be difficult to articulate, verbalize, or intellectualize your feelings for the time being. Doing some soul-searching as well as an enhanced ability to perceive other dimensions in love can lead you to a deeper understanding of your own love needs and possibly of a love relationship. Love might involve some form of sacrifice or simply a lot of giving and lending of support as opposed to receiving during this cycle.
From the 28th forward:
You could find it hard to deny yourself much of anything during this cycle! This is a time when you naturally let loose your softer, receptive side. Romantic matters, as well as pleasure-seeking activities, come to the fore now. You are more likely to pay closer attention to your physical appearance and mannerisms, aiming to improve and enhance your attractiveness. Others find you especially agreeable and cooperative. You are more gracious, well-behaved (superficial if you are not careful!), and likable now. Take advantage! It's a time when you turn heads, and it's also a period for extra attention to pleasures, pampering, and enjoyment.
Mercury this Month: Communications, Learning, Connections, Transportation
Until the 14th:
Mercury continues to transit your solar first house. During this cycle, you are more communicative than usual. However, this doesn't necessarily mean that conversations are at their best right now, simply because you are more interested in expressing yourself than listening! You are especially alert and a little cerebral now. You have a receptive audience for your ideas.
From the 15-30:
With Mercury in your solar second house, this is a strong period for analyzing your cash flow, income, and earning power. You are more practical and rational in your approach to finances during this period. With your conscious mind focused on money and possessions, as well as personal values, this can be a strong period for gathering new money-making ideas.
Alternatively, it could be a time when you tend to fret over your finances. Conversations tend to be practical rather than frivolous now. Financial gain may come through communications.
From the 30th forward:
Mercury is right at home in the third house and offers a natural curiosity, facility with words, and the ability to multi-task successfully. More time spent on the phone, writing emails, in the car making short frequent trips, chatting, running errands, communicating with neighbors and siblings, visiting friends and relatives, and doing paperwork is likely now. There can also be a tendency to fuss over insignificant matters now, however.
Also, "information overload" is also a possibility. This may be a busy time with neighbors, classmates, siblings, and community affairs. Your interests are especially varied now and perhaps scattered. It's an ideal time to pick up information from your environment and the people in it, as your tendency is toward a certain level of intellectual detachment just now. Your mind is often distracted, particularly when circumstances call for you to stick to the routine, so this is not the best transit for focusing on one task or project.
Your mind is especially inquisitive during this cycle, when learning, short trips, and other forms of communication and making connections, appeal strongly. Some are fidgety or nervous during this cycle, perhaps due to increased errand-running, phone calls, and the like. Others enjoy the challenge of tackling a variety of subjects. As well, talking, writing, and studying can be good ways to handle stress.
Mars this Month: Energy, Drive, Courage
Until the 4th:
Mars continues to animate and energize your solar ninth house. Your energy levels and sense of timing are good during this cycle. You are strong and bold in your beliefs and convictions as well, and others tend to naturally follow your lead. You actively seek out new learning experiences and have a strong desire to set out on new adventures, however big or small. Others find you easy to be around, even inspiring and energizing, and are attracted to your assertiveness and courage.
From the 5th forward:
Mars animates and energizes your solar tenth house. This transit stimulates your ambition and/or your desire to be recognized for your accomplishments. Whether it's professional or personal, you are likely to have an increased desire for others to notice you. This can be a good time to become self-employed or start a business if other factors (and Mars itself) are favorable. Conflicts with those in authority are possible now. You may pour more energy into self-promotion or business/career activities.
Mars will continue to transit this area of your solar chart for longer than usual–until February 2021.
Overview Horoscope:
August 2020 Monthly Horoscope Overview for Cancer:
You might often find yourself in the position to lead, manage, or take charge this month, and it goes rather smoothly, dear Cancer. Even so, there is a stronger focus on settling in and getting comfortable. Creative problem solving comes easily, particularly when you apply your thinking to practical and professional matters. You're more decisive and confident in August, although as the month progresses, your curiosity can diffuse your focus somewhat.
August is strong for income boosts, career connections, and focused building of special projects. You may be motivated to make money, ambitious to improve your situation, or healthy and friendly competition encourages you to shine. Workable solutions to problems tend to come intuitively. Ideas are progressive and exciting, and conversations, although possibly a little rough around the edges, are learning experiences. You might gain support or backing for a work or life-path goal, and this feels good.
The Sun transits your solar second house until the 22nd and Mercury from the 4-19. There can be good news, ideas, and research regarding comfort and security matters or income. It's an excellent time to develop your talents or put them to good use, pursue hobbies for material gain, or establish yourself in a particular field. You might flesh out an idea with practical details to make it more workable or marketable.
The Full Moon on the 3rd can pull up financial or intimacy issues. You might reach a settlement or make changes in the ways you depend on others. Matters that were previously hidden or left unacknowledged may illuminate. There can be big feelings, but also some impatience. Enthusiasm for reaching your goals skyrockets, and you can be thinking up big plans that excite you.
Venus spent an unusually long time in the sign just behind yours, and on the 7th, it enters your sign. This transit has given you ample time and opportunity to process your feelings and connect with your emotional and romantic past or to nurse some old hurts before gathering the strength to move forward. Until September 6th, you're more expressive and sure of your needs and affections. People appreciate your style and the traits you express naturally. This cycle puts the focus on pleasure and love.
Uranus turns retrograde mid-August, and for the next five months, things tend to calm down on the social front. It's a useful period for processing recent changes and events with friends, and it benefits you greatly, helping prevent impulsive, regrettable decisions. When you act from your heart rather than merely reacting to others and circumstances, you do yourself a service.
You approach your finances from a new, refreshed perspective, particularly after the New Moon on the 18th. It's one of the best periods of the year for money-making ideas. It's also a good time for getting down to brass tacks when it comes to planning and dealing with your practical affairs. You might make some resolutions related to business, finances, and boosting your sense of security. If you're looking to earn more, this can be a time to seek out new channels.
Mercury and then the Sun head into your communications sector on the 19th and 22nd, respectively. These transits encourage your desire to talk, share, learn, and connect. Getting and keeping in touch with others can benefit you. It can be a busy time of thinking, talking, moving about, and learning. It can also be a scattered period in spots! Because demands on you–and your own interests–can be very diverse at this time, it can be challenging to work on a particular project with exclusive focus. Even so, it's more about discovery and branching out than specializing. Fun new interests or exciting news and topics can figure strongly now.
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About These Monthly Horoscopes:
Our detailed monthly horoscopes are designed to reveal and interpret the current transits of the Sun, Mercury, Venus, and Mars in your solar chart. Because these energies or transits do not unfold neatly into any given calendar month (many transits carry forward from one month to the next), you will find some of the energies continue from the previous month. For example, the Sun might transit the second house of your solar chart from June 21 to July 22, so that you will find a similar interpretation for this transit in both June and July’s horoscope. This is normal and expected. Transits don’t abruptly change as the calendar month changes.
These monthly horoscopes also include an overview paragraph, as well as other energies specific to the month, such as retrogrades, eclipses, or major outer planet transits.
The Lunar Cycles section reveals lunar cycle dates. Lunar cycles repeat themselves approximately every 28 days, so it is normal to see the same lunar peaks, such as “Your Personal New Moon” and “Monthly career peak” repeat themselves from month to month, but with different dates. They serve as a helpful guide to cycle peaks in different areas of life, such as financial, career, romance, and partnership.
The horoscopes are divided into three groups or decanates, and the differences between the groups are subtle in parts and large in other parts. For those who prefer a whole sign approach to horoscopes, simply read the first decanate regardless of your birthdate.
Learn all about the signs of the zodiac. We offer interpretations of the Sun, Moon, Mercury, Venus, Mars, and the Ascendant in the signs:
Aries Taurus Gemini Cancer Leo Virgo Libra Scorpio Sagittarius Capricorn Aquarius Pisces
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