Cancer Monthly Horoscope
December 2022 Horoscope: Predictions for Cancer
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Overview for this Month: Cancer (All)
December 2022 Monthly Horoscope Overview for Cancer:
December begins with a strong focus on your sector of work, service, health, routines, and habits, dear Cancer. It’s a potentially excellent time for discovering ways to heal and mend or improve wellness and habits. As the month advances, you're more interactive and relationship-focused.
With shifts this month, there can be a turning point in a project or an attitude, and plans related to education, legal matters, or publishing might move forward. Your ambitions are stirring, and your confidence is building. Recent distractions from the bigger picture start to fall to the side, and it's easier to feel optimistic.
If you've been tense with hectic schedules and demanding daily life, it can come to a head around the Full Moon on the 7th. You quickly become bored with going through the motions of daily routines at this time, but a new position or task, or an increased workload, keeps you especially busy. With the continuing retrograde of Mars, you can have a low threshold for boredom at times this month. While inner restlessness can push you to make important changes, it can also attract some trouble if you are living on auto-pilot and not consciously directing your energies into productive channels.
This Full Moon can bring a secret or private matter into awareness. Learning your true feelings on an issue can be exciting, although you could initially feel a bit flooded. There can be a reminder of a need for extra rest or attention to your emotional life now, especially if you've been going hard in other life departments.
Transits encourage special attention to the nuts and bolts of your life--you're laying the groundwork for future success. Getting on top of the little things in your life can do wonderful things for your confidence and general outlook. When you’re not procrastinating and avoiding things, you feel more in control. A plan for better health and habits can come together.
As December advances, there is less focus on your routines and increasing attention to your relationships. Mercury and Venus move into your partnership sector on the 6th and 9th. Later in the month--on the 21st--the Sun does the same. You might rely a little more on others in your life, and improving your relationships or attracting helpful people into your orbit can figure strongly. People have something to show you about yourself! Conversations and interactions are eye-opening, and collaborations can be valuable and fun. Especially after the Sun arrives in this area of your solar chart, you pour a lot of yourself (energy, attention, and expectations) into relating and partnering. It's a great time to iron out problems, bring more balance to your life, and harmonize.
With the New Moon on the 23rd, there can be new developments in close relationships. Different attitudes refresh your outlook and your connections. Mercury does turn retrograde on the 29th, pointing to some need to backtrack, slow down, and reassess things. Going over old territory in a relationship can be useful now.
Jupiter heads to the top of your solar chart, and Chiron, already transiting there, turns direct. These moves motivate you to shoot a little higher with your goals. Your ambitions, career, business goals, and reputation will improve, grow, and develop. You're attracting good favor and pursuing your interests confidently. These themes will improve further after the end of the Mars retrograde cycle in mid-January. For now, you're revving up and building plans.
Cancer (Born June 22 to July 1) and Cancer Ascendant 0 to 10 degrees Cancer:
December 2022 Cancer Horoscope: Love, Career, & General Trends
December 2022
The Sun this Month: Central Focus, Consciousness
Until December 21st:
The Sun continues to spotlight your solar sixth house. This is a busy period that finds you tending to many different details of your daily existence--your work, various projects, organization around the home and office, your daily routines, and health matters. Your ego may be especially tied up in the work you do, so that you are proud and more creative than usual in your job. You may be in the position to take charge in your work, or to take charge of your health and diet. Sometimes this cycle relates to increased activities involving pets. You seek to perfect your skills or methods now, and you focus on the parts that make up the whole now in order to improve your daily life. As a result, you can be more critical than usual, but this process is necessary for you to sort out what works for you and what doesn't.
From December 21st forward:
The Sun illuminates your seventh house. At this time of year, you have a greater need than usual to be with a partner. Bouncing ideas off someone helps you to better understand yourself. A partner provides a mirror for your own self-discovery. Now is the time to realize your own potential through a significant other. During this cycle, you focus on balancing your personal interests and objectives with your social life, or with those of a partner. The emphasis is on "us" rather than "me".
You need the energies, companionship, and support of other people, and they may also seek out your support and companionship. It's important to include others rather than to go solo for the time being. However, bending too much to the will of another is not advised either. Social interactions of a personal, one-on-one kind are emphasized. Circumstances are such that your diplomacy skills are required. Your popularity is increasing, and is reinforced by your own ability to cooperate and harmonize. Your ego and pride are tied up in how you relate to others now. This may be an especially busy time for people who consult or work with clients one-on-one.
Venus this Month: Love, Romance, Social Life, Comfort, Pleasure
Until December 9th:
Venus continues to move through your solar sixth house now. This is a time when beautifying and/or bringing harmony to your working environment is a priority to you. You might find more opportunities to socialize with co-workers, perhaps even meeting a new friend through your work or health routines. You are likely to bring more tact and diplomacy to your relations with the people you work with now. You may not be as productive as usual during this period, as the focus is more on social relationships and pleasure than on getting the job done. Improving health and vitality through pleasurable activities such as massage might be in focus now.
From December 9th forward:
Venus graces your solar seventh house during this period. This is a time for extra attention to a partner or significant other, as well as from that person! You are more inclined to flatter and charm others during this cycle. One-to-one relating appeals to you more than group activities or more casual connections. Smoothing out your close personal relationships is what makes you happy during this cycle. If single, you are more willing than normal to enter into a committed relationship. In general, you are adaptable when it comes to your affections--very willing to compromise, negotiate, and make peace.
Mercury this Month: Communications, Learning, Connections, Transportation
Until December 6th:
Mercury continues to transit your solar sixth house. This is an excellent cycle for improving your skills, objectively identifying your weaknesses so that you can work on them, and for finding flaws in your work methods or approach to daily activities so that you can make necessary changes.
You might be especially focused on list-making and to-do lists, as well as organizing things around you. The need to communicate about your work, health, and other daily affairs, or with co-workers, is especially strong now. Negative expression of this position is worrying about sixth house matters (work, health, pets, and so forth) rather than finding ways to improve these things.
From December 6th forward:
Mercury transits your solar seventh house. You tend to weigh the pros and cons of every issue during this cycle, taking into account others' needs as well as your own. Some indecisiveness is possible now, simply because you naturally entertain opposing viewpoints. You have a strong desire to cooperate and communicate with others now. You feel most comfortable spending time with people on a one-to-one level, or with those with whom you share a personal history.
Interestingly, your own thoughts become clearer through dialogue with others during this window. You may be doing public relations work, counseling, negotiating, or arbitration during this cycle. There is a lot of emphasis on communications with partners and best friends at this time. You can use the power of words to advise others or to make peace with people in your life. You are more diplomatic than usual during this transit.
Mercury is retrograde from December 29th to January 18th:
All Mercury retrograde cycles particularly affect you in terms of personal communications in general as well as communications about the past because Mercury rules these areas of your life. Your intuition usually serves you very well, but may not be up to par for the time being. Take care when it comes to presenting ideas, writing letters, and any detail work. You may not be seeing the whole picture.
Occurring in your solar seventh house this time, extra care should be exercised when it comes to negotiations and one-on-one communications. Be as non-judgmental as you can with a partner. There may be the need to revisit old issues in a partnership, or there could be some communication problems with a partner. An ex-partner may resurface during this cycle. Misunderstandings with your partner now can do some damage if you (or your partner) focus on the choice of words instead of the meanings behind the words. If you need to talk through problems, try not to over-react to what your partner has to say. Mixed messages coming from a partner, or a disappointment, could occur now. You may not be as adept at mediating disputes for the time being, but it's a good cycle in which to reflect upon your negotiation skills with the goal of improving them. Re-thinking a partnership arrangement is possible now, but you should avoid jumping to any premature decisions. It would be wise to be especially clear when it comes to communicating with partners; or take this time to re-examine issues rather than communicating about them prematurely.
Mars this Month: Energy, Drive, Courage
Mars is retrograde from October 30th, 2022, until January 12th, 2023:
All Mars retrograde cycles particularly affect you in terms of your career, professional life, ambition, public relations, and your reputation because Mars rules these areas of your life in your solar chart. Stalling, snags, challenges, or seeming setbacks might alert you to the need for re-organizing your energy and enthusiasm for these matters, for re-assessing goals, or for changing plans.
Occurring in your solar twelfth house during this period, your spirituality, private life, gut instincts, and intuition are affected. Perhaps you are not as confident about your hunches. Private affairs and solitary work might need to be put on the back burner, or you could show less enthusiasm for them. Trusting your gut instincts may become an issue. Vague fears and anxieties need to be dealt with. Obsession with private matters or concerns about the past could be part of the picture. Your desire nature can be rather complicated now, and it can be difficult to find direct routes to satisfaction. Old resentments, hurts, and waves of anger can resurface. There can be lowered vitality, likely due to emotional frustrations and exasperation. It's time to rethink, revise, and reorganize your plans. Backtracking is a good idea now. This is a time for learning about how your mental health impacts your life.
Overview Horoscope:
December 2022 Monthly Horoscope Overview for Cancer:
December begins with a strong focus on your sector of work, service, health, routines, and habits, dear Cancer. It’s a potentially excellent time for discovering ways to heal and mend or improve wellness and habits. As the month advances, you're more interactive and relationship-focused.
With shifts this month, there can be a turning point in a project or an attitude, and plans related to education, legal matters, or publishing might move forward. Your ambitions are stirring, and your confidence is building. Recent distractions from the bigger picture start to fall to the side, and it's easier to feel optimistic.
If you've been tense with hectic schedules and demanding daily life, it can come to a head around the Full Moon on the 7th. You quickly become bored with going through the motions of daily routines at this time, but a new position or task, or an increased workload, keeps you especially busy. With the continuing retrograde of Mars, you can have a low threshold for boredom at times this month. While inner restlessness can push you to make important changes, it can also attract some trouble if you are living on auto-pilot and not consciously directing your energies into productive channels.
This Full Moon can bring a secret or private matter into awareness. Learning your true feelings on an issue can be exciting, although you could initially feel a bit flooded. There can be a reminder of a need for extra rest or attention to your emotional life now, especially if you've been going hard in other life departments.
Transits encourage special attention to the nuts and bolts of your life--you're laying the groundwork for future success. Getting on top of the little things in your life can do wonderful things for your confidence and general outlook. When you’re not procrastinating and avoiding things, you feel more in control. A plan for better health and habits can come together.
As December advances, there is less focus on your routines and increasing attention to your relationships. Mercury and Venus move into your partnership sector on the 6th and 9th. Later in the month--on the 21st--the Sun does the same. You might rely a little more on others in your life, and improving your relationships or attracting helpful people into your orbit can figure strongly. People have something to show you about yourself! Conversations and interactions are eye-opening, and collaborations can be valuable and fun. Especially after the Sun arrives in this area of your solar chart, you pour a lot of yourself (energy, attention, and expectations) into relating and partnering. It's a great time to iron out problems, bring more balance to your life, and harmonize.
With the New Moon on the 23rd, there can be new developments in close relationships. Different attitudes refresh your outlook and your connections. Mercury does turn retrograde on the 29th, pointing to some need to backtrack, slow down, and reassess things. Going over old territory in a relationship can be useful now.
Jupiter heads to the top of your solar chart, and Chiron, already transiting there, turns direct. These moves motivate you to shoot a little higher with your goals. Your ambitions, career, business goals, and reputation will improve, grow, and develop. You're attracting good favor and pursuing your interests confidently. These themes will improve further after the end of the Mars retrograde cycle in mid-January. For now, you're revving up and building plans.
See also general trends for Cancer in 2023.
See also detailed 2022 Yearly Horoscope for Cancer.
Cancer (Born July 2 to 12)
AND Cancer Ascendant from 10 to 20 degrees Cancer:
December 2022 Cancer Horoscope: Love, Career, & General Trends
December 2022
The Sun this Month: Central Focus, Consciousness
All month:
The Sun illuminates your solar sixth house. During this cycle, you take more pride in the work you do and in your health routines than any other time of the year. You are sorting through the experiences of the last several months, separating the worthwhile from the worthless. This is a good time to build your skills, to get organized, and to attend to your health and wellbeing. It's a great time to make improvements to your regular routines. Your self-esteem and your ego are tied up in the work you do and in the services you give. Details are more important to you now.
It's time to bring order to your life by focusing on the little things that make up the whole. This cycle presents an opportunity to get rid of what doesn't work in your life, while also discovering what does. You could seek distinction and strive towards perfection in your work. Efficiency should be your goal now. Your physical health, as well as the relationship between your body and your mind, are in focus.
Venus this Month: Love, Romance, Social Life, Comfort
Until December 17th:
Venus continues to move through your solar sixth house now. This is a time when beautifying and/or bringing harmony to your working environment is a priority to you. You might find more opportunities to socialize with co-workers, perhaps even meeting a new friend through your work or health routines. You are likely to bring more tact and diplomacy to your relations with the people you work with now. You may not be as productive as usual during this period, as the focus is more on social relationships and pleasure than on getting the job done. Improving health and vitality through pleasurable activities such as massage might be in focus now.
From December 18th forward:
Venus graces your solar seventh house during this period. This is a time for extra attention to a partner or significant other, as well as from that person! You are more inclined to flatter and charm others during this cycle. One-to-one relating appeals to you more than group activities or more casual connections. Smoothing out your close personal relationships is what makes you happy during this cycle. If single, you are more willing than normal to enter into a committed relationship. In general, you are adaptable when it comes to your affections--very willing to compromise, negotiate, and make peace.
Mercury this Month: Communications, Learning, Connections, Transportation
Until December 13th:
Mercury continues to transit your solar sixth house. This is an excellent cycle for improving your skills, objectively identifying your weaknesses so that you can work on them, and for finding flaws in your work methods or approach to daily activities so that you can make necessary changes.
You might be especially focused on list-making and to-do lists, as well as organizing things around you. The need to communicate about your work, health, and other daily affairs, or with co-workers, is especially strong now. Negative expression of this position is worrying about sixth house matters (work, health, pets, and so forth) rather than finding ways to improve these things.
From December 13th forward:
Mercury transits your solar seventh house. You tend to weigh the pros and cons of every issue during this cycle, taking into account others' needs as well as your own. Some indecisiveness is possible now, simply because you naturally entertain opposing viewpoints. You have a strong desire to cooperate and communicate with others now. You feel most comfortable spending time with people on a one-to-one level, or with those with whom you share a personal history.
Interestingly, your own thoughts become clearer through dialogue with others during this window. You may be doing public relations work, counseling, negotiating, or arbitration during this cycle. There is a lot of emphasis on communications with partners and best friends at this time. You can use the power of words to advise others or to make peace with people in your life. You are more diplomatic than usual during this transit.
Mercury is retrograde from December 29th to January 18th:
All Mercury retrograde cycles particularly affect you in terms of personal communications in general as well as communications about the past because Mercury rules these areas of your life. Your intuition usually serves you very well, but may not be up to par for the time being. Take care when it comes to presenting ideas, writing letters, and any detail work. You may not be seeing the whole picture.
Occurring in your solar seventh house this time, extra care should be exercised when it comes to negotiations and one-on-one communications. Be as non-judgmental as you can with a partner. There may be the need to revisit old issues in a partnership, or there could be some communication problems with a partner. An ex-partner may resurface during this cycle. Misunderstandings with your partner now can do some damage if you (or your partner) focus on the choice of words instead of the meanings behind the words. If you need to talk through problems, try not to over-react to what your partner has to say. Mixed messages coming from a partner, or a disappointment, could occur now. You may not be as adept at mediating disputes for the time being, but it's a good cycle in which to reflect upon your negotiation skills with the goal of improving them. Re-thinking a partnership arrangement is possible now, but you should avoid jumping to any premature decisions. It would be wise to be especially clear when it comes to communicating with partners; or take this time to re-examine issues rather than communicating about them prematurely.
Mars this Month: Energy, Drive, Courage
Mars is retrograde from October 30th, 2022, until January 12th, 2023:
All Mars retrograde cycles particularly affect you in terms of your career, professional life, ambition, public relations, and your reputation because Mars rules these areas of your life in your solar chart. Stalling, snags, challenges, or seeming setbacks might alert you to the need for re-organizing your energy and enthusiasm for these matters, for re-assessing goals, or for changing plans.
Occurring in your solar twelfth house during this period, your spirituality, private life, gut instincts, and intuition are affected. Perhaps you are not as confident about your hunches. Private affairs and solitary work might need to be put on the back burner, or you could show less enthusiasm for them. Trusting your gut instincts may become an issue. Vague fears and anxieties need to be dealt with. Obsession with private matters or concerns about the past could be part of the picture. Your desire nature can be rather complicated now, and it can be difficult to find direct routes to satisfaction. Old resentments, hurts, and waves of anger can resurface. There can be lowered vitality, likely due to emotional frustrations and exasperation. It's time to rethink, revise, and reorganize your plans. Backtracking is a good idea now. This is a time for learning about how your mental health impacts your life.
Overview Horoscope:
December 2022 Monthly Horoscope Overview for Cancer:
December begins with a strong focus on your sector of work, service, health, routines, and habits, dear Cancer. It’s a potentially excellent time for discovering ways to heal and mend or improve wellness and habits. As the month advances, you're more interactive and relationship-focused.
With shifts this month, there can be a turning point in a project or an attitude, and plans related to education, legal matters, or publishing might move forward. Your ambitions are stirring, and your confidence is building. Recent distractions from the bigger picture start to fall to the side, and it's easier to feel optimistic.
If you've been tense with hectic schedules and demanding daily life, it can come to a head around the Full Moon on the 7th. You quickly become bored with going through the motions of daily routines at this time, but a new position or task, or an increased workload, keeps you especially busy. With the continuing retrograde of Mars, you can have a low threshold for boredom at times this month. While inner restlessness can push you to make important changes, it can also attract some trouble if you are living on auto-pilot and not consciously directing your energies into productive channels.
This Full Moon can bring a secret or private matter into awareness. Learning your true feelings on an issue can be exciting, although you could initially feel a bit flooded. There can be a reminder of a need for extra rest or attention to your emotional life now, especially if you've been going hard in other life departments.
Transits encourage special attention to the nuts and bolts of your life--you're laying the groundwork for future success. Getting on top of the little things in your life can do wonderful things for your confidence and general outlook. When you’re not procrastinating and avoiding things, you feel more in control. A plan for better health and habits can come together.
As December advances, there is less focus on your routines and increasing attention to your relationships. Mercury and Venus move into your partnership sector on the 6th and 9th. Later in the month--on the 21st--the Sun does the same. You might rely a little more on others in your life, and improving your relationships or attracting helpful people into your orbit can figure strongly. People have something to show you about yourself! Conversations and interactions are eye-opening, and collaborations can be valuable and fun. Especially after the Sun arrives in this area of your solar chart, you pour a lot of yourself (energy, attention, and expectations) into relating and partnering. It's a great time to iron out problems, bring more balance to your life, and harmonize.
With the New Moon on the 23rd, there can be new developments in close relationships. Different attitudes refresh your outlook and your connections. Mercury does turn retrograde on the 29th, pointing to some need to backtrack, slow down, and reassess things. Going over old territory in a relationship can be useful now.
Jupiter heads to the top of your solar chart, and Chiron, already transiting there, turns direct. These moves motivate you to shoot a little higher with your goals. Your ambitions, career, business goals, and reputation will improve, grow, and develop. You're attracting good favor and pursuing your interests confidently. These themes will improve further after the end of the Mars retrograde cycle in mid-January. For now, you're revving up and building plans.
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Cancer (Born July 13 to 22)
AND Cancer Ascendant from 20 to 30 degrees Cancer:
December 2022 Cancer Horoscope: Love, Career, & General Trends
December 2022
The Sun this Month: Central Focus, Consciousness
Until December 11th:
The Sun continues to put a spotlight on your solar fifth house. This is a time when pleasure-seeking and creative activities come into focus and grab much of your attention. You are particularly personally charming in a spontaneous, natural way during this solar cycle. This is the time of year when you are ready to perform and to express yourself creatively.
This is a very playful cycle, when you are inspired creatively and emotionally. It's a good time for recreation, romance, connecting with children, and enjoying and performing the arts. Your ego is tied up in your children, romantic relationships, and creative output now, so that you can be especially proud of these people and things. You can also be over-sensitive about these matters if you feel you are not getting enough appreciation.
From December 12th forward:
The Sun illuminates your solar sixth house. During this cycle, you take more pride in the work you do and in your health routines than any other time of the year. You are sorting through the experiences of the last several months, separating the worthwhile from the worthless. This is a good time to build your skills, to get organized, and to attend to your health and wellbeing. It's a great time to make improvements to your regular routines. Your self-esteem and your ego are tied up in the work you do and in the services you give. Details are more important to you now.
It's time to bring order to your life by focusing on the little things that make up the whole. This cycle presents an opportunity to get rid of what doesn't work in your life, while also discovering what does. You could seek distinction and strive towards perfection in your work. Efficiency should be your goal now. Your physical health, as well as the relationship between your body and your mind, are in focus.
Venus this Month: Love, Romance, Social Life, Comfort
From the 1st to 25th:
Venus graces your solar sixth house now. Establishing a happy and harmonious work environment through friendly relations with co-workers or tidying up your work area comes into focus now. Romantic and social activities may revolve around your working environment. You are generally well liked and respected socially on the job right now. Some laziness is possible now, as you tend to associate pleasure with work! Perhaps you are socializing more than usual on the job. You have good team spirit during this cycle, and you are more tactful and obliging with your co-workers. You are less inclined to fall in love for the sake of love itself during this cycle. Your tendency is to consider whether it is clever to do so! You're most successful doing tasks that involve cooperation and team harmony. You could find that your talents or skills are especially appreciated. Romantic and social activities may revolve around your working environment.
From December 26th forward:
Venus graces your solar seventh house during this period. This is a time for extra attention to a partner or significant other, as well as from that person! You are more inclined to flatter and charm others during this cycle. One-to-one relating appeals to you more than group activities or more casual connections. Smoothing out your close personal relationships is what makes you happy during this cycle. If single, you are more willing than normal to enter into a committed relationship. In general, you are adaptable when it comes to your affections--very willing to compromise, negotiate, and make peace.
Mercury this Month: Communications, Learning, Connections, Transportation
Until December 21st:
Mercury continues to transit your solar sixth house. This is an excellent cycle for improving your skills, objectively identifying your weaknesses so that you can work on them, and for finding flaws in your work methods or approach to daily activities so that you can make necessary changes.
You might be especially focused on list-making and to-do lists, as well as organizing things around you. The need to communicate about your work, health, and other daily affairs, or with co-workers, is especially strong now. Negative expression of this position is worrying about sixth house matters (work, health, pets, and so forth) rather than finding ways to improve these things.
From December 21st forward:
Mercury transits your solar seventh house. You tend to weigh the pros and cons of every issue during this cycle, taking into account others' needs as well as your own. Some indecisiveness is possible now, simply because you naturally entertain opposing viewpoints. You have a strong desire to cooperate and communicate with others now. You feel most comfortable spending time with people on a one-to-one level, or with those with whom you share a personal history.
Interestingly, your own thoughts become clearer through dialogue with others during this window. You may be doing public relations work, counseling, negotiating, or arbitration during this cycle. There is a lot of emphasis on communications with partners and best friends at this time. You can use the power of words to advise others or to make peace with people in your life. You are more diplomatic than usual during this transit.
Mercury is retrograde from December 29th to January 18th:
All Mercury retrograde cycles particularly affect you in terms of personal communications in general as well as communications about the past because Mercury rules these areas of your life. Your intuition usually serves you very well, but may not be up to par for the time being. Take care when it comes to presenting ideas, writing letters, and any detail work. You may not be seeing the whole picture.
Occurring in your solar seventh house this time, extra care should be exercised when it comes to negotiations and one-on-one communications. Be as non-judgmental as you can with a partner. There may be the need to revisit old issues in a partnership, or there could be some communication problems with a partner. An ex-partner may resurface during this cycle. Misunderstandings with your partner now can do some damage if you (or your partner) focus on the choice of words instead of the meanings behind the words. If you need to talk through problems, try not to over-react to what your partner has to say. Mixed messages coming from a partner, or a disappointment, could occur now. You may not be as adept at mediating disputes for the time being, but it's a good cycle in which to reflect upon your negotiation skills with the goal of improving them. Re-thinking a partnership arrangement is possible now, but you should avoid jumping to any premature decisions. It would be wise to be especially clear when it comes to communicating with partners; or take this time to re-examine issues rather than communicating about them prematurely.
Mars this Month: Energy, Drive, Courage
Mars is retrograde from October 30th, 2022, until January 12th, 2023:
All Mars retrograde cycles particularly affect you in terms of your career, professional life, ambition, public relations, and your reputation because Mars rules these areas of your life in your solar chart. Stalling, snags, challenges, or seeming setbacks might alert you to the need for re-organizing your energy and enthusiasm for these matters, for re-assessing goals, or for changing plans.
Occurring in your solar eleventh house during this period, enthusiasm for generating business income, for working towards your higher goals and hopes, for group or community activities, and/or friendships may wane, perhaps due to some problems or setbacks in these areas of life. Some of you could be dealing with frustrations and buried anger with friends. Ambiguity in these areas of life may lead you to reassess your friendships, group endeavors and associations, or higher goals. There may be frustration with goals or dreams not manifesting soon enough, when in fact this retrograde period is strong for making important edits to your plans. Refocus, backtracking, and review become necessary and recommended now.
Overview Horoscope:
December 2022 Monthly Horoscope Overview for Cancer:
December begins with a strong focus on your sector of work, service, health, routines, and habits, dear Cancer. It’s a potentially excellent time for discovering ways to heal and mend or improve wellness and habits. As the month advances, you're more interactive and relationship-focused.
With shifts this month, there can be a turning point in a project or an attitude, and plans related to education, legal matters, or publishing might move forward. Your ambitions are stirring, and your confidence is building. Recent distractions from the bigger picture start to fall to the side, and it's easier to feel optimistic.
If you've been tense with hectic schedules and demanding daily life, it can come to a head around the Full Moon on the 7th. You quickly become bored with going through the motions of daily routines at this time, but a new position or task, or an increased workload, keeps you especially busy. With the continuing retrograde of Mars, you can have a low threshold for boredom at times this month. While inner restlessness can push you to make important changes, it can also attract some trouble if you are living on auto-pilot and not consciously directing your energies into productive channels.
This Full Moon can bring a secret or private matter into awareness. Learning your true feelings on an issue can be exciting, although you could initially feel a bit flooded. There can be a reminder of a need for extra rest or attention to your emotional life now, especially if you've been going hard in other life departments.
Transits encourage special attention to the nuts and bolts of your life--you're laying the groundwork for future success. Getting on top of the little things in your life can do wonderful things for your confidence and general outlook. When you’re not procrastinating and avoiding things, you feel more in control. A plan for better health and habits can come together.
As December advances, there is less focus on your routines and increasing attention to your relationships. Mercury and Venus move into your partnership sector on the 6th and 9th. Later in the month--on the 21st--the Sun does the same. You might rely a little more on others in your life, and improving your relationships or attracting helpful people into your orbit can figure strongly. People have something to show you about yourself! Conversations and interactions are eye-opening, and collaborations can be valuable and fun. Especially after the Sun arrives in this area of your solar chart, you pour a lot of yourself (energy, attention, and expectations) into relating and partnering. It's a great time to iron out problems, bring more balance to your life, and harmonize.
With the New Moon on the 23rd, there can be new developments in close relationships. Different attitudes refresh your outlook and your connections. Mercury does turn retrograde on the 29th, pointing to some need to backtrack, slow down, and reassess things. Going over old territory in a relationship can be useful now.
Jupiter heads to the top of your solar chart, and Chiron, already transiting there, turns direct. These moves motivate you to shoot a little higher with your goals. Your ambitions, career, business goals, and reputation will improve, grow, and develop. You're attracting good favor and pursuing your interests confidently. These themes will improve further after the end of the Mars retrograde cycle in mid-January. For now, you're revving up and building plans.
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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.
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