Cancer Monthly Horoscope
December 2024 Horoscope: Predictions for Cancer
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Overview for this Month: Cancer (All)
December 2024 Monthly Overview Horoscope for Cancer:
December can be a period of adjustments for you, dear Cancer, with the Sun in your solar sixth house of work, health, and habits for the first three weeks. This year, you have retrograde Mercury and Mars complicating matters, which can point to some redoing, reorganizing, and extra details to take care of before you can feel that you’re truly done and ready to move forward. Be as patient as possible and work at getting things right. In fact, the month brings some warmth to your relationships and faith to your outlook.
Entirely new endeavors may be on the horizon, but for now, you’ll be in a better place if you focus on projects already in motion. In fact, you might find some hidden gems from the past that you can now approach in a new way. The recycling of projects and ideas can be extraordinarily successful, even if the rewards aren't instant. There is a tendency to stay or operate in the background, but you retain a lot of power in this position. In fact, your observational skills are tremendous now. You might benefit from identifying attachments that are dragging you down.
Until the 7th, a Venus transit emphasizes happy or helpful people in your social circle. If you have any need for peace-making, it’s a great time for doing so. You might also benefit from others’ input and help. It may be that you’re craving others’ company, and sharing pleasures and activities can be particularly appealing now.
Mars turns retrograde on the 6th and will remain so until February 23rd. Later in the cycle (from January 6th forward), Mars will return to your sign, but for the first leg of this cycle, Mars is retrograding in your finances and resources sector. Even before the 6th, Mars is moving very slowly through your sector of money, personal possessions, and natural talents. While matters surrounding these things can seem to be moving similarly slowly, this gives you the chance to take a second look at problem areas you may have missed in the past.
Watch for struggles with money or values. There can be some confusion, misunderstandings, and possibly resentments surrounding money, ownership, valuables, matters of self-worth, and even your career or reputation during this retrograde Mars cycle. It’s important to watch spending and pay attention to fine print when purchasing or committing. You could easily regret things later, so take the time to think about it before you leap forward. However, this can also be a time for seeing new ways to make money or for discovering lost items. It’s a reasonable period for redesigning your budget. A review of money matters may be necessary and quite beneficial now.
Possessiveness or competitiveness can complicate things this month, especially since people are not being very direct. You might also be feeling in the dark or on the fence emotionally, and you could too easily concentrate on things that have been lost or buried. Issues of sharing, ownership, and support can be touchy. Seek out a compromise.
From the 7th onward, you’re seeking more depth from your relationships or projects. You might thoroughly enjoy an absorbing activity, some research, or solving a mystery.
Your focus on your daily routines, fitness, health, nutrition, work, and habits is strong in the first weeks of December. It's not the best cycle for recognition or worldly success, but it's powerful for self-development and laying the groundwork for future success. The New Moon on the 1st can ignite a strong desire to excel in your work and health pursuits. Your approach can be off-and-on, but when you’re “on”, you are going the extra distance. You might also be exploring alternative therapies and approaches to health and fitness. Do watch for a business-like insensitivity or impatience with people with whom you share daily activities that you may not intend until the 15th.
But while it's important to pay particular attention to your work and chores this month, if you’re overdoing this and failing to take care of your need for downtime, you’ll get a reminder around the 15th. This is when a Full Moon lights up your privacy sector, encouraging you to take better care of your emotional health.
The last week of the month brings a stronger focus on relationships. You’re also more sensitive to imbalances in your life now, and you may be seeking more harmony. The Sun is in your partnership sector from the 21st forward, and the New Moon on the 30th clinches your need for more from your relationships. Aim to set intentions and goals that better reflect your wants, needs, and expectations of others at the time of this New Moon as you near the end of the year and the start of a new one. Energies are powerful for a fresh start or turning point.
Cancer (Born June 22 to July 1) and Cancer Ascendant 0 to 10 degrees Cancer:
December 2024 Cancer Horoscope: Love, Career, & General Trends
December 2024
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 6th:
Venus continues her trek through your partnership sector. Meaningful and harmonious relationships--both social and romantic--define you during this cycle, affecting your mind, body, and soul. Financial or social success may come to or through your marriage partner at this time. Special attention to and from a partner is in focus, and flattery works to your advantage! Give to a partner exactly what you would like to receive just now. It's not about you right now--it's about someone else close. Smoothing out your close personal relationships is what makes you happy during this cycle. You have a greater need than usual for contact and exchange with an intimate partner. 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.
From December 7th forward:
Venus graces your solar eighth house now. During this cycle, a financial boost is possible, or you may gain financially through your partner. A deep and intimate connection made now could be revitalizing and even healing. You are more inclined to want to smooth over differences in a partnership concerning the sharing of power, intimacy matters, finances, and other emotionally-charged topics. Intimate relationships are intensified now. Either you or your partner want a deeper union.
Mercury this Month: Communications, Learning, Connections, Transportation
Mercury is retrograde since November 25th and until December 15th:
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 sixth house this time, extra care should be exercised when it comes to work, health matters, and daily routines. Be as non-judgmental as you can with co-workers and/or employees. Re-thinking the suitability of your job is possible now, but you should avoid jumping to any premature decisions. Work-related mess-ups can frustrate you, or you might need to redo work that you thought was complete. However, you might find that the refinements you make now will be very valuable later. Double- check your work before submitting it. It's a fine time for researching health and nutrition programs, as well as job skills and opportunities, but perhaps not the best time for beginning all-new programs. It would be wise to be especially clear when it comes to communicating with co-workers and health professionals; or take this time to re-examine issues rather than communicating about them prematurely.
From the 15th forward, these matters straighten out and smooth over as information unclogs:
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.
Mars this Month: Energy, Drive, Courage
Mars is retrograde from December 6th forward (until February 23rd, 2025):
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 second house during this date range, money-making endeavors are in focus. Perhaps a money-making idea you have been working on and were enthused about encounters some snags and you feel the urge to abandon it altogether. Caution and perhaps anxiety may be the overriding emotions just for now. Money and security matters are extremely important to you during this cycle, but they are not as straightforward as they have been. It's time to rethink, revise, and reorganize your money and your plans. This period involves coming to a greater understanding of how the way you manage your resources impacts your confidence and your life in a general sense.
Overview Horoscope:
December 2024 Monthly Overview Horoscope for Cancer:
December can be a period of adjustments for you, dear Cancer, with the Sun in your solar sixth house of work, health, and habits for the first three weeks. This year, you have retrograde Mercury and Mars complicating matters, which can point to some redoing, reorganizing, and extra details to take care of before you can feel that you’re truly done and ready to move forward. Be as patient as possible and work at getting things right. In fact, the month brings some warmth to your relationships and faith to your outlook.
Entirely new endeavors may be on the horizon, but for now, you’ll be in a better place if you focus on projects already in motion. In fact, you might find some hidden gems from the past that you can now approach in a new way. The recycling of projects and ideas can be extraordinarily successful, even if the rewards aren't instant. There is a tendency to stay or operate in the background, but you retain a lot of power in this position. In fact, your observational skills are tremendous now. You might benefit from identifying attachments that are dragging you down.
Until the 7th, a Venus transit emphasizes happy or helpful people in your social circle. If you have any need for peace-making, it’s a great time for doing so. You might also benefit from others’ input and help. It may be that you’re craving others’ company, and sharing pleasures and activities can be particularly appealing now.
Mars turns retrograde on the 6th and will remain so until February 23rd. Later in the cycle (from January 6th forward), Mars will return to your sign, but for the first leg of this cycle, Mars is retrograding in your finances and resources sector. Even before the 6th, Mars is moving very slowly through your sector of money, personal possessions, and natural talents. While matters surrounding these things can seem to be moving similarly slowly, this gives you the chance to take a second look at problem areas you may have missed in the past.
Watch for struggles with money or values. There can be some confusion, misunderstandings, and possibly resentments surrounding money, ownership, valuables, matters of self-worth, and even your career or reputation during this retrograde Mars cycle. It’s important to watch spending and pay attention to fine print when purchasing or committing. You could easily regret things later, so take the time to think about it before you leap forward. However, this can also be a time for seeing new ways to make money or for discovering lost items. It’s a reasonable period for redesigning your budget. A review of money matters may be necessary and quite beneficial now.
Possessiveness or competitiveness can complicate things this month, especially since people are not being very direct. You might also be feeling in the dark or on the fence emotionally, and you could too easily concentrate on things that have been lost or buried. Issues of sharing, ownership, and support can be touchy. Seek out a compromise.
From the 7th onward, you’re seeking more depth from your relationships or projects. You might thoroughly enjoy an absorbing activity, some research, or solving a mystery.
Your focus on your daily routines, fitness, health, nutrition, work, and habits is strong in the first weeks of December. It's not the best cycle for recognition or worldly success, but it's powerful for self-development and laying the groundwork for future success. The New Moon on the 1st can ignite a strong desire to excel in your work and health pursuits. Your approach can be off-and-on, but when you’re “on”, you are going the extra distance. You might also be exploring alternative therapies and approaches to health and fitness. Do watch for a business-like insensitivity or impatience with people with whom you share daily activities that you may not intend until the 15th.
But while it's important to pay particular attention to your work and chores this month, if you’re overdoing this and failing to take care of your need for downtime, you’ll get a reminder around the 15th. This is when a Full Moon lights up your privacy sector, encouraging you to take better care of your emotional health.
The last week of the month brings a stronger focus on relationships. You’re also more sensitive to imbalances in your life now, and you may be seeking more harmony. The Sun is in your partnership sector from the 21st forward, and the New Moon on the 30th clinches your need for more from your relationships. Aim to set intentions and goals that better reflect your wants, needs, and expectations of others at the time of this New Moon as you near the end of the year and the start of a new one. Energies are powerful for a fresh start or turning point.
See also general trends for Cancer in 2024.
See also detailed 2024 Yearly Horoscope for Cancer.
Cancer (Born July 2 to 12)
AND Cancer Ascendant from 10 to 20 degrees Cancer:
December 2024 Cancer Horoscope: Love, Career, & General Trends
December 2024
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, Pleasure
Until December 15th:
Venus continues her trek through your partnership sector. Meaningful and harmonious relationships--both social and romantic--define you during this cycle, affecting your mind, body, and soul. Financial or social success may come to or through your marriage partner at this time. Special attention to and from a partner is in focus, and flattery works to your advantage! Give to a partner exactly what you would like to receive just now. It's not about you right now--it's about someone else close. Smoothing out your close personal relationships is what makes you happy during this cycle. You have a greater need than usual for contact and exchange with an intimate partner. 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.
From December 16th forward:
Venus graces your solar eighth house now. During this cycle, a financial boost is possible, or you may gain financially through your partner. A deep and intimate connection made now could be revitalizing and even healing. You are more inclined to want to smooth over differences in a partnership concerning the sharing of power, intimacy matters, finances, and other emotionally-charged topics. Intimate relationships are intensified now. Either you or your partner want a deeper union.
Mercury this Month: Communications, Learning, Connections, Transportation
Mercury is retrograde since November 25th and until December 15th:
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 sixth house this time, extra care should be exercised when it comes to work, health matters, and daily routines. Be as non-judgmental as you can with co-workers and/or employees. Re-thinking the suitability of your job is possible now, but you should avoid jumping to any premature decisions. Work-related mess-ups can frustrate you, or you might need to redo work that you thought was complete. However, you might find that the refinements you make now will be very valuable later. Double- check your work before submitting it. It's a fine time for researching health and nutrition programs, as well as job skills and opportunities, but perhaps not the best time for beginning all-new programs. It would be wise to be especially clear when it comes to communicating with co-workers and health professionals; or take this time to re-examine issues rather than communicating about them prematurely.
From December 15th forward, information unclogs and these matters smooth and straighten out, and from the 23rd:
Mercury transits your solar sixth house. This is a good placement for Mercury, as it is the natural ruler of the sixth house. It's an excellent period for sorting out the details of your daily existence. You are inclined to make to-do lists, pay bills and sort out clutter, and to do detail work on the job. Health matters are most certainly on your brain as well, and you could be thinking of scheduling check-ups or busy researching ways to improve your health. You may also show a keener interest in improving your basic skills.
Your approach to work during this cycle is pleasant, happy, and logical for the most part, unless you allow worry or scattered energy to enter the picture. You are inclined to want to learn new work skills, or to improve your skills and output in terms of work. There is likely to be more activity, movement, contact, and communications with co-workers now.
You tend to take more interest in organizing your working environment--and this is an excellent time to do so, as you are especially objective and intelligent when it comes to getting a handle on your daily affairs and all of the "little things" that contribute to a feeling of efficiency and competency. Menial tasks become more prominent. Watch, however, for tension or idle chit-chat interfering with your work output during this cycle.
Mars this Month: Energy, Drive, Courage
Mars is retrograde from December 6th forward (until February 23rd, 2025):
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 first house now, this Mars retrograde cycle is very up close and personal! The ways that your survival instincts have served you to date may not seem to be as effective, or you might be feeling cautious and withdrawn in a general way now. You might find that you are second-guessing yourself, and this is a natural process as you reassess how you've been going about meeting life and reacting/acting, which may need some polishing! It's a good time for refining these things. Your personal initiatives and confidence are affected. Perhaps you are less confident about your effectiveness and more cautious about sharing yourself with others. Personal initiatives might need to be put on the back burner, or you could show less enthusiasm for them. You may be a little tired and more accident-prone during this cycle, so be sure to rest up.
You are also examining the way anger has helped or impaired your life and coming up with new ways to manage it. In the process, you can experience some real frustrations. The end result, ideally, is a much-improved "you." It's time to rethink, revise, and reorganize your plans. Backtracking is a good idea now. How you assert yourself and how you go about going after what you want out of life are up for review now.
Watch for unacknowledged or buried desires driving your behavior.
Overview Horoscope:
December 2024 Monthly Overview Horoscope for Cancer:
December can be a period of adjustments for you, dear Cancer, with the Sun in your solar sixth house of work, health, and habits for the first three weeks. This year, you have retrograde Mercury and Mars complicating matters, which can point to some redoing, reorganizing, and extra details to take care of before you can feel that you’re truly done and ready to move forward. Be as patient as possible and work at getting things right. In fact, the month brings some warmth to your relationships and faith to your outlook.
Entirely new endeavors may be on the horizon, but for now, you’ll be in a better place if you focus on projects already in motion. In fact, you might find some hidden gems from the past that you can now approach in a new way. The recycling of projects and ideas can be extraordinarily successful, even if the rewards aren't instant. There is a tendency to stay or operate in the background, but you retain a lot of power in this position. In fact, your observational skills are tremendous now. You might benefit from identifying attachments that are dragging you down.
Until the 7th, a Venus transit emphasizes happy or helpful people in your social circle. If you have any need for peace-making, it’s a great time for doing so. You might also benefit from others’ input and help. It may be that you’re craving others’ company, and sharing pleasures and activities can be particularly appealing now.
Mars turns retrograde on the 6th and will remain so until February 23rd. Later in the cycle (from January 6th forward), Mars will return to your sign, but for the first leg of this cycle, Mars is retrograding in your finances and resources sector. Even before the 6th, Mars is moving very slowly through your sector of money, personal possessions, and natural talents. While matters surrounding these things can seem to be moving similarly slowly, this gives you the chance to take a second look at problem areas you may have missed in the past.
Watch for struggles with money or values. There can be some confusion, misunderstandings, and possibly resentments surrounding money, ownership, valuables, matters of self-worth, and even your career or reputation during this retrograde Mars cycle. It’s important to watch spending and pay attention to fine print when purchasing or committing. You could easily regret things later, so take the time to think about it before you leap forward. However, this can also be a time for seeing new ways to make money or for discovering lost items. It’s a reasonable period for redesigning your budget. A review of money matters may be necessary and quite beneficial now.
Possessiveness or competitiveness can complicate things this month, especially since people are not being very direct. You might also be feeling in the dark or on the fence emotionally, and you could too easily concentrate on things that have been lost or buried. Issues of sharing, ownership, and support can be touchy. Seek out a compromise.
From the 7th onward, you’re seeking more depth from your relationships or projects. You might thoroughly enjoy an absorbing activity, some research, or solving a mystery.
Your focus on your daily routines, fitness, health, nutrition, work, and habits is strong in the first weeks of December. It's not the best cycle for recognition or worldly success, but it's powerful for self-development and laying the groundwork for future success. The New Moon on the 1st can ignite a strong desire to excel in your work and health pursuits. Your approach can be off-and-on, but when you’re “on”, you are going the extra distance. You might also be exploring alternative therapies and approaches to health and fitness. Do watch for a business-like insensitivity or impatience with people with whom you share daily activities that you may not intend until the 15th.
But while it's important to pay particular attention to your work and chores this month, if you’re overdoing this and failing to take care of your need for downtime, you’ll get a reminder around the 15th. This is when a Full Moon lights up your privacy sector, encouraging you to take better care of your emotional health.
The last week of the month brings a stronger focus on relationships. You’re also more sensitive to imbalances in your life now, and you may be seeking more harmony. The Sun is in your partnership sector from the 21st forward, and the New Moon on the 30th clinches your need for more from your relationships. Aim to set intentions and goals that better reflect your wants, needs, and expectations of others at the time of this New Moon as you near the end of the year and the start of a new one. Energies are powerful for a fresh start or turning point.
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See also detailed 2024 Yearly Horoscope for Cancer.
Cancer (Born July 13 to 22)
AND Cancer Ascendant from 20 to 30 degrees Cancer:
December 2024 Cancer Horoscope: Love, Career, & General Trends
December 2024
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 11th 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, Pleasure
Until December 24th:
Venus continues her trek through your partnership sector. Meaningful and harmonious relationships--both social and romantic--define you during this cycle, affecting your mind, body, and soul. Financial or social success may come to or through your marriage partner at this time. Special attention to and from a partner is in focus, and flattery works to your advantage! Give to a partner exactly what you would like to receive just now. It's not about you right now--it's about someone else close. Smoothing out your close personal relationships is what makes you happy during this cycle. You have a greater need than usual for contact and exchange with an intimate partner. 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.
From December 25th forward:
Venus graces your solar eighth house now. During this cycle, a financial boost is possible, or you may gain financially through your partner. A deep and intimate connection made now could be revitalizing and even healing. You are more inclined to want to smooth over differences in a partnership concerning the sharing of power, intimacy matters, finances, and other emotionally-charged topics. Intimate relationships are intensified now. Either you or your partner want a deeper union.
Mercury this Month: Communications, Learning, Connections, Transportation
Mercury is retrograde since November 25th until December 15th:
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 fifth house this time, extra care should be exercised when it comes to matters surrounding romance, children, and creativity. Be as non-judgmental as you can with romantic partners and your children, if applicable. Re-thinking the suitability of your romantic relationships is possible now, but you should avoid jumping to any premature decisions. There may be the need to revisit old issues with your children or lover, or there could be some communication problems with the same. Arguments with a lover may be blown out of proportion far too easily. Both you and your lover should avoid harping on the words used and try to get to the meaning behind the words instead. Or, a romance may not be moving forward in obvious ways. It might seem like stagnation, but it's actually a period of review and rest. Other possibilities include calls that are not returned, a lover is late for a date, or dates get cancelled. Speculation and gambling are not advised right now. It's probably not the best time to launch a new creative project, but it's a good time for reworking an existing one. Same goes for romance! Things will change after Mercury turns direct, so you might decide to try to keep status quo for the time being. It would be wise to be especially clear when it comes to communicating with romantic partners, and children; or take this time to re-examine issues rather than communicating about them prematurely.
From December 15th forward, these matters straighten out as information unclogs:
Mercury transits your solar fifth house. During this cycle, there is a powerful mental connection with your creative self-expression. You are proud of your ideas, and very good at expressing them to others smoothly now. Your thinking is more creative than usual. You tend to entertain others with your conversation; and your sense of humor (and of mischief!) is especially strong.
Your thoughts turn to children, pleasures, or romance during this expressive cycle. You might enjoy researching speculative ventures now. You especially enjoy games that involve competing with others on a mental level. You have a stronger need than usual for intellectual stimulation. Therefore, your friends and romantic partner are best appreciated now if they are intellectual types. You're more willing to take risks on a mental level now, so take advantage of the increased spontaneity and creativity that comes with this position.
Mars this Month: Energy, Drive, Courage
Mars is retrograde from December 6th forward (until February 23rd, 2025):
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 first house now, this Mars retrograde cycle is very up close and personal! The ways that your survival instincts have served you to date may not seem to be as effective, or you might be feeling cautious and withdrawn in a general way now. You might find that you are second-guessing yourself, and this is a natural process as you reassess how you've been going about meeting life and reacting/acting, which may need some polishing! It's a good time for refining these things. Your personal initiatives and confidence are affected. Perhaps you are less confident about your effectiveness and more cautious about sharing yourself with others. Personal initiatives might need to be put on the back burner, or you could show less enthusiasm for them. You may be a little tired and more accident-prone during this cycle, so be sure to rest up.
You are also examining the way anger has helped or impaired your life and coming up with new ways to manage it. In the process, you can experience some real frustrations. The end result, ideally, is a much-improved "you." It's time to rethink, revise, and reorganize your plans. Backtracking is a good idea now. How you assert yourself and how you go about going after what you want out of life are up for review now.
Watch for unacknowledged or buried desires driving your behavior.
Overview Horoscope:
December 2024 Monthly Overview Horoscope for Cancer:
December can be a period of adjustments for you, dear Cancer, with the Sun in your solar sixth house of work, health, and habits for the first three weeks. This year, you have retrograde Mercury and Mars complicating matters, which can point to some redoing, reorganizing, and extra details to take care of before you can feel that you’re truly done and ready to move forward. Be as patient as possible and work at getting things right. In fact, the month brings some warmth to your relationships and faith to your outlook.
Entirely new endeavors may be on the horizon, but for now, you’ll be in a better place if you focus on projects already in motion. In fact, you might find some hidden gems from the past that you can now approach in a new way. The recycling of projects and ideas can be extraordinarily successful, even if the rewards aren't instant. There is a tendency to stay or operate in the background, but you retain a lot of power in this position. In fact, your observational skills are tremendous now. You might benefit from identifying attachments that are dragging you down.
Until the 7th, a Venus transit emphasizes happy or helpful people in your social circle. If you have any need for peace-making, it’s a great time for doing so. You might also benefit from others’ input and help. It may be that you’re craving others’ company, and sharing pleasures and activities can be particularly appealing now.
Mars turns retrograde on the 6th and will remain so until February 23rd. Later in the cycle (from January 6th forward), Mars will return to your sign, but for the first leg of this cycle, Mars is retrograding in your finances and resources sector. Even before the 6th, Mars is moving very slowly through your sector of money, personal possessions, and natural talents. While matters surrounding these things can seem to be moving similarly slowly, this gives you the chance to take a second look at problem areas you may have missed in the past.
Watch for struggles with money or values. There can be some confusion, misunderstandings, and possibly resentments surrounding money, ownership, valuables, matters of self-worth, and even your career or reputation during this retrograde Mars cycle. It’s important to watch spending and pay attention to fine print when purchasing or committing. You could easily regret things later, so take the time to think about it before you leap forward. However, this can also be a time for seeing new ways to make money or for discovering lost items. It’s a reasonable period for redesigning your budget. A review of money matters may be necessary and quite beneficial now.
Possessiveness or competitiveness can complicate things this month, especially since people are not being very direct. You might also be feeling in the dark or on the fence emotionally, and you could too easily concentrate on things that have been lost or buried. Issues of sharing, ownership, and support can be touchy. Seek out a compromise.
From the 7th onward, you’re seeking more depth from your relationships or projects. You might thoroughly enjoy an absorbing activity, some research, or solving a mystery.
Your focus on your daily routines, fitness, health, nutrition, work, and habits is strong in the first weeks of December. It's not the best cycle for recognition or worldly success, but it's powerful for self-development and laying the groundwork for future success. The New Moon on the 1st can ignite a strong desire to excel in your work and health pursuits. Your approach can be off-and-on, but when you’re “on”, you are going the extra distance. You might also be exploring alternative therapies and approaches to health and fitness. Do watch for a business-like insensitivity or impatience with people with whom you share daily activities that you may not intend until the 15th.
But while it's important to pay particular attention to your work and chores this month, if you’re overdoing this and failing to take care of your need for downtime, you’ll get a reminder around the 15th. This is when a Full Moon lights up your privacy sector, encouraging you to take better care of your emotional health.
The last week of the month brings a stronger focus on relationships. You’re also more sensitive to imbalances in your life now, and you may be seeking more harmony. The Sun is in your partnership sector from the 21st forward, and the New Moon on the 30th clinches your need for more from your relationships. Aim to set intentions and goals that better reflect your wants, needs, and expectations of others at the time of this New Moon as you near the end of the year and the start of a new one. Energies are powerful for a fresh start or turning point.
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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.
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