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February 2021 Horoscope: Predictions for Cancer
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Overview for this Month: Cancer (All)
February 2021 Monthly Horoscope Overview for Cancer:
Your solar eighth house has considerable power this month, dear Cancer. This is the sector of your chart that rules regeneration, transformation, other people's resources (that affect you), and debts, both spiritual or emotional and material ones.
You can experience a more vital need for deep, rich, meaningful experiences. You're paying more attention to the power dynamics and intimacy level of a relationship, or there can be a powerful focus on your own needs for change, evolution, and self-mastery. With retrograde Mercury in the same sector until the 20th, there can be some backtracking or waiting involved nevertheless.
Your inner world is a strong draw this month--you're tuning in to the deeper issues and looking beyond the surface of matters for answers. You might rethink certain financial matters, issues of support or debt, matters related to sharing and power dynamics, or intimate relationships. Even so, Mars wants you to push forward, occupying your sector of friendship, happiness goals, and experimentation all month.
Mercury retrograde periods can feel a little slow, but they're times for catching up in areas where you were pushing too far ahead--it's about restoring balance rather than real slowdowns. Brand-new endeavors may not get off the ground, but work in progress can benefit significantly from your attention now.
As you seek more authenticity in your friendships, you may go through some social ups and downs. Mars sometimes clashes with planets in your solar eighth house this month, which can stir up some tension. Your best bet is to avoid getting under the control of impulses. Make a point of not confusing drama with happiness in your social or love life. The need to do something special is with you now and can be productive, but there can be some conflict between friends and lovers or your desire to go in deep with projects and a simultaneous desire to experiment. In relationships, someone may be giving too much and getting too little in return.
The month is good for delving into your feelings, personal psychology, and intimate thoughts. If you're a little self-absorbed now, it may very well be a valuable exercise. Word on a loan or debt might arrive, changing your perspective. You're likely to gain a clue, but it may not be time for a conclusion or unveiling until after the 20th. New insight into an old relationship can be helpful and enlightening.
There can be meaningful ideas, conversations, and developments in your private life. Insecurities about your ability to reach your goals may lead to uncomfortable situations or tension in your relationships in spots. You might recognize that you've been dwelling too much on a past relationship or problem, which has unnecessarily weighed you down. You are now feeling the need to move on.
Interactions are more complex and complicated, but often quite pleasantly so! You may find it easier to open up about a passion of yours or about a matter that you've been keeping under wraps. It's a time for sharing responsibilities and combining resources or talents to advance your goals. Money or support may come through, or financial dealings can be successful. The New Moon on the 11th puts you in charge of making a fresh start. You might gain a supporter, backing, or counseling/advice. There could be a confidant that helps you release some frustrations.
A Saturn-Uranus transit in influence until December begins this month. With it, challenges can emerge as your social life is a little more eclectic (or unreliable), and you're getting serious about your inner world or intimate life. The desire to experiment can feel at odds with your need to specialize and focus on one absorbing project or relationship. There could be clashes or cross-purposes between a friend and a lover that needs special attention.
Energetically speaking, the month picks up the pace for you after the 18th. Your spirit for different activities and new topics of interest is building, along with the motivation to take on something new. Further boosts occur on the 20th when Mercury ends its retrograde and from the 25th forward when Venus moves into harmony with your sign. There can be great developments in a significant relationship. There can be some nice wins in the last week of February that put you in a very optimistic mood.
A Full Moon occurs in your communications sector on the 27th, and you can be especially busy. It brings with it a reminder to handle your daily affairs. This lunation prompts you to explore ideas, learning, communications, transportation, and connections, which in turn can motivate you to make changes and improvements.
Cancer (Born June 22 to July 1) and Cancer Ascendant 0 to 10 degrees Cancer:
February 2021 Cancer Horoscope: Love, Career, & General Trends
February 2021
The Sun this Month: Central Focus, Consciousness
Until February 17th:
The Sun continues to highlight your solar eighth house. Your attention turns inward, as well as to close personal relationships on a deeper level. Personal transformations, personal power, and intimate matters fulfill you most during this cycle. There may be a strong focus on other's money, such as the resources of a partner, inheritance, banking and loans, or taxes.
You are more intense in your mood and disposition, and perhaps even secretive, at this time of year. You are more in touch with the deeper and even primal elements of your own personality, and more able to see these things in others. This can be a determined and personally powerful time of year if you apply the energy of this transit constructively.
From February 18th forward:
This month, with the Sun spotlighting your solar ninth house, your focus turns outward, away from the more personal concerns that have occupied your thoughts in the last months. More than any other time during the year, you are feeling most adventurous and willing to take a leap of faith. This is a cycle in which you seek a higher meaning to your life, and/or seek out new experiences that take you beyond the here and now, and beyond the mundane details of day-to-day life. Anything that broadens your experiences attracts now.
A lack of superficiality finds you straight to the point, interested in the truth of things. It would be wise for you to consider scheduling a vacation, adventure of sorts, or a course that expands your mind. These don't have to happen now, but taking the time to recognize your needs for escaping the daily grind, taking a few risks, and feeding your spirit for self-expression through some form of adventure or higher learning, will help you to feel good about yourself. The only caution with this cycle is that you could lose touch with managing everyday affairs and important details.
Venus this Month: Love, Romance, Social Life, Comfort, Pleasure
From February 1-24:
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.
From February 25th forward:
Venus graces your solar ninth house during this period. A taste for the exotic takes hold during this cycle. Routine affairs simply don't seem to satisfy. You receive pleasure from anything that expands your horizons, both physically and mentally. Foreign people and places may particularly appeal now. You tend to be expansive and generous when it comes to love. A love interest who attracts you during this cycle may be somebody who you previously wouldn't consider attractive, or someone whose cultural background is very different than yours. You have a taste for the exotic and the spirit to match. Public relations work, promotion, and other such endeavors are favored now. It is more about how you express yourself than the specifics of what you are saying that helps sway others to your position. There could be especial rapport with foreigners and with women if you are traveling during this period. You are all the more attractive and charming with this position, which increases your popularity. If a romance were to begin now, it is more likely to be with someone of a different background or educational level, or someone you meet through travel. You have a taste for the exotic now that can show up in many areas of your life--who you are attracted to, what you buy, the kind of art or entertainment you enjoy, and so forth.
Mercury this Month: Communications, Learning, Connections, Transportation
Mercury is retrograde from January 30th to February 20th:
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 eighth house this time, extra care should be exercised regarding any financial initiatives that involve shared resources. Delays are very possible when it comes to receiving support, loans, and taxes. It may be better to side-step arguments with loved ones that revolve around intimacy and sexuality just for now, or approach these matters with more sensitivity if they can't be left for a better time. Investments made now may not go the way you want them to, particularly those involving joint finances. It may be hard to rely on the input of your partner now, and money you were counting on may not be forthcoming. It's best to budget rather than spend during this period, and in fact it's an excellent period for review. It would be wise to be especially clear when it comes to communicating with financial officials and intimate partners; or take this time to re- examine issues rather than communicating about them prematurely.
Mars this Month: Energy, Drive, Courage
All month:
Mars continues to activate your solar eleventh house. You take a more direct approach to realizing your dreams now, rather than simply hoping and wishing.
You might find that you have more energy and enthusiasm for spending time with others, but arguments now may be with or on behalf of friends. You can be especially effective at encouraging others now, as well as at leading or organizing a group.
Overview Horoscope:
February 2021 Monthly Horoscope Overview for Cancer:
Your solar eighth house has considerable power this month, dear Cancer. This is the sector of your chart that rules regeneration, transformation, other people's resources (that affect you), and debts, both spiritual or emotional and material ones.
You can experience a more vital need for deep, rich, meaningful experiences. You're paying more attention to the power dynamics and intimacy level of a relationship, or there can be a powerful focus on your own needs for change, evolution, and self-mastery. With retrograde Mercury in the same sector until the 20th, there can be some backtracking or waiting involved nevertheless.
Your inner world is a strong draw this month--you're tuning in to the deeper issues and looking beyond the surface of matters for answers. You might rethink certain financial matters, issues of support or debt, matters related to sharing and power dynamics, or intimate relationships. Even so, Mars wants you to push forward, occupying your sector of friendship, happiness goals, and experimentation all month.
Mercury retrograde periods can feel a little slow, but they're times for catching up in areas where you were pushing too far ahead--it's about restoring balance rather than real slowdowns. Brand-new endeavors may not get off the ground, but work in progress can benefit significantly from your attention now.
As you seek more authenticity in your friendships, you may go through some social ups and downs. Mars sometimes clashes with planets in your solar eighth house this month, which can stir up some tension. Your best bet is to avoid getting under the control of impulses. Make a point of not confusing drama with happiness in your social or love life. The need to do something special is with you now and can be productive, but there can be some conflict between friends and lovers or your desire to go in deep with projects and a simultaneous desire to experiment. In relationships, someone may be giving too much and getting too little in return.
The month is good for delving into your feelings, personal psychology, and intimate thoughts. If you're a little self-absorbed now, it may very well be a valuable exercise. Word on a loan or debt might arrive, changing your perspective. You're likely to gain a clue, but it may not be time for a conclusion or unveiling until after the 20th. New insight into an old relationship can be helpful and enlightening.
There can be meaningful ideas, conversations, and developments in your private life. Insecurities about your ability to reach your goals may lead to uncomfortable situations or tension in your relationships in spots. You might recognize that you've been dwelling too much on a past relationship or problem, which has unnecessarily weighed you down. You are now feeling the need to move on.
Interactions are more complex and complicated, but often quite pleasantly so! You may find it easier to open up about a passion of yours or about a matter that you've been keeping under wraps. It's a time for sharing responsibilities and combining resources or talents to advance your goals. Money or support may come through, or financial dealings can be successful. The New Moon on the 11th puts you in charge of making a fresh start. You might gain a supporter, backing, or counseling/advice. There could be a confidant that helps you release some frustrations.
A Saturn-Uranus transit in influence until December begins this month. With it, challenges can emerge as your social life is a little more eclectic (or unreliable), and you're getting serious about your inner world or intimate life. The desire to experiment can feel at odds with your need to specialize and focus on one absorbing project or relationship. There could be clashes or cross-purposes between a friend and a lover that needs special attention.
Energetically speaking, the month picks up the pace for you after the 18th. Your spirit for different activities and new topics of interest is building, along with the motivation to take on something new. Further boosts occur on the 20th when Mercury ends its retrograde and from the 25th forward when Venus moves into harmony with your sign. There can be great developments in a significant relationship. There can be some nice wins in the last week of February that put you in a very optimistic mood.
A Full Moon occurs in your communications sector on the 27th, and you can be especially busy. It brings with it a reminder to handle your daily affairs. This lunation prompts you to explore ideas, learning, communications, transportation, and connections, which in turn can motivate you to make changes and improvements.
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See also general trends for Cancer in 2021.
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Cancer (Born July 2 to 12)
AND Cancer Ascendant from 10 to 20 degrees Cancer:
February 2021 Cancer Horoscope: Love, Career, & General Trends
February 2021
The Sun this Month: Central Focus, Consciousness
All month:
The Sun energizes your sector of transformation, change, sexuality, personal growth, regeneration, others' money and resources, addictions, and taxes. As a result, this is not the most gregarious of months for you. You take a step back, focus on intimacy with a partner, or simply retreat a little from the hectic pace of life. This is an excellent time to create a budget or financial plan, or to rid yourself of bad habits that undermine your sense of personal power and self-mastery.
All that is deeply personal comes into focus now. Intimate matters are especially important to you during this cycle. Just how well you are handling your life comes up for inspection. Your self-mastery skills and psychological predisposition matter to you more than usual. This is the time of year when you are most desirous of change on a deep level. Clearing out psychic "junk" or ridding yourself of bad habits may be part of the picture now. You are more willing than usual to explore life's secrets.
This cycle brings greater in-depth understanding and an inclination to delve beneath the surface of matters to get to the bottom of them. Research uncovers new material that allows you to develop a better overall picture of the year's events. This is an especially introspective cycle during which you have the chance to truly uncover your personal strengths and talents. On a more practical level, you may be dealing with joint finances and shared resources now more than usual.
Venus this Month: Love, Romance, Social Life, Comfort
Until the 9th:
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 February 9th 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 from January 30th to February 20th:
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 eighth house this time, extra care should be exercised regarding any financial initiatives that involve shared resources. Delays are very possible when it comes to receiving support, loans, and taxes. It may be better to side-step arguments with loved ones that revolve around intimacy and sexuality just for now, or approach these matters with more sensitivity if they can't be left for a better time. Investments made now may not go the way you want them to, particularly those involving joint finances. It may be hard to rely on the input of your partner now, and money you were counting on may not be forthcoming. It's best to budget rather than spend during this period, and in fact it's an excellent period for review. It would be wise to be especially clear when it comes to communicating with financial officials and intimate partners; or take this time to re- examine issues rather than communicating about them prematurely.
Mars this Month: Energy, Drive, Courage
All month:
Mars continues to activate your solar eleventh house. You take a more direct approach to realizing your dreams now, rather than simply hoping and wishing.
You might find that you have more energy and enthusiasm for spending time with others, but arguments now may be with or on behalf of friends. You can be especially effective at encouraging others now, as well as at leading or organizing a group.
Overview Horoscope:
February 2021 Monthly Horoscope Overview for Cancer:
Your solar eighth house has considerable power this month, dear Cancer. This is the sector of your chart that rules regeneration, transformation, other people's resources (that affect you), and debts, both spiritual or emotional and material ones.
You can experience a more vital need for deep, rich, meaningful experiences. You're paying more attention to the power dynamics and intimacy level of a relationship, or there can be a powerful focus on your own needs for change, evolution, and self-mastery. With retrograde Mercury in the same sector until the 20th, there can be some backtracking or waiting involved nevertheless.
Your inner world is a strong draw this month--you're tuning in to the deeper issues and looking beyond the surface of matters for answers. You might rethink certain financial matters, issues of support or debt, matters related to sharing and power dynamics, or intimate relationships. Even so, Mars wants you to push forward, occupying your sector of friendship, happiness goals, and experimentation all month.
Mercury retrograde periods can feel a little slow, but they're times for catching up in areas where you were pushing too far ahead--it's about restoring balance rather than real slowdowns. Brand-new endeavors may not get off the ground, but work in progress can benefit significantly from your attention now.
As you seek more authenticity in your friendships, you may go through some social ups and downs. Mars sometimes clashes with planets in your solar eighth house this month, which can stir up some tension. Your best bet is to avoid getting under the control of impulses. Make a point of not confusing drama with happiness in your social or love life. The need to do something special is with you now and can be productive, but there can be some conflict between friends and lovers or your desire to go in deep with projects and a simultaneous desire to experiment. In relationships, someone may be giving too much and getting too little in return.
The month is good for delving into your feelings, personal psychology, and intimate thoughts. If you're a little self-absorbed now, it may very well be a valuable exercise. Word on a loan or debt might arrive, changing your perspective. You're likely to gain a clue, but it may not be time for a conclusion or unveiling until after the 20th. New insight into an old relationship can be helpful and enlightening.
There can be meaningful ideas, conversations, and developments in your private life. Insecurities about your ability to reach your goals may lead to uncomfortable situations or tension in your relationships in spots. You might recognize that you've been dwelling too much on a past relationship or problem, which has unnecessarily weighed you down. You are now feeling the need to move on.
Interactions are more complex and complicated, but often quite pleasantly so! You may find it easier to open up about a passion of yours or about a matter that you've been keeping under wraps. It's a time for sharing responsibilities and combining resources or talents to advance your goals. Money or support may come through, or financial dealings can be successful. The New Moon on the 11th puts you in charge of making a fresh start. You might gain a supporter, backing, or counseling/advice. There could be a confidant that helps you release some frustrations.
A Saturn-Uranus transit in influence until December begins this month. With it, challenges can emerge as your social life is a little more eclectic (or unreliable), and you're getting serious about your inner world or intimate life. The desire to experiment can feel at odds with your need to specialize and focus on one absorbing project or relationship. There could be clashes or cross-purposes between a friend and a lover that needs special attention.
Energetically speaking, the month picks up the pace for you after the 18th. Your spirit for different activities and new topics of interest is building, along with the motivation to take on something new. Further boosts occur on the 20th when Mercury ends its retrograde and from the 25th forward when Venus moves into harmony with your sign. There can be great developments in a significant relationship. There can be some nice wins in the last week of February that put you in a very optimistic mood.
A Full Moon occurs in your communications sector on the 27th, and you can be especially busy. It brings with it a reminder to handle your daily affairs. This lunation prompts you to explore ideas, learning, communications, transportation, and connections, which in turn can motivate you to make changes and improvements.
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.
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birth chart reports, relationship reports, future forecasts, and more.
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 2021.
See also detailed 2021 Yearly Horoscope for Cancer.
Cancer (Born July 13 to 22)
AND Cancer Ascendant from 20 to 30 degrees Cancer:
February 2021 Cancer Horoscope: Love, Career, & General Trends
February 2021
The Sun this Month: Central Focus, Consciousness
Until February 8th:
The Sun continues to put a spotlight on your solar seventh house--your partnership sector. This can be a time of much learning through the mirror of close relationships. It's not the time to push your agenda or personal plans forward; rather, it's a cycle in which you are at your best when you recognize the need to form alliances, to give back to a special someone, and to compromise in order to find some balance in your life.
It's a strong period for putting yourself into another person's shoes and to better understand him/her. You may be meeting with someone strong and assertive by nature now, or a partner is more assertive and needy of attention. There may be some competitive feelings between you and a significant other now. Focus is on reconciliation, forming or cementing bonds, diplomacy, consultation, one-on-one interactions, and negotiations. You may feel a little drained physically now, temporarily.
From February 8th forward:
The Sun energizes your sector of transformation, change, sexuality, personal growth, regeneration, others' money and resources, addictions, and taxes. As a result, this is not the most gregarious of months for you. You take a step back, focus on intimacy with a partner, or simply retreat a little from the hectic pace of life. This is an excellent time to create a budget or financial plan, or to rid yourself of bad habits that undermine your sense of personal power and self-mastery.
All that is deeply personal comes into focus now. Intimate matters are especially important to you during this cycle. Just how well you are handling your life comes up for inspection. Your self-mastery skills and psychological predisposition matter to you more than usual. This is the time of year when you are most desirous of change on a deep level. Clearing out psychic "junk" or ridding yourself of bad habits may be part of the picture now. You are more willing than usual to explore life's secrets.
This cycle brings greater in-depth understanding and an inclination to delve beneath the surface of matters to get to the bottom of them. Research uncovers new material that allows you to develop a better overall picture of the year's events. This is an especially introspective cycle during which you have the chance to truly uncover your personal strengths and talents. On a more practical level, you may be dealing with joint finances and shared resources now more than usual.
Venus this Month: Love, Romance, Social Life, Comfort
Until February 17th:
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 February 17th 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 from January 30th to February 20th:
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 eighth house this time, extra care should be exercised regarding any financial initiatives that involve shared resources. Delays are very possible when it comes to receiving support, loans, and taxes. It may be better to side-step arguments with loved ones that revolve around intimacy and sexuality just for now, or approach these matters with more sensitivity if they can't be left for a better time. Investments made now may not go the way you want them to, particularly those involving joint finances. It may be hard to rely on the input of your partner now, and money you were counting on may not be forthcoming. It's best to budget rather than spend during this period, and in fact it's an excellent period for review. It would be wise to be especially clear when it comes to communicating with financial officials and intimate partners; or take this time to re- examine issues rather than communicating about them prematurely.
Mercury, while retrograde, returns to your seventh house on the 8th, and is direct in your seventh house on the 20th:
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.
Mars this Month: Energy, Drive, Courage
Until the 14th:
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.
From the 14th forward: Mars is energizing your solar eleventh house now. Group activities and cooperative efforts are the best way to achieve your goals right now. In fact, you have all sorts of ideas about what you want to do. Avoid allowing the ego to attempt to dominate others. You prefer to lead a group rather than follow during this period, and there are certainly ways to do so without stepping on others' toes. As well, the best way to achieve your goals during this period is to work as a team, or to at least to do some networking. You may have more energy than usual to want to organize projects. Your humanitarian impulse may be stimulated. The role you play for other people in your life becomes the focus. You may feel that your schedule gets overloaded at this time with things to do (usually for others).
Overview Horoscope:
February 2021 Monthly Horoscope Overview for Cancer:
Your solar eighth house has considerable power this month, dear Cancer. This is the sector of your chart that rules regeneration, transformation, other people's resources (that affect you), and debts, both spiritual or emotional and material ones.
You can experience a more vital need for deep, rich, meaningful experiences. You're paying more attention to the power dynamics and intimacy level of a relationship, or there can be a powerful focus on your own needs for change, evolution, and self-mastery. With retrograde Mercury in the same sector until the 20th, there can be some backtracking or waiting involved nevertheless.
Your inner world is a strong draw this month--you're tuning in to the deeper issues and looking beyond the surface of matters for answers. You might rethink certain financial matters, issues of support or debt, matters related to sharing and power dynamics, or intimate relationships. Even so, Mars wants you to push forward, occupying your sector of friendship, happiness goals, and experimentation all month.
Mercury retrograde periods can feel a little slow, but they're times for catching up in areas where you were pushing too far ahead--it's about restoring balance rather than real slowdowns. Brand-new endeavors may not get off the ground, but work in progress can benefit significantly from your attention now.
As you seek more authenticity in your friendships, you may go through some social ups and downs. Mars sometimes clashes with planets in your solar eighth house this month, which can stir up some tension. Your best bet is to avoid getting under the control of impulses. Make a point of not confusing drama with happiness in your social or love life. The need to do something special is with you now and can be productive, but there can be some conflict between friends and lovers or your desire to go in deep with projects and a simultaneous desire to experiment. In relationships, someone may be giving too much and getting too little in return.
The month is good for delving into your feelings, personal psychology, and intimate thoughts. If you're a little self-absorbed now, it may very well be a valuable exercise. Word on a loan or debt might arrive, changing your perspective. You're likely to gain a clue, but it may not be time for a conclusion or unveiling until after the 20th. New insight into an old relationship can be helpful and enlightening.
There can be meaningful ideas, conversations, and developments in your private life. Insecurities about your ability to reach your goals may lead to uncomfortable situations or tension in your relationships in spots. You might recognize that you've been dwelling too much on a past relationship or problem, which has unnecessarily weighed you down. You are now feeling the need to move on.
Interactions are more complex and complicated, but often quite pleasantly so! You may find it easier to open up about a passion of yours or about a matter that you've been keeping under wraps. It's a time for sharing responsibilities and combining resources or talents to advance your goals. Money or support may come through, or financial dealings can be successful. The New Moon on the 11th puts you in charge of making a fresh start. You might gain a supporter, backing, or counseling/advice. There could be a confidant that helps you release some frustrations.
A Saturn-Uranus transit in influence until December begins this month. With it, challenges can emerge as your social life is a little more eclectic (or unreliable), and you're getting serious about your inner world or intimate life. The desire to experiment can feel at odds with your need to specialize and focus on one absorbing project or relationship. There could be clashes or cross-purposes between a friend and a lover that needs special attention.
Energetically speaking, the month picks up the pace for you after the 18th. Your spirit for different activities and new topics of interest is building, along with the motivation to take on something new. Further boosts occur on the 20th when Mercury ends its retrograde and from the 25th forward when Venus moves into harmony with your sign. There can be great developments in a significant relationship. There can be some nice wins in the last week of February that put you in a very optimistic mood.
A Full Moon occurs in your communications sector on the 27th, and you can be especially busy. It brings with it a reminder to handle your daily affairs. This lunation prompts you to explore ideas, learning, communications, transportation, and connections, which in turn can motivate you to make changes and improvements.
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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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