Cancer Monthly Horoscope
January 2026 Horoscope: Predictions for Cancer
We’ve divided our 2026 monthly horoscopes into 3 groups (or decanates) per sign for more accuracy. Remember that if you know your Ascendant, read forecasts for both your Sun sign and your Ascendant sign. If you know your birth time, but don’t know your Ascendant, be sure to see How to Obtain Your Astrology Chart here.
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Overview for this Month: Cancer (All)
January 2026 Monthly Horoscope Overview for Cancer:
Powerful energy is with you in January for close relationships, dear Cancer. You have support for improving your connections with others and your relationship with yourself. The people and networks in your life are more encouraging this month, or positive and friendly people are coming into your life now. As long as you remain flexible with plans, this can be a time of dynamic, enhanced relationships.
Relationships can become very exciting, dramatic, and intimate as January progresses, or your focus on a particular endeavor strengthens, and you’re especially motivated and determined. A congregation of planets in your sector of intimacy and shared resources suggests intense, concentrated energy. But first, these cosmic bodies occupy your partnership sector, and your relationships are lively.
A Full Moon occurs in your sign on the 3rd, and feelings bubble up to the surface, at the same time as a big commotion in your partnership sector. You may feel torn between the desire for alone time and your commitment to others. However, if you find a middle ground, you will likely enjoy more productivity. You’re likely to have epiphanies about your needs now. This lunation can bring a culmination or turning point. It's about better understanding your relationship needs and finding yourself. This lunation can help point you in the right direction toward correcting imbalances, particularly in the me-you department in relationships. If you’ve been defining yourself primarily through your relationships, you’re now ready to draw up your own terms. Issues of independence and partnership can challenge you to make a decision, and it can be a time to confront, learn, and grow. If you assert yourself, do so with knowledge of your heart. Otherwise, impulsiveness can get you into a sticky situation.
Especially from the 6th to the 9th, there can be passion, romance, and pleasure, although some extremes are also possible. Pairing up to get something done can be highlighted. Creative, sparks-flying transits leave you feeling exceptionally playful, determined, and energetic. You may want to push the limits with your feelings or creative impulses. You seem to magnetize people to you, and others might be integral in encouraging or motivating you to experience new things, enjoy yourself, or express yourself more fully. Instead, you might look to others to fulfill your desires, which can be a little problematic if they’re not on the same page! However, channeled well, more excitement or passion in your life can stir you, prompting new beginnings and a better understanding of your desires.
Fresh starts in a partnership are stirring after the New Moon on the 18th. Your personal magnetism is strong, and others are more willing and able to spend quality time with you. Some of you could begin a new long-term relationship, and it might come out of nowhere. Even so, watch that you don't see what you want to see in others, rather than what is.
The month’s focus changes as planets begin moving into your solar eighth house. Venus moves in on the 17th, the Sun and Mercury on the 19th and 20th, and Mars arrives on the 23rd.
As such, January's energies strengthen for attention to a passion project or an intimate relationship. It’s also an intense time for strategy and research–something you can pour yourself into wholeheartedly. It’s a time for being brave and honest with yourself, and perhaps some excitement and courage with a special person, deepening feelings of trust and authenticity.
In the last week of the month, there can be a sudden show of support, emotional or financial. Love can be enhanced with a partner through sharing something personal and intimate. It’s a powerful time to break free from a bad habit, and intimate relationships can turn a corner and transform. Your attitude is positive, your thoughts are more precise than usual, and your views are particularly well-received. It’s a generally good time for instruction, advice, teaching, sharing ideas, and guidance. You may get to the root of challenges in a close relationship related to sharing and power politics, or you get to the very heart of your own desires.
Cancer (Born June 22 to July 1) and Cancer Ascendant 0 to 10 degrees Cancer:
January 2026 Cancer Horoscope: Love, Career, & General Trends
January 2026
The Sun this Month: Central Focus, Consciousness
Until January 19th:
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 January 19th 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, Pleasure
Until the 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 the 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
From the 1st to 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.
From the 20th forward:
Mercury transits your solar eighth house. You are more intuitive now than usual, picking up all of the hidden cues from people around you and reading between the lines. This is an excellent cycle in which to do some financial planning and strategizing.
Research is also highly favored. It's easier for you to approach sensitive, intimate, and personal matters with rationality and logic. As such, this is a great time to open up conversations about topics that normally might cause waves, such as those revolving around the sharing of power, intimacy, and finances.
Mars this Month: Energy, Drive, Courage
Until the 23rd:
Mars continues to move through your solar seventh house. During this period, strife is possible in your close personal relationships, as a significant other is now mirroring some of your own issues with assertiveness and anger. Attracting aggression in others during this cycle is a clue that there are unresolved issues within that need tending. You might actually seek some form of conflict, whether intentionally or not, in order to deal with these issues. There can be competitiveness in your life now. Any troublesome issues that have been dormant in a relationship are likely to surface, and can now be handled straightforwardly.
From the 23rd onward:
Mars energizes your solar eighth house now. Sexuality and intimacy are stimulated under this transit. Negative expression of this energy is the tendency towards ego conflicts concerning jointly held property or money. Conflicts with partners over values or possessions are possible. Occasionally, this transit could bring a crisis or ending of some kind. Something you hear about now might disturb or touch you deeply. You are likely to be more strategic in your actions during this period, as you become aware of the subtleties of human interaction. This is a time when your best course of action is to recognize that you need, or rely on, others for support.
Overview Horoscope:
January 2026 Monthly Horoscope Overview for Cancer:
Powerful energy is with you in January for close relationships, dear Cancer. You have support for improving your connections with others and your relationship with yourself. The people and networks in your life are more encouraging this month, or positive and friendly people are coming into your life now. As long as you remain flexible with plans, this can be a time of dynamic, enhanced relationships.
Relationships can become very exciting, dramatic, and intimate as January progresses, or your focus on a particular endeavor strengthens, and you’re especially motivated and determined. A congregation of planets in your sector of intimacy and shared resources suggests intense, concentrated energy. But first, these cosmic bodies occupy your partnership sector, and your relationships are lively.
A Full Moon occurs in your sign on the 3rd, and feelings bubble up to the surface, at the same time as a big commotion in your partnership sector. You may feel torn between the desire for alone time and your commitment to others. However, if you find a middle ground, you will likely enjoy more productivity. You’re likely to have epiphanies about your needs now. This lunation can bring a culmination or turning point. It's about better understanding your relationship needs and finding yourself. This lunation can help point you in the right direction toward correcting imbalances, particularly in the me-you department in relationships. If you’ve been defining yourself primarily through your relationships, you’re now ready to draw up your own terms. Issues of independence and partnership can challenge you to make a decision, and it can be a time to confront, learn, and grow. If you assert yourself, do so with knowledge of your heart. Otherwise, impulsiveness can get you into a sticky situation.
Especially from the 6th to the 9th, there can be passion, romance, and pleasure, although some extremes are also possible. Pairing up to get something done can be highlighted. Creative, sparks-flying transits leave you feeling exceptionally playful, determined, and energetic. You may want to push the limits with your feelings or creative impulses. You seem to magnetize people to you, and others might be integral in encouraging or motivating you to experience new things, enjoy yourself, or express yourself more fully. Instead, you might look to others to fulfill your desires, which can be a little problematic if they’re not on the same page! However, channeled well, more excitement or passion in your life can stir you, prompting new beginnings and a better understanding of your desires.
Fresh starts in a partnership are stirring after the New Moon on the 18th. Your personal magnetism is strong, and others are more willing and able to spend quality time with you. Some of you could begin a new long-term relationship, and it might come out of nowhere. Even so, watch that you don't see what you want to see in others, rather than what is.
The month’s focus changes as planets begin moving into your solar eighth house. Venus moves in on the 17th, the Sun and Mercury on the 19th and 20th, and Mars arrives on the 23rd.
As such, January's energies strengthen for attention to a passion project or an intimate relationship. It’s also an intense time for strategy and research–something you can pour yourself into wholeheartedly. It’s a time for being brave and honest with yourself, and perhaps some excitement and courage with a special person, deepening feelings of trust and authenticity.
In the last week of the month, there can be a sudden show of support, emotional or financial. Love can be enhanced with a partner through sharing something personal and intimate. It’s a powerful time to break free from a bad habit, and intimate relationships can turn a corner and transform. Your attitude is positive, your thoughts are more precise than usual, and your views are particularly well-received. It’s a generally good time for instruction, advice, teaching, sharing ideas, and guidance. You may get to the root of challenges in a close relationship related to sharing and power politics, or you get to the very heart of your own desires.
See also general trends for Cancer in 2026.
See also detailed 2026 Yearly Horoscope for Cancer.
Cancer (Born July 2 to 12)
AND Cancer Ascendant from 10 to 20 degrees Cancer:
January 2026 Cancer Horoscope: Love, Career, & General Trends
January 2026
The Sun this Month: Central Focus, Consciousness
All month:
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
From the 1st to the 25th:
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.
From January 25th onward:
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
Until the 8th:
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 the 8th to the 26th:
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.
From the 26th forward:
Mercury transits your solar eighth house. You are more intuitive now than usual, picking up all of the hidden cues from people around you and reading between the lines. This is an excellent cycle in which to do some financial planning and strategizing.
Research is also highly favored. It's easier for you to approach sensitive, intimate, and personal matters with rationality and logic. As such, this is a great time to open up conversations about topics that normally might cause waves, such as those revolving around the sharing of power, intimacy, and finances.
Mars this Month: Energy, Drive, Courage
All month:
Mars continues to move through your solar seventh house. During this period, strife is possible in your close personal relationships, as a significant other is now mirroring some of your own issues with assertiveness and anger. Attracting aggression in others during this cycle is a clue that there are unresolved issues within that need tending. You might actually seek some form of conflict, whether intentionally or not, in order to deal with these issues. There can be competitiveness in your life now. Any troublesome issues that have been dormant in a relationship are likely to surface, and can now be handled straightforwardly.
Overview Horoscope:
January 2026 Monthly Horoscope Overview for Cancer:
Powerful energy is with you in January for close relationships, dear Cancer. You have support for improving your connections with others and your relationship with yourself. The people and networks in your life are more encouraging this month, or positive and friendly people are coming into your life now. As long as you remain flexible with plans, this can be a time of dynamic, enhanced relationships.
Relationships can become very exciting, dramatic, and intimate as January progresses, or your focus on a particular endeavor strengthens, and you’re especially motivated and determined. A congregation of planets in your sector of intimacy and shared resources suggests intense, concentrated energy. But first, these cosmic bodies occupy your partnership sector, and your relationships are lively.
A Full Moon occurs in your sign on the 3rd, and feelings bubble up to the surface, at the same time as a big commotion in your partnership sector. You may feel torn between the desire for alone time and your commitment to others. However, if you find a middle ground, you will likely enjoy more productivity. You’re likely to have epiphanies about your needs now. This lunation can bring a culmination or turning point. It's about better understanding your relationship needs and finding yourself. This lunation can help point you in the right direction toward correcting imbalances, particularly in the me-you department in relationships. If you’ve been defining yourself primarily through your relationships, you’re now ready to draw up your own terms. Issues of independence and partnership can challenge you to make a decision, and it can be a time to confront, learn, and grow. If you assert yourself, do so with knowledge of your heart. Otherwise, impulsiveness can get you into a sticky situation.
Especially from the 6th to the 9th, there can be passion, romance, and pleasure, although some extremes are also possible. Pairing up to get something done can be highlighted. Creative, sparks-flying transits leave you feeling exceptionally playful, determined, and energetic. You may want to push the limits with your feelings or creative impulses. You seem to magnetize people to you, and others might be integral in encouraging or motivating you to experience new things, enjoy yourself, or express yourself more fully. Instead, you might look to others to fulfill your desires, which can be a little problematic if they’re not on the same page! However, channeled well, more excitement or passion in your life can stir you, prompting new beginnings and a better understanding of your desires.
Fresh starts in a partnership are stirring after the New Moon on the 18th. Your personal magnetism is strong, and others are more willing and able to spend quality time with you. Some of you could begin a new long-term relationship, and it might come out of nowhere. Even so, watch that you don't see what you want to see in others, rather than what is.
The month’s focus changes as planets begin moving into your solar eighth house. Venus moves in on the 17th, the Sun and Mercury on the 19th and 20th, and Mars arrives on the 23rd.
As such, January's energies strengthen for attention to a passion project or an intimate relationship. It’s also an intense time for strategy and research–something you can pour yourself into wholeheartedly. It’s a time for being brave and honest with yourself, and perhaps some excitement and courage with a special person, deepening feelings of trust and authenticity.
In the last week of the month, there can be a sudden show of support, emotional or financial. Love can be enhanced with a partner through sharing something personal and intimate. It’s a powerful time to break free from a bad habit, and intimate relationships can turn a corner and transform. Your attitude is positive, your thoughts are more precise than usual, and your views are particularly well-received. It’s a generally good time for instruction, advice, teaching, sharing ideas, and guidance. You may get to the root of challenges in a close relationship related to sharing and power politics, or you get to the very heart of your own desires.
See our Time Line Forecast report for a personalized forecast for the year ahead.
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See also general trends for Cancer in 2026.
See also detailed 2026 Yearly Horoscope for Cancer.
Cancer (Born July 13 to 22)
AND Cancer Ascendant from 20 to 30 degrees Cancer:
January 2026 Cancer Horoscope: Love, Career, & General Trends
January 2026
The Sun this Month: Central Focus, Consciousness
Until January 9th:
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 January 10th 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 the 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 January 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 the 14th:
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 the 14th 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.
Mars this Month: Energy, Drive, Courage
Until January 10th:
Mars continues to animate and energize your solar sixth house. Energy and initiative for work, health, and other daily activities increase. You are self-motivated when it comes to these matters. If there are disagreements and disputes that erupt on the job now, they may be due to a feeling of stress or impatience, or they could come from your desire to get things done independently. It's best to apply energy productively to completing projects that are unfinished or even to get ahead of yourself. It's a strong period for feeling motivated for starting a new health or fitness routine.
From January 10th onward:
Mars energizes and animates your solar seventh house. Partnerships may suffer from ego conflicts, or opposition from others may be challenging. Use the extra energy that Mars brings to this sector of your chart to work cooperatively on relationship problems. You may even find that you seem to need someone's help in order to do what you want to do during this cycle. Relationships are vivacious and dynamic during this period. When a difference arises, you are quick to settle it, and have little patience for sweeping matters under the rug. Your close personal relationships are lively during this cycle--full of conflicts and resolutions or reconciliations.
Overview Horoscope:
January 2026 Monthly Horoscope Overview for Cancer:
Powerful energy is with you in January for close relationships, dear Cancer. You have support for improving your connections with others and your relationship with yourself. The people and networks in your life are more encouraging this month, or positive and friendly people are coming into your life now. As long as you remain flexible with plans, this can be a time of dynamic, enhanced relationships.
Relationships can become very exciting, dramatic, and intimate as January progresses, or your focus on a particular endeavor strengthens, and you’re especially motivated and determined. A congregation of planets in your sector of intimacy and shared resources suggests intense, concentrated energy. But first, these cosmic bodies occupy your partnership sector, and your relationships are lively.
A Full Moon occurs in your sign on the 3rd, and feelings bubble up to the surface, at the same time as a big commotion in your partnership sector. You may feel torn between the desire for alone time and your commitment to others. However, if you find a middle ground, you will likely enjoy more productivity. You’re likely to have epiphanies about your needs now. This lunation can bring a culmination or turning point. It's about better understanding your relationship needs and finding yourself. This lunation can help point you in the right direction toward correcting imbalances, particularly in the me-you department in relationships. If you’ve been defining yourself primarily through your relationships, you’re now ready to draw up your own terms. Issues of independence and partnership can challenge you to make a decision, and it can be a time to confront, learn, and grow. If you assert yourself, do so with knowledge of your heart. Otherwise, impulsiveness can get you into a sticky situation.
Especially from the 6th to the 9th, there can be passion, romance, and pleasure, although some extremes are also possible. Pairing up to get something done can be highlighted. Creative, sparks-flying transits leave you feeling exceptionally playful, determined, and energetic. You may want to push the limits with your feelings or creative impulses. You seem to magnetize people to you, and others might be integral in encouraging or motivating you to experience new things, enjoy yourself, or express yourself more fully. Instead, you might look to others to fulfill your desires, which can be a little problematic if they’re not on the same page! However, channeled well, more excitement or passion in your life can stir you, prompting new beginnings and a better understanding of your desires.
Fresh starts in a partnership are stirring after the New Moon on the 18th. Your personal magnetism is strong, and others are more willing and able to spend quality time with you. Some of you could begin a new long-term relationship, and it might come out of nowhere. Even so, watch that you don't see what you want to see in others, rather than what is.
The month’s focus changes as planets begin moving into your solar eighth house. Venus moves in on the 17th, the Sun and Mercury on the 19th and 20th, and Mars arrives on the 23rd.
As such, January's energies strengthen for attention to a passion project or an intimate relationship. It’s also an intense time for strategy and research–something you can pour yourself into wholeheartedly. It’s a time for being brave and honest with yourself, and perhaps some excitement and courage with a special person, deepening feelings of trust and authenticity.
In the last week of the month, there can be a sudden show of support, emotional or financial. Love can be enhanced with a partner through sharing something personal and intimate. It’s a powerful time to break free from a bad habit, and intimate relationships can turn a corner and transform. Your attitude is positive, your thoughts are more precise than usual, and your views are particularly well-received. It’s a generally good time for instruction, advice, teaching, sharing ideas, and guidance. You may get to the root of challenges in a close relationship related to sharing and power politics, or you get to the very heart of your own desires.
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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Love outlook for the year ahead. Try our Love & Romance Forecast report.
Romantic Compatibility Reports
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romantic compatibility reports, including the Synastry and Love Ties reports.
See also general trends for Cancer in 2026.
See also detailed 2026 Yearly Horoscope for Cancer.
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About These Monthly Horoscopes:
Our detailed monthly horoscopes are designed to reveal and interpret the current transits of the Sun, Mercury, Venus, and Mars in your solar chart.
Because these energies or transits do not unfold neatly into any given calendar month (many transits carry forward from one month to the next), you will find some of the energies continue from the previous month.
For example, the Sun might transit the second house of your solar chart from June 21 to July 22, so that you will find a similar interpretation for this transit in both June and July’s horoscope. This is normal and expected. Transits don’t abruptly change as the calendar month changes.
These monthly horoscopes also include an overview paragraph, as well as other energies specific to the month, such as retrogrades, eclipses, or major outer planet transits.
The Lunar Cycles section reveals lunar cycle dates. Lunar cycles repeat themselves approximately every 28 days, so it is normal to see the same lunar peaks, such as “Your Personal New Moon” and “Monthly career peak” repeat themselves from month to month, but with different dates. They serve as a helpful guide to cycle peaks in different areas of life, such as financial, career, romance, and partnership.
The horoscopes are divided into three groups or decanates, and the differences between the groups are subtle in parts and large in other parts. For those who prefer a whole sign approach to horoscopes, simply read the first decanate regardless of your birthdate.
Learn all about the signs of the zodiac. We offer interpretations of the Sun, Moon, Mercury, Venus, Mars, and the Ascendant in the signs:
Aries Taurus Gemini Cancer Leo Virgo Libra Scorpio Sagittarius Capricorn Aquarius Pisces
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