Cancer Monthly Horoscope
May 2025 Horoscope: Predictions for Cancer
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Overview for this Month: Cancer (All)
May 2025 Monthly Horoscope Overview for Cancer:
In May, there can be encouraging forward movement and clarity regarding long-term goals, career, money, and life direction, dear Cancer. Where things seemed blocked, delayed, or unclear in April, you will likely see advances and resolutions this month. Friendships, networking, group connections, and your social life are in strong focus.
There is a social theme to the month ahead, but your practical affairs are also in good shape. Career matters fly along relatively smoothly.
Pluto's retrograde cycle from the 4th points to benefits from a review or reassessment of debts, dependencies, and intimate relationships. If the give-and-take or trust in a key relationship has fallen out of balance, you’ll feel it more intensely now. Romantic relationships or recreation and creativity, especially related to issues of control or fear, can also come into sharper focus with this shift. As the retrograde progresses (it lasts until October), you might find that you’re detaching just enough to make improvements. For instance, this could mean taking a step back to reassess your needs and boundaries in a relationship or finding a new balance in your shared responsibilities.
Expressing your uniqueness is especially important to you, and the need to work cooperatively within the framework of a group or with friends or the community is likely to figure strongly. Your independent side has been prominent in recent months, but this month, you are softening rough edges.
You receive real cosmic support for making updates rather than radically changing areas of your life this month. Stability is important for you as a Cancer, but progress is something you need these days, particularly on a social level, and this way, you can have both!
This is a socially focused month for you. It’s a good period for sharing your time and expertise and sorting through feelings.
May is an excellent time for professional appeal or for making friends through your career or business. It’s a good time to polish up your image or bring more personal appeal and a creative touch to your work. There can be second chances to make an impression.
Around the Full Moon on the 12th, you are in excellent shape for excitement in your social or romantic life as feelings bloom. There can be powerful epiphanies and a significant turning point in a relationship or with a project close to your heart. Issues about love, joy, a passion project, creative pursuit, or children can be at the forefront now.
Discussions with friends or ideas generated through your networks can be truly inspiring and useful, particularly from May 10th to 25th. You tend to draw in helpful or kind people, and you’re in a particularly good position for counseling, agreements, and negotiations.
You are capable of quite a bit of work if you foresee an improved financial position or a more secure state of being. Watch for possessiveness, but build your resources now. While you should take care not to spend impulsively, it’s a stellar time for putting more faith and confidence in your ability to earn or in your talents. You’re seeking more security and comfort, and you’re prepared to take the necessary steps toward these ends.
Past work or earned life experiences can help you in your work or give you special direction. As well, giving your career or responsibilities your all can help you feel less guilty about truly enjoying periods of rest and relaxation. And, as you allow yourself time to heal and detox, the benefits of emotional renewal positively impact your career or reputation.
Later in May, much is going on behind the scenes and on an emotional level as you deal with loose ends and prepare for a personal new year. You could take some form of time-out or period of repose or recuperation. This is a time to consider what you want to take with you into the new solar year, which begins around your birthday. It's about doing a spring cleaning in your psyche. You can feel more insular than usual from the 20th forward.
Carving out time for extra rest, meditation, and reflection is especially important now, and the New Moon on the 26th can nudge you forward along these lines. A past topic can be reawakened as new insight emerges. You might discover a hidden resource or develop an idea that helps you use your resources in exciting ways.
Cancer (Born June 22 to July 1) and Cancer Ascendant 0 to 10 degrees Cancer:
May 2025 Cancer Horoscope: Love, Career, & General Trends
May 2025
The Sun this Month: Central Focus, Consciousness
Until May 20th:
The Sun continues to put a spotlight on your solar eleventh house. During this cycle, you are planting seeds for the future, dreaming up plans that you might begin to develop two months down the road, if they still seem viable then. You are more aware of the benefits of networking, and you might find some great ideas through others now. You might be working in a team now.
You could be questioning some of the rules you have been living by and you could be ready to try something totally new. You are more attracted to that which is progressive or unconventional during this cycle.
From May 20th forward:
The Sun travels through your twelfth house now, marking a time of retreat and regeneration. Think about the attachments you have--to things, people, and routines--and consider which ones are dragging you down. This is a time when competitive energies and the ego are on a bit of a break.
It's not the time to push ahead with brand new projects. Rather, it's a time of reflection, dreaming, and recharging your batteries. Situations that have naturally outgrown their usefulness in your life can now be put behind you. Endings of natural cycles may be part of the picture at this time of year. Your energy is largely applied to personal and private affairs now. Your disposition is introspective. Rest and reflect, and prepare for a more outgoing cycle when the Sun moves into your first house.
Venus this Month: Love, Romance, Social Life, Comfort, Pleasure
This month:
Venus continues to transit your solar tenth house. Relationships with authority figures, superiors, and with the public are in focus during this cycle. It's a strong period for diplomatic relations, although a negative expression of this position could be bending over backwards to please rather than positive, friendly relations. It's a time when being a team player reaps the most rewards, and you may be mixing business with pleasure now. This may be a time when you are especially enjoying your career or position and making the most of it.
Mercury this Month: Communications, Learning, Connections, Transportation
Until May 10th:
Mercury continues to transit your solar tenth house. Career matters are busy at this time, and there can be plenty of thoughts and/or conversations about your profession, your reputation, or your social standing during this cycle. It's a good time to analyze your work tasks and to streamline them or improve your skills. There may be increased contact with the public now, or you might experience an increased need to be heard and acknowledged for your intelligence, skills, capabilities, and ideas.
From May 10th to 25th:
Mercury is transiting your solar eleventh house. Your mind is bright, alert, and active during this cycle, and you have the ability to come up with unusual and inventive ideas. Sharing your thoughts with others is a prime interest. Others tend to particularly enjoy your conversations during this transit--you are willing to listen as well as add your own thoughts.
As well, your ability to grasp unusual subject matter and to intuitively understand what others are trying to say win you some brownie points! You could also do a lot of thinking and musing about your own happiness and long-term goals.
From May 25th forward:
Your mind is focused on private matters and past issues while Mercury transits the twelfth house of your solar chart. This is a time when you are least likely to speak out of turn or to express yourself freely. You're searching behind the curtain, and examining the past for answers.
This is a good time for research, quiet contemplation, and meditation; but do avoid getting dragged down by issues that have outgrown their worth and purpose. Examining the past in order to improve the future is certainly worthwhile, as long as you don't waste your energy on guilt. Creative endeavors could prosper now, particularly those that draw upon the emotions or that require creative visualization skills, such as poetry, art, acting, and other such activities.
You are likely to require a certain amount of solitude in order to get your thoughts together or to be mentally productive. You are less likely to chat indiscriminately during this transit, and tend to be a little secretive or tight-lipped for the time being. This may be important, in fact, because this position of Mercury is sometimes associated with the uncovering of secrets, so discretion may be in order.
Mars this Month: Energy, Drive, Courage
All month:
Mars continues to energize your solar second house. You tend to put more effort into making money or making your life more comfortable and secure during this cycle. Your strong desire to be financially independent could lead to positive things, such as paying off debts or increased enterprise. The opposite side of the coin is asserting your independence by making impulsive purchases or taking risks with your money. You are more protective of the way you earn or spend money, as well as with the values you live your life by, and if others question you about these things, there could be arguments.
Overview Horoscope:
May 2025 Monthly Horoscope Overview for Cancer:
In May, there can be encouraging forward movement and clarity regarding long-term goals, career, money, and life direction, dear Cancer. Where things seemed blocked, delayed, or unclear in April, you will likely see advances and resolutions this month. Friendships, networking, group connections, and your social life are in strong focus.
There is a social theme to the month ahead, but your practical affairs are also in good shape. Career matters fly along relatively smoothly.
Pluto's retrograde cycle from the 4th points to benefits from a review or reassessment of debts, dependencies, and intimate relationships. If the give-and-take or trust in a key relationship has fallen out of balance, you’ll feel it more intensely now. Romantic relationships or recreation and creativity, especially related to issues of control or fear, can also come into sharper focus with this shift. As the retrograde progresses (it lasts until October), you might find that you’re detaching just enough to make improvements. For instance, this could mean taking a step back to reassess your needs and boundaries in a relationship or finding a new balance in your shared responsibilities.
Expressing your uniqueness is especially important to you, and the need to work cooperatively within the framework of a group or with friends or the community is likely to figure strongly. Your independent side has been prominent in recent months, but this month, you are softening rough edges.
You receive real cosmic support for making updates rather than radically changing areas of your life this month. Stability is important for you as a Cancer, but progress is something you need these days, particularly on a social level, and this way, you can have both!
This is a socially focused month for you. It’s a good period for sharing your time and expertise and sorting through feelings.
May is an excellent time for professional appeal or for making friends through your career or business. It’s a good time to polish up your image or bring more personal appeal and a creative touch to your work. There can be second chances to make an impression.
Around the Full Moon on the 12th, you are in excellent shape for excitement in your social or romantic life as feelings bloom. There can be powerful epiphanies and a significant turning point in a relationship or with a project close to your heart. Issues about love, joy, a passion project, creative pursuit, or children can be at the forefront now.
Discussions with friends or ideas generated through your networks can be truly inspiring and useful, particularly from May 10th to 25th. You tend to draw in helpful or kind people, and you’re in a particularly good position for counseling, agreements, and negotiations.
You are capable of quite a bit of work if you foresee an improved financial position or a more secure state of being. Watch for possessiveness, but build your resources now. While you should take care not to spend impulsively, it’s a stellar time for putting more faith and confidence in your ability to earn or in your talents. You’re seeking more security and comfort, and you’re prepared to take the necessary steps toward these ends.
Past work or earned life experiences can help you in your work or give you special direction. As well, giving your career or responsibilities your all can help you feel less guilty about truly enjoying periods of rest and relaxation. And, as you allow yourself time to heal and detox, the benefits of emotional renewal positively impact your career or reputation.
Later in May, much is going on behind the scenes and on an emotional level as you deal with loose ends and prepare for a personal new year. You could take some form of time-out or period of repose or recuperation. This is a time to consider what you want to take with you into the new solar year, which begins around your birthday. It's about doing a spring cleaning in your psyche. You can feel more insular than usual from the 20th forward.
Carving out time for extra rest, meditation, and reflection is especially important now, and the New Moon on the 26th can nudge you forward along these lines. A past topic can be reawakened as new insight emerges. You might discover a hidden resource or develop an idea that helps you use your resources in exciting ways.
See also general trends for Cancer in 2025.
See also detailed 2025 Yearly Horoscope for Cancer.
Cancer (Born July 2 to 12)
AND Cancer Ascendant from 10 to 20 degrees Cancer:
May 2025 Cancer Horoscope: Love, Career, & General Trends
May 2025
The Sun this Month: Central Focus, Consciousness
All month:
The Sun lights your solar eleventh house. The Sun illuminates your sector of friends, groups, and dreams coming true this month. It's a sociable sector of your chart, and that's exactly how you are feeling--happy, light-hearted, cosmopolitan, and social. Group affiliations capture your attention. Connections can be made now and networking pays off, or at least satisfies. Being part of a community or circle of friends and building your social network is important to you at this time.
This is a rather happy, goal-oriented cycle. A lively agenda is promised, you're attracting quite a bit of interest, and your energy for making contact with others is high. A stronger sense of community is with you during this cycle. Relationships take on a fun, if impersonal, tone now. Activities with children (especially others' children) may increase. You are more stimulated by all that is unconventional during this cycle, and your ideas are original and progressive now. This is a time to follow your dreams and ideals, and to plant a seed in the form of a wish for the future.
Venus this Month: Love, Romance, Social Life, Comfort, Pleasure
Until the 14th:
Venus continues to grace your solar ninth house. During this cycle, your ideals in love are set high. You might become inspired by a loved one now, or someone might awaken a new perspective or way of thinking in you. You could also enjoy a trip, or a new adventure of sorts. In fact, you are attracted to anything that is non-routine and fare best when you are reaching out beyond your usual bounds. You might be attracted to people or even objects that are exotic or different in some way during this cycle. It's a good period for personal charm and attractiveness in general.
From May 15th forward:
Venus graces your solar tenth house now. During this cycle, you are most charming and well-received on the job. Your responsibility and authority are likeable qualities now, making this a favorable period overall for schmoozing with those in a higher position than you, as well as for negotiations or social activities related to business. Venus is charming, friendly, and affectionate, and her presence in your career and reputation sector brings social opportunities to your career. You are coming across well at work now, and romantic opportunities, or simply more chances to socialize and network, are likely. You are socially ambitious right now, and success may come through your good managerial qualities or some form of artistic talent, or, indirectly through your marriage partner. People who turn your head during this cycle are those who come across as especially competent.
Mercury this Month: Communications, Learning, Connections, Transportation
Until May 15th:
Mercury continues to transit your solar tenth house. Career matters are busy at this time, and there can be plenty of thoughts and/or conversations about your profession, your reputation, or your social standing during this cycle. It's a good time to analyze your work tasks and to streamline them or improve your skills. There may be increased contact with the public now, or you might experience an increased need to be heard and acknowledged for your intelligence, skills, capabilities, and ideas.
From May 16th to 30th:
Mercury is transiting your solar eleventh house. Your mind is bright, alert, and active during this cycle, and you have the ability to come up with unusual and inventive ideas. Sharing your thoughts with others is a prime interest. Others tend to particularly enjoy your conversations during this transit--you are willing to listen as well as add your own thoughts.
As well, your ability to grasp unusual subject matter and to intuitively understand what others are trying to say win you some brownie points! You could also do a lot of thinking and musing about your own happiness and long-term goals.
From May 30th forward:
Your mind is focused on private matters and past issues while Mercury transits the twelfth house of your solar chart. This is a time when you are least likely to speak out of turn or to express yourself freely. You're searching behind the curtain, and examining the past for answers.
This is a good time for research, quiet contemplation, and meditation; but do avoid getting dragged down by issues that have outgrown their worth and purpose. Examining the past in order to improve the future is certainly worthwhile, as long as you don't waste your energy on guilt. Creative endeavors could prosper now, particularly those that draw upon the emotions or that require creative visualization skills, such as poetry, art, acting, and other such activities.
You are likely to require a certain amount of solitude in order to get your thoughts together or to be mentally productive. You are less likely to chat indiscriminately during this transit, and tend to be a little secretive or tight-lipped for the time being. This may be important, in fact, because this position of Mercury is sometimes associated with the uncovering of secrets, so discretion may be in order.
Mars this Month: Energy, Drive, Courage
Until May 9th:
Mars continues to activate your solar first house, supplying you with added energy to apply towards personal goals, and a more assertive and direct approach to the world in general.
This is an excellent period for physical training and exercise of any kind. The desire to be self-sufficient and independent is especially strong now. You are far less tolerant of being restricted by or dependent on others, and this is a good time to identify your personal strengths and take positive action to rectify situations that may have previously felt frustrating or repressive.
You might be especially attracted to personal challenges, and seeing just how far you can push. However, be careful not to push yourself (and others) too far.
From May 10th forward:
Mars energizes your solar second house. You have more energy at your disposal to make money, but also to defend your values. This can be a very resourceful time, when you make the most of what you have. You have much energy for new money-making projects, or for stepping up existing ones.
You may be over-identifying with what you have and own, and you could be trying to prove yourself (your worth) to others using money and possessions as the means to do so. If conflicts occur during this transit, they are likely to be over issues of ownership. This is a time when impulse buying is at a peak. You probably should avoid using credit right now, simply because your spending habits may be excessive and impulsive.
Overview Horoscope:
May 2025 Monthly Horoscope Overview for Cancer:
In May, there can be encouraging forward movement and clarity regarding long-term goals, career, money, and life direction, dear Cancer. Where things seemed blocked, delayed, or unclear in April, you will likely see advances and resolutions this month. Friendships, networking, group connections, and your social life are in strong focus.
There is a social theme to the month ahead, but your practical affairs are also in good shape. Career matters fly along relatively smoothly.
Pluto's retrograde cycle from the 4th points to benefits from a review or reassessment of debts, dependencies, and intimate relationships. If the give-and-take or trust in a key relationship has fallen out of balance, you’ll feel it more intensely now. Romantic relationships or recreation and creativity, especially related to issues of control or fear, can also come into sharper focus with this shift. As the retrograde progresses (it lasts until October), you might find that you’re detaching just enough to make improvements. For instance, this could mean taking a step back to reassess your needs and boundaries in a relationship or finding a new balance in your shared responsibilities.
Expressing your uniqueness is especially important to you, and the need to work cooperatively within the framework of a group or with friends or the community is likely to figure strongly. Your independent side has been prominent in recent months, but this month, you are softening rough edges.
You receive real cosmic support for making updates rather than radically changing areas of your life this month. Stability is important for you as a Cancer, but progress is something you need these days, particularly on a social level, and this way, you can have both!
This is a socially focused month for you. It’s a good period for sharing your time and expertise and sorting through feelings.
May is an excellent time for professional appeal or for making friends through your career or business. It’s a good time to polish up your image or bring more personal appeal and a creative touch to your work. There can be second chances to make an impression.
Around the Full Moon on the 12th, you are in excellent shape for excitement in your social or romantic life as feelings bloom. There can be powerful epiphanies and a significant turning point in a relationship or with a project close to your heart. Issues about love, joy, a passion project, creative pursuit, or children can be at the forefront now.
Discussions with friends or ideas generated through your networks can be truly inspiring and useful, particularly from May 10th to 25th. You tend to draw in helpful or kind people, and you’re in a particularly good position for counseling, agreements, and negotiations.
You are capable of quite a bit of work if you foresee an improved financial position or a more secure state of being. Watch for possessiveness, but build your resources now. While you should take care not to spend impulsively, it’s a stellar time for putting more faith and confidence in your ability to earn or in your talents. You’re seeking more security and comfort, and you’re prepared to take the necessary steps toward these ends.
Past work or earned life experiences can help you in your work or give you special direction. As well, giving your career or responsibilities your all can help you feel less guilty about truly enjoying periods of rest and relaxation. And, as you allow yourself time to heal and detox, the benefits of emotional renewal positively impact your career or reputation.
Later in May, much is going on behind the scenes and on an emotional level as you deal with loose ends and prepare for a personal new year. You could take some form of time-out or period of repose or recuperation. This is a time to consider what you want to take with you into the new solar year, which begins around your birthday. It's about doing a spring cleaning in your psyche. You can feel more insular than usual from the 20th forward.
Carving out time for extra rest, meditation, and reflection is especially important now, and the New Moon on the 26th can nudge you forward along these lines. A past topic can be reawakened as new insight emerges. You might discover a hidden resource or develop an idea that helps you use your resources in exciting ways.
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Cancer (Born July 13 to 22)
AND Cancer Ascendant from 20 to 30 degrees Cancer:
May 2025 Cancer Horoscope: Love, Career, & General Trends
May 2025
The Sun this Month: Central Focus, Consciousness
Until May 10th:
The Sun continues to put a spotlight on your solar tenth house. Satisfaction and fulfillment during this cycle come from doing your professional best, shining as a responsible and capable person, and contributing to the world in practical ways. You might have a chance to receive acknowledgement or praise for your work or good character now. Landing support from authority figures is easier at this time. Avoid the pitfalls of pride or arrogance standing in your way of success.
From May 10th forward:
The Sun lights your solar eleventh house. The Sun illuminates your sector of friends, groups, and dreams coming true this month. It's a sociable sector of your chart, and that's exactly how you are feeling--happy, light-hearted, cosmopolitan, and social. Group affiliations capture your attention. Connections can be made now and networking pays off, or at least satisfies. Being part of a community or circle of friends and building your social network is important to you at this time.
This is a rather happy, goal-oriented cycle. A lively agenda is promised, you're attracting quite a bit of interest, and your energy for making contact with others is high. A stronger sense of community is with you during this cycle. Relationships take on a fun, if impersonal, tone now. Activities with children (especially others' children) may increase. You are more stimulated by all that is unconventional during this cycle, and your ideas are original and progressive now. This is a time to follow your dreams and ideals, and to plant a seed in the form of a wish for the future.
Venus this Month: Love, Romance, Social Life, Comfort, Pleasure
Until the 26th:
Venus continues to grace your solar ninth house. During this cycle, your ideals in love are set high. You might become inspired by a loved one now, or someone might awaken a new perspective or way of thinking in you. You could also enjoy a trip, or a new adventure of sorts. In fact, you are attracted to anything that is non-routine and fare best when you are reaching out beyond your usual bounds. You might be attracted to people or even objects that are exotic or different in some way during this cycle. It's a good period for personal charm and attractiveness in general.
From May 26th forward:
Venus graces your solar tenth house now. During this cycle, you are most charming and well-received on the job. Your responsibility and authority are likeable qualities now, making this a favorable period overall for schmoozing with those in a higher position than you, as well as for negotiations or social activities related to business. Venus is charming, friendly, and affectionate, and her presence in your career and reputation sector brings social opportunities to your career. You are coming across well at work now, and romantic opportunities, or simply more chances to socialize and network, are likely. You are socially ambitious right now, and success may come through your good managerial qualities or some form of artistic talent, or, indirectly through your marriage partner. People who turn your head during this cycle are those who come across as especially competent.
Mercury this Month: Communications, Learning, Connections, Transportation
Until the 3rd:
Mercury continues to transit your solar ninth house. During this cycle, you are especially fond of exchanging ideas with others, particularly your personal philosophies. You are inclined to take a broader look at things now, rather than concentrate on the details. You are communicating with more persuasiveness, enthusiasm, and optimism at this time.
From the 4th to the 21st:
Mercury transits your solar tenth house. You are likely thinking a lot about your career and business matters, or your career requires more communication than usual during this cycle. You speak with authority during this period, and you are more accountable than usual for what (and how) you communicate. Your ideas may come into public view now.
Use the power of words to influence authority figures. This is an excellent period for developing career and professional plans or strategies. You may be turned to for advice or for your opinion on important matters. Although approachable and ready to communicate, you are less inclined to chat about frivolous matters now.
You tend to think about your position or standing on a professional level more frequently during this cycle. You are likely doing some multi-tasking regarding career and business matters. Negative use of this influence would be to worry unnecessarily about your reputation and responsibilities.
From the 21st forward:
Mercury is transiting your solar eleventh house. Your mind is bright, alert, and active during this cycle, and you have the ability to come up with unusual and inventive ideas. Sharing your thoughts with others is a prime interest. Others tend to particularly enjoy your conversations during this transit--you are willing to listen as well as add your own thoughts.
As well, your ability to grasp unusual subject matter and to intuitively understand what others are trying to say win you some brownie points! You could also do a lot of thinking and musing about your own happiness and long-term goals.
Mars this Month: Energy, Drive, Courage
Until the 29th:
Mars continues to activate your solar first house, supplying you with added energy to apply towards personal goals, and a more assertive and direct approach to the world in general.
This is an excellent period for physical training and exercise of any kind. The desire to be self-sufficient and independent is especially strong now. You are far less tolerant of being restricted by or dependent on others, and this is a good time to identify your personal strengths and take positive action to rectify situations that may have previously felt frustrating or repressive.
You might be especially attracted to personal challenges, and seeing just how far you can push. However, be careful not to push yourself (and others) too far.
From May 30th forward:
Mars energizes your solar second house. You have more energy at your disposal to make money, but also to defend your values. This can be a very resourceful time, when you make the most of what you have. You have much energy for new money-making projects, or for stepping up existing ones.
You may be over-identifying with what you have and own, and you could be trying to prove yourself (your worth) to others using money and possessions as the means to do so. If conflicts occur during this transit, they are likely to be over issues of ownership. This is a time when impulse buying is at a peak. You probably should avoid using credit right now, simply because your spending habits may be excessive and impulsive.
Overview Horoscope:
May 2025 Monthly Horoscope Overview for Cancer:
In May, there can be encouraging forward movement and clarity regarding long-term goals, career, money, and life direction, dear Cancer. Where things seemed blocked, delayed, or unclear in April, you will likely see advances and resolutions this month. Friendships, networking, group connections, and your social life are in strong focus.
There is a social theme to the month ahead, but your practical affairs are also in good shape. Career matters fly along relatively smoothly.
Pluto's retrograde cycle from the 4th points to benefits from a review or reassessment of debts, dependencies, and intimate relationships. If the give-and-take or trust in a key relationship has fallen out of balance, you’ll feel it more intensely now. Romantic relationships or recreation and creativity, especially related to issues of control or fear, can also come into sharper focus with this shift. As the retrograde progresses (it lasts until October), you might find that you’re detaching just enough to make improvements. For instance, this could mean taking a step back to reassess your needs and boundaries in a relationship or finding a new balance in your shared responsibilities.
Expressing your uniqueness is especially important to you, and the need to work cooperatively within the framework of a group or with friends or the community is likely to figure strongly. Your independent side has been prominent in recent months, but this month, you are softening rough edges.
You receive real cosmic support for making updates rather than radically changing areas of your life this month. Stability is important for you as a Cancer, but progress is something you need these days, particularly on a social level, and this way, you can have both!
This is a socially focused month for you. It’s a good period for sharing your time and expertise and sorting through feelings.
May is an excellent time for professional appeal or for making friends through your career or business. It’s a good time to polish up your image or bring more personal appeal and a creative touch to your work. There can be second chances to make an impression.
Around the Full Moon on the 12th, you are in excellent shape for excitement in your social or romantic life as feelings bloom. There can be powerful epiphanies and a significant turning point in a relationship or with a project close to your heart. Issues about love, joy, a passion project, creative pursuit, or children can be at the forefront now.
Discussions with friends or ideas generated through your networks can be truly inspiring and useful, particularly from May 10th to 25th. You tend to draw in helpful or kind people, and you’re in a particularly good position for counseling, agreements, and negotiations.
You are capable of quite a bit of work if you foresee an improved financial position or a more secure state of being. Watch for possessiveness, but build your resources now. While you should take care not to spend impulsively, it’s a stellar time for putting more faith and confidence in your ability to earn or in your talents. You’re seeking more security and comfort, and you’re prepared to take the necessary steps toward these ends.
Past work or earned life experiences can help you in your work or give you special direction. As well, giving your career or responsibilities your all can help you feel less guilty about truly enjoying periods of rest and relaxation. And, as you allow yourself time to heal and detox, the benefits of emotional renewal positively impact your career or reputation.
Later in May, much is going on behind the scenes and on an emotional level as you deal with loose ends and prepare for a personal new year. You could take some form of time-out or period of repose or recuperation. This is a time to consider what you want to take with you into the new solar year, which begins around your birthday. It's about doing a spring cleaning in your psyche. You can feel more insular than usual from the 20th forward.
Carving out time for extra rest, meditation, and reflection is especially important now, and the New Moon on the 26th can nudge you forward along these lines. A past topic can be reawakened as new insight emerges. You might discover a hidden resource or develop an idea that helps you use your resources in exciting ways.
See our Time Line Forecast report for a personalized forecast for the year ahead.
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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:
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