Cancer Monthly Horoscope
October 2023 Horoscope: Predictions for Cancer
We’ve divided our 2023 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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| Cancer born June 22 to July 1 | ||||
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| Cancer born July 13 to 22 |
See also Cancer Good Days Calendars and This Month in Astrology.
Overview for this Month: Cancer (All)
October 2023 Monthly Horoscope Overview for Cancer:
You're focusing on renewal and creative refreshment in October, dear Cancer. The month begins with a stronger focus on the bottom of your solar chart, with themes of family, home, and heart. Mars here until the 12th has a beautiful way of pulling everything up and out into the open. It might feel disruptive in spots, but it can help clear the decks.
While there are opportunities to learn more about your ambitions and goals, you're in particularly good shape for attending to your home, family, and personal needs this month. Improvements in your relationships with family, relatives, children, and love interests figure strongly. You're putting more effort, money, or pride in home improvement, family, and your domestic world. To boot, you may feel inspired by realizations or discoveries about psychological issues. The Solar Eclipse on the 14th can bring powerful new beginnings of major new long-term projects and possibly family and home-related affairs in the weeks following.
People enjoy your company and seek you out in October. It's an excellent time for building bridges or enhancing current relationships. You feel freer to express yourself as the month advances, and your sector of joy, love, and creativity gets more and more attention.
You enjoy a boost from Venus in your communications sector, smoothing out your interactions from the 8th forward. You seem to know what to say and when to say it. You can frame things well now, so take advantage and write up promotional copy, creative works, overtures, and applications. Relationships with siblings, classmates, acquaintances, and neighbors can improve significantly with gentle and thoughtful attention. Learning something new is exciting, and an open heart opens doors. You could be furthering your mental interests, and the chance to expand your world or view is with you.
All month, Vesta in Cancer points to success working alone and putting extra effort into your pursuits. You are dedicated, and it shows! It's an excellent time for creating goodwill.
From the 10th, there can be a pleasant breakthrough in or about close relationships. More clarity comes to your love relationships and partnerships. You pursue your hobbies, pleasurable pastimes, affiliations, and romance with more energy and enthusiasm, primarily because you feel clearer on these matters.
Even further, from the 12th, Mars awakens your desires and encourages you to pursue your passions with its transit of your solar fifth house. Mercury and the Sun move in on the 22nd and 23rd, stirring up strong motivations to get creative or romantic, share your ideas, seek out more fun and channels for self-expression, date, and pursue a hobby, recreational activity, or creative project more ardently. You can feel exceptionally romantic or confident and may be itching to express your feelings.
As such, romance and pleasure-seeking are in sharp focus as the month progresses. Desires come on quickly and with great force. You might bring great pleasure to someone's life or choose to chase special pleasures yourself. You are exceptionally aware of–and awake to–the world around you. Your courage builds, especially when it comes to sharing yourself with others, and creative enthusiasm is with you.
Something to watch for: you can feel pressured to throw yourself into something before your heart is ready. Be sure to check in with your feelings, which are slower than your mind and will this month.
The Lunar Eclipse on the 28th can bring a friendship issue to a turning (or boiling) point. Look for ways to explore and share ideas with people in your life. If an affiliation changes or ends, another door opens rather quickly.
This eclipse--the last in a set affecting your social life--pushes your true feelings about a person or project to the surface. Your passions and affections are hard to dismiss at this time! Your next step or the right path will ultimately clarify, and there can be an epiphany or turning point. Take your time with your discoveries.
A compelling desire to express yourself uniquely or creatively can grab hold in the last week of October. Romance can heat up, or there can be a conflict between a friendship and love relationship. Watch for overdoing things or trying to please too many people. Keep in mind that more is not always better. Still, personal appeal is powerful on a mental level.
Cancer (Born June 22 to July 1) and Cancer Ascendant 0 to 10 degrees Cancer:
October 2023 Cancer Horoscope: Love, Career, & General Trends
October 2023
The Sun this Month: Central Focus, Consciousness
Until October 23rd:
The Sun continues to put a spotlight on your solar fourth house. This is a period of recharge, of getting in touch with your innermost feelings, of connecting with your roots, and of spending more time and energy on home and family. Home and family matters capture your attention and are a strong source of pride now. It's a time when worldly matters are not as important to you.
Use this energy to find ways to improve your family relations and your home environment. During this heart-warming cycle, you would do best to allow yourself to explore your inner needs so that you can nurture yourself and others in a healthy, growth-oriented manner, in preparation for more outgoing times to come.
From October 23rd forward:
The Sun illuminates your solar fifth house now. After a period of "nesting", you are coming out of your shell, ready to perform and to express yourself creatively. This is a very playful period of the year, when you are inspired creatively and emotionally. After a period of self-protectiveness, you are now more spontaneous and more willing to take risks. You take more pride than usual in your creations, your love affairs, your children, and your hobbies. Pleasure and amusement play an important role in your search for freedom of self-expression now. Show off your best colors!
You want others to take notice, and you are more sensitive to whether people appreciate you. More than any time of the year, this is the cycle in which you focus on having fun, enjoying romance, and expressing yourself creatively. Your hobbies, leisure time, moments spent with children, gaming time, and so forth, all come into focus at this time of year.
This is a cycle in which you find joy in expressing who you are--when your "inner child" comes out to play. This is a time when you are more flirtatious than usual, and when you might take a few risks in life--not only gambling with games but with life itself. You might be a bit of a showman at this time. You are likely feeling good in general, and you tend to spread the joy.
Eclipses
A Solar Eclipse occurs on October 14th: A general rule of thumb regarding eclipses is to avoid major decision-making in the week before and after an eclipse. This is because new information that could change our perspective often is revealed in the week after the eclipse. There is absolutely no need to suspend projects already in progress. Essentially, it's better to take in right now--to observe and get in touch with feelings. The Solar Eclipse marks a new beginning for you. Letting go of the past is necessary in order to move forward. This eclipse occurs in your solar fourth house, suggesting a new approach to domestic affairs, home, and family. A new set-up in an existing home or a new home altogether may be part of the picture in the coming months, as well as a sense of renewal and reinvigoration with regards to your domestic routines, comfort, and feeling of security. This is a phase when you have an increased awareness of your need for a solid foundation--a place to return to when the rest of the world is getting on your nerves.
A Lunar Eclipse occurs on October 28th:
A general rule of thumb regarding eclipses is to avoid major decision-making in the week before and after an eclipse. This is because new information that could change our perspective often is revealed in the week after the eclipse. There is absolutely no need to suspend projects already in progress. Essentially, it's better to take in right now--to observe and get in touch with feelings.
This Lunar Eclipse stimulates your solar eleventh house. Surprises surrounding long-term goals, friendships, and group affiliations may be in store. Something that has been "in hiding" or brewing under the surface of things comes to light, or there is a significant fruition or culmination. This could manifest, for example, as a situation that tests a friendship, a culmination or fruition of a casual relationship, you could be called upon to perform a humanitarian gesture, a friend may experience a little crisis and ask for your help, you could suddenly find yourself around many people, perhaps after a period of relative solitude or private time, and other such possibilities.
Venus this Month: Love, Romance, Social Life, Comfort, Pleasure
Until October 8th:
Venus continues to grace your solar second house during this period. You might receive gifts or bonuses now, or you find much comfort in what you already own and have. You may be a little extravagant with money for the time being, as your desire for luxury and comfort items is increased now, and this is something to watch for. When it comes to love, you value those who make you feel comfortable and secure.
From October 9th forward:
With Venus moving through your solar third house during this period, you are mostly cheerful in your approach to others, and perhaps somewhat intellectual, during this transit. Essentially, you are quite companionable now. You enjoy talking about what interests you, and you find great value in the exchange of ideas. Sometimes this transit brings benefit through siblings, communications, or short trips. During this period, you are most attracted to wit, cheerfulness, and verbal rapport. You are especially good at mediating conflicts. Smoothing over differences using your diplomacy skills figures now.
Mercury this Month: Communications, Learning, Connections, Transportation
Until October 4th:
Mercury continues to move through your solar third house. Mercury feels right at home in the third house. Your mind is especially inquisitive during this cycle, when learning, short trips, and other forms of communication and making connections, appeal strongly. Some are fidgety or nervous during this cycle, perhaps due to increased errand-running, phone calls, or information overload. Others enjoy the challenge of tackling a variety of subjects.
As well, talking, writing, and studying can be good ways to handle stress. It's a great time to pick up information from your environment and the people in it. Your mind is often distracted, particularly when required to stick to routine, so this is not the best transit for focusing on one task or project. You might spend a lot of time in your car making short frequent trips, running errands, communicating with siblings and neighbors, and visiting friends and relatives.
From October 5-21:
Mercury moves through your solar fourth house. This is a time during which you can enjoy increased powers of concentration. You may require solitude in order to get mental work done during this cycle. Your memory is more retentive than usual, and your thoughts often turn to personal matters, family, and loved ones. You might particularly enjoy discussions about your early life, the past, or family matters during this cycle. In fact, it's a great time to open up conversations with loved ones, as you are more rational when it comes to personal matters now.
Your mind often wanders to domestic concerns, and issues surrounding your home, family, and personal past. On the other hand, this transit sometimes indicates an especially busy, and perhaps hectic, period on the domestic scene. For example, you might take home work or find that people drop by your home often during this cycle.
From October 22nd forward:
Mercury transits your solar fifth house. During this cycle, there is a powerful mental connection with your creative self-expression. You are proud of your ideas, and very good at expressing them to others smoothly now. Your thinking is more creative than usual. You tend to entertain others with your conversation; and your sense of humor (and of mischief!) is especially strong.
Your thoughts turn to children, pleasures, or romance during this expressive cycle. You might enjoy researching speculative ventures now. You especially enjoy games that involve competing with others on a mental level. You have a stronger need than usual for intellectual stimulation. Therefore, your friends and romantic partner are best appreciated now if they are intellectual types. You're more willing to take risks on a mental level now, so take advantage of the increased spontaneity and creativity that comes with this position.
Mars this Month: Energy, Drive, Courage
Until the 11th:
Mars continues to activate your solar fourth house. More energy and enthusiasm is brought to your home life, but there can also be a tendency to stir up trouble if you are not careful to channel any excess energy into constructive and productive pursuits around the home. You desire to take the lead, but you should do so in a respectful way so as not to get anyone's goat.
From the 12th forward:
Mars animates and energizes your solar fifth house. This is a very self-expressive time when you have lots of energy, but not necessarily self-discipline to match. You have more energy at your disposal to express yourself creatively, through activities with children, romantic activities, hobbies, or sports. Your love life may step up a notch, and this could be an especially passionate time. You tend to put more energy into play and pleasure! Be careful not to burn the candle at both ends. Also, watch out for a tendency to want to gamble. You are more playful than usual, and especially magnetic. You have a likeably competitive, more energetic, and pleasingly assertive temperament during this transit. However, in some cases, you may be coming on too strong or aggressively, or meeting with aggressiveness in romantic relationships.
Overview Horoscope:
October 2023 Monthly Horoscope Overview for Cancer:
You're focusing on renewal and creative refreshment in October, dear Cancer. The month begins with a stronger focus on the bottom of your solar chart, with themes of family, home, and heart. Mars here until the 12th has a beautiful way of pulling everything up and out into the open. It might feel disruptive in spots, but it can help clear the decks.
While there are opportunities to learn more about your ambitions and goals, you're in particularly good shape for attending to your home, family, and personal needs this month. Improvements in your relationships with family, relatives, children, and love interests figure strongly. You're putting more effort, money, or pride in home improvement, family, and your domestic world. To boot, you may feel inspired by realizations or discoveries about psychological issues. The Solar Eclipse on the 14th can bring powerful new beginnings of major new long-term projects and possibly family and home-related affairs in the weeks following.
People enjoy your company and seek you out in October. It's an excellent time for building bridges or enhancing current relationships. You feel freer to express yourself as the month advances, and your sector of joy, love, and creativity gets more and more attention.
You enjoy a boost from Venus in your communications sector, smoothing out your interactions from the 8th forward. You seem to know what to say and when to say it. You can frame things well now, so take advantage and write up promotional copy, creative works, overtures, and applications. Relationships with siblings, classmates, acquaintances, and neighbors can improve significantly with gentle and thoughtful attention. Learning something new is exciting, and an open heart opens doors. You could be furthering your mental interests, and the chance to expand your world or view is with you.
All month, Vesta in Cancer points to success working alone and putting extra effort into your pursuits. You are dedicated, and it shows! It's an excellent time for creating goodwill.
From the 10th, there can be a pleasant breakthrough in or about close relationships. More clarity comes to your love relationships and partnerships. You pursue your hobbies, pleasurable pastimes, affiliations, and romance with more energy and enthusiasm, primarily because you feel clearer on these matters.
Even further, from the 12th, Mars awakens your desires and encourages you to pursue your passions with its transit of your solar fifth house. Mercury and the Sun move in on the 22nd and 23rd, stirring up strong motivations to get creative or romantic, share your ideas, seek out more fun and channels for self-expression, date, and pursue a hobby, recreational activity, or creative project more ardently. You can feel exceptionally romantic or confident and may be itching to express your feelings.
As such, romance and pleasure-seeking are in sharp focus as the month progresses. Desires come on quickly and with great force. You might bring great pleasure to someone's life or choose to chase special pleasures yourself. You are exceptionally aware of–and awake to–the world around you. Your courage builds, especially when it comes to sharing yourself with others, and creative enthusiasm is with you.
Something to watch for: you can feel pressured to throw yourself into something before your heart is ready. Be sure to check in with your feelings, which are slower than your mind and will this month.
The Lunar Eclipse on the 28th can bring a friendship issue to a turning (or boiling) point. Look for ways to explore and share ideas with people in your life. If an affiliation changes or ends, another door opens rather quickly.
This eclipse--the last in a set affecting your social life--pushes your true feelings about a person or project to the surface. Your passions and affections are hard to dismiss at this time! Your next step or the right path will ultimately clarify, and there can be an epiphany or turning point. Take your time with your discoveries.
A compelling desire to express yourself uniquely or creatively can grab hold in the last week of October. Romance can heat up, or there can be a conflict between a friendship and love relationship. Watch for overdoing things or trying to please too many people. Keep in mind that more is not always better. Still, personal appeal is powerful on a mental level.
See also general trends for Cancer in 2023.
See also detailed 2023 Yearly Horoscope for Cancer.
Cancer (Born July 2 to 12)
AND Cancer Ascendant from 10 to 20 degrees Cancer:
October 2023 Cancer Horoscope: Love, Career, & General Trends
October 2023
The Sun this Month: Central Focus, Consciousness
All month:
With the Sun spotlighting your house of family and home, these areas are your instinctive focus during this period. Your family, home, property concerns, roots, and heritage come into focus and become a source of pride. You are likely quite preoccupied with feelings of security and your inner experiences. This is a time when you send down roots and seek a feeling of belonging. You could be thrust into a position of leadership on the home front.
Ego confrontations with family members are possible now, but the best way to handle this energy is to do your best to strengthen your relationship with your family and your home base. This is a time to do what you can to build trust in your family life and a strong foundation within yourself so that regardless of what you meet in the outside world over the next months, you have a secure place to return to. Besides spending more time tending to domestic affairs, the focus can be on cultivating and nourishing the inner foundations that support you and your growth. This is a time to collect yourself--to fill your well, so to speak.
Eclipses
A Solar Eclipse occurs on October 14th: A general rule of thumb regarding eclipses is to avoid major decision-making in the week before and after an eclipse. This is because new information that could change our perspective often is revealed in the week after the eclipse. There is absolutely no need to suspend projects already in progress. Essentially, it's better to take in right now--to observe and get in touch with feelings. The Solar Eclipse marks a new beginning for you. Letting go of the past is necessary in order to move forward. This eclipse occurs in your solar fourth house, suggesting a new approach to domestic affairs, home, and family. A new set-up in an existing home or a new home altogether may be part of the picture in the coming months, as well as a sense of renewal and reinvigoration with regards to your domestic routines, comfort, and feeling of security. This is a phase when you have an increased awareness of your need for a solid foundation--a place to return to when the rest of the world is getting on your nerves.
A Lunar Eclipse occurs on October 28th:
A general rule of thumb regarding eclipses is to avoid major decision-making in the week before and after an eclipse. This is because new information that could change our perspective often is revealed in the week after the eclipse. There is absolutely no need to suspend projects already in progress. Essentially, it's better to take in right now--to observe and get in touch with feelings.
This Lunar Eclipse stimulates your solar tenth house. Surprises surrounding career and reputation matters may be in store. Something that has been "in hiding" or brewing under the surface of things comes to light, or there is a significant fruition or culmination. This could manifest, for example, as a career change or challenge that you didn't expect, a surprise revelation from a coworker or boss, a new promotion or career direction dropped into your lap, and other such possibilities.
Venus this Month: Love, Romance, Social Life, Comfort, Pleasure
Until October 19th:
Venus continues to grace your solar second house during this period. You might receive gifts or bonuses now, or you find much comfort in what you already own and have. You may be a little extravagant with money for the time being, as your desire for luxury and comfort items is increased now, and this is something to watch for. When it comes to love, you value those who make you feel comfortable and secure.
From October 20th forward:
With Venus moving through your solar third house during this period, you are mostly cheerful in your approach to others, and perhaps somewhat intellectual, during this transit. Essentially, you are quite companionable now. You enjoy talking about what interests you, and you find great value in the exchange of ideas. Sometimes this transit brings benefit through siblings, communications, or short trips. During this period, you are most attracted to wit, cheerfulness, and verbal rapport. You are especially good at mediating conflicts. Smoothing over differences using your diplomacy skills figures now.
Mercury this Month: Communications, Learning, Connections, Transportation
Until October 10th:
Mercury continues to move through your solar third house. Mercury feels right at home in the third house. Your mind is especially inquisitive during this cycle, when learning, short trips, and other forms of communication and making connections, appeal strongly. Some are fidgety or nervous during this cycle, perhaps due to increased errand-running, phone calls, or information overload. Others enjoy the challenge of tackling a variety of subjects.
As well, talking, writing, and studying can be good ways to handle stress. It's a great time to pick up information from your environment and the people in it. Your mind is often distracted, particularly when required to stick to routine, so this is not the best transit for focusing on one task or project. You might spend a lot of time in your car making short frequent trips, running errands, communicating with siblings and neighbors, and visiting friends and relatives.
From October 10-28:
Mercury moves through your solar fourth house. This is a time during which you can enjoy increased powers of concentration. You may require solitude in order to get mental work done during this cycle. Your memory is more retentive than usual, and your thoughts often turn to personal matters, family, and loved ones. You might particularly enjoy discussions about your early life, the past, or family matters during this cycle. In fact, it's a great time to open up conversations with loved ones, as you are more rational when it comes to personal matters now.
Your mind often wanders to domestic concerns, and issues surrounding your home, family, and personal past. On the other hand, this transit sometimes indicates an especially busy, and perhaps hectic, period on the domestic scene. For example, you might take home work or find that people drop by your home often during this cycle.
From October 28th forward:
Mercury transits your solar fifth house. During this cycle, there is a powerful mental connection with your creative self-expression. You are proud of your ideas, and very good at expressing them to others smoothly now. Your thinking is more creative than usual. You tend to entertain others with your conversation; and your sense of humor (and of mischief!) is especially strong.
Your thoughts turn to children, pleasures, or romance during this expressive cycle. You might enjoy researching speculative ventures now. You especially enjoy games that involve competing with others on a mental level. You have a stronger need than usual for intellectual stimulation. Therefore, your friends and romantic partner are best appreciated now if they are intellectual types. You're more willing to take risks on a mental level now, so take advantage of the increased spontaneity and creativity that comes with this position.
Mars this Month: Energy, Drive, Courage
Until the 26th:
Mars continues to activate your solar fourth house. More energy and enthusiasm is brought to your home life, but there can also be a tendency to stir up trouble if you are not careful to channel any excess energy into constructive and productive pursuits around the home. You desire to take the lead, but you should do so in a respectful way so as not to get anyone's goat.
From the 26th forward:
Mars animates and energizes your solar fifth house. This is a very self-expressive time when you have lots of energy, but not necessarily self-discipline to match. You have more energy at your disposal to express yourself creatively, through activities with children, romantic activities, hobbies, or sports. Your love life may step up a notch, and this could be an especially passionate time. You tend to put more energy into play and pleasure! Be careful not to burn the candle at both ends. Also, watch out for a tendency to want to gamble. You are more playful than usual, and especially magnetic. You have a likeably competitive, more energetic, and pleasingly assertive temperament during this transit. However, in some cases, you may be coming on too strong or aggressively, or meeting with aggressiveness in romantic relationships.
Overview Horoscope:
October 2023 Monthly Horoscope Overview for Cancer:
You're focusing on renewal and creative refreshment in October, dear Cancer. The month begins with a stronger focus on the bottom of your solar chart, with themes of family, home, and heart. Mars here until the 12th has a beautiful way of pulling everything up and out into the open. It might feel disruptive in spots, but it can help clear the decks.
While there are opportunities to learn more about your ambitions and goals, you're in particularly good shape for attending to your home, family, and personal needs this month. Improvements in your relationships with family, relatives, children, and love interests figure strongly. You're putting more effort, money, or pride in home improvement, family, and your domestic world. To boot, you may feel inspired by realizations or discoveries about psychological issues. The Solar Eclipse on the 14th can bring powerful new beginnings of major new long-term projects and possibly family and home-related affairs in the weeks following.
People enjoy your company and seek you out in October. It's an excellent time for building bridges or enhancing current relationships. You feel freer to express yourself as the month advances, and your sector of joy, love, and creativity gets more and more attention.
You enjoy a boost from Venus in your communications sector, smoothing out your interactions from the 8th forward. You seem to know what to say and when to say it. You can frame things well now, so take advantage and write up promotional copy, creative works, overtures, and applications. Relationships with siblings, classmates, acquaintances, and neighbors can improve significantly with gentle and thoughtful attention. Learning something new is exciting, and an open heart opens doors. You could be furthering your mental interests, and the chance to expand your world or view is with you.
All month, Vesta in Cancer points to success working alone and putting extra effort into your pursuits. You are dedicated, and it shows! It's an excellent time for creating goodwill.
From the 10th, there can be a pleasant breakthrough in or about close relationships. More clarity comes to your love relationships and partnerships. You pursue your hobbies, pleasurable pastimes, affiliations, and romance with more energy and enthusiasm, primarily because you feel clearer on these matters.
Even further, from the 12th, Mars awakens your desires and encourages you to pursue your passions with its transit of your solar fifth house. Mercury and the Sun move in on the 22nd and 23rd, stirring up strong motivations to get creative or romantic, share your ideas, seek out more fun and channels for self-expression, date, and pursue a hobby, recreational activity, or creative project more ardently. You can feel exceptionally romantic or confident and may be itching to express your feelings.
As such, romance and pleasure-seeking are in sharp focus as the month progresses. Desires come on quickly and with great force. You might bring great pleasure to someone's life or choose to chase special pleasures yourself. You are exceptionally aware of–and awake to–the world around you. Your courage builds, especially when it comes to sharing yourself with others, and creative enthusiasm is with you.
Something to watch for: you can feel pressured to throw yourself into something before your heart is ready. Be sure to check in with your feelings, which are slower than your mind and will this month.
The Lunar Eclipse on the 28th can bring a friendship issue to a turning (or boiling) point. Look for ways to explore and share ideas with people in your life. If an affiliation changes or ends, another door opens rather quickly.
This eclipse--the last in a set affecting your social life--pushes your true feelings about a person or project to the surface. Your passions and affections are hard to dismiss at this time! Your next step or the right path will ultimately clarify, and there can be an epiphany or turning point. Take your time with your discoveries.
A compelling desire to express yourself uniquely or creatively can grab hold in the last week of October. Romance can heat up, or there can be a conflict between a friendship and love relationship. Watch for overdoing things or trying to please too many people. Keep in mind that more is not always better. Still, personal appeal is powerful on a mental level.
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See also detailed 2023 Yearly Horoscope for Cancer.
Cancer (Born July 13 to 22)
AND Cancer Ascendant from 20 to 30 degrees Cancer:
October 2023 Cancer Horoscope: Love, Career, & General Trends
October 2023
The Sun this Month: Central Focus, Consciousness
Until October 13th:
The Sun continues to highlight your solar third house--a time of the year in which you are most likely to be a "busy bee". Communications, short trips, errand-running, and general busy-ness feature now. You could have a finger in many pies, so to speak, as your curiosity is piqued by a larger variety of things than usual. Used well, this could be a period in which you come up with solutions to a number of problems. You are more inclined to take pride in your intellectual accomplishments and/or your ability to socialize and make connections.
From October 13th forward:
With the Sun spotlighting your house of family and home, these areas are your instinctive focus during this period. Your family, home, property concerns, roots, and heritage come into focus and become a source of pride. You are likely quite preoccupied with feelings of security and your inner experiences. This is a time when you send down roots and seek a feeling of belonging. You could be thrust into a position of leadership on the home front.
Ego confrontations with family members are possible now, but the best way to handle this energy is to do your best to strengthen your relationship with your family and your home base. This is a time to do what you can to build trust in your family life and a strong foundation within yourself so that regardless of what you meet in the outside world over the next months, you have a secure place to return to. Besides spending more time tending to domestic affairs, the focus can be on cultivating and nourishing the inner foundations that support you and your growth. This is a time to collect yourself--to fill your well, so to speak.
Eclipses
A Solar Eclipse occurs on October 14th: A general rule of thumb regarding eclipses is to avoid major decision-making in the week before and after an eclipse. This is because new information that could change our perspective often is revealed in the week after the eclipse. There is absolutely no need to suspend projects already in progress. Essentially, it's better to take in right now--to observe and get in touch with feelings. The Solar Eclipse marks a new beginning for you. Letting go of the past is necessary in order to move forward. This eclipse occurs in your solar fourth house, suggesting a new approach to domestic affairs, home, and family. A new set-up in an existing home or a new home altogether may be part of the picture in the coming months, as well as a sense of renewal and reinvigoration with regards to your domestic routines, comfort, and feeling of security. This is a phase when you have an increased awareness of your need for a solid foundation--a place to return to when the rest of the world is getting on your nerves.
A Lunar Eclipse occurs on October 28th:
A general rule of thumb regarding eclipses is to avoid major decision-making in the week before and after an eclipse. This is because new information that could change our perspective often is revealed in the week after the eclipse. There is absolutely no need to suspend projects already in progress. Essentially, it's better to take in right now--to observe and get in touch with feelings.
This Lunar Eclipse stimulates your solar tenth house. Surprises surrounding career and reputation matters may be in store. Something that has been "in hiding" or brewing under the surface of things comes to light, or there is a significant fruition or culmination. This could manifest, for example, as a career change or challenge that you didn't expect, a surprise revelation from a coworker or boss, a new promotion or career direction dropped into your lap, and other such possibilities.
Venus this Month: Love, Romance, Social Life, Comfort, Pleasure
Until October 29th:
Venus continues to grace your solar second house during this period. You might receive gifts or bonuses now, or you find much comfort in what you already own and have. You may be a little extravagant with money for the time being, as your desire for luxury and comfort items is increased now, and this is something to watch for. When it comes to love, you value those who make you feel comfortable and secure.
From October 30th forward:
With Venus moving through your solar third house during this period, you are mostly cheerful in your approach to others, and perhaps somewhat intellectual, during this transit. Essentially, you are quite companionable now. You enjoy talking about what interests you, and you find great value in the exchange of ideas. Sometimes this transit brings benefit through siblings, communications, or short trips. During this period, you are most attracted to wit, cheerfulness, and verbal rapport. You are especially good at mediating conflicts. Smoothing over differences using your diplomacy skills figures now.
Mercury this Month: Communications, Learning, Connections, Transportation
Until October 16th:
Mercury continues to move through your solar third house. Mercury feels right at home in the third house. Your mind is especially inquisitive during this cycle, when learning, short trips, and other forms of communication and making connections, appeal strongly. Some are fidgety or nervous during this cycle, perhaps due to increased errand-running, phone calls, or information overload. Others enjoy the challenge of tackling a variety of subjects.
As well, talking, writing, and studying can be good ways to handle stress. It's a great time to pick up information from your environment and the people in it. Your mind is often distracted, particularly when required to stick to routine, so this is not the best transit for focusing on one task or project. You might spend a lot of time in your car making short frequent trips, running errands, communicating with siblings and neighbors, and visiting friends and relatives.
From October 16th forward:
Mercury moves through your solar fourth house. This is a time during which you can enjoy increased powers of concentration. You may require solitude in order to get mental work done during this cycle. Your memory is more retentive than usual, and your thoughts often turn to personal matters, family, and loved ones. You might particularly enjoy discussions about your early life, the past, or family matters during this cycle. In fact, it's a great time to open up conversations with loved ones, as you are more rational when it comes to personal matters now.
Your mind often wanders to domestic concerns, and issues surrounding your home, family, and personal past. On the other hand, this transit sometimes indicates an especially busy, and perhaps hectic, period on the domestic scene. For example, you might take home work or find that people drop by your home often during this cycle.
Mars this Month: Energy, Drive, Courage
All month:
Mars continues to activate your solar fourth house. More energy and enthusiasm is brought to your home life, but there can also be a tendency to stir up trouble if you are not careful to channel any excess energy into constructive and productive pursuits around the home. You desire to take the lead, but you should do so in a respectful way so as not to get anyone's goat.
Overview Horoscope:
October 2023 Monthly Horoscope Overview for Cancer:
You're focusing on renewal and creative refreshment in October, dear Cancer. The month begins with a stronger focus on the bottom of your solar chart, with themes of family, home, and heart. Mars here until the 12th has a beautiful way of pulling everything up and out into the open. It might feel disruptive in spots, but it can help clear the decks.
While there are opportunities to learn more about your ambitions and goals, you're in particularly good shape for attending to your home, family, and personal needs this month. Improvements in your relationships with family, relatives, children, and love interests figure strongly. You're putting more effort, money, or pride in home improvement, family, and your domestic world. To boot, you may feel inspired by realizations or discoveries about psychological issues. The Solar Eclipse on the 14th can bring powerful new beginnings of major new long-term projects and possibly family and home-related affairs in the weeks following.
People enjoy your company and seek you out in October. It's an excellent time for building bridges or enhancing current relationships. You feel freer to express yourself as the month advances, and your sector of joy, love, and creativity gets more and more attention.
You enjoy a boost from Venus in your communications sector, smoothing out your interactions from the 8th forward. You seem to know what to say and when to say it. You can frame things well now, so take advantage and write up promotional copy, creative works, overtures, and applications. Relationships with siblings, classmates, acquaintances, and neighbors can improve significantly with gentle and thoughtful attention. Learning something new is exciting, and an open heart opens doors. You could be furthering your mental interests, and the chance to expand your world or view is with you.
All month, Vesta in Cancer points to success working alone and putting extra effort into your pursuits. You are dedicated, and it shows! It's an excellent time for creating goodwill.
From the 10th, there can be a pleasant breakthrough in or about close relationships. More clarity comes to your love relationships and partnerships. You pursue your hobbies, pleasurable pastimes, affiliations, and romance with more energy and enthusiasm, primarily because you feel clearer on these matters.
Even further, from the 12th, Mars awakens your desires and encourages you to pursue your passions with its transit of your solar fifth house. Mercury and the Sun move in on the 22nd and 23rd, stirring up strong motivations to get creative or romantic, share your ideas, seek out more fun and channels for self-expression, date, and pursue a hobby, recreational activity, or creative project more ardently. You can feel exceptionally romantic or confident and may be itching to express your feelings.
As such, romance and pleasure-seeking are in sharp focus as the month progresses. Desires come on quickly and with great force. You might bring great pleasure to someone's life or choose to chase special pleasures yourself. You are exceptionally aware of–and awake to–the world around you. Your courage builds, especially when it comes to sharing yourself with others, and creative enthusiasm is with you.
Something to watch for: you can feel pressured to throw yourself into something before your heart is ready. Be sure to check in with your feelings, which are slower than your mind and will this month.
The Lunar Eclipse on the 28th can bring a friendship issue to a turning (or boiling) point. Look for ways to explore and share ideas with people in your life. If an affiliation changes or ends, another door opens rather quickly.
This eclipse--the last in a set affecting your social life--pushes your true feelings about a person or project to the surface. Your passions and affections are hard to dismiss at this time! Your next step or the right path will ultimately clarify, and there can be an epiphany or turning point. Take your time with your discoveries.
A compelling desire to express yourself uniquely or creatively can grab hold in the last week of October. Romance can heat up, or there can be a conflict between a friendship and love relationship. Watch for overdoing things or trying to please too many people. Keep in mind that more is not always better. Still, personal appeal is powerful on a mental level.
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Our detailed monthly horoscopes are designed to reveal and interpret the current transits of the Sun, Mercury, Venus, and Mars in your solar chart.
Because these energies or transits do not unfold neatly into any given calendar month (many transits carry forward from one month to the next), you will find some of the energies continue from the previous month.
For example, the Sun might transit the second house of your solar chart from June 21 to July 22, so that you will find a similar interpretation for this transit in both June and July’s horoscope. This is normal and expected. Transits don’t abruptly change as the calendar month changes.
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.
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