Cancer Weekly Horoscope

Heart, prepare to reopen! If you’ve been safeguarding your emotions for the past five months, it’s time to lift the drawbridge, Cancer. Intensifying Pluto has been retrograde in your sequestered, mysterious (and seductive) eighth house since May 6, which may have felt overwhelming at times because the eighth house (“the Scorpio house”) is Pluto’s natural terrain. Here secrets and intrigue feel normal, maybe even comfortable. The problem is, by holding back feelings you sell yourself short. You’re an emotional sign by nature, Crab, and suppressing what comes naturally can lead to frustration and block your deepest fulfillment. Starting on Thursday, October 15, metamorphic Pluto wraps up its annual reverse commute and resumes forward motion. You might feel that shift viscerally (even if you can’t articulate what you’re experiencing), and it may gently nudge you to open up the vault and share from the heart. Pluto doesn’t tiptoe around provocative topics. If you’ve avoided discussions involving sex, intimacy or spirituality, you may suddenly be eager to broach those subjects. Bear in mind that just because YOU’RE ready doesn’t mean bae can go there yet. Test the waters gingerly, and check in with them to gauge their comfort level.

Friday may be the end of your workweek, but if you’re cruising in the HOV lane, keep going! Even if everyone else is powering down for the weekend, it’s to your advantage to stay with it. Driven Mars in your financial sector is aligned with diligent Saturn in your ambitious tenth house. Energizing Mars couldn’t be more different from cautious Saturn, but as you get the hang of balancing these two heavyweights together, the synergy can be an unstoppable force. Fuse Mars’ passion with Saturn’s talent for productivity and you’ll leave the so-called competition in the dust. Mars fuels your enthusiasm while Saturn supplies the discipline to keep things on track. Just be careful not to slip into weekend-warrior mode. Remind yourself that this is a marathon, not a sprint. With prestige-minded Saturn at the top of your chart, don’t be too modest about your accomplishments. Share them with industry influencers. Saturn keeps you humble, so while you’re sharing your latest wins, offer to help out a bigwig with one of THEIR projects. While it’s not a quid pro quo, the rewards could be invaluable!

Sunday’s quarter moon in Capricorn powers up your relationship house, helping you restore equilibrium to areas that have felt wobbly. But first, Crab, you need to name what’s been off. Have you been giving more than what feels fair, or has your person been acting entitled? (And, hardest question, have YOU been enabling that behavior by being too “understanding”?) There’s no blame or judgment here, but if you’re tired of accepting a lopsided dynamic, then it’s up to you to say something. No need to go on the attack or resort to petty scorekeeping, but you may need to be the one to suggest a gentle correction. And do it asap, before it turns into something disproportionally huge and you’re too upset to be diplomatic. This applies to business connections as well as romantic ones. If you’ve been collaborating without a contract—especially if money is involved—it behooves you to discuss it with a lawyer and get all the terms spelled out on paper and agreed to by both parties. As Robert Frost famously taught us, good fences make good neighbors.