Cancer Horoscope for August 2015

This is an important time for you Cancer, as you head into the remainder of an intense summer season. Questions of self-definition are percolating through your awareness, while your astrological weather inclines you toward self-reflection, transformation of your relationship dynamic, and rededication to the life path that makes the most sense for you going forward. You are in alignment with a big-picture service orientation. You benefit from staying true to your innermost goals. You now possess an action agenda with yet a strong introspective element, in the midst of an unexpectedly significant and thoughtful period when your values are shifting, especially in the area of partnership and family dynamics. What might color your move toward greater wholeness are therefore issues of self and other, as you deeply study your inner world and your surroundings with ever more profound and serious intention.

As the month begins, you are still reeling from the potent New Moon that took place in your sign in the middle of last month, now two and a half weeks past. This New Moon stimulated the presence of Pluto in your partnership sector, so that your ongoing changes there have been revved up in intensified fashion, ever since. This continues into the present month, and represents a new stage in what has been going on for many months, and even years, now, with varying degrees of intensity. You are essentially transforming in your very way of bonding to another, and you might well have seen the results in terms of greater ease in relating both with those with whom you are in romantic connection and with your friendships and business partnerships also. As with peeling away the form of an onion, there are always more layers to deal with, as each additional foray into this vital territory within your psyche allows you to make new discoveries that in turn lead you to new areas to explore.

You are certainly no stranger to the watery realms of emotion, and the lunar cycle that began on July 15th with the New Moon in your sign also set a tone for even further delving into all things pertaining and relating to your emotional identity. This can be a challenging aspect of the Cancerian nature, as emotions are ever changing and somewhat unpredictable. Yet it is an integral part of your path to learn how to find and maintain equilibrium in such a dynamic and malleable aspect of human experience.

This month is an opportunity to reassess and get clear about what parts of your emotional makeup you value, and what beliefs you hold about your emotions. Who are you in relationship to others, and how do you seek or create safety and security in connection? Some new information about your wounding could be uncovered this month, perhaps around any frustration or difficulties you've encountered in creating a spiritual philosophy for yourself that really works and feels good for you. An opportunity lies in trusting in your process of transformation to unfold in grace, even if it does have this quality of unpredictability, and in knowing that this all ultimately contributes to you finding greater centering in your soul purpose for this lifetime.

Because the Sun and a stellium of planets are highlighted in the sector of your solar chart devoted to resources and values, and as an extension of the re-consideration of what is going on in your relationship arena, you may also wish to look into the material realm more closely, as that relates to your finances, possessions, and even your sense of aesthetics. It is a good time to look for where energy flow is blocked, and follow your intuition around creating openings and channels for it to get moving again. Energy can stagnate in cluttered spaces, in possessions that are no longer useful or desired, in credit card debt, or in junk mail sitting in a pile on the kitchen counter. There is a degree of discipline to be implemented in cleaning and clearing out. In creating better structure and systems for yourself to remain in this way, you may find that abundance can flow more easily to and through you. This is an exercise in creating order in your exterior environment, to reflect and ripple into your internal sphere and beliefs about how you possess and utilize material resource. A degree of patience and practice are necessary now to allow your manifest reality to come into greater alignment and flow with your intentions and visions for your future.