Cancer Horoscope for July 2016

This month is one of reaching out to others in new ways, Cancer, while you are feeling into important realizations. In the course of a significant monthly cycle, you are, in a sense, reborn. There is a light-filled intentionality now that supports any form of verbal connection: conversation, public speaking, writing. Journaling your thoughts is also highly recommended. Those issues referencing partnership take high-profile positions. Although the practical requirements of life are very much with you, there is also a sense of joyous escape into fantasy worlds of your own devising, as long as you are careful not to get too far away. You will know you have achieved your sweet spot when you can accept the limitations of your physical situation while staying in connection with your higher self, that part of you that is distinctly non-physical, neither losing track of the one, nor the other.

As the month begins, you are feeling the shift in the energy represented by Mercury coming into your sign, bringing a mental approach more closely to bear as you continue to explore concepts of who and what you really are, in this, your birthday time of the year. Just now, Mars has also stationed, turning from its months long retrograde period to forward motion. Slowly, very slowly, he begins to gain zodiacal ground. This affects your career sector, where visionary inspiration continues to amaze, and also your sector of creative self-expression, the placement where Mars currently resides. You are caught up in a tension of opposites that, upon reflection, brings insight.

With Saturn and Neptune also closely implicated in the powerful New Moon energy of July 4th, there is a yearning for out-of-this-world idealism, adding a tinge of happy illusion to your emerging worldview — perhaps, in the extreme, bordering on escapism and potential self-delusion. Then there are also the practicalities of your situation that start gnawing away at you the moment you get too far out there. All this takes place in the context of serious relationship difficulties that lead you, ultimately, to transformation. The secret to getting through these challenges lies in acceptance. Anything that happens to you can after all be seen as representing either an affirmation or another reinforcement of life lessons, here in the physical plane. When you can tap into your natural capacity to trust in the universe to guide you, then nothing is all that terrible, in the long-run.