Cancer Horoscope for January 2017

This month is another rather intense journey for you, Cancer, when you are investigating your relationship with significant others, and also within the home, family and root psychological structures that define you to yourself. You have been on a serious and lengthy developmental arc to better understand the effect of committed relationship upon your life, and this month, when Mercury is retrograding through your relationship sector, in connection with transformative Pluto, completes one important phase of this months-long exploration. You are also more connected in this quiet and meditative time with yourself at the deeper levels of your being. You seek new ways of showing up in the world around you that express the facets of your personality that are most uniquely yourself, and this goal, like those concerned with partnership connection, is fundamental to what you are trying to achieve in this significant turning of the year.

As the month begins, you are feeling into relationships of all kinds with new eyes and with a novel and quite sensitive attention to inner priorities. The New Moon from the end of December is still resonating with you, having taken place in a key sector of your solar chart, corresponding to relationship, although your work within yourself, also in massive flux, is an equally important priority. This is a powerful time when not only is there fresh energy for partnerships of all kinds, but also Mercury is in retrograde, or backward motion, through this same sector, giving you pause and the impulse to look more deeply within. You could be spending much time in analyzing what you gain and also lose as a result of committing to a partner, and in attempting to refine the nuances of what this area of life really holds for you. As always when such a meditative time arrives, you profit from journaling your ideas and feelings for better understanding and for a more extended look at them later on, with the passage of time.

This is a powerful month in other ways a well, because Jupiter is in nearly exact opposition to Uranus in your career sector, giving you brilliant flashes of insight and novel conceptualizations regarding your professional life and other ways that you exteriorize your talents out into the world. Furthermore, with your Midheaven ruler at the New Moon timing in close conjunction with Neptune in your sector of higher mind, there can be confusion or over-idealization of goals and beliefs to contend with. Practicality matters to you now, along with your ideals, so that you must steer for the middle ground between these. This is an essentially spiritual time for you, when you are sorting out your priorities with a big picture viewpoint firmly in mind. If you constantly remind yourself of this basic orientation you will do all right.



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