Cancer Horoscope for August 2024

This is another month of transformational import for you, Cancer, with Pluto highlighted in a vital sector. This area of your chart has to do with close partnership connection, and, more importantly, with intimacy with yourself, deep down. There are surprising twists and turns, especially on August 4th, when Mercury turns to retrograde motion in your communication sector on the same day as the Leo New Moon. You will find yourself speaking from the heart; there could be the usual Mercury Retrograde sense of difficulty in getting your actual point across, and you are moved to look within for important answers. Career choices have recently been being made on something of a mystical or imaginative basis, with a sense of idealization that can also be tricky to navigate. You might have trouble attempting to discern the false from the true; nevertheless, you must try. It could prove invaluable at this juncture to depend on your intuition. With the Aquarius Full Moon of the 19th, there could be further surprises, and further intuitional revelations. The potential for confusion is still there, along with the necessity for trusting in yourself and your inner guidance. The value is this emphasizes your recognition of inner principle and an internal moral judgment that is completely your own.


The following was written by our guest columnist Elodie St-Onge Aubut of Ninth House Astrology


As you enter August, you are riding the wave from the New Moon in your sign, and the Full Moon of the 21st of last month which was transformationally dynamic and likely brought you to surprising revelations having to do with your goals and your internal awareness of intuitional information that is available to you when you half-close your eyes to see it.

Then, on August 4th, the Leo New Moon takes place in the resource sector of your chart signaling the beginning of a new cycle for things related to your values, your income, and your energetic investments. You are still very aware of things unseen taking place deep within you, informing your career choices. The saying ‘’energy flows where attention goes’’ may ring truer than usual and it may be good to keep that in mind as the thirty-day Leo cycle progresses.

On the 4th, also, Mercury turns retrograde in Virgo or your communications sector, and could give you a meditative period of time when you are questioning your information sources – or refining them – and a dwelling on your thought patterns and the ways these affect not only your reality but the ways in which you perceive yourself. Being more deliberate about your attention could help sort out the essential from the noise so that you can focus on what matters the most to you. Mercury returns to Leo on the 14th before turning direct there on the 28th and taking two more weeks, into September, to completely straighten out.

In mid-August there is an increased flow of energy to your dreams and your unconscious process, as Jupiter and Mars conjunct in Gemini from the 13th to the 15th and come into a square with Saturn in Pisces lasting to at least the 16th, and the 19th for Jupiter to Saturn, which may emphasize the way that social issues penetrate to your own inner world. You may be tempted to compromise on your own internal understanding, and this could also come to be recognized as a mistake. In any case, lessons will be there for the learning.

The Full Moon in Aquarius on the 19th at the tail end of the Aquarius sign illuminate the next sign for the Sun and Moon as well, implying that curiosity and learning could be a big part of the story of this powerful lunation. The lights also make an exact T-square to Uranus at 27° of Taurus, so that there will likely be surprises, and as well startling revelations plus intuitional information from deep inside that you will be contending with at this time. The space between inner and outer realities could be emphasized. This moment could also help you process real versus imagined praise or rejection. Bonding and connectivity are essential components to your wellbeing and with Mercury and the Sun in Leo opposing the Moon, issues around love and care could come to the forefront in order to be integrated more consciously. Jupiter in Gemini is precisely square to Saturn in Pisces, leading to a sense that inner awareness is vital to your more complete understanding of what you are currently up to.

Mercury turning direct on the 28th suggests that your abilities to multitask and think efficiently could slowly increase over the coming weeks of the post-retrograde shadow. The biggest obstacle to your success right now could be related to illusions and confusions of what you are up to in your outer world setting, so that you benefit from accessing intuitional information and being slow to judge events until the entire scope of what has happened can be revealed.