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Cancer (Born July 2 to 12) - 10 to 20 degrees Cancer:
2009: Cancer Horoscope: Love, Career, & General Trends
2009 Overview. In 2009, your major focus is on private matters and close personal relationships, dear Cancer. Getting family and home life into order figures strongly. New levels or depths of intimacy are uncovered in 2009. Sexual opportunities are likely to abound, or your focus on one partner becomes more expansive, warm, and intimate. Some of you will be taking a casual romance to an entirely new level this year and in coming years. Money from others or from outside sources is much improved this year. Non-tangible support is also abundant—assistance from others comes easily. You could be involved in some heavy research and digging on the job. Deep personal changes are ahead for all Cancers, but particularly those born from June 21-25. Your attitude towards close relationships and partnering undergoes transformations. Depth of experience will be sought. Many of you will deepen your commitment to a significant other. Over the next few years, you will be ridding your life of superficiality in your close relationships. Lessons learned may not always be easy, but empowering in the end. Power struggles are possible in close personal relationships for many Cancers. Your relationships tend to have distinct themes revolving around personal power, jealousy, manipulation, or self-will. Your biggest enemy now is resentment, which can act to eat away your confidence and healthy state of mind. In 2009, your eyes are opened to new experiences and belief systems. Some of you (mostly those born July 11-19) are enjoying a period of unique self-expression, insightfulness, and sense of freedom. Those born July 14-19 are likely to struggle with drawing personal boundaries with a partner.
2009 Details. Jupiter is moving through your solar eighth house from February forward, and you are likely to see benefits in the areas of joint finances, shared resources, loans, taxes, sexuality, intimacy, healing, personal transformation, research, investigation, and psychological matters. This is a time of increased psychological understanding, intimacy, and perhaps accumulation of wealth if you manage your resources well. You are more capable of helping friends and loved ones who are dealing with a crisis—you can be leaned upon. Any type of in-depth study or research is likely to go well. An insurance settlement, tax rebate, or an inheritance could come your way, and this is an excellent time to work on financial planning and strategy. Financial gains may come through a partnership or there may be an increase in a spouse’s income. Sexual opportunities are likely to abound, or your focus on one partner becomes more expansive, warm, and intimate. Benefit can come through jointly held resources, loans, or taxes. These positive circumstances won’t necessarily fall into your lap, and are unlikely to come all at once. You need to keep your eyes open for opportunities in these areas of life.
The very best times for realizing the positive potentials of this Jupiter transit occur when Jupiter is direct and in your eighth house: from February 17 through June 14, and then from October 14 through December. If you are looking for support or backing—financial or otherwise—it’s best to do so during the first of these windows (during the second window, Mars could be causing some trouble with personal finances). These are times when you could get a mortgage or other property- and home-related financial backing.
Saturn continues to move through your third house this year. You are more productive, with a responsible and sometimes even somber outlook. Although you have a desire to make contacts, you are now rather preoccupied with learning or producing, and you may view idle chit-chat as a waste of time. You could feel an unusual pressure to structure your time and effort, and to cut out communication that seems unnecessary. Bouncing ideas off a special person in your life will produce great benefits. You are more able to accomplish something solid this year. By the end of the transit, you will have ideally gained a greater depth of understanding, having focused on information and communication that you really can use to feel more effective in the world.
Jupiter conjuncts Neptune in your eighth house three times this year—May 27, July 10, and December 21. A spirit of altruism and generosity, making connections with others from a different background, widening your mind through unusual or different experiences, expanded faith, and a feeling that anything is possible if you set your sights high enough are all themes. With the ruler of your sixth house and the ruler of your ninth house aligned, many of you will be developing a real work ethic as part of your belief system. Some of you will be travelling in connection with your job. Work could be associated with teaching, publishing, self-promotion, or advertising. Intimacy is delightfully complicated this year, as you incorporate fantasy and acceptance into this part of your life. You are likely to feel more confident about yourself on an intimate level, and perhaps put more faith into a partner. The only real danger of this transit is putting too much faith in shared resources—you could be setting yourself up for deceptions and even fraud if you are not careful.
The influences of Uranus and Neptune are not new to you (they have been part of your life for several years). If you do get a chance to travel, which could come up quite unexpectedly, unusual, eye-opening experiences may be in store for you. The people that you meet this year tend to stir you into new ways of thinking. You are less inclined towards a personal philosophy that is traditional now. You may encounter some challenges regarding shared finances or property. A loan or other form of support may come through unexpectedly, even in a mysterious fashion. Intimate relationships can be highly colorful, perhaps with spiritual undercurrents, but also a little confusing. The boundaries that are normally drawn between what is yours and what is mine may be blurred somewhat this year. A partner could have unsettled finances, and this could impact your own finances. Do be wary of anything that even slightly resembles fraud. Lending others money may be a lesson in frustration this year.
January’s Solar Eclipse falls in your solar seventh house. In the first half of 2009, circumstances will alert you to the need to interact with others—either the public, or through a close partnership. For some, marriage or divorce will be an issue. For most, carving out a personal identity that includes a significant other who furthers their own personal growth will come into focus. This eclipse should give you a push towards a stronger identity or sense of purposefulness through close partnership. February’s Lunar Eclipse falls in your solar second house, and you may get a cosmic push to make necessary financial changes in your life. Sharing issues come into focus, as do issues of power—what’s yours and what’s mine. Your comfort zones matter, and now is the time to take care of your own needs without eclipsing the needs of others.
July’s Solar and Lunar Eclipses fall in your first and seventh houses respectively. Issues of personal courage, confidence, and independence come to the fore in the second half of the year. You may, for example, receive a cosmic push towards expressing yourself more creatively and experience an increased drive to take charge of your life. Issues surrounding personal appearance, the body, and your image become especially important and, in some cases, critical. Basically, you will be learning to stand on your own two feet! Partnerships may be tested, but there is nothing to fear if the relationship is strong. The seventh house represents an important one-to-one relationship—a marriage partner, significant other, business partner, or an adversary. It’s time to strike a balance between your own needs and those of another. It’s time to compromise and negotiate.
The August Lunar Eclipse falls in your solar eighth house, and some drama with regards to a spouse’s income, or your taxes and investments may occur on a mundane level. It may be time to settle some of your debts, financial or otherwise. What makes you feel comfortable and secure needs to be balanced with attention to other people’s needs and comfort levels.
Your strongest financial periods in 2009 occur from August 2-12 and September 4-12. Watch for overspending especially from November 7 forward. Mars turns retrograde in your financial sector from December 20/2009 to March 10/2010, signaling a need to review and backtrack with personal finances.
