Cancer
Jun 21 - Jul 22
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Cancer horoscope for April 2024
Where an eclipsing Full Moon towards the end of March may have put your work/life balance to the test, there is a chance this month to benefit from that. Indeed, having the right work/life balance is the way month to enjoy all the benefits that the month holds and if you want to have it all. Because the Sun will always spend the first three weeks of April in your career sector, the solar spotlight is always on your professional game or on anything that you can channel your competitive spirit into at this time of year. With Mercury spending the whole month here, Venus moving through from 5th April to 29th April and a total solar eclipse when the Moon moves through from 7th April to 9th April, this is an important month professionally.
However, this is also a stepping stone, with Mars' return in the early hours of next month set to make May and June the pinnacle months of this professional year. Yet until then, Mars is spending the whole of April in your sector of adventure, travel, learning and discovery, where just as things are on the rise professionally, he will be fuelling a passion for adventure and a hunger for life's richer experiences. Until she leaves and joins the Sun in your career sector on 5th April, Venus will start the month fuelling a desire for adventure as she works to leave Mars with something that he can keep fighting for.
Helping to put even more focus on the playful, creative and adventurous side of life's fence will be the Moon's return to a fun, playful, romantic and creatively charged part of your chart from 24th April to 26th April as a Full Moon. Meanwhile, spending his first full month on his own in your financial sector after Mars left towards the end of last month, Pluto is keeping the focus on money matters but with less urgency. Where Mars had spent six weeks firing up your financial passions and fighting spirit in an effort to see you take your financial power back Pluto, the planet of change and transformation is after a slower but more long term approach.
Love & Romance
While there is not only a constant presence on the relationship front but plenty of support throughout the month, it is a different story on the romantic front. Where you have a constant, slow and steady presence on the relationship front, you have two periods in the month that are romantically charged and therefore need to be seized. The first period is in the early days of the month, when until leaving an adventurous part of your chart on 5th April Venus, the planet of love will be working to bring the spirit of romance and adventure together. With Mars at her side and with the planet of passion and the warrior planet of the cosmos spending the whole of April here, this is injecting his passion for adventure into the mix.This will also hopefully make it easier to hold onto Venus' romantic influence. Mars will still be here when matters of the heart get another boost when the Moon not only moves through your romantic sector from 24th April to 26th April but returns as a Full Moon. This will be the most romantically charged Full Moon of 2024 and with Mars in his final week in an adventurous part of your chart by then, as the Moon moves through and they move into a friendly aspect, this will create a potent mix of romance, passion and adventure. While the number of romantically charged days this month is fewer than you can count on two hands, what they lack in quantity they make up for in quality.
Meanwhile, on the relationship front you not only have the Moon making two visits this month, but just as the dwarf planet Ceres has reached her last full month in direct motion. It is Ceres' retrograde turn next month that will keep her here until December, extending what is normally a three month deep dive into your relationship needs and priorities. The Moon will move through from 1st April to 3rd April and again from 28th April to 30th April. Each time this will bring a chance to become more emotionally engaged while at the same time connecting with the asteroid Juno in your communication sector, making it easier to give your emotional responses and relationships a voice.
Business & Career
Because the Sun will always spend the first three weeks of April in your career sector, the solar spotlight is always on your career and professional situation, matters and options this time of year. This year things are happening in waves, turning what can be an intense and concentrated period into something that is a lot more spread out. The Sun never travels on his own and while the dwarf planet Eris, the warrior princess of the cosmos has been here for nine decades, it is when he and the faster planets move through that things become more active. This year things got off to an early start and while the Sun will leave on 20th April, this won't start scaling back until the second half of June.It was Mercury's return earlier last month that got things off to an early start. Normally moving through in just 14 to 15 days, Mercury's return gave you a chance to get your head in the game weeks before the Sun's return on the March equinox. However, it is a retrograde turn on 2nd April that will not only keep Mercury here until the middle of May but is going to slow things down enough that you have time to hear yourself think. Mercury will spend the majority of the month in retrograde motion and not turning direct until 26th April, after the Sun leaves, this will take away any urgency.
Meanwhile, it is just before the Moon returns to your career sector as an eclipsing New Moon that Venus will return on 5th April, something that until leaving on 29th April will see the planet of money, desire and attraction put everything she has into fuelling your job confidence, attracting opportunities and steering things in a lucrative direction. It is when the Moon moves through from 7th April to 9th April, that as a total solar eclipse this could trigger or create major new opportunities, at a time when Mercury has the doors open to the past. However, it is not until Mars returns in the early days of May that the real push will begin. Meanwhile, while the Moon will leave your work sector on 1st April, this will give you an intuitive read on work and job matters from the start, while returning to do it again from 26th April to 28th April.
Money
For the first time since Pluto returned to your financial sector in January, he is on his own and things are settling down. While Pluto, the planet of change and transformation had spent time here when he returned last year for his first visit to your financial sector in our lifetime, it was after the other planets had already moved through and he only got as far as the doorstep. Pluto already had the brakes on when he returned and less than three months later, he retrograded back out. This was more a chance to get a lay of the land and after Saturn's three year financial boot camp only ended a few weeks earlier, to survey the damage or assess the learning lessons from what may have been a challenging few years financially.This planted the seeds for change but with a chance to back up and let your subconscious process this until you are ready to implement that change. That opposition came when Pluto returned in January, on the same day that the Sun returned, putting the solar spotlight on your financial situation and money matters as he does three weeks into any year. Since then the Sun, Mercury, Venus and finally Mars, who left late last month have moved through. Pluto is here now until 2044 and what Mars, the warrior planet of the cosmos was making a race to take your financial power back, has now become more about the journey.
The Moon will make its first visit since Mars left and since Pluto has been on his own from 3rd April to 5th April. As well as fuelling your financial instincts and imagination and ensuring you are emotionally and intuitively engaged, this is a chance to check in on money matters for the first time since he returned and on Pluto's influence in isolation. Where the planets that have recently passed through were focused on mundane money matters that needed your attention at the time, Pluto is more focused on the big picture and the long term changes that you can slowly make. Meanwhile, with no planetary activity on the other side of the financial fence, the Moon's return to your income sector from 16th April to 19th April will sharpen your nose for money and act as a trigger during the Sun's final days in your career sector.