Belt it out, Cancer! Whatever youve been holding back, whether its for three days or three years, now is the time to express yourself, as the bold Sun in Scorpio shakes up your third house of passion and play until November 21. While open, even effusive, expression doesnt come naturally to all Cancers, its a great time to practice wearing your heart on your sleeve, rather than guarding it beneath protective armor. When it comes to vocalizing your approval of the homemade gnocchi with sage butter on your plate, were pretty sure you dont need help. So why should your undying admiration of that special someone stay under wraps? This theme of opening up is strong this month, and guess what? Its just the start, since for the next three years structured Saturn will be touring Scorpiothe same passionate sector of your chart. Getting schooled in self-expression might not sound so bad after you read about how this normally-shy woman used karaoke to build her confidence: http://www.elle.com/fashion/spotlight/discover-confidence-with-karaoke You have sequins in your closet, too. So what are you waiting for? Break em out!
Before you turn into a microphone-hogging, spotlight clutching attention seeker (as if!), youll want to take a pause with all matters of communication, since messenger Mercury is going retrograde (backward) from November 6-26. The first half of the retrograde is in Sagittarius, your sixth house of efficiency and health, so youll want to review, reevaluate and revise your fitness and organizational habits (any retrograde period supports all activities that begin with re, i.e. reflect, renew, etc.) Whats working? Whats not? Perhaps youre over that age-old blueberry allergy and can now afford to mix in a few with your morning yogurt. After November 14, Mercury slides back into Scorpio, your fifth house of drama. Avoid temper tantrums like the plague. Your teary version of But this is just how I feel can make the other person feel like theyre staring down the barrel of a loaded gun. Keep your incredible capacity for deep, beautiful emotions on the up-and-upyou dont want anyone feeling tied to you out of guilt, obligation or resentment. Youre in charge of your emotionsas opposed to your emotions being in charge of you. Dont forget it.
On November 13, a changemaking solar (new moon) eclipse falls in Scorpio, your fifth house of passion, and stirs up intense longings. A new romance or even a pregnancy is possibleif not near this date, then in the coming six months. November 13 marks the beginning of a three-year eclipse pattern on the Taurus/Scorpio axis, which will push you to explore the themes of drama versus detachment, love versus friendship, learning when (and when not) to sweat the small stuff, being super-affectionate versus cool and distant.
Like it or not, the time has come for you to make yourself available to the big, bad worldnew friends, colleagues, and groupsnot just your tight-knit circle. Your tribe is calling, and that means you have to take some risks with exposing your authentic self so that you can find your peeps. Perhaps youll unearth a new attitude about love, one thats more spiritual in nature less clingy and possessive. Think: Live and let live. Dont think: Tom Cruise and an alleged book-length pre-nup (even if he is a fellow Cancer). Its possible that friendships could become romantic. You might discover that youre being more expressive, more creative, fearlessly revealing your passions. Say what you feel, instead of hesitating and holding back. Ditch the self-consciousness, and ever so slowly, all the confidence youll need, at your well-manicured fingertips. With sexy Mars in Capricorn, your relationship house, November 16-25, you can feel confident to make a bold first moveor even to move swiftly ahead with a commitment.
The month ends with a powerful lunar eclipse in Gemini, your twelfth house of closure and endings, on November 28. Expect a lightening bolt epiphany, as your normally strong psychic abilities are off the charts. Your intuition will send you exactly the message you need, and at just the right time. This could signify an ending of sorts, one that will open up to a brand new chapter of life thats more spiritually appropriate for you. If someone leaves your life, know that a better soul match awaits. For clues, look back to the May 20 new moon eclipse in Geminisomething that started at back in the spring will come to a conclusion or manifestation. A person could reveal his or her true colors in a sudden, shocking way. If you need to cut ties, you may decide that now is the time, while the universe is giving you an extra healing boost. Guides, guardian angels and healing entities surround you in spades, and could reveal themselves through signs (coincidences and repeating number patterns) or as helpful mentors. Stay alert!

Your romantic life has just taken a turn for the hotter, Cancer. Good thing you can stand the heat, because its getting toasty in your boudoir! This month, the Sun, Mercury, Venus and Saturn all make appearances in sexy, penetrating Scorpio, your fifth house of passion and romance. So lets just say, youre not up for chattin about the weather or whos going to the World Series this year. Youre into romantic one-on-one time. Dim lights. Diving into the depths of your own starry-eyed heart and letting your partner in. The fifth house also rules fertility (literal and metaphorical), so a pregnancy or news of one is possible this month, too.
This possibility is especially strong near the November 13 total solar eclipse in Scorpio, which can bring surprising events in your love life. Eclipses are game-changers that spark actionthe kind where theres not turning back. You could fall in love when you least expect it or feel the stirrings of desire for a baby (not exactly rare for maternal Cancer). An unplanned pregnancy is certainly possible for many Crabs in the next six months, thanks to this game-changing eclipse. Either way, your emotions are at high tide near this date, and youre going to want to DO something about it!
Just watch your temper, since you can go from sultry to salty in no time flat. With communicator Mercury retrograde (backward) for most of November, you may just be more argumentative and prone to stirring up drama where none need exist. The whole world is, actually, since Mercury retrograde is notorious for sparking misunderstandings. With your thin skin, you often take comments extra personallybut dont waste your time stewing or flying off the handle. Give lots of rope in your relationship now. If your honey wants to move the fan in the living room, dont interfere, just because you have a better sense of how things should be. You can sling insults with the best of them (your intuitive arrow knows just what to aim for), but your snark and sarcasm can inflict wounds, too. Practice the golden rule.
Are you pining for a past love? Even if youre not, one could make an appearance this month. Retrogrades bring back the past, and with both Mercury and Jupiter in this position now, a former flame could come a-calling. There could be some unfinished business that needs tying up, but stilleven if youre coming from platonic place, do you really need this person you once tried to erase from memory back in your life? Maybe the only business to settle is you telling this person in no uncertain terms to lose your number! Or, perhaps youve both matured and are ready for relationship now. Proceed with caution.
When magnetic Venus enters Scorpio on November 21, get set for some holiday romance. Ooh la la! (Plus, a romantic getaway sounds so much more exciting than dinner with the fam, no matter how good that second, possibly third, helping of your dads famous sweet potatoes might be.) With sexy Mars also in Capricorn, your house of committed relationships, from November 16-December 25, you might just see a marriage proposal. Hows that for a holiday bonus? You can be sure that your excitable, Cancerian nerves will be going haywire, since Mars can also add pressure. Perhaps youre completely smitten, but still feel a touch reserved when it comes to that kind of til-death-do-us-part commitment. Perhaps youve been daydreaming about this moment for a long time, so much that its taken on epic levels of importance, squeezing all the joy out of it for you and your patner. Slow down, especially while Mercury is retrograde November 6-26. If the pressure gets too be too much and starts to, say, interfere with your famously voracious appetite, soothe your nerves by remembering that when it comes to true love, the biological clock and other so-called reasons-to-rush just dont exist. Trust in the timelessness of your dearest heart connection. Still need convincing? Check out this affirming book from past life guru and Ivy-league educated psychiatrist: http://www.amazon.com/Only-Love-Real-Soulmates-Reunited/dp/0446672653. And leave the race to the altar to bad reality TV shows!
If youre still hedging by months end, a clearer picture will likely arrive with the November 28 full moon eclipse in Gemini, your twelfth house of closure. Whatevers been troubling you will be cleared up, with a vivid, Technicolor illumination of hidden elements. Perhaps the full truth and spectrum of your feelings comes spilling out. (If so, this tune, written by Feist, who was born when the moon was in emotional Cancer, can help: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l-iAS18rv68).
If youve been telling yourself lies, i.e. Im totally cool with the fact that my boyfriend lied to his meddling ex about how serious were getting, well, lets just say your nose wont be looking Pinocchio-sized for long. Air your grievances. Express such resentments so that you can once and for all let them go. This sounds clich, but bears repeating: whatever anger youre harboring for someone elses actions hurts you the most. Perhaps, in the course of these important conversations, youll learn something thats temporarily shocking or upsetting, i.e. your sweetie lied about having shagged his closest gal pal (long before you met, in fairness). Or youll see an unsettling text from an ex. Whatever you do, dont jump to conclusions. Eclipses have a way of throwing our usually-sound judgment into a tailspinand lets not forget that your sign can go into a veritable fugue state when emotionally upset. Instead of making public declarations about the end of your relationship and sharing all those gory, intimate details you cant un-tell, remind yourself that emotions are like storm clouds. They pass. Sleep on it before you act (or rather react) in haste. The momentary satisfaction you get from jumping ship will in no way be worth it when you realize that your deep, swooning love remains.

Stock up on the antibacterial gels. Even earth-mother Cancers could get a little extra skittish when it comes to the spread of germsand for good reason. With Mercury retrograde in Sagittarius, your sixth house of health, from November 6-14, you could be more at risk for the communicable diseases. That sniffling, sneezing close talker at the office? Steer clear, and be sure youve taken your vitamin C. Theres nothing you can do about airbone germs, save for wear a face mask. But you can and should wash your hands (preferably with soapy lather), and disinfect all surfaces.
If you abandoned your beloved yoga practice because things got too heated at the office or at home, now is the time to check the studios schedule and pencil in time for a class or two. Getting back to an old fitness routine will feel like the salve you didnt even know you needed. With all this months planetary shakeups, exercising is key to excising stress. Perhaps youll rejoin your old gym, or snag a free trial pass and wait to sign up until next month.
On November 28, a lunar eclipse in Gemini, your twelfth house of healing and rest, could bring vivid dreams and subconscious messages (though with Jupiter already retrograding in that same house since early October, youre likely familiar with the prophetic and larger-than-life dreams). If you dont keep a dream journal, now might be the time to start. The more intentional you are about recording your nocturnal wanderings, the more these nighttime images and sensations become imprinted on your brain. Under this influence, you may just find that youve become a veritable psychic yourself. Perhaps your true-to-life dreams or other synchronicities have you wondering how to harness your own intuitive powers. Though each persons sixth sense is unique, you may find that taking a tarot, astrology or intuitive development class helps unleash your own capabilities, simply because youre learning a concrete modality. One Cancer we know started studying Tarot, only to soon realize that she was clairaudient, meaning her messages came in the form of instructive and divinely timed songs that pop into her head. At the end of the day, youre a Cancer, meaning that all you need to do is trust your gut to guide you to the right teacher.
Look to the images and messages in your dreams for help in figuring out where to direct your attention. This is familiar territory to you, and, in fact, your own emotional needs might be sated when you pull out the tissues and offer a loved one your comfy shoulder to cry on. If youve gone to the extreme of caring for others needs in lieu of your own, beware. Latent, persistent stress might just manifest in a physical symptom or illness. Your awareness of the mind-body connection is especially keen now. Before you go shrieking off to the local lab for an expensive litany of blood tests, just know this is likely a message from your soul to relax or back off of some toxic situation.

Heres your recipe for success: set up that easel; sing your scales; warm up at the ballet barre; turn tin cans into bird-shaped masterpieces; sling an SLR around your neck and set out to capture the most minute architectural details in your hood on film; gather your adventurous pals and shoot some improvised comedy, a la fellow Cancer and comedian Larry David. So what if your day job is in accounting, advertising, retail or the like? Just because you deem it not creative doesnt mean that you dont have a naturally imaginative mind. These next three years, with serious Saturn in Scorpio, your fifth house of creativity, you have much gold to be mined in this area of your life. Even if you are already working in a creative environment, like, say, as a designer of cool handbags, push yourself to see just how much more magic you have at your disposal. Most of us have far more innate talent than we realize. The clock is ticking, Cancer. Make hay (and amazing art) while the sun shines. Disprove that nagging idea that youll waste all your material if you begin one project; the reality is the opposite: the deeper you dig, the more there is to explore. No more flimsy excuses. Since serious Saturn favors structure, you just might hit the jackpot with this genius boot camp approach to creativity, written by esteemed dancer and fellow Cancer Twyla Tharp (http://www.amazon.com/Creative-Habit-Learn-Use-Life/dp/0743235274). Now is not the time to be soft with your own artistic longings. Get thee to the studio (even if it means skimping on your beauty sleep). For an even more practical yet direct approach (complete with case studies of people who went for their dreams), check out Michael Ellsworths The Education of Millionaires: Its Not What You Think and Its Not Too Late (http://www.amazon.com/The-Education-Millionaires-Think-Portfolio/dp/1591844207).
As you delve into new, playful territory, the finer details of your life may just go awry. Cest la vie, Cancer. With Mercury, planet of communication, retrograde for the larger part of the month, you could have some unfortunate snafus on the email, phone and texting fronts. Important data could go the way of the Bermuda Triangle. Trusted electronic equipment might just decide to stop working for no reason. The remedy? Get uber-organized the first week of the month, before Mercury starts doing backstrokes in Sagittarius, your sixth house of efficiency on November 6. Issues with your support team might pop up. If your MVP starts going MIA on deadlines, dont worry. This star player will be back in action before long. When it comes to setting timelines, build in extra hours for the delivery of important projects. You dont want to find yourself pleading broken printer to your biggest client. If all this has you gritting your teeth in frustration, take a deep breath. Letting your temper flare over minor issues isnt going to do anyone any goodleast of all you.
Easing Mercurys bumpy ride, on November 10, spiritual Neptune goes direct (forward) in Pisces, your ninth house of optimism and expansion. The planet of illusion has been in reverse since June, and so this turnaround will help you click in to a stirring soul vision or get you back on an inspiring path youd started to pursue earlier in the year. If you abandoned a writing project that felt too daunting, too big to really sink your teeth into, you might just see the light and get back on the daily laptop train. You may find yourself gravitating toward a college degree, perhaps setting the stage for med school. Or, you might stumble across the perfect training program, one youd have never even thought about if you hadnt started chatting up your neighbor at the caf (thanks to your curiosity about the carmelized onion, bacon and cheddar scone she ordered). Maybe youre passion-driven, opting to train for a career as an herbalist versus the more traditional route of getting your MBA. Travel will help clarify your purpose, too. If youre called to visit a certain winery in California, beach in South America or lemon grove in Tuscany, you might just find the key to your professional calling. Not only is a vacation good for the soul, but this month, it might just help you clarify your purpose, too.
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General Characteristics of Cancer

Sensitive Cancer is ruled by the ever-changing Moon, and your moods go through many cycles. You're intuitive and nurturing, even psychic. Pay attention to your dreams, especially near a Full Moon. You are sensitive and loyal, with a ready shoulder to cry on. Cancer loves to get domestic, serving your friends and family home-baked goodies and tea. When you get moody, you need to be comforted, or else just left alone. Like a crab, you can cling -- or pinch -- when you feel threatened or vulnerable. And thrifty Cancers can pinch pennies just as tightly. (Of course, you also love to spend! It's a mood thing.) To make life easier, surround yourself with comfort: a cozy sweater, a favorite book, trusted friends, and a stash of your favorite goodies. Cancers are close to their moms, so keep yours on speed-dial and call her when you're down. You may be an unofficial mom to everyone in your life, too. Taking care of kids, friends, and pets can keep your spirits high.

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