Cancer Monthly Horoscope

Ambition, Position and Mission

Dates to watch for turning points with your career, unpaid work or course this month include these ingresses and aspects: Ceres enters Aries on May 16^th, 2025. Chiron at 25 Aries is sextile Jupiter at 25 Gemini on May 18^th, 2025. Then on May 24^th, 2025, Saturn enters Aries.

One, two, three! Cancer, take your time as you decide what to do about your job, project, voluntary role or your university/college commitment. This is all pretty new and, although you clearly have an escape from the real world these days, you will also have to accept a heavily ring-fenced situation for the next couple of years. This is rather like taking a job as a bartender on the Love Boat, then realising you can’t get off the boat until 2027.

Whatever is happening in your vocation or calling, have a look at your birth chart too. If you have anything in Virgo, then you also have karma to complete with work, unpaid work or education from 18-19 years prior. This karma holds through 2026, and you may recognise quite obvious repayments, spiritually, or something you have to go through.

Chiron is prominent in your solar Tenth House now and this ancient symbol of audacious attempts and bold, daring and apparently impossible moves is very much in the frame. A person, organisation or situation which has this kind of chutzpah (Dennis Elwell’s key word for Chiron) will take up a lot of your time and energy in the second half of May.

Long-term – Neptune stays for many years, so you will have a rather insulated space to inhabit not unlike surfing in a wetsuit in a cold sea. Going further out, drifting, submerging in your new world of (very different) success is pretty normal. The trick is to have an anchor, lifeguard, lighthouse and some flags. Be really mindful of boundaries in May.

Your Inner Self

This is really about your soul or spirit. It can be about a psychiatrist who prescribes anti-depressants as much as a rabbi who has sage advice. May 2025 tips you into the second half of 2025 and actually the rest of the 2020s. You may find God or just realise meditation should be part of your existence. You have Gemini traffic in your Twelfth House for some time, Cancer. Do you have Pisces natal chart factors? If so, double this message about the inner self. Solitude is part of the deal. You have an ending here on a private level. The finish of a long phase in your life of many years’ standing. That’s significant (if only to you) because unless you have a confidante (like a psychic or a therapist), I don’t think you’ll share.

Dates to watch for turning points in your inner life are – May 20^th, 2025, when the Sun enters Gemini, then May 25^th, 2025, when Mercury enters Gemini. Crucially, May 26^th, 2025, with a New Moon in Gemini which is a new beginning for you. Throughout this period, there are quite rare opportunities for improvement, growth and expansion. Jupiter is all that and Jupiter will be in Gemini until June 8^th, 2025. Then, from July 7^th, 2025, when Uranus goes into Gemini, there will be a revolution on the inside.

There’s a gap of some four weeks, then you start an entirely new phase by and with yourself which will liberate you. This may be because you break with the Church of England (for example) or because you decide to convert to the Roman Catholic Church. You might sack your psychologist and hire a hypnotist. The thing about Uranus transits are they are literally unpredictable. So, there is no point speculating, but trust a process of deep change here which begins in May.

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