Cancer Horoscope for August 2016


Posted on July 27, 2016 by Henry Seltzer of ASTROGRAPH.COM
 

This month you are getting grounded, Cancer, even while flying off in all directions. If this sounds paradoxical, it is, and the fix is that you learn to embrace this condition as more normal than ordinary linear thinking would presume. You are more committed than ever to a practical service orientation, and yet your worldview is also subtly altering in the direction of other-dimensionality and angel presence in a way that is in fundamental contrast with hard and fast reality. The placement of flighty and unpredictable Uranus in your career sector, emphasized over these past few months, makes for further variability and even, at times, instability, in the flow of your daily affairs. As these continually unravel and then reformulate themselves in different ways you are presented with an inescapable conundrum; that is, unless you are willing to let go of almost all logically predetermined expectations.

As the month begins, with the Moon in your sign, you are comfortable in your own skin and ready for just about anything. You are also feeling into the relative unmooring of your outer world productivity of late, in correspondence with the symbolism of Uranus in conjunction with the new planet, Eris, at the top of your chart, in square with planets in the last half of Cancer and stimulated by this current lunar transit. There is a great deal of inspiration for you in this alignment, provided you are willing to ignore consensus thought, honoring above all the dictates of your deep inner knowing in order that you make your own unique contribution.

On the very next day the Leo New Moon arrives, and this potent configuration aligns with the antithetical energies of Saturn and Neptune, in square with each other and aspected by the Sun and Moon, bringing you an even greater sense of the polarity of inner and outer. While Saturn constrains you to the boundAries of the physical world, Neptune represents the energy of moving beyond these limitations into the over-arching architecture of cosmic unfolding. This numinous reality beyond the physical can confuse your mind. You are able to dwell in both these worlds simultaneously, especially when you are willing to let go of certain mundane assumptions concerning how the universe actually works, something like the way that science has had to abandon the logical simplicity of the Newtonian worldview in favor of quantum entanglement. A relevant quote, from the world of film, was uttered by the central character in Scent of a Woman when he advised, regarding the complex dance moves of the Tango, "if you get tangled up, then you just tango on."