Cancer Horoscope for August 2025

This is another is a series of rather intense months, Cancer, that could, even though it’s summertime in the Northern Hemisphere when we want to be playing, leave you both shaken and stirred. This month features an extreme transformational focus on your career and professional priorities which offers you a realignment in favor of a more spiritually realistic approach, plus enormous changes that could manifest in other areas. Most particularly, there is a huge intuitional influence that can tell you true about your big-picture possibilities if you can allow yourself to consult with your own inner guidance that could be in this manner coming through. You are also shifting in your appreciation of your resources, principles, and values. One question becomes who’s in fact these really are, whether your own or, in actuality, those of your early conditioning or the consensus, and if the latter you might want to participate in a shift. All along, this month, Mercury moving retrograde in your resources sector suggests variation and fluctuation, and this could include your finances. This changes with the very last full week of the month. Matters of identity continue to be brought forward, and there is a subtle internal activist at work within you that wants you to become in certain ways more than you have been in the past. After August’s first week you could find personal transformation along with potential intimate relationships being brought into the equation, with an emphasis also on partnership agreements, and a suggestion of social arrangements furthering your cause. All throughout the month, even after Mercury’s station to direct motion on the 11th, recovering for the next ten to fourteen days, there is an internal force for change taking place deep within you, where it really counts.

The following was written by our guest columnist, Kimberly Peta Dewhirst. You can find her at Star Sign Style

The recent Leo New Moon from the last full week of July sets the tone for August, governing the thirty-day lunation cycle that stretches into the upcoming weeks. This incredibly potent planetary configuration brought your focus to your second sector of values, income and self-worth. You might sense an emphasis on your assets, as well as the non-material resources that you bring to the table. In the New Moon chart, the luminaries are trine Saturn conjunct Neptune in Aries, corresponding to your career sector, plus sextile Uranus in Gemini, or your twelfth sector of dream imagination and your unconscious, and also appear in an exact opposition to Pluto in Aquarius, where you are engaged in personal evolution and depth work. This configuration could prompt a deep awareness of the power – and position – held by yourself and other people, with respect to their monetary input, resources, or your own vulnerabilities. You might find you’re aligning with your public profile, upholding your reputation and spiritual life with an underlying consideration of other people, and the influence they have on your sense of self.

Mercury is also retrograde in this same sector so that you could find yourself criticizing or second-guessing and seeking to alter your attitude toward possessions, saving and spending, or meditating on what you offer and contribute. Financial arrangements might prove variable. As Venus is additionally square to Mars during the New Moon, social activity or complex interpersonal issues could factor in.

On the 1st, the First Quarter Scorpio Moon arrives – during which Venus in your sign is square Saturn and Neptune in your career sector. Your instincts may lead you to indulge in pleasurable experiences and creative plans, yet there’s perhaps a pressure impacting your solo identity. Your public face, and what you’re building, amassing or doing to prove yourself could restrict who you show up to be in a social sense. It could feel like a time to indulge, to move ahead with passion projects, hobbies, romance, or to pursue the things you love. However, what you want might need to fall in line with career aspirations, personal or professional markers of success, or the external image you’re establishing.

On August 6th, Mars, the ruler of your vocational path and outer profile enters Libra and your sector of home, family, and foundations, potentially motivating you for different focus on support of career objectives amongst home and family matters and your private life. Mars forms an opposition to Saturn and Neptune, and a trine to Uranus and Pluto during its ingress into this air sign, making a grand trine in the sky, so that there are issues, possibly novel ones, for these major areas of home, family, vocational initiatives, and the unconscious process within you, to include relationships also. Your start in life, where you’re from, a parenting issue or even your dwelling space could be suddenly prominent.

The Aquarius Full Moon lands on the 9th, illuminating your intimate eighth sector of joint resources, shared space and partnership agreements, and this grand trine planetary dynamic also features into the Full Moon. You could be insightful and candid about a process of give and take, contractual agreements, power dynamics, or issues of partnership trust. Potential revelations around intimacy could be looming, or your legacy or long-term plans and goals could be changing with your internal process another factor that comes into play.

Mercury stations direct in Leo between the 10th and 11th of August, perhaps a turning point in your role or for money-making insights. At the same time, Venus is conjunct Jupiter in your sign. This could encourage you to emphasize a major chapter or journey you’ve embarked on, personally or even physically. Friends might look to you, as you’re reminded of important wisdom, knowledge, and expertise you’ve cultivated, and currently embody. Saturn in Aries is sextile to Uranus in Gemini, so that you have intuition on your side. You could be forging ahead with vocational priorities, waking up to sacrifices you might make, or with one part of yourself retreating inward, with a way to advance in your role, visibly or outwardly accomplished. It’s possible you’re reflecting on the ways you’re rewarded, compensated, or can pay your way, thinking about a portion of your position that is behind the scenes.

On the 15th, the Last Quarter Taurus Moon brings focus to your sector of groups, networking, and the hopes and wishes you have for yourself moving forward. With the Moon in mutual reception with Venus, you could find you’re embraced by community members, or able to show up for a good cause in a supportive capacity, cheering others on. Mercury is sextile Mars during this lunar phase, perhaps helping turn your thoughts to earnings, security and what you have to give behind closed doors. Clarity around your finances could impact your household setting or domestic life, with realizations about the space you base yourself in.

On the 22nd, the Sun enters Virgo lighting up your neighborly sector of communications, curiosity, engagement, and rapport, so that your communicative outreach, in general, is enhanced.

The New Moon occurs this same late evening of the 22nd PT, or early morning the following day for points east. In this extremely powerful lunation, the third of these incredibly strong New Moon configurations, we find the Sun and Moon at 0° of Virgo as the focal point of a tight yod – or “Finger of God” aspect pattern – formed from the positions of Saturn and Neptune remaining in close conjunction in Aries, at about 1°, and from also Pluto at 1° plus of Aquarius. This configuration also pulls in Uranus at 1° of Gemini, square to the New Moon degree. This is therefore another extremely potent New Moon, and highlighting the same areas as at the beginning of August, with Mercury now in direct motion and almost out of the shadow, and with Virgo or your communication sector, as an important part of this story. From this timing until the end of the month, and beyond, into September, you will find a similar scenario with however the difference of the sixty days, rather than just thirty, that have elapsed since things began to get dicey in late June of this year.

This could be your opportunity to re-orient yourself and turn the page, aware of your connections, skillset, manner in which you learn from your surroundings and navigate, while also being mindful of future plans, your loyalties, commitments, and paths to prominence, or outward perceptions of success. With the huge intuitive thrust of highlighted Uranus in your twelfth sector of your unconscious process and inner work, there could be a lot transpiring inwardly, that also has the potential to be expressed to close associates, including them in your evolving developmental progress.

Cancer Horoscope for August 2025

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