Cancer Horoscope for May 2013

This is a potent month, Cancer, with the prospect of extra energy as future plans expand in innovative ways. You are cautiously optimistic as you make your move, and as partnership considerations in your life continue to transform. The eclipses of this powerful monthly cycle shore up the spiritual basis of how you see yourself progressing, and symbolize a more satisfying process that could nevertheless feel confusing when seen as a strictly mundane set of circumstances. Your worldview is expanding, although in somewhat nebulous ways. As you make definite advancement toward important life goals you are simultaneously distrustful of that movement forward. You must constantly ask yourself the all-important question of whether your angle of adventure matches your most profound soul purpose, and if so, then take that as a yes and forge ahead.

As the month begins, you are still feeling the energy of the recent Full Moon eclipse from the 25th of April, which took place in conjunction with Saturn in your sector of self-expression. This provided extra energy and a sense of balance and integration, while at the same time emphasizing the holding back and sense of isolation symbolized by the Saturn archetype. The concreteness and limitation of Saturn has two sides; on the one hand, it represents restrictions on your possibilities, while on the other, by denying the superficial, Saturn gives you a sense of freedom to do what you truly feel called upon to accomplish.

That sense of a calling is very important for this month's powerful lunations. The Sun in your eleventh sector of societal connection, wishes and hopes, also future plans. This is a perfect chime to the idealism of Neptune, also strongly aspected this month and residing in your higher mind sector. Thus along with the sense of being somewhat stuck, you have the immense capacity right now to dream your way out of whatever box you might currently find yourself in. Uranus is the visionary planet, and as his square with transformative Pluto comes into perfect alignment on the 20th, provides an ever more insistent call to see the full possibilities of your situation.

Pluto, being also powerfully configured during this pivotal month, gives you a tremendous boost of energy for changing the way that you do relationship with important partners, either of the personal or the business variety. It could be that you will uncover better ways to connect with others, and to use your force of character in a more integrated way by a process of inclusion rather than strictly one-pointed activity from your own isolated standpoint, or by contrast giving in.

There could also be old patterns of behavior, and of relating, that have outlived their usefulness will come to light as this month continues to unfold. This is signaled by the presence of Chiron, also strongly placed, and in your sector of higher mind along with Neptune. There are hidden places within you, until recently perhaps unavailable to your conscious awareness that can be explored to your advantage. This can be a confusing time, but an entirely rewarding one, as you wrestle with your inner demons and come to some breakthrough moments of a better integration of all your parts.