The week opens with an aspect that is yours: on Monday at 23:21 the Sun makes an exact sextile to Mars, which stands in your sign. Strength and resolve arrive at once and hold for several days. And on Friday Mercury moves into opposition with Saturn along the line of home against work — the most honest conversation of the week.
The mood of the week
The Moon crosses three signs: Scorpio from Monday 09:45, Sagittarius from Wednesday 19:42, Capricorn from Saturday 07:56. For you that is the fifth, sixth, and seventh houses — from joy, through tasks, to the other person.
The Moon waxes all week, from the third lunar day to the ninth, with the first quarter on Friday at 23:45: Moon at twenty-six degrees of Sagittarius, Sun at twenty-six of Virgo. For you, who live by the Moon more than anyone, this is a week of rising tone.
The Sun runs through the final week of Virgo, from the twenty-second degree to the twenty-eighth. Mercury crosses Libra from six to sixteen, Venus crosses Scorpio from three to six, Mars crosses Cancer from twenty-two to twenty-five.
Four planets are retrograde: Saturn at thirteen degrees of Aries, Neptune at four, Uranus at six degrees of Gemini, Pluto at three degrees of Aquarius. No large question closes for good this week.
Where it lands for you
Mars stands in your first house and will stay about two more weeks. This is a rare stretch of direct action: you normally go around, and right now you can go straight through without it looking crude. The Sun's sextile to it on Monday evening is the high point of the whole stretch.
Venus spends the week in your fifth house: joy, children, infatuation, creative work. Her square to Pluto on Tuesday arrives from the eighth — from shared money and from depth. The light runs into the heavy exactly where you do not expect it.
Mercury is in your fourth house, Saturn in your tenth. Friday's opposition is the classic collision of home and career: either work demands what you promised the family, or the reverse. It cannot be resolved by one decision; it can only be said out loud.
Saturn and Neptune stand in your tenth house, both retrograde. Career right now is a hard frame with no clear outline. Friday's opposition gives the first concrete detail along that line in a long time, unpleasant as it may be.
Day by day
Monday the 14th. Before 09:45 the Moon is void — begin nothing. At 14:35 the Moon meets Venus in your fifth: a light and pleasant hour. At 15:16 Pluto squares them. At 23:21 the exact Sun-Mars sextile — the week's main gift.
Tuesday the 15th. At 05:46 the exact Venus-Pluto square: a hard morning, the subject being shared money and old grievances. At 17:38 the Moon squares Jupiter in your second — an evening for overspending.
Wednesday the 16th. The best working day of the first half: the Moon's trine to Mars at 05:32 runs straight into your sign, the Sun sextiles the Moon at 06:31. At 19:42 the Moon leaves for Sagittarius, into your sixth house.
Thursday the 17th. Four soft lunar aspects in a row: a sextile to Pluto at 01:25, a trine to Neptune at 02:08, a sextile to Mercury at 18:16, a trine to Saturn at 20:48. A day when things do themselves.
Friday the 18th. A trine to Jupiter at 06:03, Mercury opposite Saturn at 12:56, first quarter at 23:45.
Saturday the 19th. The Moon is in Capricorn from 07:56, in your seventh house. A square to Neptune at 14:21, a sextile to Venus at 18:29: the evening beats the afternoon.
Sunday the 20th. The Moon squares Saturn at 09:01 and Mercury at 15:50. The ninth lunar day, the heaviest by feel. Settle nothing.
Love and closeness
Monday from two to three is the best hour of the week: the Moon with Venus in your fifth gives a lightness you have not had in a while. A date, play, time with children.
Tuesday: leave it alone. Venus square Pluto from the eighth raises money and the past at once, and the conversation follows the worst available script.
Saturday evening is the second window. The Moon in your seventh sextiles Venus at 18:29: a calm evening together with nothing to settle.
Work and money
Wednesday and Thursday are the working core of the week. Wednesday especially: the Moon's trine to Mars in your sign in the early hours supplies drive that lasts all day.
Friday is when you have to choose between obligations at home and at work. Mercury opposite Saturn offers no compromise, but it does offer a formulation. Formulate it and do not decide immediately: Saturn is retrograde and the decision returns for revision regardless.
Do not discuss shared money, debts, or shares before Wednesday: Venus passes the point of her square to Pluto on Tuesday morning.
Health and energy
Mars in your sign brings a surplus of drive and a shortage of patience. All week the body asks for load, and it is better to give it: unspent Mars in a Cancer turns into irritability and into the stomach.
The Sun's sextile to Mars on Monday evening starts a good physical stretch. From Wednesday to Friday the tone is at its highest.
Sunday, under two squares, is a day of low tolerance. Schedule nothing on it that requires patience with people.
How this week differs from last
Last week ran on a waning Moon and ended at the new Moon — everything closing, energy short. This one is entirely waxing, and for a Cancer the difference is felt more sharply than for any other sign.
The second difference is Mars. Last week it was only gathering; this week it takes exact support from the Sun. This is the best week of the month to do the thing you keep not daring to do.
What not to confuse
Friday's opposition looks like a demand to choose once and for all between family and work. That is a false fork: an opposition shows two sides, it does not require cutting one off. All that is asked of you this week is to name the conflict out loud. The decision gets made later, in a different state.
On Mars in your sign, specifically
Mars stays in Cancer about two more weeks, and this is its last stretch here for roughly two years. For you it means temporary permission to be direct: to say no without explaining, to ask without preparing, to begin without guarantees. Monday's sextile from the Sun is the peak of that stretch. If there is something you keep postponing out of politeness, the coming days are the best time to do it.
What to do this week
On Monday evening, make the decision you keep deferring. And on Friday name the conflict between home and work out loud, without trying to solve it on the spot.
