Cancer September 2026

Have you settled that financial matter that’s been driving you nuts? I see resolution as August ends, and your future altered pretty much overnight. Good news for you who’ve suffered, feeling stuck as you have in order to make money. Go for your dreams, however loved ones resist, and whatever alternatives they offer. September 10, a liberating new Moon in Virgo in your third communications house allows you to say what it is you want without fear. You also have powerful Mars in your sign all month which makes your delivery strong and you — irresistible. Mars makes you sexy, charismatic, exciting, and a real turn-on, without you even trying. People will be drawn out of doorways, literally, to pursue you. Decide who you like.

But before this, the Pisces Lunar Eclipse Full Moon in your ninth travel house on August 27 makes you just want to GET AWAY, leave it all behind, and go to further — and more exotic — locations. This may alter your mind forever, as eclipses have permanent effects.

But you get a LOT of support for saying stuff others don’t want to hear this month. For in your third tawky-tawk house of words you have:

Life-giving, awesome Sun

Brilliant thought and word planet Mercury

A fix-it Virgo New Moon on September 10

All this really from the need to branch out and to create more breathing space for yourself. To find your tribe, to be able to chat casually with your neighbors and sib types.

And your third communications house, traditionally ruled by chatty Gemini, covers these areas of your life:

All your communications

Writing, emailing, recording, speaking

The internet

All social media

Expressing yourself through movement, also hands, arms, shoulders

Your siblings or old pals, and your neighbors

Your neighborhood

Short trips and visits

Analysis

Publishing and recording

Your communicative power will be felt by all who know you. You have a particularly powerful effect on the internet and through writing and recording now.

This is all good news. Even money will be better. The twists and turns of August so far have been enough for any Cancer – but now it starts to go more smoothly. Where I have cause for concern is in your domestic affairs and results will be mixed. One day you will be up (about it), the next down.

You make great strides, Crab, but it’s important to stay practical and realistic, and to be safety conscious. Accidents can happen. Also please steer clear of polluted environments and people. Viruses can be rampant; make sure to keep your computer safe.

Transportation or logistic issues need to be addressed. You may have to decide whether it is worth it to put your money into your present get-around method or vehicle, or whether there’s a better option to consider.

Soon you’ll be asked to dump what isn’t working, to pare down, to cut your losses, and to move on. It also may be time to consider a new educational or advertising strategy, to upgrade your skills, or to move in an altogether new direction re career or social involvement. At some point you will need to confront whatever personal essential, dilemma, or relationship issue you’ve been avoiding. Relationship partners have certainly been acting quite strangely…

As much as you hate change, try to feel grateful, Cancer, as it will ultimately be for the best, weeding out what was not helping your progress. While you may have critical decisions to make, at least you’re being presented with more to think about, and this in itself is a good thing.

You’re concentrated on an old wish or goal and you have plenty of time to accomplish it.

And you will, dear Crab.

You can plan more carefully once the changes begin to come in.

For now, please, I beg of you, take some time off to go on some dates.

Yes, DATES. I said it.

Whether you’re single or married, you need to go on some regular old-fashioned DATES. And that rattled feeling that has been rattling around inside of you will start to leave.

You’ve been going non-stop, concentrating on making a living, and it’s good to take a break, sit back, space out. Partners and children demand a new M.O. as of September. And this gives you pause. What has worked in the past is – obviously – not going to work any more for the future. A whole new outlook is now necessary.

The reality is you’re reaching many exciting agreements and firming up successful partnerships – so those old dreams are bearing fruit. A truce. It is a truce.

Matches made in heaven happen at times like these.

You may find yourself unable to deal with all the matters of the sixth house – they could just be too overwhelming. These include areas of health as well as work and everyday chores.

September would be an excellent month then to enroll in a meditation or yoga course: to focus your mind and provide you with greater clarity.

Also to banish self-doubt…there’s a part of you, dear Cancer, that could just stay at home, entering into the self-protective shell for which you are famous. And here is where you find your safety. Your home can be used as a retreat from the rest of the world.

It’s plenty tempting all right, but you must honor your dreams and they are pushing you out INTO the world.

Remember the old adage: ships are safe in harbor, but that is not what ships were built for.

You get a palpable taste of this around the dreamy Pisces Lunar Eclipse Full Moon of Sunday, August 27. The far away and travel beckon!

Slow down and relax. You don’t need to be all things to all people. Make the next few weeks about you. It’s high time you take care of your own needs.

No one will get lost without you. So go ahead and feed your soul a bit more, please.

You may be asked to travel more for work – or decide travel is the way to go for your own individual work – and all the portents say GO!

The signs are very beneficial. You can trust them, Cancer, and go in the direction your dreams take you.

Indulge your dreams and before September begins draw up a mission statement for yourself.Take it seriously and follow it.

Your new future is protected and blessed — do not worry, it will not be a negative new future – with blessing your finances. You will not go broke.

Crabs like to stay safe and comfy in their shells, but the universe is asking you to expand now, to move beyond your shell. To be brave and take some risks. Remember what Cancerian Helen Keller said: “One cannot consent to creep, when one has the desire to soar.”

Helen Keller said that. I have always been awed by her.

And you will soar, no doubt about it, dear Cancer. Trust yourself and have confidence in your abilities.

Now, personally, this brings some disruption. As you leave behind an old part of you and move into the new, some people in your life will be threatened by this. Your real friends and loved ones will be glad for you and cheer you on, but, just to warn you, there will be a few detractors.

It’s hard to see someone change roles — for anyone. So, be sympathetic. But not too sympathetic. For, as usual, you have been there for all of them, and now you deserve some support of your own.

Speak up and ask for what you want.

Stop thinking about other people all the time. It’s your turn now.

Your time with partners will become transformative after mid-month.

As you ask more for what you want, you will be able to bring up something you have been putting off saying — until now.

This will affect not only love partnerships, including spouses, but also business partnerships and companies with which you work.

New financial arrangements are on your mind, and new financial arrangements you will have.

Finally, a domestic change will also occur. And guess what? It will be all you hoped for, and more!

If this induces fear or worry in you, please know that this day will come for you — in the words of Anais Nin: “And the day came when the risk to remain tight in the bud was more painful than the right it took to blossom.”

Here’s to your blossoming, dear Cancer.  Your power. Congratulations. It is really – if you’re honest – what you want. Embrace it.

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