DeScott Evans ‘Hanging Apples’ 1898 {{PD}}

Your connection to Nature, as well as your sense of ‘home’, whether that has an interior or exterior form, may be your saving graces this coming Solar year, dear Cancer; when you are dealing with some facet of these life areas, things, with some effort, will fall into place perfectly. These may also be the areas where you must face conflict–but in the end that’s a good thing, as it reveals the true nature of your relationships, strengthening connections in some cases and severing them in others. The result of all this may be that you adopt a new sense of adventure–and end the year with considerably wider horizons than when you began it. Happy Birthday!

Solar Return Focus On: Saturn quincunx Uranus=the entire year you may find yourself striving to gain or create balance–and yet surprising and unanticipated factors related to willfulness, Self-expression, the ego, and anger, your own and that of others, will keep tipping the apple cart. Try to work with, not against, these erratic developments, by remaining mentally flexible and open to the latest advancements and changes. Good luck!

Gustave Caillebotte – Régates à Argenteuil 1893 {{PD}}

Even though, dear Cancer, your Solar Return identity and emotions are in harmony, your Solar year through to your next birthday may be dominated by all the material you’ve tucked into your ‘blind spot’; look to both your natal Sedna placement and the place in the natal chart where Sedna is currently transiting (today at 24 Taurus 47) in order to know from what issues and life areas (by House) and in what manner (by sign) you might be blindsided. The good news is you’ll have a clear idea about what material steps you’ll want to take to pursue goals, and you’ll by guided by Nature, your highest values, and aided by the cooperative attitudes of others. In fact, the consistent and unanticipated support you attract on all levels, from the personal to the Collective, will make for some of the highlights of the year, and perhaps of your life. Happy Birthday!

Choices may not be easy this year, dear Cancer. ‘The Magdalen with the Smoking Flame’ Georges de la Tour c1640 {{PD}}

You’ll be making some fate-determining choices this coming Solar year, through to your next birthday, dear Cancer–why? You may be driven by matters you’re not even aware of, and a sense of needing to act, as well as a feeling that you should defend those things that really matter to you and that you should establish your own place and power within the natural order of things, may push you into situations that could be rooted in primal hurts and require the exercise of unique skills. Its not an ideal picture for the year ahead, but it is one that will move you along your Path significantly–and much of the outcome will depend upon your level of consciousness and your life intentions–a punishing person who blames others for their situation will have a much harder time than will an individual who is Self-responsible, willing to do what’s necessary to get where they want to go, and who keeps highest values at the forefront when making those fate-determining choices. Happy Birthday, and good luck!

Featured Solar Return aspect: Sun sesquiquadrate Neptune=it will take effort, but the potential exists for you to bring dreams to reality; be aware there’s also the possibility that you could be mislead by your own delusions about the nature of reality. Strive to see ‘What Is’ and to deal with it in the most honest and straightforward way possible, and you just may manifest something you’ve been hoping to create for a long time.

Viktor M. Vasnetsov 1880 {{PD}}

Happy Birthday, dear Cancer! This coming Solar year you may find yourself terribly torn: every time you try to move forward, specifically by expressing your personal power and authority, cooperating with existing authorities, and finding your natural boundaries and roles, you may see your attention drawn to serious and practical matters, or to the need to care-take or provide for others. This can be discouraging, as you may feel you’re not making any headway toward goals, but it really shouldn’t be; you will be acting in your own and others’ highest interests–in fact, you will be acting out your highest values, in ways that will serve to make who you are apparent to yourself and to everyone around you. The chance to show what you honor and find sacred so directly with your choices and actions can be rare, as everyday matters usually obscure the underpinnings of our choices–and this year your social role will be under stress and will inevitably change, opening the way for unusual experiences. This year you can live in an almost Archetypal or Heroic way, dear Cancer–will you take the challenge?

Charles Caryl Coleman (1840–1928) ‘In the Shade of the Vines, Capri’ 1898 {{PD}}

Dear Cancer, this coming Solar year, through to your next birthday, may be a time of fresh new communication and thought for you, and you may be offered new starts in the Houses ruled by Mercury in the natal chart. You’ll enjoy a keen sensitivity, and the intellect will be finely attuned to nuance and shades of meaning–a trait you can use to great advantage in dealing with others and also when considering your own needs. Problems will center on your own ego leading you astray, and in conflict with authorities–but if you make the keynote for the year cooperation you may have few difficulties, if any. If your thinking is on track, you could be slated to gain Love or Money from carefully considered action–and who wouldn’t want that?

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Dear Cancer, you celebrate your Solar Return with a Full Moon, symbolically suggesting a culmination to some important emotional phase in the life. You’re finishing up one thing, getting your bearings for the next–no need to rush. Instead, savor your victory–or if not that, then the completion of a personal era to which you will never return. You’ll likely be on to something that involves partnership, working or living in tandem with another, and attention will go to setting or removing boundaries, gaining some sense of security, and perhaps working privately on some original or unique contribution only you could make, to be made public much later in the year. Until then, work, enjoy, plan for where you want to go next and what you want to achieve–and have a Happy Birthday!

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Edouard Dantan L’Atelier du Sculpteur {{PD}}

Dear Cancer, you may have a tough time deciding what to do this year; it seems all avenues present conflict, even as all avenues seem to offer opportunity. The energy you need to emphasize during this Solar year, through to your next birthday, is purely creative–reach into your Soul and into your imagination and make, plan, create those things that have always lived within–and let the emotions and intuition be your fuel. In everyday areas, though, be practical, constructive, and grounded in reality and the here-and-now–results come later, though keeping respect for those currently in power and keeping your own highest values in the forefront at all times will go a long way toward getting you closer to your goals.

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