Cancer Monthly Horoscope
July 2025 Horoscope: Predictions for Cancer
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Overview for this Month: Cancer (All)
July 2025 Monthly Horoscope Overview for Cancer:
In July, the focus is often on self-development, dear Cancer, and you can be devoted to achieving your personal goals. Later in the month, you’ll enjoy settling in, building, and planning. You have a great deal of energy to pursue your interests, and you have boosted appeal, even if it’s a quiet, sometimes detached energy right now. Your senses are strong for opportunities emerging along the lines of learning, studies, communication, and personal projects.
While this is a month of personal power each year, a reflective turn is possible with Venus in your privacy sector from the 4th to the 30th. This Venus transit primarily affects your pleasures, love, and taste, encouraging you to spend more time alone, go under the radar in certain areas of life, and sort out or process your feelings.
As such, while you have a strong personal presence in July, you can be rather hard to get in touch with on some levels. Whether this translates as being a little hard to get, withdrawn, or aloof, it’s time to look behind you so that you can better see your next step forward. External or material achievement assumes less significance to you than what’s happening in your private life for much of the month. You may be a little tentative about your affections or pastimes. Perhaps you instinctively sense that you’re not quite ready for brand-new beginnings in some areas. On other levels, you’re raring to go, and reinventing yourself is a real possibility if you need some fresh energy. Yes, you’re still reflecting and considering your next step, but you have more power than usual to take charge and make an impact. You’re also well-positioned to leave an unhappy situation behind you.
Much is happening beneath the surface or behind the scenes with your feelings and desires. While you can be wrestling with some decisions, you can be a real dynamo with a bit of extra solitude and time to yourself. It’s best to divide your time effectively.
Uranus makes a big move this month: it enters your privacy sector. It’s a major shift, although this transit doesn’t become consistent until April 2026 and beyond. Nevertheless, your dreaming world is becoming more vivid and intuition exceptionally active. Listen to your inner voice! Now and in the coming years, this Uranus transit can shake things up with matters related to the past and your privacy. Things may come to light that help you let go of negative attachments that have been keeping you from growing and thriving. Holding on tightly to your things and ideas may be a result of your fear of changes taking place in your social life. Watch for impulsiveness now, but also consider ways to move forward and upward.
Neptune, Saturn, and Chiron all turn retrograde this month, and all are currently guests in your solar tenth house! Consider that your bigger ideas, especially those related to your life path, career, responsibilities, and status, require more time, refinement, and definition before they should be set into motion. Your feelings about your career path or reputation are shifting. What feels like a lack of direction can work in your favor as you learn what you truly want.
The Full Moon on the 10th brings a personal project or relationship to bloom. Personal epiphanies and revelations about relationships are likely to occur.
Mercury’s retrograde begins on the 18th and runs until August 11th. This means some review is necessary before moving forward, particularly regarding your finances. It’s a period for looking to the past for answers to current problems or delaying some matters while you make changes and refinements, especially concerning finances and material possessions. This retrograde turn reinforces the idea that you’ll do well for yourself if you give yourself the room and space to get to conclusions.
This month, there is a strong focus on your personality and your personal plans. Fortunately, support for these is forthcoming. Whether you’re catching up or getting ahead, efforts to learn can be very successful now. New ways to connect or get places you need to go can emerge, and these may very well lead to opportunities and improvements.
The Sun leaves your sign and enters your resources sector on the 22nd, turning your focus more squarely on your practical affairs, money matters, and building or developing your projects and resources. You pour more energy into building your money, things, and talents. Taking care of valuables and attending to prized personal possessions can be a priority. You can be exceptionally motivated to improve your financial state after the New Moon on the 24th. However, new initiatives may require some review and extra thought before moving forward, as Mercury is still retrograde in your finances sector.
From the 30th forward, Venus transits your sign, bringing pleasant attention your way. Magnetism is powerful–you’re turning heads.
Cancer (Born June 22 to July 1) and Cancer Ascendant 0 to 10 degrees Cancer:
July 2025 Cancer Horoscope: Love, Career, & General Trends
July 2025
The Sun this Month: Central Focus, Consciousness
Until July 22nd:
The Sun continues to move through your solar first house. You experience a renewal of energy and vitality now, and it’s a strong time for increased personal confidence. The emphasis is on self-expression, what kind of impression you make on others, and beginning new personal projects.
You are a little more self-centered than usual, and this is quite natural and healthy as long as you don’t take it too far. You are more decisive and forward-looking now, and you put more faith in your own abilities. Physically, you are likely feeling strong. This is an excellent cycle for making personal changes in your manner or appearance, and for any self-improvement endeavors. Personal projects that you begin now are likely to blossom nine months down the road.
From July 22nd forward:
The Sun highlights your second house now, and your focus is on material affairs and comfort issues. Security is a driving force for you at the moment, and you might find that you are especially interested in accumulating possessions. What you have and what you don’t have come into focus–what makes you feel comfortable, your sense of security, and what you value.
This is the time of year when personal finances and possessions receive maximum attention. Pour your energy into your work and your finances, and you might just be able to take your ideas to the bank.
Extravagance with your pocketbook is something you may want to look out for, however. If you find yourself itching to make unnecessary purchases, know that at the root of this urge is the desire to pamper and comfort yourself. Nothing wrong with it, but there are inexpensive (and even free) ways to make yourself feel good.
This is not the most eventful time of year for you. You are more inclined to dig in your heels and hang on to what makes you feel most secure than to take big risks.
Venus this Month: Love, Romance, Social Life, Comfort, Pleasure
Until the 4th:
Venus continues to move through your solar eleventh house. This is a strong time for putting your ego aside and lowering your defenses and simply enjoying people. It’s a good time for networking and settling disputes if there are differences to iron out with friends. Cooperation comes easily, and warm friendships can be made during this cycle. Personal freedom is especially important to you right now, and you won’t enjoy any associations that limit you. It can also be a good time for earnings from business.
From the 4th to 30th:
Venus is spending some time in “hibernation” in your privacy sector. Now, this doesn’t necessarily mean that your love life is stagnant, but that your affection is expressed behind closed doors. Attraction to secrets and whispers characterize this period, although for some, it can also be a time of endings, relationship concerns, and wistfulness. Personal and social contacts may be secretive, and there can be secret love affairs, or at least very private love feelings and longings. Shyness can lead to some loneliness or romantic frustration. However, this can also be a deliciously private and intimate time.
From the 31st forward:
You could find it hard to deny yourself much of anything during this cycle! This is a time when you naturally let loose your softer, receptive side. Romantic matters, as well as pleasure-seeking activities, come to the fore now. You are more likely to pay closer attention to your physical appearance and mannerisms, aiming to improve and enhance your attractiveness. Others find you especially agreeable and cooperative. You are more gracious, well-behaved (superficial if you are not careful!), and likable now. Take advantage! It’s a time when you turn heads, and it’s also a period for extra attention to pleasures, pampering, and enjoyment.
Mercury this Month: Communications, Learning, Connections, Transportation
All month:
Mercury continues to transit your solar second house. You might play with various ways to increase personal funds, resulting in more than one avenue for monetary gain. Avoid letting undue pressure from others push you into signing important papers that may create a serious financial commitment. Shopping when experiencing nervous tension should also be avoided. Your mind is always active with new ideas for an increase of income during this cycle. Brothers or sisters, or communications, may be a source of financial or material gain or loss now.
Mercury is retrograde from July 18th to August 11th:
All Mercury retrograde cycles particularly affect you in terms of personal communications in general as well as communications about the past because Mercury rules these areas of your life. Your intuition usually serves you very well, but may not be up to par for the time being. Take care when it comes to presenting ideas, writing letters, and any detail work. You may not be seeing the whole picture.
Occurring in your solar second house this time, extra care should be exercised when it comes to new financial initiatives. There may be the need to revisit old, nagging issues regarding personal finances. Take this time to re-budget instead of making premature purchases. Hold off on major decision-making regarding money. Instead, take the time to re-think your sources of income and how you spend your cash during this period, but put off finalizing anything important for the time being. In fact, some money-making ideas or ventures may be put on hold due to circumstances beyond your control. This is an excellent period for review, however.
Mars this Month: Energy, Drive, Courage
All month:
Mars continues to activate and energize your solar third house now. You may be especially busy running errands and tending to daily activities during this cycle. It’s a strong time for putting your energy into intellectual projects or studies. You tend to communicate in a more direct manner now, and you might want to be careful that you don’t come across as insensitive or abrasive. You may find it too easy to become impatient with others if they seem to be taking up too much of your time, such as with other drivers or with people who are not speaking as directly as you are. Channel your extra energy into mental tasks so that this transit can be highly stimulating (instead of stressful).
Overview Horoscope:
July 2025 Monthly Horoscope Overview for Cancer:
In July, the focus is often on self-development, dear Cancer, and you can be devoted to achieving your personal goals. Later in the month, you’ll enjoy settling in, building, and planning. You have a great deal of energy to pursue your interests, and you have boosted appeal, even if it’s a quiet, sometimes detached energy right now. Your senses are strong for opportunities emerging along the lines of learning, studies, communication, and personal projects.
While this is a month of personal power each year, a reflective turn is possible with Venus in your privacy sector from the 4th to the 30th. This Venus transit primarily affects your pleasures, love, and taste, encouraging you to spend more time alone, go under the radar in certain areas of life, and sort out or process your feelings.
As such, while you have a strong personal presence in July, you can be rather hard to get in touch with on some levels. Whether this translates as being a little hard to get, withdrawn, or aloof, it’s time to look behind you so that you can better see your next step forward. External or material achievement assumes less significance to you than what’s happening in your private life for much of the month. You may be a little tentative about your affections or pastimes. Perhaps you instinctively sense that you’re not quite ready for brand-new beginnings in some areas. On other levels, you’re raring to go, and reinventing yourself is a real possibility if you need some fresh energy. Yes, you’re still reflecting and considering your next step, but you have more power than usual to take charge and make an impact. You’re also well-positioned to leave an unhappy situation behind you.
Much is happening beneath the surface or behind the scenes with your feelings and desires. While you can be wrestling with some decisions, you can be a real dynamo with a bit of extra solitude and time to yourself. It’s best to divide your time effectively.
Uranus makes a big move this month: it enters your privacy sector. It’s a major shift, although this transit doesn’t become consistent until April 2026 and beyond. Nevertheless, your dreaming world is becoming more vivid and intuition exceptionally active. Listen to your inner voice! Now and in the coming years, this Uranus transit can shake things up with matters related to the past and your privacy. Things may come to light that help you let go of negative attachments that have been keeping you from growing and thriving. Holding on tightly to your things and ideas may be a result of your fear of changes taking place in your social life. Watch for impulsiveness now, but also consider ways to move forward and upward.
Neptune, Saturn, and Chiron all turn retrograde this month, and all are currently guests in your solar tenth house! Consider that your bigger ideas, especially those related to your life path, career, responsibilities, and status, require more time, refinement, and definition before they should be set into motion. Your feelings about your career path or reputation are shifting. What feels like a lack of direction can work in your favor as you learn what you truly want.
The Full Moon on the 10th brings a personal project or relationship to bloom. Personal epiphanies and revelations about relationships are likely to occur.
Mercury’s retrograde begins on the 18th and runs until August 11th. This means some review is necessary before moving forward, particularly regarding your finances. It’s a period for looking to the past for answers to current problems or delaying some matters while you make changes and refinements, especially concerning finances and material possessions. This retrograde turn reinforces the idea that you’ll do well for yourself if you give yourself the room and space to get to conclusions.
This month, there is a strong focus on your personality and your personal plans. Fortunately, support for these is forthcoming. Whether you’re catching up or getting ahead, efforts to learn can be very successful now. New ways to connect or get places you need to go can emerge, and these may very well lead to opportunities and improvements.
The Sun leaves your sign and enters your resources sector on the 22nd, turning your focus more squarely on your practical affairs, money matters, and building or developing your projects and resources. You pour more energy into building your money, things, and talents. Taking care of valuables and attending to prized personal possessions can be a priority. You can be exceptionally motivated to improve your financial state after the New Moon on the 24th. However, new initiatives may require some review and extra thought before moving forward, as Mercury is still retrograde in your finances sector.
From the 30th forward, Venus transits your sign, bringing pleasant attention your way. Magnetism is powerful–you’re turning heads.
See also general trends for Cancer in 2025.
See also detailed 2025 Yearly Horoscope for Cancer.
Cancer (Born July 2 to 12)
AND Cancer Ascendant from 10 to 20 degrees Cancer:
July 2025 Cancer Horoscope: Love, Career, & General Trends
July 2025
The Sun this Month: Central Focus, Consciousness
All month:
The Sun illuminates your first house now, bringing issues surrounding your personal identity, appearance, outward behavior, and self-expression to the forefront. This marks the peak of your physical solar cycle, and you are in the position to make an impression on others, and to assert your personal influence. Spontaneity of expression is what this transit is about. You are ready to put your past behind you and to start a new personal cycle. You have presence and you project confidence. Increased energy and a renewed feeling of confidence is with you now, so take advantage.
It’s a great month to do something entirely new and pioneering—to go solo in some area of your life. This particular season of the year smiles on your personal endeavors. This is a time when you more easily get in touch with a true sense of your identity and purpose. The most enterprising side of your nature surfaces, and it’s time to seize opportunities. Existing problems in your life may be overcome now by bravery and a straightforward approach to your life.
There’s nothing wrong with a bit of self-centeredness during this cycle, but avoid taking it too far. It’s not the best time for teamwork and other cooperative endeavors. The spotlight is on you and your ability to lead, so make it a good one! Take steps to improve how you come across to others. It’s time to carve your own path in life.
Venus this Month: Love, Romance, Social Life, Comfort, Pleasure
Until the 13th:
Venus continues to move through your solar eleventh house. This is a strong time for putting your ego aside and lowering your defenses and simply enjoying people. It’s a good time for networking and settling disputes if there are differences to iron out with friends. Cooperation comes easily, and warm friendships can be made during this cycle. Personal freedom is especially important to you right now, and you won’t enjoy any associations that limit you. It can also be a good time for earnings from business.
From July 13th forward:
Venus is spending some time in “hibernation” in your privacy sector. Now, this doesn’t necessarily mean that your love life is stagnant, but that your affection is expressed behind closed doors. Attraction to secrets and whispers characterize this period, although for some, it can also be a time of endings, relationship concerns, and wistfulness. Personal and social contacts may be secretive, and there can be secret love affairs, or at least very private love feelings and longings. Shyness can lead to some loneliness or romantic frustration. However, this can also be a deliciously private and intimate time.
Mercury this Month: Communications, Learning, Connections, Transportation
Until July 5th:
Mercury continues to transit your solar first house. During this cycle, you are more communicative than usual. However, this doesn’t necessarily mean that conversations are at their best right now, simply because you are more interested in expressing yourself than listening! You are especially alert and a little cerebral now. You have a receptive audience for your ideas.
From July 6th forward:
With Mercury in your solar second house, this is a strong period for analyzing your cash flow, income, and earning power. You are more practical and rational in your approach to finances during this period. With your conscious mind focused on money and possessions, as well as personal values, this can be a strong period for gathering new money-making ideas.
Alternatively, it could be a time when you tend to fret over your finances. Conversations tend to be practical rather than frivolous now. Financial gain may come through communications.
Mercury is retrograde from July 18th to August 11th:
All Mercury retrograde cycles particularly affect you in terms of personal communications in general as well as communications about the past because Mercury rules these areas of your life. Your intuition usually serves you very well, but may not be up to par for the time being. Take care when it comes to presenting ideas, writing letters, and any detail work. You may not be seeing the whole picture.
Occurring in your solar second house this time, extra care should be exercised when it comes to new financial initiatives. There may be the need to revisit old, nagging issues regarding personal finances. Take this time to re-budget instead of making premature purchases. Hold off on major decision-making regarding money. Instead, take the time to re-think your sources of income and how you spend your cash during this period, but put off finalizing anything important for the time being. In fact, some money-making ideas or ventures may be put on hold due to circumstances beyond your control. This is an excellent period for review, however.
Mars this Month: Energy, Drive, Courage
Until July 4th:
Mars continues to energize your solar second house. You tend to put more effort into making money or making your life more comfortable and secure during this cycle. Your strong desire to be financially independent could lead to positive things, such as paying off debts or increased enterprise. The opposite side of the coin is asserting your independence by making impulsive purchases or taking risks with your money. You are more protective of the way you earn or spend money, as well as with the values you live your life by, and if others question you about these things, there could be arguments.
From July 5th forward:
Mars animates and energizes your solar third house during this period. You are likely to have many ideas and plans going during this transit, and you might be inclined to scatter your energies as a result.
Channelled well, however, this is a good time to sell your ideas to others, or to present your case in some manner. You may be especially busy running errands and communicating with others now.
More articulate than usual, you may also have a more assertive, self-centered, or provocative communication style at this time. As such, discussions might more readily become heated or they might escalate into arguments. If this is the case, it’s likely because you are taking things very personally right now, or because you are over-identifying with your beliefs and ideas.
A tendency to be impatient or impulsive while driving or while performing manual tasks, generally with the hands, may lead to accidents, so it’s wise to be careful on the road or while operating machinery or even using scissors! This is an excellent time for working on intellectual tasks with more vigor and passion.
Overview Horoscope:
July 2025 Monthly Horoscope Overview for Cancer:
In July, the focus is often on self-development, dear Cancer, and you can be devoted to achieving your personal goals. Later in the month, you’ll enjoy settling in, building, and planning. You have a great deal of energy to pursue your interests, and you have boosted appeal, even if it’s a quiet, sometimes detached energy right now. Your senses are strong for opportunities emerging along the lines of learning, studies, communication, and personal projects.
While this is a month of personal power each year, a reflective turn is possible with Venus in your privacy sector from the 4th to the 30th. This Venus transit primarily affects your pleasures, love, and taste, encouraging you to spend more time alone, go under the radar in certain areas of life, and sort out or process your feelings.
As such, while you have a strong personal presence in July, you can be rather hard to get in touch with on some levels. Whether this translates as being a little hard to get, withdrawn, or aloof, it’s time to look behind you so that you can better see your next step forward. External or material achievement assumes less significance to you than what’s happening in your private life for much of the month. You may be a little tentative about your affections or pastimes. Perhaps you instinctively sense that you’re not quite ready for brand-new beginnings in some areas. On other levels, you’re raring to go, and reinventing yourself is a real possibility if you need some fresh energy. Yes, you’re still reflecting and considering your next step, but you have more power than usual to take charge and make an impact. You’re also well-positioned to leave an unhappy situation behind you.
Much is happening beneath the surface or behind the scenes with your feelings and desires. While you can be wrestling with some decisions, you can be a real dynamo with a bit of extra solitude and time to yourself. It’s best to divide your time effectively.
Uranus makes a big move this month: it enters your privacy sector. It’s a major shift, although this transit doesn’t become consistent until April 2026 and beyond. Nevertheless, your dreaming world is becoming more vivid and intuition exceptionally active. Listen to your inner voice! Now and in the coming years, this Uranus transit can shake things up with matters related to the past and your privacy. Things may come to light that help you let go of negative attachments that have been keeping you from growing and thriving. Holding on tightly to your things and ideas may be a result of your fear of changes taking place in your social life. Watch for impulsiveness now, but also consider ways to move forward and upward.
Neptune, Saturn, and Chiron all turn retrograde this month, and all are currently guests in your solar tenth house! Consider that your bigger ideas, especially those related to your life path, career, responsibilities, and status, require more time, refinement, and definition before they should be set into motion. Your feelings about your career path or reputation are shifting. What feels like a lack of direction can work in your favor as you learn what you truly want.
The Full Moon on the 10th brings a personal project or relationship to bloom. Personal epiphanies and revelations about relationships are likely to occur.
Mercury’s retrograde begins on the 18th and runs until August 11th. This means some review is necessary before moving forward, particularly regarding your finances. It’s a period for looking to the past for answers to current problems or delaying some matters while you make changes and refinements, especially concerning finances and material possessions. This retrograde turn reinforces the idea that you’ll do well for yourself if you give yourself the room and space to get to conclusions.
This month, there is a strong focus on your personality and your personal plans. Fortunately, support for these is forthcoming. Whether you’re catching up or getting ahead, efforts to learn can be very successful now. New ways to connect or get places you need to go can emerge, and these may very well lead to opportunities and improvements.
The Sun leaves your sign and enters your resources sector on the 22nd, turning your focus more squarely on your practical affairs, money matters, and building or developing your projects and resources. You pour more energy into building your money, things, and talents. Taking care of valuables and attending to prized personal possessions can be a priority. You can be exceptionally motivated to improve your financial state after the New Moon on the 24th. However, new initiatives may require some review and extra thought before moving forward, as Mercury is still retrograde in your finances sector.
From the 30th forward, Venus transits your sign, bringing pleasant attention your way. Magnetism is powerful–you’re turning heads.
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Cancer (Born July 13 to 22)
AND Cancer Ascendant from 20 to 30 degrees Cancer:
July 2025 Cancer Horoscope: Love, Career, & General Trends
July 2025
The Sun this Month: Central Focus, Consciousness
Until July 11th:
The Sun continues to shine its light on your solar twelfth house. This is the time to listen to your intuition, to take a break from the hectic pace of your life, and to reflect on what you have learned in the past year. You might naturally retreat a little and take more private time for yourself now.
Your physical energy levels may not be up to par for the time being, and this is your body signaling you to take a break. This is not an ideal time for pushing forward with new personal projects and plans. It is better to finish up projects and tie up loose ends now.
From July 12th forward:
The Sun illuminates your first house now, bringing issues surrounding your personal identity, appearance, outward behavior, and self-expression to the forefront. This marks the peak of your physical solar cycle, and you are in the position to make an impression on others, and to assert your personal influence. Spontaneity of expression is what this transit is about. You are ready to put your past behind you and to start a new personal cycle. You have presence and you project confidence. Increased energy and a renewed feeling of confidence is with you now, so take advantage.
It’s a great month to do something entirely new and pioneering—to go solo in some area of your life. This particular season of the year smiles on your personal endeavors. This is a time when you more easily get in touch with a true sense of your identity and purpose. The most enterprising side of your nature surfaces, and it’s time to seize opportunities. Existing problems in your life may be overcome now by bravery and a straightforward approach to your life.
There’s nothing wrong with a bit of self-centeredness during this cycle, but avoid taking it too far. It’s not the best time for teamwork and other cooperative endeavors. The spotlight is on you and your ability to lead, so make it a good one! Take steps to improve how you come across to others. It’s time to carve your own path in life.
Venus this Month: Love, Romance, Social Life, Comfort, Pleasure
Until the 22nd:
Venus continues to move through your solar eleventh house. This is a strong time for putting your ego aside and lowering your defenses and simply enjoying people. It’s a good time for networking and settling disputes if there are differences to iron out with friends. Cooperation comes easily, and warm friendships can be made during this cycle. Personal freedom is especially important to you right now, and you won’t enjoy any associations that limit you. It can also be a good time for earnings from business.
From July 22nd forward:
Venus is spending some time in “hibernation” in your privacy sector. Now, this doesn’t necessarily mean that your love life is stagnant, but that your affection is expressed behind closed doors. Attraction to secrets and whispers characterize this period, although for some, it can also be a time of endings, relationship concerns, and wistfulness. Personal and social contacts may be secretive, and there can be secret love affairs, or at least very private love feelings and longings. Shyness can lead to some loneliness or romantic frustration. However, this can also be a deliciously private and intimate time.
Mercury this Month: Communications, Learning, Connections, Transportation
All month:
Mercury continues to transit your solar first house. During this cycle, you are more communicative than usual. However, this doesn’t necessarily mean that conversations are at their best right now, simply because you are more interested in expressing yourself than listening! You are especially alert and a little cerebral now. You have a receptive audience for your ideas.
Mercury is retrograde from July 18th to August 11th:
All Mercury retrograde cycles particularly affect you in terms of personal communications in general as well as communications about the past because Mercury rules these areas of your life. Your intuition usually serves you very well, but may not be up to par for the time being. Take care when it comes to presenting ideas, writing letters, and any detail work. You may not be seeing the whole picture.
Occurring in your solar first house this time, extra care should be exercised when it comes to your body language. Others may misinterpret your body language, and you should be aware of a tendency to give off mixed signals. People in your life may complain that you seem emotionally distant. You may appear uncommunicative and hard to reach, or what you say comes out wrong. This is a time to review the manner in which you come across to others–not so much whether it truly reflects your nature, but more in terms of whether it is working for or against you. Don’t worry too much if others aren’t quite “getting” you for the time being. Things will change once Mercury turns direct, so you might decide to try to keep status quo for the time being. You might spend more time than usual when it comes to making decisions now, and this is natural. Rushed decisions may be regretted when you change your mind later on.
Mars this Month: Energy, Drive, Courage
Until the 21st:
Mars continues to energize your solar second house. You tend to put more effort into making money or making your life more comfortable and secure during this cycle. Your strong desire to be financially independent could lead to positive things, such as paying off debts or increased enterprise. The opposite side of the coin is asserting your independence by making impulsive purchases or taking risks with your money. You are more protective of the way you earn or spend money, as well as with the values you live your life by, and if others question you about these things, there could be arguments.
From the 22nd forward:
Mars animates and energizes your solar third house during this period. You are likely to have many ideas and plans going during this transit, and you might be inclined to scatter your energies as a result.
Channelled well, however, this is a good time to sell your ideas to others, or to present your case in some manner. You may be especially busy running errands and communicating with others now.
More articulate than usual, you may also have a more assertive, self-centered, or provocative communication style at this time. As such, discussions might more readily become heated or they might escalate into arguments. If this is the case, it’s likely because you are taking things very personally right now, or because you are over-identifying with your beliefs and ideas.
A tendency to be impatient or impulsive while driving or while performing manual tasks, generally with the hands, may lead to accidents, so it’s wise to be careful on the road or while operating machinery or even using scissors! This is an excellent time for working on intellectual tasks with more vigor and passion.
Overview Horoscope:
July 2025 Monthly Horoscope Overview for Cancer:
In July, the focus is often on self-development, dear Cancer, and you can be devoted to achieving your personal goals. Later in the month, you’ll enjoy settling in, building, and planning. You have a great deal of energy to pursue your interests, and you have boosted appeal, even if it’s a quiet, sometimes detached energy right now. Your senses are strong for opportunities emerging along the lines of learning, studies, communication, and personal projects.
While this is a month of personal power each year, a reflective turn is possible with Venus in your privacy sector from the 4th to the 30th. This Venus transit primarily affects your pleasures, love, and taste, encouraging you to spend more time alone, go under the radar in certain areas of life, and sort out or process your feelings.
As such, while you have a strong personal presence in July, you can be rather hard to get in touch with on some levels. Whether this translates as being a little hard to get, withdrawn, or aloof, it’s time to look behind you so that you can better see your next step forward. External or material achievement assumes less significance to you than what’s happening in your private life for much of the month. You may be a little tentative about your affections or pastimes. Perhaps you instinctively sense that you’re not quite ready for brand-new beginnings in some areas. On other levels, you’re raring to go, and reinventing yourself is a real possibility if you need some fresh energy. Yes, you’re still reflecting and considering your next step, but you have more power than usual to take charge and make an impact. You’re also well-positioned to leave an unhappy situation behind you.
Much is happening beneath the surface or behind the scenes with your feelings and desires. While you can be wrestling with some decisions, you can be a real dynamo with a bit of extra solitude and time to yourself. It’s best to divide your time effectively.
Uranus makes a big move this month: it enters your privacy sector. It’s a major shift, although this transit doesn’t become consistent until April 2026 and beyond. Nevertheless, your dreaming world is becoming more vivid and intuition exceptionally active. Listen to your inner voice! Now and in the coming years, this Uranus transit can shake things up with matters related to the past and your privacy. Things may come to light that help you let go of negative attachments that have been keeping you from growing and thriving. Holding on tightly to your things and ideas may be a result of your fear of changes taking place in your social life. Watch for impulsiveness now, but also consider ways to move forward and upward.
Neptune, Saturn, and Chiron all turn retrograde this month, and all are currently guests in your solar tenth house! Consider that your bigger ideas, especially those related to your life path, career, responsibilities, and status, require more time, refinement, and definition before they should be set into motion. Your feelings about your career path or reputation are shifting. What feels like a lack of direction can work in your favor as you learn what you truly want.
The Full Moon on the 10th brings a personal project or relationship to bloom. Personal epiphanies and revelations about relationships are likely to occur.
Mercury’s retrograde begins on the 18th and runs until August 11th. This means some review is necessary before moving forward, particularly regarding your finances. It’s a period for looking to the past for answers to current problems or delaying some matters while you make changes and refinements, especially concerning finances and material possessions. This retrograde turn reinforces the idea that you’ll do well for yourself if you give yourself the room and space to get to conclusions.
This month, there is a strong focus on your personality and your personal plans. Fortunately, support for these is forthcoming. Whether you’re catching up or getting ahead, efforts to learn can be very successful now. New ways to connect or get places you need to go can emerge, and these may very well lead to opportunities and improvements.
The Sun leaves your sign and enters your resources sector on the 22nd, turning your focus more squarely on your practical affairs, money matters, and building or developing your projects and resources. You pour more energy into building your money, things, and talents. Taking care of valuables and attending to prized personal possessions can be a priority. You can be exceptionally motivated to improve your financial state after the New Moon on the 24th. However, new initiatives may require some review and extra thought before moving forward, as Mercury is still retrograde in your finances sector.
From the 30th forward, Venus transits your sign, bringing pleasant attention your way. Magnetism is powerful–you’re turning heads.
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Our detailed monthly horoscopes are designed to reveal and interpret the current transits of the Sun, Mercury, Venus, and Mars in your solar chart.
Because these energies or transits do not unfold neatly into any given calendar month (many transits carry forward from one month to the next), you will find some of the energies continue from the previous month.
For example, the Sun might transit the second house of your solar chart from June 21 to July 22, so that you will find a similar interpretation for this transit in both June and July’s horoscope. This is normal and expected. Transits don’t abruptly change as the calendar month changes.
These monthly horoscopes also include an overview paragraph, as well as other energies specific to the month, such as retrogrades, eclipses, or major outer planet transits.
The Lunar Cycles section reveals lunar cycle dates. Lunar cycles repeat themselves approximately every 28 days, so it is normal to see the same lunar peaks, such as “Your Personal New Moon” and “Monthly career peak” repeat themselves from month to month, but with different dates. They serve as a helpful guide to cycle peaks in different areas of life, such as financial, career, romance, and partnership.
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