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Venus in Cancer
Venus has moved into Cancer. It will travel there until July 27. From there, it moves into Leo.
When Venus is in Cancer, people are sensitive, intuitive, protective, and sentimental. They look to family members and those they consider "part of the family" for emotional support ... and they want to strengthen those connections.
Home life, privacy, and security needs assume "priority" in relationships. There is also noticeable nostalgia, concern with "tradition," and emphasis on memories and "the past."
With Venus in Cancer, there is a "maternal" quality to life's romantic interests. With such strong emphasis on family, people want to "mother" their loved ones, and be mothered in return.
People are more dependable, domestic, and sheltering. They are also consciously nurturing, security-minded, and able to supply what is wanted and needed without being asked.
People use money to improve their homes and private lives and buy goods and services that add to the comfort and safety of loved ones and family. The care of (or interest in) children may be evident - even to the point of "babying" loved ones, who, while they may not specifically need this ... respond to the attention.
Under stress when Venus is in Cancer, attitudes ... especially those towards other people ... turn childish, touchy, and dependent. People become anxious, obsessive, and emotionally unbalanced. They try to meet their emotional needs by being passive, moody, and clinging.
They indulge themselves in a lot of complaining, "depression," self-pity, and temper tantrums. These tactics may not be constructive, but they do get attention quickly ... which may be the whole point, after all.
Things to Do with Venus in Cancer
- Rediscover the joys and benefits of connecting with your family -- especially the "family members" you've adopted along life's way
- Pay special attention to everyone's emotional needs -- including your own
- Provide more or those things which give you true joy and delight
- Dust off your sensitivity, your intuition, your "motherly instincts" ... and give those you love their benefits
- Spend money to give your family the comforts and care they need
- Spend money to enhance, beautify, and improve the comforts of your home
- Indulge your sentimental side, honor your feelings and emotions -- especially in relationships and financial decisions
- Pay attention to memories, nostalgic moments, issues of your past, your history, your family heritage
- Spend more time at home, focused on your private life and inner world.
- Rediscover the joys of domestic life, your special family circle, and living in "your home, your way."
Things to Watch Out for with Venus in Cancer
- Being passive, changeable, indecisive, weak-willed
- Being emotionally repressed ... or borderline hysterical all the time
- Being resentful, blaming, fretful, paranoid, "scared all the time"
- Getting your feelings hurt over "little things," letting trivial stuff get under your skin (remember everybody's wearing their emotions on their sleeves right now)
- Becoming weighed down, depressed, and paralyzed by family problems, home conditions, issues in your private life that just won't stay solved
- Feeling anxious, overwrought, depressed and complaining a lot
- Wallowing in self-pity, pulling back into a shell ... and keeping everyone who might help at arm's length
- Getting lost in sadness, regrets, nostalgia ... and issues of "the past" that you can't change and can't "get over"
