Cancer Monthly Horoscope for May 2025

Welcome to your monthly horoscope Cancer!

Welcome to the Cancer Monthly Horoscope for May 2025. This month there is a lot of planetary activity that happens in your 12th house, along with a Saturn transit, a full moon and a new moon. Without further a do, let's dive in!

Cancer Monthly Horoscope May 2025

Pluto Retrograde in Aquarius in the 8th House for a Cancer Ascendant

Pluto is the planet of the 8th house. For a Cancer ascendant, Aquarius being the 8th house talk about themes of technology, upheaval, society vs. self and connections. The concepts that are 8th house related, which are suppressed, mysterious and quite honestly confusing for a Cancer ascendant, are related to people and connections - not knowing how to present yourself, thinking that it might be a little too much.

When Pluto goes retrograde in the 8th house, it starts to feel a little too much to in terms of what you are investing in your relationships. This transit also looks over your relationship with finances. When there is a problem in your 8th house, in terms of slow growth or confusion regarding where to draw the boundary, which happens via a retrograde, an astrologer would look into your 2nd house. Which is what you should do too. Check what is eating up your resources. Are you indulging too much in food or other addicting substances? Are you over spending more than you can earn and put back into your account? Do you have a plan for your financial security? Is your family standing in the way of your relationships? These should provide you the answers as to where work needs to be done.

8th house can bring much stability and wealth, if you realize how you can use it to your advantage. With Pluto going retrograde here, you are given an opportunity to understand exactly what your problem is. With this perspective offered to you, and if you are able to view it in a positive manner, without fearing the uncertainty, then you can start working to fix the crack or leak.

When Pluto goes direct again toward the end of this year, you will be in a much better and more stable position. Remember that no matter how unstable the terrain gets, hold on to something. Find resources that can never leave you. It is you! - Build your inner strength Cancer!

Mercury enters Taurus in the 11th House for a Cancer Ascendant

Your way of connecting with people is usually through a deep conversational manner. You prefer one-on-one conversations over a casual, unnecessary chit-chat. You always need a purpose for your conversations, but when Mercury, your 12th lord, steps into your 11th house of Taurus, your conversations have to become more intentional. Prepared and practiced vs, your authentic and natural style.

You may have to conversate and network with new people who you are not familiar with and move around in circles that are going to help you in someway, but somewhere in the future. For now, these conversations and connections that are going to enter your life, will look like chit chats that have no purpose, but the energy you expend here is long term.

Mercury likes freshness and is a curious planet, that likes to change up the routine. If you only have one source of income, Mercury will try to establish a couple of more, through your networks or through a little research on the internet to get the ball rolling.

Get ready for experiencing new things. Who doesn't like change from the everyday hum-drum? If you prepare your mind to have some fun, instead of overthinking, this transit will set you up for some long term success, by planting the right seeds using the stable Taurean grounds and the lush resources that will become available to you.

To make the most out of this time, schedule some time for you to organize your thoughts and ticking off the checklist to make a larger money flow possible for you.

Full Moon in Scorpio in the 5th house for a Cancer Ascendant

This Full Moon in Scorpio could bring a relationship issue to the surface and make you look at it from a different point of view. What you knew or thought so far might not be the full picture of the situation. 5th house represents your romantic life and the full moon provides a window, the best opportunity for you to open up and make the phone call to discuss the future, or to make that first text to that special person!

5th house is also all about creativity. Full Moon is the culmination point, or the 1st victory post for a project that you would have started a few weeks ago. If you are waiting for a result for one of your creative projects, expect it to be positive - if not it will at least provide lots of data for you to then make meaning out of it, to use it to your advantage.

If you are looking to add a couple of new hobbies to your palette to spice up your routine, then look at skills that you have to put some effort into, to learn - such as pottery or jiu jitsu even! Use the full moon energy to understand what you have done and where it has brought you, so that you can determine your next victory post and mark your trajectory to get there.

Sun enters Gemini in the 12th House for a Cancer Ascendant

12th house matters are what people usually want to avoid in life. They want to sweep all the problems away and not think about it. They want to instead forget all the issues and dive into toxic habits that help with the amnesia. Intentionally be distracted. To add to the list of intoxications, social media is a tool that distracts you whenever you need. Hours go by, when we scroll through the apps and when we look back, it would definitely not be beneficial for us.

So, what can you do instead? Look at the puzzle you have in front you. Clues laid out all neatly, distractions presented to keep you from finding out the truth, people orchestrated to make you take alternate routes, all so that you don't understand yourself, for as long as possible.

If a person figures out exactly who they are, then there is nothing in this world that can stop them from achieving what they want, but that is where the problem is, isn't it?

Paper, pen, thoughts. That is the way to go, when Sun enters your 12th house. Your emotions have a place, which is your analysis on a piece of paper. Analyze what you feel, and why you feel that way? Why have you been feeling this for so long and what is that trauma that has been troubling you? Figure it all out. Listen to some soft music as you put the puzzle together.

What could be more entertaining than solving your own life's puzzle?

Stop getting distracted. Watch the Truman Show movie if you haven't already, for some inspiration! - It's even worth a re-watch!

Saturn enters Aries in the 10th House for a Cancer Ascendant

Time for a career rewiring Cancer!

You could have been putting up with the pressure and dislike that you work is, owing to fear of movement or change, but Saturn doesn't want to. Whatever you have been adjusting with so far, will be evacuated from your life. You will be forced to enter into an autonomous pathway, build with your own potential and re-create your career.

10th house stands for your reputation and name. Change always comes as a storm that wipes out everything in sight, so that new constructions can be built up from the ground, from scratch by your own effort - that is what Saturn makes you do.

When Saturn moves into Aries, your career will go through a test - a test to see if you are ready to change what you have to. Maybe a performance review meeting happens and your manager wants you to prove that you are ready for a promotion or raise. What you promise you have to deliver - or else Saturn destroys, deeming you unfit. Make sure your under promise but over deliver.

If you get through the Saturn test successfully, putting in all the effort, upskilling where you can, teaming up where you have to and standing tall and confident in your everyday work, name and fame will definitely follow, setting up your career for the next 5 years!

As you concentrate on your career full time and beyond, your personal emotions and your relationships will take a hit, so remember to stay balanced. After all, you need assistance from the people around you, no matter what you want to become. That is what people are for, to help and be helpful!

Mercury enters Gemini in the 12th House for a Cancer Ascendant

It is a very spiritual and quiet time for you Cancer! Following Sun, entering your 12th house of Gemini, Mercury comes for its first yearly spin into your house of introspection. It is a time when your speech with others will be tampered, just so that you learn how to sometimes not share. You will be forced to go inward and conduct all the emotional transactions with yourself.

A new sense of clarity will be born in relation to your problems - which could be anything ranging from self-confidence, expenses, travel and spirituality.

There is always a sense of confusion when the word spirituality is mentioned. What is it? Knowing it might be the key to unlocking that spectrum in your life, so that the next time your 12th house gets activated, you don't have to learn from scratch, you would already be in habit with spirituality.

Spirituality is anything that you pursue with belief. If you do not have faith or belief in anything, then you are basically an untethered being in this planet, where everything has a root holding it. It gets really difficult to manage hardships when you have nothing to hold on to.

Every time when something hard to manage happens, you cannot and should not seek out other people, as people leave. You have to form that spiritual belief within yourself and maintain it always. Don't be casual until the storm hits, start preparing even if it is all the way across the continent.

New Moon in Gemini in the 12th House for a Cancer Ascendant

New Moon in Gemini marks the final and major transit of the month and it also happens in your 12th house. Let's just say, that your journey of finding your spiritual pathway might get an opening today. You will know exactly how to go about the process of building faith and belief.

If you do not care enough about anything in your life, then this new moon window will show something that is important for you, so that you can start the tethering process.

New Moon in the 12th house is a time of introspection and planning. If it is related to your finances, then start budgeting to put the brakes on your spending. The last thing that you want to do, is seek a person to share your thoughts with, during this transit - you will waste all the progress that you would have made - try and keep it to yourself no matter what you find out - experience the weight of carrying information - see how you are able to hold secret - process the data you collect and see how it can help you go to the next level.

Goodluck Cancer, see you in June!