Cancer
Horoscope 2026
1st decan June 22 - July 1
2nd decan July 01 - 12
3rd decan July 13 - 22
by Paolo Crimaldi
The new year will require you to be more aware and attentive in your choices less dependent on, and conditioned by others' expectations and demands and above all, more willing to take on several responsibilities if you truly wish to reach new and ambitious goals. In 2026 nothing will be given to you freely, especially in the second part of the year, yet nothing will be impossible if you show courage, determination, and sacrifice.
Indeed, starting February 13, Saturn in square from Aries together with Neptune and Chiron will push you to open your eyes to certain existential, professional, emotional, and family situations you have not wanted to see clearly until now. As a result, you may develop a certain sensitivity toward no longer trusting people or comfort zones you had relied on for a long time, but which now represent useless obstacles to your growth and to a renewed way of understanding the world and the people around you. In other words, the moment has come to act: to abandon old habits and begin walking new paths perhaps steeper and more demanding, but absolutely necessary for your emotional and material well‑being. You will be called to show your willpower, strength, and determination regarding everything you claim to have desired for years, things that are now becoming much more than potential ideas and that, if well‑defined, maybe with the help of someone able to guide you at first, can become real opportunities for personal growth and transformation.
You must absolutely consider that there will be moments in which you will be forced to face situations requiring sacrifice, effort, and some personal renunciations. But these will be excellent long‑term investments that can yield concrete and lasting results. You must simply be patient and avoid the anxiety of wanting everything immediately. When you feel as if you are moving more slowly than your potential would allow, do not accelerate let yourselves be guided by this slower but safer rhythm. In 2026 no heroic or spectacular acts are required just patience, calm, and a slower, less anxious pace than in the past.
Throughout the entire year, Mercury will be your ally at various intervals, granting mental clarity and strengthening intuition while maintaining enough rationality to avoid wasting truly important opportunities in both the professional and social spheres.
From February 7 to April 15, Mercury in trine from Pisces magnified in March by Mars will give you the right energy to launch a project whose realization will not occur quickly. Finally, an idea or plan you have long nurtured may receive recognition from the outside and begin to take flight. But do not expect immediate results, and do not give up if, in spring, everything seems to have been a false start. It is not. Your idea simply requires more time than expected. This may also be an excellent period for job interviews, for proposing unconventional projects, for meeting new people perhaps unusual or different from your usual circles who may eventually prove extremely useful in supporting your potential shift in direction, whether existential or professional.
Between June 2 and August 9, Mercury will remain in your sign, opening a period in which you may allow yourselves small luxuries in work-related matters that once seemed beyond your influence. You may gain space to express your ideas and show the full extent of your abilities, which can help you make long-awaited changes. This is a moment in which you may ask for a new role, a transfer, or finally reveal your real intentions regarding something you have kept ambiguous until now. A project you deeply care about may begin to take shape in its initial stage.
Finally, from October 1 to December 6, Mercury's long transit through Scorpio will give you the possibility to strengthen alliances, gain power, and become the true protagonist of your life especially in October, when Venus, also favorable, will grant you charisma and skill in handling even complex situations. Make the best use of this period also to close past matters-work‑related, legal, or administrative because you must prepare for 2027 with greater awareness of your resources and free from burdens you carried more for emotional reasons than real obligations.
In love, a first romantic and passionate window will open between February 11 and March 7, when Venus in trine from Pisces will help you recognize and express the tenderness and affection you had recently set aside or thought you could no longer find whether with your long-term partner or someone new. Dormant emotions will finally reawaken and be acknowledged by the person in front of you. This is the moment not to renounce the romantic dream of two hearts and a hut, at least for now bringing more emotional fulfillment into daily life. You may meet someone older than you or not initially free for various reasons something that will characterize new encounters throughout 2026. Do not give up immediately; give both yourself and the other person more than one chance.
Your season of love runs from May 19 to June 13: enjoy these days fully, as you may experience passionate encounters with strong erotic tension, or rediscover sexual complicity with your partner especially with Mars supporting you from Taurus.
Finally, from September 10 to October 25, Venus in trine from Scorpio may bring, if it has not already happened earlier in the year, a new love intense, passionate, emotionally deep, and far from trivial. Or, if you are in a relationship, you may experience renewed harmony, passion, and even jealousy, revitalizing your bond and opening a new relational dimension filled with intense emotions and revived feelings you thought lost to routine.
