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The constellation of Cancer, the Crab

Cancer horoscope this week

The Crab, 21 June to 22 July · Water, cardinal, ruled by the Moon

The week's sky 10/9: Venus moves into Scorpio today. 11/9: new moon at 4.27am, in Virgo. 11/9: Mercury moves into Libra today.

The house first, then everything else

Mars is still in your own sign and it makes you braver than usual about the things you normally handle sideways. Use that in the first half of the week. The second half is quieter and better suited to the domestic end of life: the cupboard, the appointment nobody has booked, the relative you have been meaning to ring since August.

Love

Somebody in the family has been on your mind for a fortnight and the conversation keeps being postponed until a better moment. There is no better moment. Keep it short, ordinary and unsolemn, and let them fill the gaps. You will feel lighter by Thursday and so, probably, will they.

Work and money

You hold more of this week’s memory than anyone around you and none of it appears on a list. When credit is handed out, say what you did without decorating it. Being useful and being visible are two separate jobs, and you have only been doing the first one all year.

Body and mind

You feel the change in the light before other people do, and this is the week it starts. Warm food, an earlier bath, a walk in the afternoon rather than after dark. Whatever you are carrying on behalf of other people, put half of it down on Sunday.

The day to watch

Tuesday, for the call you keep moving