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CANCER (June 21 - July 22)

Dear Cancer, it's perfectly healthy for you to be experiencing some irritability, even outright anger, as June ends. You've been holding up your end of the bargain of human responsibility for so long, trudging forward, helping others, and where has it got you? When is the karmic payback?

And when do you get to do - and be - what you're really passionate about? Without others giving you a hard time about it? People, particularly professional colleagues, have not been making it easy for you lately.

To put it bluntly, they've been driving you nuts!

You have better luck working behind the scenes right now, assuming some reticence, rather than going all out. Remember: Saturn is testing your appearance in the world and how you are perceived by others. To go forward, do that genius crab-walk -- sideways -- that you do so well. Tone it all down.

To be fair, Saturn has been just trying to teach you -- it's not ALL other people's fault. Saturn's valuable lesson is to get you to be realistic about your expectations of others.

You may have been expecting what just is not possible of certain partnerships and associations. Consider whether it might be better going solo professionally for a while.

With the full Moon on Friday July 2 occuring in your house ruling all relationships, a certain chapter reaches its conclusion. Go with it, dear Crab, flow it it!

If you've learned anything this year, it is that things must change to get better. This is certainly one of those times.

With Venus going direct after Tuesday, June 29 in your twelfth house you are going to be longing for some private time in July ANYWAY.

Even though your luck right now is in your communications, you can communicate very well in the privacy of your own home. You may want to whoop it up in your own neighborhood, and you'll have fun doing it!

You will succeed brilliantly through any form of verbal communication - particularly writing and media - this month.

You also have success in communicating between the sheets this July! Some fairly hot sexuality is in the cards for you. You may have found yourself already looking up old flames and love partners. That, or rekindling passion with the one you're with.

A new Moon appears in your sign on Saturday, July 17, and this offers you a new way to be and to present yourself. You may even decide to get a new toned down look for yourself. This would be lucky for you. You've been giving outwards too much - inward retreat will work better now.

Some financial shifting also occurs around this time, motivating you and you to make some important decisions. Again, consider the more solo path.

The one thing you really don't have to worry about now is money, dear Crab, so there is no need to panic. You can take your time over these decisions. Rest assured you will make the right one.

And speaking of rest...get your beauty sleep. You've done enough work in the past couple of years to guarantee a whole holiday of sleeping!

With the Sun and Mercury blessing your first house, you look lovelier than ever. People will tell you this, too. So, enjoy and preserve those good looks of yours. Sleep until it's time to get all dressed up and out again.

Then, of course, you dazzle the world.

E-mail this horoscope to a Cancer or Cancer Jupiter you care about - if you want him or her to do well this July!

Your days to push the envelope: Thursday July 15, Friday July 16, and Saturday July 17.

Also the days the Moon is in the SAME SIGN as your Jupiter sign. Consult Jupiter for more on this, and on how to be successful in the world at large.

P.S. Dear Reader, Happy Summer! It is - finally - here!

Isn't it time for us to take a breather from this time of madness, of difficult personal exchanges, and of too much to bear?

How often have you been able to make a wise decision when stressed?

Research has proved that anxiety and stress inhibit the brain's ability to function. We cannot think clearly and effectively when the brain is being short ciruited with anxiety.

I'm not talking about instinctual survival-based decisions - for immediate preservation of life - I'm talking about longterm life choices. These cannot be made during crisis. We have been living in a state of crisis-simulation for almost three years now. Complete with bright kid-friendly colors telling us HOW MUCH IS RIGHT. It has become harder to THINK.

I prefer, instead of Code Yellow; Code Orange; Code Red -- Code Linen; Code Off-White; Code Putty, myself. (Thank you, Saturday Night Live.) You need to take care of yourself, dear reader. (No matter how much success you may be having.)

You, and all that is inside of you.

I would like to share with you something that has always renewed my breath - and delight! About the choices we have, if we can but choose them...our various, incredible routes...Travel with me as you read this...enjoy the journey with me.

Extracted from one of my very favorite books, Invisible Cities, by Italo Calvino. (Born a Libra, and yes, LIBRO in Italian means book!). Translated from the Italian by William Weaver.

In Esmeralda, city of water, a network of canals and a network of streets span and intersect each other.

To go from one place to another you have always the choice between land and boat: and since the shortest distance between two points in Esmeralda is not a straight line but a zigzag that famifies in torturous optional routes, the ways that open to each passerby are never two, but many, and they increase further for those who alternate a stretch by boat with one in dry land.

And so Esmeralda's inhabitants are spared the boredom of following the same streets every day.

And that is not all: the network of routes is not arranged on one level, but follows instead an up-and-down course of steps, landings, cambered bridges, hanging streets.

Combining segments of the various routes, elevated or on ground level, each inhabitant can enjoy every day the pleasure of a new itinerary to reach the same places. The most fixed and calm lives in Esmeralda are spent without any repetition.

A map of Esmerelda should include, marked in different colored inks, all these routes, solid and liquid, evident and hidden.

It is more difficult to fix on the map the routes of the swallows, who cut the air over the roofs, dropping long invisible parabolas with their still wings, darting to gulp a mosquito, spiraling upward, grazing a pinnacle, dominating from every point of their airy paths all the points of the city.

Marco Polo describes a bridge, stone by stone.

"But which is the stone that supports the bridge?" Kublai Khan asks.

"The bridge is not supported by one stone or another," Marco answers, "but by the line of the arch that they form."

Kublai Khan remains silent, reflecting. Then he adds: "Why do you speak to me of the stones? It is only the arch that matters to me."

Polo answers: "Without the stones there is no arch."

Water (a city of water!) is ruled by the Moon, and this July we have TWO full Moons. The second full Moon is called a Blue Moon. A month with two full Moons, a rare event, is always a dramatic month.

Tending to your Moon - that is, your inner needs and emotions - will help you to remain calm, to stay in touch, and allow you to make clear and good decisions.

For your inner child needs, read the horoscope for your Moon sign.

For example, if you are a Sagittarius with a Taurus Moon, read the Taurus horoscope.

Consider your inner child's needs to be Taurus (you need home comfort and security. Think how a cat is if you take them out of their home. Cats are ruled by Taurus.) Even if you are a rock n roll, fly-by-the-seat-of-your-pants Sagittarius!

If you are a Scorpio with a Libra Moon, consider your inner child's needs to be Libra (you need love-love, harmony- harmony, beauty-beauty everywhere.) Even if you are a independent proud I-can-go-without Scorpio!

And so on.

Read my astrology book for young'uns, and you'll remember your original Moon needs as a child. Trace the cause of what makes you inexplicably nuts on any given day NOW.

Here are some excerpts.

I also recommend - of course - Linda Goodman's Sun Signs. Her sections on the Child for each Sun sign are still the best around. She wrote her books for grownups though. When I was a kid, her book was the only one available for me to read! I've had countless people tell me they wished there'd been an astrology book for them when THEY were kids.

Now there's mine, and it is the only astrology book for kids (and inner kids) in print AT ALL, and I am asking you to help me keep it in print! Otherwise, there will be NOT A ONE. (It is in its third edition from Penguin USA, thick color pages, spiral bound, beautiful illustrations, with a poster.) It is also an amazing gift. Only $10.99.

You can buy it here.

Take care of yourself.

P.P.S. For an individual reading, please go to PRIVATE READINGS.

Until next month, dear reader -

Madalyn

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