Cancer — Your emotional thermostat is broken today
Today's Horoscope
Written by
Sanjai MaharajMain Energy
Four planets crammed in your 5th house (creativity, romance, passion) while your Moon sits debilitated in Scorpio—think of it as trying to edit a screenplay while having a breakdown. Mercury retrograde in this same space means you're reworking old creative projects or rehashing relationship conversations that should've stayed in the drafts. Mars here adds fuel to an already burning situation.
Your Day In
✦ Love & Connections
The Scorpio stellium in your 5th house is making you intense about connections in ways that might scare even you. Debilitated Moon means your emotional responses are disproportionate—that 'hey' text isn't a dissertation topic. Mercury retrograde here? Someone from your past might resurface, but nostalgia is a liar. Mars adds aggression to romantic communication. If you're fighting today, you're actually fighting with yourself. Venus in your 4th house suggests the real comfort is staying in, not performing emotional labor for someone else's entertainment.
✦ Money Matters
Creative work is demanding your attention but your emotional state is making it hard to execute. The 5th house pile-up suggests passion projects are financially relevant right now—side gigs, freelance creative work, spec work that could pay off. But Mercury retrograde means don't launch anything new; revise, refine, revisit. Mars here gives you the drive but also the tendency to make impulsive financial decisions around hobbies or entertainment. Ketu in your 2nd house of income is creating detachment from material security—noble, but not when rent is due. Focus on completing existing creative contracts rather than chasing new ones.
✦ Self
Your Moon—your emotional core—is debilitated in Scorpio, sitting in a house with three other planets. Psychologically, this is like hosting a party when you're already overstimulated. The 5th house rules how you express yourself creatively and romantically, and right now that expression channel is clogged. You're feeling everything at 200% intensity but your capacity to process is at 30%. Jupiter retrograde in your 12th house suggests the solution is actual solitude, not Instagram stories about needing alone time. Stop trying to productive your way out of feeling overwhelmed. The Venus in your 4th house is literally telling you: go home, make your space comfortable, order in, and stop treating rest like it needs to earn its place in your calendar.
Power Moves
- ✧ Perfect for: Revising old creative work, journaling without sharing it, reorganizing your room/workspace, deleting drafts instead of posting them, watching something comfort-viewing without calling it 'research,' saying no to creative collaborations that feel forced
- ✧ Skip: Starting new creative projects, having serious relationship talks, making big purchases related to hobbies, posting emotional content you'll regret, attending events out of FOMO, trying to manifest through forced positivity
Pro Tip
The 5th house stellium with debilitated Moon is creating a crisis of creative self-worth. You're confusing productivity with processing. Mars wants you to do, Mercury retrograde wants you to redo, but your Moon needs you to just be. Your emotional intensity isn't a problem to solve—it's information. Stop trying to channel it into output and let it move through you first. The creative breakthrough comes after the emotional breakdown, not instead of it.
✧ Astronomical Data
Current Planetary Positions
Precise astronomical calculations powered by NASA JPL Ephemeris data (DE441/DE440)
Moon
Chandra
Scorpio
Anuradha
Changes Today
Nakshatra Moving from Vishakha to Anuradha
Nov 20, 5:29 AM
Data Accuracy
- ✧Updated every 60 seconds using NASA's JPL Ephemeris
- ✧Positions calculated using sidereal zodiac system
- ✧Retrograde planets indicate spiritual lessons and karmic review