If you long to make improvements to your home, you will now find yourself in the finest possible time of 2016 to make those changes. Early October will be simply extraordinary. The new moon that appeared on September 30 will still be strong as you enter October, so you will want to use the energy that new moon will spill over the first eleven days of the month to your advantage. You will have the edge, and the actions you take during early October will have the power to make your life better for an entire twelve months or more to follow. Cancer is ruled by the moon, so aspects that come up that put the moon front and center in the configuration are always more important to you than any other aspects.

This magnificent new moon, in Libra, 9 degrees, will be dressed in a silk satin ball gown and will enter the velvet royal blue sky, studded with twinkling stars, with Jupiter and the Sun. All three will scatter petals of happiness. This new moon is especially bent on helping you with any plans you might have pertaining to your home or other property, or in regard to your way to help a family member, most likely a parent. You may hope to rent, buy, or sell a condo or house, or rent a vacation home. You may get a mortgage or refinance your present one, decorate, renovate, make repairs, or do a host of other actions to make your home more comfortable and inviting. We have not seen a new moon this positive and supportive in more than a decade. In early October, the Sun will take the goodness of Jupiter and multiply it many times over.

Not only will you find the right people to help you with your home, whether that be a contractor, architect, home designers, or repair crew, it also seems likely that you will be able to count on strong family support. Jupiter will have you thinking big, so you may put out more money than you budgeted for home changes, but the value you will get in return will more than compensate and will later prove to be a wise investment. If you are selling property, in the first week of October you will likely negotiate the highest price you can possibly get this year.

Because Jupiter will also conjunct the moon tells me that quite a bit of cash will come to you. Jupiter will also conjunct the full moon, and that’s your ruler, so you will be unusually happy from January into early February, and you will feel that the world is a happy place.

One especially bright, blue-ribbon day will be October 11, when Mercury and Jupiter will conjoin in Libra – again in your fourth house of home – and make it a fantastic time to close on a house, sign any contract, make large purchases, travel, or find a way to take good care of a parent. Conversely, you may receive benefits from one of your parents. It’s rare that Jupiter conjoins Mercury, but when he does, he brings with him the great potential for profit.

The full moon, however, is likely to give everyone a difficult time. It will culminate news regarding conditions surrounding your career, for this full moon ofOctober 16 will fall in your tenth house of honors, awards, and achievement. You might hear news out of left field from management, or your client or you may read something in the newspaper or on TV that will have direct bearing on you. Some sort of unusual situation has been bubbling below the surface, and the full moon of October 16, plus or minus four days, will deliver news about something you had no clue was happening or being discussed.

People in your company will be tense – everyone, of every sign, will be a bit overwrought under this volatile new moon, but each sign will feel tensions in different ways. Do not make a final deal at this time, for if you do, the tension in the air will be built into the contact. Let the full moon wane before you do anything.

Ever since unstable Uranus entered this same professional sector in March 2011, you learned to be ready for anything from management, clients, or industry conditions. Still, Uranus has had an upside, for Uranus has, and will continue, to make you highly creative and resourceful when it came to problem solving.

You will not have full control this month, for Mars, the action planet, will be touring your opposite sign of Capricorn, falling on the horoscope wheel 180 degrees from Cancer. You may have a romantic partner or a business partner / collaborator who will assume a dominant role. At times this person will be a bit too pushy for your taste, so you will have to stand your ground. (On the other hand, if you are very unhappy with his person, you might leave, but that seems unlikely.)

It might apply to you if you have a birthday that falls on July 6, plus or minus four days. Even if that is you, nothing is predetermined, so if you have been feeling a bit too controlled by this person, at work or in your relationship, you can find a way to negotiate a way out.

There is another, completely different way Mars in Capricorn can assert itself, and it would come from having a fierce competitor. If this is how things work out, you will have to fend off this person or company. Your competitor might use various tactics, some that may be unethical or much too aggressive, in an effort to take away part of your market share. Fortunately, this phase will only last until November 9. Competitors keep us sharp, dear Cancer. If anyone could benefit from this very short trend, it’s you. You are known to be very shrewd, intuitive, and street smart when it comes to handling business matters.

To be clear, if you do have an aggressive competitor, it would be highly unlikely that you would have any problems with a partner, whether in love or business. I will admit these areas are not mutually exclusive, but I would be surprised if you reported concerns on both ends. Thankfully, as said, this is a very short trend, only at play until November 9.

Will you have time for love? You bet! Venus will tour Scorpio, the divine-for-Cancer sign, through your fifth house of love, from the very start of the month until October 18. This would be a great time to shop for new things for the coming season, and for having a new hairstyle, new sunglasses – anything that will make you feel new and improved.

If you are single and looking for true, long-term love, the new moon of October 29 in Scorpio, 8 degrees, will bring a sweet turn of events. It will light your house of romance, fun, leisure time, children, and creativity, and this is the first new moon of all of 2016 to light this house. You now have a superb opportunity to find tender, warm love from the right person you meet, or to celebrate the love you have already found in someone special in your life. Early November would be a heavenly month to take a vacation or to get engaged or married. If you are already attached, it’s time to have more fun.

Neptune, the planet of imagination, will conjoin this new moon of October 30, suggesting a number of things. First, you are likely to have a dream of a time in romance, and in fact, your new relationship might seem so sweet, that you might get carried away. I feel that as a Cancer, you have your feet on the ground, so there is very little chance of that happening – just make sure. The end of October surely will be a time you’ll enjoy, so make time for love. You’ll be glad you did.

Home means everything to the little crab, and if your home is not the way you hoped it would be, you will feel restless until you get it right. There’s no possibility of anything going wrong this month. You are now in your very best year in the decade to find the living quarters of your dreams. A mere one day before October dawned, the new moon of September 30 opened a glorious portal of opportunity to get your home the way you always envisioned it to be.

You have Jupiter, the giver of gifts and luck, conjunct the Sun and new moon in this important part of your chart. If you need to move, renovate, repair, de-clutter, or do any other home-related project, you have the green light to get things in motion. Do so in the first days of October, as a new moon is powerful for ten days.

You don’t have to finish your home-related plan in that eleven-day period – what matters will be that you begin now. Although you will have an entire year to take advantage of Jupiter in your house of home, this moment will be among your best of the coming twelve months. You are also likely to get very strong family support for your home-related plans, and may even get a check from mom or dad to help you fund your home.

If you need to close on a house or sign a lease, do so October 10 (or your second choice, October 11). This will be a rare day, when Mercury, ruling agreements, will join Jupiter, planet of profits. This will be, by anyone’s estimate, a five-star day.

Your attention will quickly switch to your career on the full moon, October 16. News won’t be what you are expecting, as Uranus, planet of surprise, will conjoin the moon and oppose the Sun. Cash flow could become a problem, and you may feel tense. Pluto in your seventh house is just close enough to allow domineering Pluto to put in his two cents – this suggests your partner might be difficult and not accepting of any of the ideas you have to offer.

It may help to know that everyone, of every sign, will be walking on eggs at this time. Fortunately, a full moon delivers its news and departs quickly, so you will handle what comes up. An authority figure seems to be putting you on the spot and making you feel fragile. Try seeing yourself as a protagonist in a movie – what would your character do next?

The month winds down with an ideal new moon, October 30, in your house of romance, happiness, and love. This new moon will be a peach, for it will signal Neptune, planet of glamour and dreams, almost certain to make this new moon one for the record books. Be sure to start to socialize quickly after it appears.

This Halloween has every indication of brimming with highly creative costumes – if you want to win the Halloween contest, you will need to get started creating your idea early. The competition will be fierce. Mercury, planet of thinking, will be working with Neptune planet of creativity, in a positive way to give you the edge – go for the gold.