Cancer 2026 Career Horoscope

While you will start the year with Mercury in your work sector, he will leave on 2nd January, not to return with the Sun until December. With neither Venus nor Mars visiting your work sector this year, and the Sun not returning to put the solar spotlight on your work situation, job matters and options from 22nd November to 22nd December, and Mercury not returning until 6th December, this is not an active year on the job front.

Instead, this is going to be a big year on the career front, where the focus is on your wider professional game. At the same time, while Mercury will leave on 2nd January, this is not only a chance to start the year with your head in the game, but Venus only left on Christmas Day, the Sun three days earlier and Mars a week earlier.

In other words, you do not need the professional gods’ help on the job front, with more than enough momentum and resources to take it from here on your own. After a busy end to 2025, there is even a chance to take your foot off the gas as you wait for the pace to pick up on the career front.

Because you have had the dwarf planet Eris, the warrior princess of the cosmos, in your career sector for over three decades and she is not leaving until 2044, things never really go off the boil on the career front. However, the year not only begins with Eris in retrograde motion, but also at a standstill ahead of a direct turn on 12th January, giving you an opportunity to pause with big changes just around the corner.

Those changes begin when, on 27th January, Neptune, the planet of hopes and dreams, returns to spend the next 13 years in your career sector. This will be followed a few weeks later by Saturn’s return on 14th February, where, until leaving in April 2028, he will give you the resolve to do whatever it takes for as long as it takes, as he works with Neptune to turn professional dreams into reality.

While Saturn and Neptune are here for the long haul, when Venus returns on 6th March she will be working to exploit things in the here and now. This begins some of the most active months of the year on the career front, which will run through until Mars leaves on 19th May.

This is just over a month before Jupiter will return to your income sector on 30th June to kick off your biggest year for income growth and expansion in over a decade. By then, Neptune and Saturn will be settled into your career sector, with Jupiter linking up with them and enjoying their support for the next 13 months.