Jupiter entered Leo earlier this summer and is now beginning a roughly year-long journey through your second house, creating one of your strongest financial growth cycles in approximately twelve years, although Jupiter’s gifts are rarely as simplistic as finding a mysterious envelope of money on the kitchen table. Jupiter expands possibilities, confidence and appetite, which means income can grow, but spending can also grow, opportunities can multiply, but so can your expectations, and the most valuable part of this transit may ultimately be the way it changes your understanding of your own economic value.

Cancer has a complicated relationship with value because so much of what you contribute is difficult to quantify. You remember things. You notice when somebody is uncomfortable. You anticipate needs. You create emotional safety. You hold families, workplaces and relationships together in ways that often become visible only when you stop doing it, and because these abilities feel natural, you can underestimate how much skill is involved.

Jupiter in your second house is not particularly interested in letting you continue doing that.

If you are employed, you may become more willing to negotiate, ask for advancement or pursue work that pays appropriately for your experience, while self-employed Cancer readers may finally recognise that being kind and being properly compensated are not mutually exclusive concepts. There is an odd cultural habit of treating money and generosity as moral opposites, particularly for people whose work involves helping others, yet you cannot build security on gratitude alone, and your landlord is unlikely to become emotionally moved by the number of people who appreciate you.

The Sun in Leo strengthens this financial story throughout the week, bringing attention to income, possessions and confidence while encouraging you to take pride in what you have built, and because Leo energy is naturally associated with visibility, you may need to become more comfortable stating your price, describing your abilities or allowing other people to see the quality of what you offer.

This is particularly important if you have spent years assuming good work should speak entirely for itself.