Good work does speak for itself, but unfortunately it sometimes speaks very quietly while mediocre work has hired a marketing department.

Tell people what you do.

The Understanding Your Birth Chart section can help you see how this larger Jupiter cycle interacts with your individual chart, because Cancer Sun and Cancer rising readers will share some themes while the exact financial opportunities depend on the houses and natal planets Jupiter is activating personally.

The approaching August 12 total solar eclipse and New Moon in Leo makes this money and self-worth story considerably more significant, because the eclipse occurs just beyond the end of this horoscope week in the same second-house territory already occupied by the Sun and Jupiter. You may already feel something building around income, financial independence, business, possessions, pricing or your relationship with security, but eclipse periods are famous for revealing information we could not reasonably have planned around beforehand, so resist the urge to decide exactly how the story must unfold.

Pay attention instead to what keeps becoming louder.

If you repeatedly think about changing your income, starting something independently, raising a price, applying for better work, selling something, reducing financial dependence or building greater security, do not dismiss those thoughts simply because you do not yet have a complete plan. The eclipse may accelerate a process that is already underway, and the Moon Phases section is worth following closely through August because the Leo solar eclipse and Pisces lunar eclipse later in the month create a much larger cycle than an ordinary New Moon and Full Moon.

Venus begins this week in Virgo, moving through your third house of communication, siblings, neighbours, learning, writing, local travel and everyday conversations, which has brought a softer tone to communication and may have helped you repair relationships or express difficult things with greater tact after Mercury’s retrograde. You may have enjoyed writing, studying, talking with siblings, spending time locally or simply having more pleasant conversations after weeks when language seemed unnecessarily complicated.

Then Venus enters Libra on August 6 and moves into your fourth house of home, family, property, parents, emotional foundations and private life, and because Venus rules Libra this is one of the most naturally supportive domestic transits of your year.