Daily Horoscope: Cancer

An aspiration seems beyond reach until an able assist appears. It's just the helping hand you need to get up and over an obstacle.

You're in demand once more with Venus, planet of attraction, arcing back over your solar midheaven. Others will soon miss what they took for granted.

Your suggestions have been so helpful that it makes sense you'd be asked to spearhead a group that's been floundering. This reintroduces that "take charge" attitude you'd forgotten about.

It may look like you're at others' beck-and-call, but you're actually sitting pretty. You have a strong hand which means you get to decide when to play it.

You barely mastered one situation and now you're being handed another. In a perfect world you'd pass, but there's no choice. Do your best.

Don't apologize for being a stickler. It's clear colleagues haven't done their homework. Your fact-finding mission salvages a situation before it becomes a fiasco.

The sudden departure of someone you relied on is a blessing in disguise. What you thought was a life preserver was really a millstone.

The signals couldn't be more obvious about the future direction you should take. Don't be like the horse that was led to water but refused to drink.

A partner or associate finally clues into what you've been trying to do all along. The realization comes too late to do any good now, but there's always next time.

There's no talking a superior down off that soapbox so you might as well let the life lecture go in one ear and out the other.