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Aires 
(March
20 - April 18) Fire. Ruling planet Mars. Top
You
have a somewhat difficult month ahead of you, Aries. The conjunction
of your ruler Mars with stern taskmaster Saturn over the first three
weeks of July means that activity is stilled or obstacles present themselves
in the way of achievement. Although your energy for home and family
concerns is high, your activities in the outer world won't perhaps
come to very much, at least until you eventually work your way through
the missteps and the roadblocks. After July 22nd, there is a distinct
shift and life becomes much easier. It pays you to remember that every
obstacle is a challenge to rise above, and that you are far more, always,
than the mere summary of your outer accomplishment.
As the month begins, the Cancer New Moon of July 2nd pulls you toward the inside.
Home and family concerns predominate at this time, and issues that hold you
true to your psychological core values. You are making an optimistic assessment
that the most important qualities of your life are in sufficient supply, in
spite of any and all contrary indications. With the additional intention to
get your day-to-day life more closely aligned with your highest intention for
yourself moving forward, it pays you to remember that even though life sometimes
hands you lemons and forward momentum is difficult to achieve these days, keeping
faith with yourself and with the lemonade that you can manufacture out of your
situation will bring you long-term rewards.
Your allegiance to yourself and your principles might be tested even further
at the time of the First Quarter Moon in the middle of the following week,
on Wednesday, July 9th. This is a time when the rubber meets the road in terms
of what you are attempting, and when also you might feel additional constraints
on your physical activity increasing the pressure. You are challenged to be
patient at this time, and to forge ahead in spite of obstacles. There are patterns
of insufficiency that are perceived rather than actual, and that may become
more conscious for you in this process.
As with all us humans, you sometimes proceed on the basis of misinterpretations
of the events in your life, or trigger points, stemming from the wounds of
early childhood. It is fundamentally important to acknowledge these cast off
parts of yourself. This is the beginning of being able to transcend them and
move toward greater self-acceptance in the process. As Leonard Cohen memorably
puts it: "there is a crack in everything, that's how the light gets in."
By time of the Full Moon time of Friday, July 18th, you may be more ready to
move on and to accept what can't be changed. There is a fundamental optimism
in you at this time that gets stronger as the last half of the month unfolds;
a powerful faith in way that the universe is working itself out though you,
for the highest good.
Taurus 
(April
19 - May 19) Earth. Ruling planet Venus. Top
This is a rather wild and crazy month for you, Taurus. An optimistic first
week leads to the temptation to overdo, although this is definitely not the
best time to over-extend yourself. Then, with the July 9th Quarter Moon in
the middle of the second week in the month, spiritual transformation emerges
as your true calling. You win when you see the situation that you are in right
now as a springboard for transcendence. Over the next few weeks, breakthrough
is more than possible as you consider future plans not so much from the standpoint
of collective values but from what feels entirely right for you.As the month
begins, you are exploring new perspectives with an idea of going beyond previous
limits, finding a new way out, although you are no doubt also feeling a strong
sense of responsibility right now that holds you to your commitments. The Cancer
New Moon of July 2nd, takes place in your communications sector, and you are
likely to be sharing your process with Important figures in your life, one
way that may help you to triangulate your position to your ultimate advantage.
All through this month, your partnership dynamic with significant others is
going through a profound evolution, although the changes taking place inside
you may not be obvious until much later. One way that this will manifest is
in your own creative output, which is more solid than ever, although perhaps
a bit frustrating at times. Your lesson in this area is to forge ahead no matter
what the effort, as this will ensure that you reach the peak you are striving
for, and that your eventual reward will be a long-lasting one.
With the First Quarter Moon that comes along on Wednesday, July 9th, there
might be even more struggle to achieve your objectives, although your enthusiasm
is also undiminished and will see you through. Over the next few days, from
the 10th to the 12th, partnership in your life will become more important for
you and also more pleasant, as you settle in with homey considerations superseding
outer world concerns.
The Full Moon of the following week, taking place on the 18th, represents both
a flowering of creativity and a difficult passage, as limitations may become
obvious that were inherent in your situation all along. You gain a fresh perspective
on what you are up to these days through these trials however.
Throughout the last half of the month, your passion for your work in the world
is contagious. You may feel a sense of the ideal performance that becomes so
compelling that nothing less will satisfy you at this time, a feeling that
only becomes stronger as the end of the month approaches.
Gemini 
(May
20 - June 20) Air. Ruling planet Mercury. Top
It is a new you that you are facing with this monthly transition, Gemini. You
are transforming once again at the very core of your being in order that you
get the most out of your varied experience. The basic optimism of your situation
is compelling, as you journey toward a renewed faith in yourself and a better
understanding of what makes you tick. Reaching for greater emotional connection
with others, you may find a deeper connection with yourself in the process.
You are delving down into your depths for a very different take on things that
takes the spaces between your words more fully into account, rather than the
words themselves.
As the month begins, you might find yourself in edgy circumstances or at least
unexpected ones. The period of the retrograde of your ruler Mercury has not
fully passed until the end of this first week of July, and the issues that
were present for you over the previous five weeks are in some ways only just
now coming to a useful conclusion.
Since Mercury has been in collusion with Uranus over this entire period, one
of its hallmarks has been a tendency for unexpected events to sidetrack your
days and this characteristic might return over the first few days of July.
The deeper purpose of unexpected events is to shock your system out of its
customary slumber, even if only for a moment, and to open you to a wider vision
of what is possible, what one writer has called the "freedom from the
known."
These first days of the month are also of course also the occasion for the
New Moon, which takes place on July 2nd in your resources sector. This makes
for a fresh start with finances as well as with other forms of physical security,
and the potential is there for unexpected windfalls during this time. Anything
that is started during this period will have greater momentum than usual, although
course corrections may be necessary later on.
One especially dicey period in this regard is the few days surrounding the
July 9th First Quarter Moon, when the potential is there in any case for mis-steps,
and when additional pressure might be symbolized for you by Mercury changing
signs the very next day. This is a time when you might more clearly see the
inherent limitations of a particular position that you have taken as recently
as the previous week, and when adjustments might have to be made an to your
original stance.
The Full Moon of the following week, taking place on Friday, July 18th, is
likely to be a much happier and more peaceful time, when you are stimulated
to share your story with others and when your optimism runs high for fairy
tale solutions that could actually come true as long as you remember not to
look down. During the last half of the month you find yourself in a philosophical
stance and more ready to communicate your intention to others around you.
Cancer 
(June
21 - July 21) Water. Ruling planet is the Moon. Top
This is the month of your coming-out party, Cancer, as your birthday time of
the year continues. You have come through a period of internal reflection and
spiritual meditation and now you shine in not only your own light but with
the reflected light of others around you as well. Everything conspires to the
celebratory feeling. Though your communication process with others around you
is slowed down, it is perhaps more seriously productive as a result. You are
finding that the point of view that comes to you through the understanding
of others' minds enhances and enlivens your own, and lends you strength as
well to resist being completely taken in and losing your own place in the dance.
As the month begins you are energized by the July 2nd New Moon in the middle
degrees of your sign. This is likely to be a powerful month for you, starting
as it does with an extra shot of lunar energy. Since the Moon is your ruler,
this month may bring your basic identity as an emotional being to you even
more strongly. The New Moon and Venus also stand opposite optimistic Jupiter
in your partnership sector and it is likely that significant others in your
life are an important part of the picture for you right now.
Since this New Moon also takes place at the very beginning of July, it is interesting
to detail the sections of its cycle: the building energy from the 2nd to the
17th, when it is natural to begin new projects and to focus on achievement,
and as well the waning phases from the 18th to the end of the month. This latter
part of July is a time when you are naturally oriented to take the productions
of the previous two weeks as food for thought and to make use of the conclusions
that come up for you in order to seed the potential ventures of the following
cycle.
With the First Quarter Moon of July 9th, just in the middle of the building
phases, there is normally a moment of tension and greater concentration on
your progress toward your goals, and this time it is especially powerful. With
aspects forming to Jupiter and Chiron there are likely to be issues regarding
the impart of partnership in your life that come to a head at this time. Throughout
this month you are growing in your awareness of relationship patterns that
are sometimes beneficial for you and sometimes not, and at this time you may
be forced into a closer examination of this area of your life.
Relationship with others is certainly a tricky issue for you right now, as
it is for everyone since it defines our very humanity. You are essentially
a social being, and it matters to you how you connect with others around you,
partly as a pointer for how you connect with yourself at our deep center, and
with Source. Yet you cannot give way to living exclusively for others to the
detriment of taking your own power and authority.
These issues may come to a head for you during the crucial First Quarter Phase,
and reach some kind of resolution a week later at the time of the Full Moon
of July 18th. This is another important point in the cycle when you will feel
the tidal pull of others in your life.
The Last Quarter Moon of the 25th signals a philosophical period of increased
understanding based on the information that you have gained. This last half
of the month is a good time for getting clearer on your intentions at this
time and on your goals in general, preparing for an entirely different take
on the events of your life that will accompany the next cycle.
Leo 
(July
22 - August 21) Fire. Ruling planet is the Sun. Top
You are in a deep place of internal revolution these days, Leo, trancing out
for the sake of your soul purpose. You are coming around for a second or a
third time to some basic issues that you have perhaps skipped over or treated
lightly in the past and seriously evaluating their proper place in your universe.
Life direction is your focus right now, and your soul intention as well, to
be found by connecting the process of your life up with the spiritual values
to which you ultimately aspire. You are darkly preoccupied for the time being,
but all this mystical contemplation is preparation for some serious partying
after the Sun enters your sign on the 22nd.
As the month begins, with the July 2nd New Moon in your sector of dream imagination,
you are feeling your interior depths. Your actual dreams may be vivid and more
compelling than usual at this time, and you are psychically attuned to others
as well as to the angel guides of your own inner nature. Although you are mostly
removed from the feeding frenzy of physical plane events at this time, seeing
them through a glass darkly, you are filled with an inner vision that can inform
and calm your more ordinary eyesight. There is a process of increasing awareness
going on beneath the surface that leads you to a more informed conclusion on
where your life is taking you right now, to your great advantage.
This factor of ultimate destination may even more pronounced at the time of
the First Quarter Moon a week later, on the 9th. Then you might also be aware
of dysfunctional patterns of relationship behavior that have run your life
from below as it were for some time now. There is an opportunity at this time
to transcend these patterns or at least to acknowledge and accept them, which
is half the battle.
You are also likely at this point to be struggling somewhat to achieve your
more ordinary objectives. Money may also be an issue. Things go better for
you when you let that part of your life take care of itself and place your
faith in the beneficence of the universe to provide.
The Full Moon of Friday, July 18th may bring with it a sense of completion
in this regard. The Last Quarter Moon a week later, on the 25th, also arrives
with an increase in overall awareness of your true situation. You are coming
into a newly formed sense of self and your world based on the information gained
from your mental wandering, preparing for a subsequent breakthrough in August.
The next month begins with a bang for you with a New Moon and Solar Eclipse
in your sign on August 1st, presaging a significant monthly cycle to come;
one when your place in the world might be seen to be a reflection of a deeper
process of identity than the one provided by consensus thinking.
Virgo 
(August
22 - September 21) Earth. Ruling planet Mercury. Top
This is a good month to make your move, Virgo. Everything lately has been building
up to this moment. With the reflective period of the Mercury retrograde now
past, this is an excellent time to set your intention in a fully committed
manner. Life may not seem so easy right now, but you are getting the best input
that the cosmos has to offer for figuring out what it is that you truly want.
The first two weeks of the month are perfect for visioning future plans. Be
careful what you wish for at this time because you are likely to get exactly
what you focus on. You will proceed slow and steady and right on target, the
more so the more you take yourself fully seriously and center yourself in your
process.
As the month begins, you are focused on achievement. You are completing a phase
of activity that extended over the previous five weeks and that has lead you
all over the map in your search for the truth of what you are up to in this
body, and at this time of your life. You are future-oriented, and with the
advent of the New Moon of July 2nd you have an excellent opportunity to vision
new possibilities for yourself into being. The power of intention is very available
to you at this particular juncture, namely that when you set your course firmly
on an idea the universe flows out to you in response in ways that are consistent
with your highest aspirations for yourself.
This is the information that was contained in the popular book and DVD called
The Secret. You are also perhaps at this time feeling the impact of surprising
activity on the part of friends and colleagues or important partners in your
life. You have been meandering along some very interesting highways and byways
over this last month based partly on this type of input, which has the effect
of shaking you out of your established rut toward something entirely different
and enlightening you, always of course to the extent that you can allow yourself
to open to what you receive. All in all, it is a very different prospect that
you are seeing for yourself these days than you were in the mid-May timeframe.
As you get going this month with some great ideas for where your future could
lead you, with Saturn also poised in your sign there are also inevitable setbacks
that you will encounter. There is a long-lasting and essentially positive impact
to whatever you carry forward right now, one that comes with the expenditure
of an unusually high degree of effort that it is good to be aware of.
Your difficulties come to a head during the First Quarter Moon of Wednesday,
July 9th. At this time you might encounter the greatest obstacles in making
your dream a reality, but if you keep your focus on the deeper aspects of your
process you will be rewarded in the long run.
The Full Moon of the following week, taking place on Friday, July 18th, signals
a powerful and optimistic time for you when you will find the fullest self-expression
that may be possible for you right now, and when you are more inclined to bring
others into the idea of what you are about right now.
The last half of the month provides an opportunity to think deeply about your
current experience and to place it into a context of awareness that is consistent
with your growing understanding of the universe and the place that you occupy
with it.
Libra 
(September
22 - October 22) Air. Ruling planet Venus. Top
This month is your time to sparkle all right, Libra, and you're shining from
the inside out. You are kicking off new action in terms of outer world events
and career initiatives. After mulling over your possibilities and reviewing
your beliefs and goals, this month you are ready to take it to the streets
in terms of outer world activity. As you do, with your best foot striding forward,
your other foot still remains behind, in-dwelling with your deep interior connection
to the cosmos. That is exactly how it should be. Like the remainder of the
iceberg once the tip has been spotted, the most important part of your process
remains unseen.
As the month begins, with the New Moon in your career sector, you are exercising
yourself in terms of your presence on the public stage of outer achievement.
You are very optimistic right now, and very concerned with home and family
as well as being out there in the world. There may be developments in your
professional life at this time, and you are also engaged in a process of digging
down into the core of your being, looking for answers to questions that are
difficult to formulate into words. As the course of this month unfolds, you
are therefore following a process of achievement that is not strictly along
the lines of work priorities but represents a blend with more personal issues.
By the time of the First Quarter Moon taking place a week later, on Wednesday
the 9th, a form of tension may surface in the personal development that you
promoting for yourself, some events that reveal where there might be inherent
limitations in what you are attempting. You are concerned with very basic factors
of your identity at this time, and with coming to greater awareness of old
patterns of interaction that stem for early experiences and that may be holding
in the present moment. These also affect your partnerships with others, and
with your own inner strength, so that coming to a greater acceptance and understanding
of yourself at these deeper levels is of ultimate importance for your peace
of mind.
By the time of the Full Moon in the following week, taking place on Friday,
July 18th, some part of your process is ready to complete, although something
of course remains yet to be discovered. In the following weeks, under the waning
Moon, you are mulling over your possibilities and your most inspired intentions
for yourself, preparing for important new advances in your thinking that will
come in August.
This last half of the month is a time of gathering and reflecting on the information
that comes to you as a result of these musings. You are kicking off a voyage
of discovery that takes you to socially connected parts of yourself and to
your own inner world as well, and this is indeed a rich journey.
Scorpio 
(October
23 - Nov 21) Water. Ruling planets Mars, Pluto. Top
You are pulling hard this month for a future that you can really live with,
Scorpio. Perhaps it is not so surprising that this idea springs directly from
your recent inner struggles and perambulations. You have been lead into new
realizations lately by a circuitous route through the depths of your own heart.
Others in your life are important to you right now, and mirror your process,
although by no means do they supply any part the ultimate solution that you
seek. That path is for your steps alone to follow. Later on in the month, inspired
communication within the circle of your peers leads you further still into
your own epiphany.
As the month begins, you find yourself both dedicated to establishing yourself
in a position where you can be of true service to the surrounding collective
and having some difficulty in making it happen, or at least not as quickly
as you would like it to. This is a deeply philosophic time period for you and
everything that happens to you right now is grist for your mental mill. As
you puzzle over where you are headed you equally are putting your mind to work
on where these ideas fit into the bigger picture.
The New Moon that begins the month on July 2nd supplies energy for your process
of growth and understanding. The conjunction, also at this time, of your ruler
Mars with stodgy Saturn in you sector of wishes and hopes provides a frustratingly
slowing effect that increases the pressure in your mind and heart but does
not allow rapid movement.
The tension may come to a head around the time of the First Quarter Moon of
Wednesday, July 9th, when you encounter further snags in what you are trying
to accomplish and when your will to be different is strong as you explore your
own unique solution to your process of change. This is also a time when your
core issues may become more exposed to the light of higher awareness, with
ultimately beneficial results.
From this mid-week period up to the time of the Full Moon late in the following
week, taking place on Friday, July 18th, your communication is very positive
and upbeat as you find the right note for yourself by outlining your position
with others verbally or in writing. Journaling is an excellent practice for
you.
The Last Quarter Moon that comes along on Friday, July 25th, is a time of summing
up the period of the previous three weeks when you can take powerful lessons
forward into the future. You are preparing for a major emergence into action
by the end of the month as you bring forward the insights gained during these
last two weeks fully to bear.
Sagittarius 
(Nov
22 - Dec 20) Fire. Ruling planet Jupiter. Top
It's a difficult road that you have ahead of you Sagittarius, at least in some
ways. When the going gets tough, some are motivated and some just float on
past the turbulence. You are doing a little bit of both right now. Your outer
world concerns are challenging and very rewarding in the long run, but it may
require a ton of hard work to pull it off. Underneath all that surface tension
however lies the still small voice of your inner process which remains steady
within the torrent and provides you with an exciting perspective from which
to view the kaleidoscopic ever-changing world all around you. What is more,
this viewpoint contributes directly to your spiritual transformation which
after all this time is still mightily unfolding.
As the month begins, with the Cancer New Moon of Wednesday, July 2nd, you find
yourself in a process of growth spurred on by the building energy in your sector
of intimacy and personal transformation. You have been for many months now
getting your best and most expansive level act more firmly together, aligning
your personal identity with universal principles from your higher Self.
This month takes you into a new dimension of this on-going arc of development.
Your ruler Jupiter currently lies opposite the Sun and Moon, and you will experience
issues of self and other as the month unfolds that help you to better understand
your own more fully.
A crucial moment in this process will come with the Last Quarter Moon of Wednesday,
July 9th, when you will likely encounter some bumps in the road that might
serve you by further defining your character. You are very focused on outer
achievement as a means of self-expression at this time, and also faced with
unusually momentous challenges in making your plans work out. The extra effort
required will be abundantly re-paid since the edifice that you are building
is a long-lasting one.
You may also encounter some glitches with peer-to-peer interaction at this
juncture that expose patterns of mis-communication and mis-application of your
verbal powers. These come up for you at this time for the purpose of recognition
and eventual healing. The emotional ground beneath your feet is necessarily
shaky right now but you will be all the stronger for it when the dust has finally
settled.
The Full Moon that comes along a week later, on Friday, July 18th, takes you
to another bend in your road and a clearing that allows you some breathing
space.
The last half of the month may be largely focused on the philosophical implications
of what you have experienced with an eye to improving your alignment with your
highest intentions and your plans going forward, and your connection to Spirit
inside as well.
Capricorn 
(Dec
21 - Jan 19) Earth. Ruling planet Saturn. Top
Partnership with others around you is your current mantra, Capricorn, you who
are so used to going it alone. This does not mean that you are giving over
your individuality. On the contrary, you are finding more sides of yourself
to explore than ever, partly with the help of those around you. Their perspective
enhances your own, really, as you find a bit of yourself in all that you encounter
within the psyches and the minds of important partners in your life. Incredible
and exciting new viewpoints are sprouting like mushrooms in the little visited
area of your deep unconscious and you do well to pay heed to them whenever
they grace you with their presence and emerge, however briefly, into the light.
As the month begins, you are feeling an active sense of participation with
significant partners in your life and with taking on a big picture viewpoint
that includes more facets of yourself than is normally given credit for in
the linear and literally-minded culture that surrounds you. You have been mulling
over how your life fits together with your higher purpose for the last month
or so and this current timeframe may provide some answers to even your unspoken
questions.
The New Moon that practically begins the month on Wednesday July 2nd gives
you a fresh start in all these areas, and particularly in the area of your
relationship connections. Others can be helpful to you right now in the very
sense of their otherness, since different viewpoints than your own can aid
you in forging new pathways for yourself.
The days around the First Quarter Moon of the middle of the following week,
taking place on July 9th, represent a very interesting period of time when
you will feel compelled by circumstances to toughen up your attitude and either
as they say, put up or shut up with respect to the process in which you are
currently engaged.
This is also a time period when old patterns of behavior from your early life
may come to your attention for acceptance and recognition as part of an important
process of renewal. Your very identity is linked in some profound fashion to
your core beliefs and your interior process and you do well to recognize it.
At the time of the Full Moon taking place a week later on Friday, July 18th,
there will be both a form of resolution and a continuation of this edge, one
that takes others in your life more fully into account as a stepping-stone
to your own process of increasing self-awareness. Through these last two weeks
of the month you are exploring new ways of being in and understanding more
completely the world around you.
Aquarius 
(Jan
20 - Feb 18) Air. Ruling planets Uranus, Saturn. Top
The times they are a'changin' for you right now, Aquarius. You are making some
active moves this month toward self-transcendence, although you may not realize
what they are just yet. An important step is being taken in some part of your
psyche. After major reconsiderations over these past few weeks of your very
identity and the roots of your creativity also, you are more than ready to
move ahead with important initiatives and new sets of plans. These schemes
and dreams are more active at soul than surface level and may gently push your
conscious mind into powerful new directions. The universe that drives your
actions is ever empty, like the hub of a wheel, and yet full of potency, and
always surprising.
As the month begins, there is a feeling of plugging yourself in more fully
to the world around you. This is an important first two weeks of the month
for you, as you spring-board off the energy of the New Moon of July 2nd taking
place in your sector of discipleship to your highest intention for yourself.
You are metaphorically putting your best foot forward at this time. Your values
are slowly changing along the lines of deeper spiritual commitment; whether
you are always entirely aware of this simple yet inescapable fact.
The First Quarter Moon that comes along in the middle of the following week,
on Wednesday, July 9th, represents a crux of change, when you will feel the
heat of new conclusions adding themselves up in your mind and feel the weight
of circumstance that seems to be directing or at least offering guidelines
to the arc of your development. You are perhaps also becoming more aware, at
this juncture, of old patterns of behavior that have ruled your life from below
the level of your conscious attention for many years now. These behaviors,
stemming from early childhood, are no longer viable for you in your present
circumstance but represent a knee-jerk set of reactions that you bring to bear
without quite knowing how it happened.
Simply accepting these walled-off parts of yourself goes a long way toward
healing these issues and coming to a greater level of integration. Your heart
mind and body are as one, in all reality, and can function that way to your
benefit so long as they are not sidetracked by the voices of the long-dead
past.
The Full Moon of the week following, taking place on Friday, July 18th, may
represent a resolution of these issues and serves to connect outer circumstances
with the mysteries of your inner world.
The Last Quarter Moon of Friday the 25th signals a time when you will come
to some interesting conclusions regarding the previous three weeks just past,
and represents in the words of astrologer Dane Rudhyar a "crisis of awareness." Significant
others in your life may come into the picture in a new way for you at this
time.
This entire last half of the month is a stage that may be characterized as
one of contemplation rather than direct action, and a period when you will
be gathering your energies for an exciting month of August to come.
Pisces 
(Feb
19 - March 19) Water. Ruling planets Neptune, Jupiter. Top
This is the summer of your triumph, Pisces. This month gives you the green
light for moving ahead with changes you have contemplated these many weeks
but not yet fully acted upon. You have been dwelling within the deep confines
of your innermost soul, finding your way through to some fascinating home truths,
and now you are ready to emerge from your cocoon and sing your most authentic
song of yourself. There is a strong spiritual component to all your striving
at this time. You win so long as you don't mistake undercover activity for
lack of progress. Later in the month, your forward momentum swings into high
gear with the aid of partnership mentoring that helps you to define your own
way forward.
As the month begins, with the New Moon in your sector of creative self-expression,
you are feeling your way forward into a better sense of how you want to participate
in the world around you, based on realizations that have been coming to you
from an interior perspective of your unique place in the world. Although you
must meet the world on its own terms in one sense, and "render unto Caesar
the things that are Caesar's", there is a growing recognition on your
part that beyond all collusion with a physical world not of your own making
there is a still small place inside yourself that is yours, and yours alone.
That part has its own logic and its own concern for a deeper truth. And you
are meeting self in your own fashion yet again during the course of this month.
There might be some tension in your process at the time of the First Quarter
Moon that comes along mid-week on July 9th. This is a time when you must face
potential limitations in what you are attempting and also when you are imbued
by a strong sense of what is possible beyond these limitations. Surprising
events that arise may serve to clarify your aims, even as they present challenges
to your ability to accomplish what you are intending. Transformation at this
time may also come your way through the agency of others in your life that
serve to mentor you.
The Full Moon of Friday, July 18th, provides an opportunity to rise above the
battle and adopt a faith-based approach, and signals a period when you may
be more ready to share with others the fruit of your own process. This can
be an effective way for you to get a better handle on that process for yourself.
By the moment of the Last Quarter Moon of the 25th you are putting your conclusions
to work for you in determining how your inner wisdom might be able to take
you forward in a way that does not compromise your highest intentions for yourself
as near as you can define that intention. Your life these days is like a trust-fall,
in which in order to make progress you have to believe in the ultimate beneficence
of the universe to sustain you in spite of the dangers.
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Astrology of July features Jupiter, Saturn, Mars and Venus. Mars conjuncts
Saturn during the first half of the month. This makes for a period of
time when things that we try to accomplish will not go smoothly and when
outer activity will be slowed down and concentrated. Much can be accomplished
during this time period, but it will not come easily. Hard work will
get its reward, and its long-lasting one at that. After the July 18th
Full Moon, Mars moves to a trine with Jupiter, which is quite another
kettle of fish. In the closing ten days of July, both Mars and Venus
aspect Jupiter, making for a period when we are more inclined to take
risks and when we may achieve an entirely beneficial result with very
little effort expended, depending largely on attitude. There are therefore
two distinct phases to this monthly period, with the shift occurring
as the Sun enters its own sign of Leo on Tuesday the 22nd.
Venus makes some interesting outer planet aspects as well during July. At the
time of the July 2nd New Moon, Venus exactly opposes Jupiter. This is an entirely
different archetypal connection than provided by Mars-Saturn. Although it will
be difficult to get things done for the entire first two weeks of this New
Moon, for the few days surrounding July 2nd, we may feel compelled to go to
the limit on what we desire. Optimism reigns, especially in the area of relationship
and romance.
At the time of the July 9th Quarter Moon, The Sun and Moon in square with each
other aspect Jupiter, Uranus and Chiron, with the Sun opposed to Jupiter and
trine Uranus. Chiron occupies the Jupiter-Uranus midpoint. Jupiter with Uranus
(in sextile at this time) bespeaks the rapid dissemination of new ideas into
the collective mind so that this period may represent a time of fresh viewpoints.
With Chiron involved, old and potentially painful patterns of behavior may
be up for recognition and renewal. There will also likely be developments in
the presidential election at this time, perhaps surprising ones with Uranus
involved, and in our general understanding of the way the universe works itself
out.
The Sun and Moon are of course opposed at the Full Moon of July 18th. In addition
to some very lovely early evening skies we will have the dramatic tension of
the two lights in Cancer and Capricorn. The Sun is also the focal point of
a Yod from Pluto and Neptune, providing an powerful feeling of numinous connection
to the beyond, and loosening the barrier between the visible and the unseen
worlds. It is a spiritually rich second half of the month that awaits us.
Pluto remains active in the last degree of Sagittarius, preparing for his re-entry
into Capricorn by late fall. Pluto completes its last pass through Sagittarius,
these few months of late summer may signify a summing up of his energy there:
self-righteousness in its most extreme cases, the transcendence of religious
boundaries at its most generous. There is a verse of the Tao that might be
more than relevant in these days of transcendence and wonder:
One who knows his lot to be the lot of all other men
Is a safe man to guide them,
One who recognizes all men as members of his own body
Is a sound man to guard them.
Current Moon Configurations
July 2nd New Moon
This is a time of fresh energy in the feeling depths of our being, as the lunar
nature of this sign plays itself out more fully in our lives. Venus is exactly
opposite Jupiter at this time so that beneficial relationship energy surrounds
us. Mars is also drawing nearer to its conjunction with Saturn, leading to
a recognition of greater obstacles than usual, but creating long-lasting eventual
gains in reward for the extra effort expended.
July 9th First Quarter Moon
This is a time when we must take cognizance of difficulties posed in making
the intention seeded at the time of the New Moon into concrete reality. In
parallel with this symbolism, Mars and Saturn exactly conjunct, so that it
will be quite difficult at this time to get anything done. The Moon's degree
as it squares the Sun also squares Jupiter, creating a sense of optimism that
may prove exaggerated and pushing us to take unnecessary risks that may not
in fact pan out for us. Chiron is also involved in this configuration, and
old patterns of dysfunctional behavior may come up for greater awareness and
eventual integration, especially with regard to groups that we espouse and
social situations that we favor with our support.
July 18th Full Moon
This Full Moon will be most visible on the evening of the 17th and provides
a peaceful respite from the difficulties symbolized by the previous week's
square relationship. There will also be a degree of tension represented in
the aspects that the Full Moon makes to Mars but these are largely superseded
by the positive Mars trine to Jupiter, which is forming for most of the remainder
of the month.
July 25th Last Quarter Moon
This is traditionally a time of increased awareness of the parameters of our
situation, based on the knowledge gained from the previous three weeks of the
cycle. This is what eminent astrologer Dane Rudhyar called the "crisis
of consciousness" that accompanies our increased understanding of what
has and has not been successful over that period of time. In this case, we
are gathering our strength and our wisdom for the eclipses of August, which
will rock our world, hopefully for the better. Any shock to the system, such
as those prefigured by these powerful August configurations, has the potentially
beneficial effect of shaking us out of our collective rut and stimulating our
imagination of a better world that is in actuality more than possible, were
we simply to rise up as a body to meet it.
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