Aires   Taurus   Gemini   Cancer   Leo   Virgo   Libra   Scorpio   Sagitt   Capric   Aquar   Pisces   Overview

Ideas abound, Aries. You are on course to really begin to recreate yourself and your values– and the basis for your emotional security – out of the failed premises of the past. You are going through a birth process that is sometimes difficult but never dull, making an embattled stand for your cherished beliefs both new and old. You might wind up questioning everything that you ever knew, or thought you did, but there’s an excellent chance of it all coming out somehow right in the end. Your basic quality of character, the strength of your resolve, and your trust in the benevolence of the surrounding universe will see you through.

As the month begins, you are really feeling the thrust of the T-square of outer planets in Cardinal Signs — of which yours is one. This dynamic configuration is characterized by the transformative effects of Uranus in square with Pluto but greatly compounded by the opposing presence of Saturn located in your seventh sector of relationship. Significant partners in your life are doubly important to you now, serving both as mentor-like providers of a contrasting point of view to your own, and as catalytic agents for your on-going transformation. Since the New Moon that begins the month is also a Solar Eclipse in your sector of home and family, it is an especially powerful time for you, and one that connects you to your own deep center in ways that you have not experienced. Home, family and tribe are increasingly important to you as the month wears on and you become more versed in exactly what the universe is trying to tell you regarding this fundamental area of your life.

Following the July 1st New Moon by almost a week, and presenting a contrast to that burst of forward-going energy, the First Quarter Moon of late Thursday evening and early Friday morning, July 7th and 8th, could definitely represent a slowdown. This is a time when you must decide which of your impulsive initiatives from the time of the New Moon are truly viable. You might feel virtually stopped in your tracks by partnership intervention but then again it is helpful to take in the balance point of other views to counteract your native wildness. The collaboration between progressive and conservative viewpoints taking place within you is both necessary and fruitful at this time. T

he Full Moon of Thursday night and Friday morning, July 14th and 15th, provides a place of relative self-assurance in the face of storms. You are reaching for a balance between public and private, self and other. There is a way that as you make your way in the outer world of public achievement you can allow for partnership interaction to count, yet not too much.
The Last Quarter Moon of Friday, July 22nd, brings you to a contemplative stance, good for examining all that has come before it during this powerful lunation.

You are poised to continue your self-exploration with the next month’s cycle, kicked off on the weekend of July 30th with the Leo New Moon. You are more philosophical now than ever, putting the information that you have gleaned to good use as you mull over the changes and challenges represented by recent events.

Taurus   (April 20 - May 20)  Earth.  Ruling planet Venus.    Top

You are feeling a joyful energy for change these days Taurus, and it is a truly spiritual direction that you are taking. As you contemplate your future now nothing makes sense that does not partake of the numinous and unseen world behind what is available to your senses five. As Whitman puts it you “contain multitudes.” There is a practical side to your desire for self-transcendence now that is appealing and that balances your wilder notions although might also feel limiting in the short term. With so many alternatives presenting themselves to you a certain degree of uncertainty and confusion is also inevitable. Optimistic thinking will take you far, but perhaps you are not meant to so easily get yourself all the way out of this particular dilemma.

As the month begins, you are investigating your communication skills. These are vital for your continued progress in dealing successfully with the tide of transformative new perspectives lately coming down upon your head. Nothing is as you formerly believed it to be, or at least not entirely so. This makes for a confusing vision of your future, but one that is exciting in its wide-open sense of possibility. Conferring with your peers might be the very best way for you to get a better handle on exactly what you are faced with, going forward. The energy of the powerful Solar Eclipse in your third sector stemming from the very beginning of the month will carry you far, and enhance all forms of connection with everyone around you. A numinous and otherworldly vision of what is unseen also begins to emerge and to influence your decision-making. Far from creating dissent, partnership and collegial collaboration engenders useful discussion that enables you to understand more clearly your own point of view.

The First Quarter Moon of late Thursday evening and early Friday, July 7th and 8th, adds further layers to this interactive picture, and also might serve to drive home to you a serious cast of mind regarding your ultimate sense of spiritual mission. You are increasingly discovering that dreams, plans and schemes for the future do not interest you without being in alignment with a deeper sense of soul purpose.

The Full Moon of Friday night and Thursday morning, July 14th and 15th, sets off a relatively peaceful period of time when higher mind considerations take precedence and conflicts may ease. This mid-month period is also a time when partnership interaction is heightened. You are seeking and perhaps finding a balance between working with others and working out your own self-investigation. You are also more actively exploring your inner depths, taking up your role as spiritual warrior. Although your forward momentum is slowed in areas of outer performance and everyday affairs, this gives you an even better opportunity for meditative journeying within.

The Last Quarter Moon of Friday, July 22nd, represents a time when you are summing up all that you have learned thus far in the cycle of energy stemming from the New Moon eclipse. You are feeling into your psychological core center now and finding a new sense of refuge there, one based on the merit of your increased understanding of your own depths.

All through this month you have been finding new ways to be in interaction with significant partners in your life, and coming to a way of reaching out to others that is not leaning either toward them or away but rather forms a more equal interchange. This is an important consideration as you head into the following month. Then you will be centering yourself even further as you consider issues of home and family or tribe, leading toward a greater resultant sense of internal security.

Gemini   (May 21 - June 20)  Air.  Ruling planet Mercury.    Top

Your full potential is opening up before you, Gemini. As you search out new fields to conquer and focus on what is ahead for you rather than on what is behind, it’s almost as though what has gone before no longer even exists. This dream of the future unfolding is the stronger and overcomes any illusion of past incompleteness. It’s scary taking on a new kind of responsibility for yourself in moving into a better internal relationship with Spirit actualizing itself through your life, and yet this vision is so compelling that it outweighs all other considerations. Your life as it develops and as you respond to the evolutionary pressures within you and outside of yourself is simply allowing you to become who you really are.

As the month begins, you are feeling a terrific fresh start in both finances and in more subtle sense of the ideals that you espouse, brought about by the powerful Solar Eclipse and New Moon from the very beginning of the month in your second sector of resources and values. You are strongly visionary at this time and yet also somewhat restricted and restrained from acting on the full scope of these potent ideals by an equal dose of caution that holds you back. You are therefore being pulled in several directions all at once; this is the nature of the polarization of these times that you are living through. You are possessed of tremendous idealization as well as the motivation to move forward and to eliminate previous foundations; at the same time there are competing urges to remain cautious and keep what you already have.

With the advent of this powerful eclipse, all these factors are greatly energized. Fundamental to your process now is the desire to grow and to transform yourself, and in so doing, to seek to fulfill your evolutionary purpose. Your self-definition is changing and your creative self-expression along with it. Your persona somehow retains the conservative streak of holding on for dear life to what has gone before, even though that past expression is dying or already dead. This might be your biggest challenge in the current month, of being able to eventually overcome this tendency to stay stuck.

The First Quarter Moon of late Thursday evening, July 7th, and early Friday morning, July 8th, signals the beginning of a dicey and confusing period when conflicts with others around you could arise. This is a time when you are seeking to better define the arc of your own development and the self-concept that you actually embrace in getting yourself from where you are now to a place that is in greater alignment with your spiritual center. It is an intense time because you are not only finding new ways to interact with others around you, but are also coming into greater consciousness concerning the manner in which you put yourself out there. This affects the causes that you aspire to, and the way that your work in the world either furthers or hinders your true soul-level purpose for being here.

The Full Moon of Thursday night and Friday morning, July 14th and 15th, might come as something of an illumination in this regard. This is a time of balance and reassessment, when many of the issues that have emerged over the course of this present monthly cycle could come to be seen in a new light. Over these prior two weeks, there could also have been old patterns of behavior that have come up that can now be seen in a more conscious fashion. These illuminate ways that you have been wounded in the past as a contributing factor to knee-jerk reactions that are no longer in your best interest in the present era. If such patterns do arise they do so for the purpose of acknowledging these dark places within your psyche and moving beyond them. This is obviously not in the sense of ignoring these issues but rather of accepting everything about yourself, without judgment, including your flaws.

With the Last Quarter Moon of Friday, July 22nd, you are getting a better handle on everything that has come before with an eye to a less encumbered future: one where you might be able to take greater delight in your transformational process.

Cancer   (June 21 - July 22)  Water.  Ruling planet is the Moon.    Top

This is the first month of the rest of your life, Cancer. A new phase is upon you with the July 1st Solar Eclipse in your sign. You are now more fully yourself, and it might be best to simply accept the changes that continue to rain down. You recognize that you are being put through the ringer, but for good reason, as your work in the world and the way that you come across to others turns topsy-turvy as a result. This all goes better when you relax and let the cosmos have its way with you. As the poet says, “Why, that my chaff might fly, my grain lie shear and clear!” You are somehow allowing Spirit to mold you and sculpt you, removing whatever is not your truest self.

As the month begins, you are filled with the tremendous energy and emotion signaled by the powerful presence of the Solar Eclipse and New Moon in your sign. This month brings to a climax some of the issues that have been percolating though your mind and heart, such as how far off the beaten path you might need to go to find your true calling and whether it is fear that holds you back. You are in the midst of a perfect storm of internal controversy regarding these and other crucial life decisions, and struggling to find your way forward in the swirl of circumstance. Trusting in your own internal guidance is a good first step toward working your way out of these conundrums.

The eclipse that takes place on Friday, July 1st, is a super-potent New Moon that highlights your intuitive belief in soul growth and change as well as your core resistance to it. You may have been considering career and professional moves that seem very far out, and yet somehow right for you and this month will bring these issues to the front burner. There have been good reasons to hold back, and the question is whether you are operating out of fear of the unknown or if your fundamentally conservative countering impulse is the grounding of good common sense. One or another of these conflicting points of view might get projected onto mentoring figures or significant partners, but these issues are really your own, and your own to sort out. There is no easy answer. You are after a higher synthesis of these viewpoints rather than an eternal conflict of polarizations.

The First Quarter Moon of late of Thursday night and early Friday morning, July 7th and 8th, might provide further conflict as you actively engage these alternatives but in the intensification you might also be able to come to some better answers, that are more in line with soul purpose. This is a time when going to the inside of your own mind and heart will be extremely fruitful for you, allowing you to take back the more obvious projections on figures in your life or outer circumstances. This is also a time when you might be able to see more clearly into past patterns of dysfunction. These could come up for you in the tension of this moment and if they do, it presents you with the rare opportunity of acknowledging their existence and their influence over you. Such behaviors likely stem from early trauma and can trip you up in the present until and unless you are willing to accept these wounded parts of yourself and move beyond them. Recognizing their existence in your psyche and thus accepting your flaws is more than half the battle.

The Full Moon of Thursday night and Friday morning, July 14th and 15th, also constitutes an important juncture, one in which you might be able to reach for solutions over problems. Partners in your life come into the picture as powerful allies who can aid you in finding your way forward, so long as you can work through the potential issues of maintaining healthy boundaries.

The Last Quarter Moon of Friday, July 22nd, signals a time of mulling over what has come before with a view to synthesizing the information and making good use of it as a basis for further exploration. You are coming to see the plans that emerge spontaneously from your deep intuitive center as the key investment in a future that that you can really live with; one that works for you on all levels of your being.

Leo   (July 23 - August 22)  Fire.  Ruling planet is the Sun.    Top

This is an odd month for you, Leo; you are uncharacteristically feeling a little secluded. You may find that it is increasingly important that you reach out to your peers and yet this is an intention that does not easily find its resolution. You are meanwhile connecting to a quiet and calm space within you that is slowly transforming your approach to life from the inside out. Brothers and sisters and the way that you communicate your deepest thoughts to others create an important t feedback loop to your own process which is a largely internal one. Your insights are dazzling in their essential clarity and when you can find the way to get them across to others then you will really see them shine. They magnify in significance and serve to further the common good as you see it.

As the month begins, you are occupying a dreamy space that is essentially orthogonal to the so-called real world. You are somewhat removed from that world, especially for the first three weeks of the current month, yet still very much present in it. The unseen world is actually the vaster and more fundamental of the two, yet does not normally receive the attention from your waking life that it merits, although that situation could change in unexpected ways as this mystical month unfolds.

The Solar Eclipse and New Moon from the very beginning of the month, taking place on Friday, July 1st, brings these themes into sharp relief and accentuates the dichotomy between these otherworldly concerns and those of more mundane events and circumstances. Not only is the world of inner imagination accentuated but that of your normal solar consciousness is dimmed, so that this powerfully constellated intuitive reality shines even more brightly. You find that your communication with others around you is somewhat shut down, or at the very least made more solemn and serious, and reflecting the greater issues that currently occupy much of your thinking.

The First Quarter Moon of late Thursday evening and early Friday morning, July 7th and 8th, is a time of relative trial that will give you further pause. In acting out the arc of your development over the course of this month’s difficult cycle you will be pushed to your limits in some areas. You are dealing with boundaries at this time, both internal ones and those with intimate partners. It might become difficult to decide where they begin and you leave off. You might also tend to idealize significant relationship in your life and feel let down when they do not measure up to unrealistic standards.

The Full Moon of Thursday night and Friday morning, July 14th and 15th, allows some of the tension to dissipate and leads you toward a place of balance. You are entering the second phase of this four week period of the lunation cycle and thereby completing an arc of development that has taken you essentially out of time, and out of your ordinary everyday world. You will come back into it again by the end of the month, renewed and refreshed.

The Last Quarter Moon of Friday, July 22nd, represents a profound period of reflection and contemplation when you are preparing for the cycle to come by reviewing and absorbing the information from the previous three weeks of this one. Toward months end, you are meditative but simultaneously riding the wave of the changes in which you have been constructively engaged to go out into the world with a different feeling tone than when you began your month-long journey. As you re-emerge into the world of events and circumstances you might do well to recall the words of T.S. Eliot that you will arrive at where you started, and you will “know the place for the first time.”

Virgo   (August 23 - September 22)  Earth.  Ruling planet Mercury.   Top

It is an entirely new ballgame for you, Virgo. Your wishes are powerful now, and lead you toward new horizons. Self-expression is a transformative area, a changing landscape throwing you out of your normal orbit, and putting you more in tune with a deep sense of intuitional purpose that takes you beyond former limits. You are coming to greater consciousness regarding old patterns of dysfunctional behavior that have perhaps held you back for far too long, and that with the help of the feedback from constructive partners are starting to shift. You have been feeling stuck, shying away from necessary adjustments that you fear will take you out of your comfort zone. All that may be about to change with the power of this monthly cycle.

As the month begins, you are feeling the strength of the enormously powerful Solar Eclipse in your sector of wishes and hopes and plans for the future. Your vision is for a better alignment between your current or future projects and your true soul purpose, and in some ways you have never in your life been closer to making that fit work out for you. In the midst of discovering how best to actualize these ideals you are also dealing with perceived lack, which is not necessarily based in actual deficit but which can equally inhibit your sense of progress. This might be in the area of your finances, or it might involve more subtle bases for comfort and security, perhaps in terms of the interaction with significant partners in your life. Relationship is a confusing area for you right now. There could be a tendency to place partners on a pedestal, or to idealize your possibilities, or there could even be outright deception that you might suffer from others during the course of this intense spring and summer.

It is also possible that ancient patterns of behavior could come up, interfering with the smooth functioning of your connections with others. These are patterns that stem from early childhood trauma and that have long outlived their usefulness in your present day era. If such potentially dysfunctional behavior does arise it could become a positive development. By calling your conscious attention to these behaviors and the dark places within your psyche that they are connected to, it might be possible for you to reach a new level of acceptance regarding them. Only by allowing your inner wounds to become more conscious can you begin to move past them.

The First Quarter Moon of late Thursday and early Friday, July 7th and 8th, initiates a period when many of these conflicts could become more pronounced. This is a testing time; a time when you will be forced to recognize that some parts of what you are attempting this month might not fly, while others will need to be adjusted in important ways. Limitations loom large but it is also good at this juncture to remember that nothing is impossible and that where there is a will there is a way. If the idealizations that have been part of your response to significant others in your life continue to rage unchecked they might represent a detriment rather than an advantage, so that it is a good time for a more conscious approach in this area.

The Full Moon of Thursday night and Friday morning, July 14th and 15th, signals a time of balance and of relative peace in the valley, as you consider the changes that you are in the midst of. You are investigating how far you can go toward synthesizing logical and intuitive methodologies. It is becoming clear to you the extent to which you are redefining yourself in important ways over this period, and striving for an excellence in self-expression that corresponds to the purity of your motivation.

The Last Quarter Moon of July 22nd is the focal point of a phase of summing up all the conclusions that you can possibly draw from your experience, taking what you have gathered from the seeming coincidences and resonances of the prior weeks of the month leading up to this moment of contemplation. This is an excellent time to journal and in general to mull over your possibilities as you prepare to enter your next stage.

Libra   (September 23 - October 22)  Air.  Ruling planet Venus.    Top

You are taking it over the top, Libra. This is the month that the pace of change really accelerates for both your work in the world and also for your on-going internal transformation. It is important to recognize that far from being a distraction, the one is not really possible without the other. Partners in your life provide much of the catalytic excitement and part of the joy, but the real opportunity is for deep connection within the bounds of your very own mind and heart. As you sink into more meaningful resonance with the surrounding cosmos you might return to your own profound center and, as they say, know that place as though it were the very first time.

As the month begins, you are feeling your oats, putting some very concentrated energy into outer persona and career initiatives. You are a bit head in the clouds at this time also, to be sure, but remain primarily concerned with the practical considerations of making things happen in the world of events. Meanwhile there are important changes that are creeping up on you from the very core of your being, partly as a result of applying concretized bodily and physical awareness to the arc of your personal development. In this way you are combining modalities, moving with concerted effort that includes body and soul together.

The Solar Eclipse and New Moon from the very beginning of the month brings with it loads of energy for outer world pursuits, placed as it is in your sector of career and profession. You have in fact been gathering your energies over the past several weeks for just this moment, a starburst of both serious endeavor and joyous interconnection with others. With this eclipse you are being pulled in several directions at once; your head and its productions on the one hand and on the other relationship, including deep family connectivity and with intimate partners. With Saturn strongly constellated in your identity sector you have had quite a time lately in actualizing your productions into concrete manifestation, it has been slow and difficult getting anything out, with many unplanned delays and unexpected hardships. That is not changing anytime soon, but you have the consolation of realizing that as difficult as getting things accomplished might have been, the results are long-lasting and productive of character. When you take the long view of what has been achieved thus far and continuing to the end of this year – what you have built and are continuing to build – you might come to recognize this period as entirely life changing.

With the First Quarter Moon of late Thursday and early Friday, July 7th and 8th, you might come to a few bumps in the road of your progress. Difficulties arise and lead you to a better understanding of where you need to make vital course adjustments. In this powerful juncture you will come to see many factors of your ongoing transformation in a vastly different light. You are reaching past polarity and conflict toward a new synthesis.

The Full Moon of Thursday night and Friday morning, July 14th and 15th, allows you to find a better form of balance, uniting self and other, and as well your head and your heart. You are moving from your own deep center at this time and it serves you to recognize that the fluctuations of partnership activity that you have been experiencing lately are just what you have needed, even though disconcerting, and necessary from the standpoint of your own progress and growth.

When the Last Quarter Moon of Friday, July 22nd comes around, it signals a time of mulling over your various changes with an eye to the future. Next month provides smoother sailing as you take for granted the questions and conflicts of this phase and go beyond them with a steadier gaze, building a bridge to a more vibrant and alive participation in your own life.

Scorpio   (October 23 - Nov 21)  Water.  Ruling planets Mars, Pluto.   Top

You are undergoing a sea-change, Scorpio. Nothing that is fundamental to your former life will be left untransformed, but with your reaction to the events of this month and the next will turn “rich and strange.” Day-to-day existence becomes surprisingly unpredictable. Hidden and even difficult places within you are likely to be revealed and to present themselves to your conscious self for acceptance and healing. Significant partners in your life have an important role to play in illuminating your way down and through your own deep places and in keeping up your spirits during the course of these inner explorations. It is important that you keep the communication flowing in order to achieve an entirely necessary balance.

As the month begins, you are facing revelations in your point of view on your life, and your beliefs in general, as well as in your concept of service to others. There has been a spiritual metamorphosis brewing in the depths of your being and it is finding its emergence over the course of a climactic summer, with this current month at the crux. You are also experiencing a changing of the guard with respect to your approach to intimacy both with significant partners and, within the confines of your own inner world, with yourself also. You are making a move toward transformation of the way that you see yourself including these largely unknown parts that resist conscious understanding but which are still there and which in fact make up the larger and most significant parts of yourself, the all-important underpinning of the more surface layers of your personality.

All these reflections are energized and empowered by the intense Solar Eclipse of July 1st in your sector of higher mind. The potent New Moon brings focus to your ongoing quest for better integration of all the disparate parts of yourself, both seen and unseen. As you move forward with necessary changes you might encounter resistance toward exposure of your secret places even to yourself. You might feel reluctance to jump into new connections with others. A cautious impulse restrains your wilder flights of fancy but if it represents fear only, then it is not enough to stop you.

The First Quarter Moon of late Thursday evening, early Friday morning, July 7th and 8th, throws a few curve balls and might send you off track. Interpersonal conflicts could arise and if they do, they might point beyond the superficial elements. Although you are functioning in general quite well on outer levels, your big changes for this month are internal, and it is here that you might encounter your own demons, perhaps in the guise of relationship disputes. You could encounter old patterns of essentially dysfunctional behavior that arise from early trauma and that have the unfortunate effect of holding you back from being all that you can be in your present era. If these types of inner issues do come up for you, it is for the purpose of acknowledging them and moving on. Only by accepting yourself at the deepest possible level can these ancient patterns become healed or at least minimized so that you can move beyond them.

The Full Moon of Thursday night and Friday morning, July 14th and 15th, represents a time of balance and reflection, when relative calm prevails and you are gathering information from all aspects of your evolving situation. You are bringing a practical stance to considerations of higher mind, and blending partnership interaction with your own agenda for internal changes.

The Last Quarter Moon of Friday, July 22nd, is another powerful moment and signals a time of the consolidation of your energies in preparation for the following month, which is another potent one for you, gleaning the lessons of this cycle which will become the seed crystal of the next. You are also exploring further ramifications of partnering with others, which holds some of the keys to your ongoing self-development.

Sagittarius   (Nov 22 - Dec 21)  Fire.  Ruling planet Jupiter.   Top

You are in for some serious fun this monthly cycle, Sagittarius. You must yield up any preconception of what is in store as you explore yet another new edge for yourself in a culmination of recent developments. You are fundamentally optimistic while still remembering – as you dream large – to cross the T’s and dot the i’s of the necessary details of life. The world is not as you have always known it but is far richer, and far stranger. The very grounding of your being has been pulled out from under you and it’s disconcerting. An unexpected blessing awaits you though when you dig down deep into your process, as you find your fear and then proceed to move beyond it.

As the month begins, you are exploring further aspects of intimacy, both with major partners in your life and, more importantly, with yourself. You are also investigating what it means in terms of mission statement to be you, on this planet and at this time, rather than anyone else; how best to proceed toward that which you came into the life to accomplish. Your ongoing transformation of values is not complete and you will likely reach another major phase in the course of this current monthly cycle.

The Solar Eclipse and New Moon of Friday, July 1st, energizes you from the very beginning of the month to renewed personal evolution, and encourages you to try harder for breakthrough. You are simultaneously reaching out to new levels of self-expression and at the same time holding back with a traditionalist approach that wars with your more flamboyant impulses. This conservative streak could be a considered a useless remnant of old conditioning or else a grounded counterbalance to what could be taking you away from your center into unplanned excursions and unforeseen consequences. You are reaching for your highest purpose for yourself moving forward, so that these considerations become quite important in taking the long view of what you are currently up to.

The First Quarter Moon of late Thursday evening and early Friday morning, July 7th and 8th, might also test you somewhat. Your core sense of security is threatened, so that you will have to find a new basis before you are through. Conflicts could arise within close interpersonal relationships, or you might find that old patterns of behavior from the long-dead past are rearing their heads at this juncture. These ancient behaviors are no longer appropriate to level of development of your present era. By accepting yourself in these dark places you give yourself permission to move beyond them.

The Full Moon of late Thursday and early Friday morning, July 14th and 15th, signals a time of reaching for a balance point between self and other, and of taking a stand for what you truly believe. You are intently exploring how your actions can come to be in greater alignment with your higher purpose in being here at all. Relationship with significant partners comes into the picture now as a reflection of your own process of growth and development.

With the Last Quarter Moon of Friday, July 22nd, you are entering what is traditionally considered a quiet time of reflection as you consider how the previous three weeks of this important cycle might come to be understood. The past forms a gateway to the future, a frame for finding the deeper meaning of the events unfolding in your life.

Capricorn   (Dec 22 - Jan 19)  Earth.  Ruling planet Saturn.   Top

Your transformation has merely begun, Capricorn. You are a little like the weary traveler who has surmounted hill after hill just to find that the truly daunting heights are only now fully revealed. Still there is solace in the notion that you will emerge on the other side a wiser and much different person than when you started. Partnership holds promise for you, as you are currently seeing your intentions and your possibilities in this area in an entirely new light. Your world is being rocked, sometimes gently, at moments quite a bit more suddenly, and it is the rocking to which you are going to have to become accustomed rather than any temporary resting place that you might happen to find along the way.

As the month begins, you are feeling the heat in several different directions all at once; from partnership interactions of a business and of a personal nature, from your own internal combustion engine of evolutionary change, and also from the pressure to conform to the outer persona that you have been developing lately as you scramble for fame and fortune in the working world. These various drives have their points of intersection of course, and also their conflicts. For example, it may not be possible to be as fully attentive to your own or your partner’s needs as you might like to be while chasing outer world achievement, or on the other hand you might be feeling the pinch in your working world as you take necessary time for self-reflection and continued self-development. You have been on a huge transformational roll lately and it might not be possible to stop the world in order to take stock of where you have been and where you are currently headed. Through all this activity you might also find that the security of your home front poses more of a moving target than a steady and reliable harbor of refuge.

The Solar Eclipse and New Moon taking place at the very start of the month, on Friday, July 1st, puts energy into all these sectors of your chart and pulls you in all these different directions. This eclipse, the third since the beginning of June, is an extra-powerful New Moon and in some ways the most powerful of all, for you especially. The impulse is primarily one of relationship, so that you might find that new initiatives abound in this area, and yet your own inner changes very much in focus also.

These are the areas of your life that are also challenged at the time of the First Quarter Moon a week later, coming along late on Thursday evening and early Friday morning, July 7th and 8th. This is a dicey time, when relationship is a powerful factor and when business requirements become an intense focus that could prove to be at odds with other areas. Everything is a bit confused and a little vague and undefined. Your communication reflects this, so that you might want to guard against misunderstandings. You will also want to watch out for self-sacrifice on your part leading to further difficulty in sorting things out with siblings or with colleagues. You are in an essentially good place now but there is so much going on that you do need to carefully prioritize.

The Full Moon of late Thursday and early Friday, July 14th and15th, does provide a comfortable resting place for a time, potentially a respite from the intensity of this month’s changes and challenges. You are still feeling called to an almost battle-like stance of defending your inner autonomy in the face of tests from both public and private spheres.

The Last Quarter Moon of Friday, July 22nd, is an occasion for reflection on developments of late and how best to achieve further integration of the disparate paths that you find yourself on. You have come far in these last few months along the course that the cosmos and your soul demands. You might be in the process of discovering that your best road to freedom consists in determining the bearing that you are in any event constrained to move toward and choosing to proceed in that direction.

Aquarius   (Jan 20 - Feb 18)  Air.  Ruling planets Uranus, Saturn.   Top

This is an unusual time of questioning, Aquarius. You are seeking the truth about your life path on this earth; why now of all times and whither, and why me in particular? Communication with your peers is the name of the game for you lately and helps you to grow in some uncharacteristic directions that involve far more inner than outer exploration. Everything is undefined and vague and a bit of a mystery from the standpoint of the surface layers. Education is one source of assurances but it won’t be the kind that comes from books. In the caverns of inner desire and intuitive grappling for big answers you’ll find that experience is not just the best but actually the only teacher.

As the month begins, you are immersed in the day-to-day realities of your world and attempting to see how you might be able to determine the best path forward for yourself based on the idea that your inner Self already knows the answer to that question. This is a powerful time of spiritual exploration and of seeking after higher wisdom rather than remaining content with half-hearted determinations of present circumstances that stem from ordinary realms of consensus thinking. You are more than ready to make a fresh start and it is one that involves body as well as mind, deep feeling and intuitive understanding of your way forward as well as surface logic. This is a confusing period of time, and one in which any values that are not in alignment with soul-purpose must inevitably be set aside.

The New Moon and Solar Eclipse of Friday July 1st calls fourth a powerful configuration of energies that acts like a tidal wave to sweep you out of complacency and into the start of some important set of actions that have been pending without fulfillment for quite some time now. Although your process is an essentially intuitive one, you are also conjoined at this time to use the power of your mind to delve into past patterns of potentially dysfunctional behavior in attempt to find a common thread based in part on past trauma. When you can make these leaps of intelligent inquiry it give your clues that can lead your bodily awareness in the direction that it needs to go.

The First Quarter Moon of late Thursday evening and early Friday morning, July 7th and 8th, might present you with a few bumps on the road of your progress and bring up conflicts between more superficial and deeper forms of awareness. Your body’s instincts point in the right direction but other competing factors in your psyche may pull in other directions and cloud the issue. There is no one way to predict how to resolve these seeming dilemmas which can also wind up projected outward onto events and other people. You are always well-advised in consulting internal guidance before leaping in any one particular direction. This is a powerfully spiritual time, and another guideline might be to recognize that everyday mundane considerations will only apply in part, and will remain the lesser consideration.

The Full Moon of late Thursday and early Friday, July 14th and 15th, is another important time of spiritual connection and of balancing internal and external concerns and modalities. You are seeking synthesis in many ways right now, not the least of these being the integration of your mind and spirit. During this powerful month you are engaged in accepting the spiritual and deeply internal and intuitional part of yourself and taking this factor from the conceptual level into concrete manifestation.

The Last Quarter Moon of Friday, July 22nd, will signal a cessation of forward momentum and a time of relative meditative and reflective activity. Others in your life are very important now both in and of themselves, as you forge new bridges of connection to them, and as foils for a series of realizations as you look back on your own inner explorations and discoveries. You are preparing yourself for yet another new phase, commencing with the New Moon in your relationship sector in the final weekend of the month.

Pisces   (Feb 19 - March 20)  Water. Ruling planets Neptune, Jupiter.   Top

You are in a fantastic place right now, Pisces; this is your time. Although lately you can be more sensitively alert to the ups and downs of your surroundings than is usual even for you, your self-expression and dramatic presence is a torrent when you let it out. You have only to ensure that you disregard lingering voices of negativity and self-criticism that seem to come from nowhere but are actually holdovers from the past. When you get out of your own way you are constructively engaged in the process of finding your true self and crafting future plans that are more consistent with who you really are. Putting all that positive energy to good use feels like a win-win because it is.

As the month begins, you are infused with the compassionate and otherworldly energy of your ruler Neptune, and it is quite a lot to handle. This is a sweet and sensitive energy, but a truly transformative one as well, and it is changing you from the inside out by the path of understanding rather than of domination. You are in some manner more yourself now than ever before, and in other ways just finding out who you really are or could be. There are huge boulders to be encountered in the road to your progress but these can be surmounted by an effort of will and by remembering that those critical voices that seem to come up from time to time are in fact self-created and might in actuality be more mirage than real.

The Solar Eclipse and New Moon takes place in the afternoon of Friday, July 1st, and presents you with tons of energy for both work and play. Your real work in the world is play in a sense, since what you have come here to accomplish is to find yourself. By letting your creative expression loose you are actually accomplishing just that. You are deadly serious about your internal aims at this time and are capable of a remarkable degree of integration when you step back and take in the largest possible picture of what is going on. There are definitely fluctuations in financial matters to contend with, and a dawning sense that where you thought you were headed is only a small part of the real story, so that group associations that you had formerly cherished and even friendships could radically alter. Everything that happens to you over this powerful summer is happening for a reason and that reason is connected with your future growth; it is essential that remain in touch with this basic fact in spite of any form of dark suspicion to the contrary that might arise.

The First Quarter Moon of late Thursday evening and early Friday, July 7th and 8th, throws a few kinks into your path forward. You are energized in the direction of intimate connection with others at this time but it is a desire that does not easily find its realization. Your real mission now is working on yourself, and others that you meet along the way are definitely an aid and an adjunct to that process. If you combine relationship requirements with a growing and almost philosophical understanding of where you are at in your life right now you are on the right track. Communication with everyone around you is an important component of what you are up to as you sort things through and discover new ways to reach out to intimate partners.

The Full Moon comes a week later on, taking place on Thursday night and Friday morning, July 14th and 15th, and presents you with the concept of balance. As you find a way to approach a new synthesis, you are taking a strong stand for yourself, reaching a new plateau of self-understanding and self-realization.

The Last Quarter Moon of Friday, July 22nd, is traditionally a time of summing up what you have learned over the preceding three weeks of the lunation which in your case has been an extremely intense one. You will find yourself mulling over your potential and absorbing powerful lessons regarding what you want to get out of life right now and what also you do not. As you prepare to enter another cycle of development with the following month you are making strides toward discovering what exactly it is that you are trying to accomplish in this incarnation.