Happy Birthday Cancer! Your annual birthday wish new moon takes place on the night of the 18th. Make a wish and have faith. The new moon is when you are most responsive to psychic forces (whatever that term may mean to you) and is therefore a very potent time. When the sun’s in your sign, the way in which you look at things makes all the difference. (more…)
July is national feelings month. That’s courtesy of the sun in Cancer every year at this time. Cancer is the patron sign of patriotic feelings, family feelings, sentimental feelings, sensitive feelings, uncomfortable feelings and shy but devoted feelings. If your main feeling is vulnerability in the face of your own and other people’s feelings, July is not your happy month because vulnerability is not your sign’s favorite sensation. (more…)
The sun and Mercury inhabit your solar 4th house this month, where they try to tune you into your subconscious mind, your intuition, your emotional needs, your family and your children. The energy is all about the people and things closest to you. You’ll probably feel this vibe most strongly a bit before the sun moves into Leo, around the 18th and 19th, when there’s a new moon in sensitive Cancer. (more…)
July starts with a full moon in Capricorn on the third, the same day Mars finally moves into Libra. Both Capricorn and Libra are relationship signs for you, so this is a good time to air out emotional issues with a combination of objectivity (Libra) and sensitivity (moon). The sun and a new moon in Cancer carry on this theme until the 22nd, with the time around the 19th bringing up the peak of emotionality. (more…)
Mercury is in your sign all month, Leo, going retrograde on the 14th, to be joined by the sun on the 22nd. This influence puts the emphasis on your conscious mind and increases your charisma. The vibe is fun and playful. The spotlight is on you and your awareness. The month is right up your alley, all the more so because Venus continues to light up your popularity sector all month. (more…)
July continues to see a lot of Gemini energy via Venus and Jupiter. Gemini as a sign needs a lot of stimulation and it puts a high value on recreation and fun and sociability. Gemini is your solar career sign, where it often operates as a more or less perpetual desire for change and variety.
Jupiter anywhere loves words like ‘large,’ ‘a lot,’ and ‘increase.’ (more…)
Mars moves into your sign this month on the 3rd. It had been shyly hanging out in Virgo for 8 months, where its mind races with worries that it does not want to share with others. In your sign it feels like talking again. To anyone it can find. Children, lovers, strangers on the street. It’s ready to exchange thoughts with others and it’s no longer afraid of expressing its opinion. (more…)
A lot to talk about for July, Scorpio. First, Mercury will be in Leo, your career sign, all month. It turns retrograde on the 14th and will actually be in Leo throughout August as well. Mercury in Leo links career success with your ability to entertain others with your communication style. Wit works. So does dramatic storytelling and a general willingness to be emphatic and even theatrical in getting your message across. (more…)
Mars finally leaves Virgo this month and moves into Libra on the 3rd. One of the immediate effects of that is a switch from career focus back to family interactions. Your chart has been on a long journey via planets in Pisces toward making your family relations more ideal. It got thrown off track a bit by all the job and career energy you had in 2011 and the first half of 2012, but now things are back to their usual abnormal normality on the home front. (more…)
Mercury spends all of July in Leo, going retrograde on the 14th. Mercury is always knowledge and information-seeking, and in Leo he likes to learn about dramatic things like love, creativity, passion, children, fame, or charisma. In the Capricorn solar chart, interest in these areas is tucked away in a hidden sector, while Capricorn modestly and tactfully proclaims that it merely has the humble desire to meet the needs of society and other people. (more…)
Your ruler Uranus stations in Aries this month on the 13th. When a planet stations (basically changes direction from direct to retrograde or vice versa), it is often at its most powerful. Your ruler happens to be a very analytical planet. It examines issues very methodically, looks at their separate parts and then figures out how they can be put back together in a new way. (more…)
Neptune in your sign isn’t doing a whole lot in July except drifting gently backwards but he’s still worth mentioning. That’s because this is a Leo intensive month and Leo specializes in something neither your sign nor your ruler Neptune intuitively understand: ego. Neptune tries to dissolve ego as though it was something irrelevant to a meaningful life. (more…)
