Jupiter has prepared a feast of plenty during his one year sojourn in lovingly sensitive Cancer, and now this archetypal Santa Claus sets your table with the big-hearted love and affection of loyal Leo. Beginning July 16th, this planet of optimism and generosity will serve you lioness portions of self-confidence and hope.
The choices you made during the five squares of Pluto and Uranus, culminating at the Grand Crossroads in April, have loosened the chains that bound you to the past, and helped you walk through the door to freedoms that you didn't know were possible.
Now jovial Jupiter invites you think of your true Self, your destiny, in grander terms. For the next year, he will offer you an out-of-this-world feast of love; one in which the more you receive the more is left to give.
“For love has set its table in the space that seemed to keep you...apart.” T 555 A Course In Miracles
Under the bright rays of joining your light with another and another, the belief that you are separate and alone has withered. To think that you could put a little fence around a portion of the sunlight, claiming you are a beam apart, now seems ridiculous!
Ask to have your heart opened even more, to expand your love into a feast of welcome for all those who would no longer starve.
Supersize your heart, not your head! Jupiter’s enthusiasm for more can go right to your head! Grandiosity of ego knows no limits, thinking more is better. As you read your Sun Sign (below) you'll see where Jupiter wants to expand your life.
There will be more--creativity, more playful happiness, more courage to love, more willingness to see evidence of the Divine in the playfulness of life.
“The human spirit is as expansive as the cosmos. This is why it is so tragic to belittle yourself or to question your worth.” Daisaku Ikeda
The Force of abundant love is with you.
Here’s your horoscope for July, 2014:
(*Astrology Wonks see bottom of this page)
Aries (March 20-April 19)
Mercury shifted into forward gear July 1st, in talkative Gemini. Your mind is under the spell of Curious George! Exploration of ideas is your forte, especially through July 12th when Messenger Mercury slips into Cancer on the day of the Capricorn Full Moon. Then you’ll see how your recent discoveries will benefit your career ambitions.
July 8th you can expect some changes in attitude or circumstance as it relates to your home and family life. It may not feel altogether comfortable for you, but it’s a call to revolutionize something in this part of your life.
Generous Jupiter’s move into Leo on July 16th begins a one year period of very beneficial growth. You can expand whatever you chose, but since this falls in your 5th house of creativity, romance and children, it’s likely that good fortune will come through one of those areas. Jupiter will be in harmonious trine to your Aries Sun (exact time dependent on your birthdate), making this a period of physical vitality and a strong sense of well being. Jupiter in the 5th is happiness in romance, and since Uranus is still in Aries, this may bring a new love into your life who will be very good for you. Art and beauty are in the forefront, so this quote from Picasso can inspire you: “When I was a child my mother said to me, 'If you become a soldier, you'll be a general. If you become a monk, you'll be the pope.' Instead I became a painter and wound up as Picasso.”
Around July 21st you’ll feel a big internal shift as Uranus, the god of lightning, goes into retrograde motion. This turns your need for change, your need to revolutionize something, from the outer world to the inner.
The Sun struts onto the Leo stage July 22nd, and joins Jupiter there July 24th. You could win the lottery, or more likely, your optimism will create an event in your life that is plain ol’ lucky. If you find yourself in a romantic relationship, the feelings are going to intensify greatly when Mars moves into Scorpio on the 25th. Maybe too hot to handle, or a call to stop and explore the depths. The Leo New Moon on July 26th is just icing on your 3-tier chocolate cake!
Taurus (April 20-May 20)
Even though Mercury shifted into forward gear on July 1st, your mental processes don’t really pick up speed until July 12th when the messenger planet moves into your friendly sign, home-sweet-home Cancer. Your mind and thoughts become ambitiously sharp and clear as Mercury in Cancer joins the Capricorn Full Moon at 9:44 PM, PDT, also on the 12th. This is an excellent time to forward your career ambitions. Plans your make at this time will success financial gain. If you have any problems or plans that are troublesome, now it the time to clear the air.
This month started with an invitation to expose some secrets, either yours or theirs, that will help you know the truth, and speak it. An event is likely to occur that gives you this opportunity. This is part of the ongoing transformation from Powerful Pluto, so it will require fearlessly facing a fear or two and staring it in the face with courage. July 8th is a trigger point. Expect the unexpected.
Big jovial Jupiter moves into regal Leo on July 16th in your 4th solar house of home and family. Even though the on-stage Leo fire sign is a stressor for stable Taurus, Jupiter loves to be in Cancer’s house of home. So your urge to expand could include enlarging your home, especially your kitchen. Or Jupiter could bring revenue from real estate, which is favored for you all this coming year. He will make things bigger for you in terms of safety, comfort and security. You’ll have much more positive experiences with your family members, and your family circle will enlarge.
When Venus moves into the sign of Cancer on July 18th, love knocks on your front door with a basket of treats. Like Venus herself, you will feel like slipping on something comfortable and relaxing into the material and spiritual benefits that will come to you during Jupiter’s one year stay in your 4th house. Jupiter rules real estate, so all matters related to that are favored. The only catch will be a pull on your heart strings to rescue a family member, most likely at your own expense. If this comes up, it’s a signal to break and outmoded belief from childhood that has been a limitation on your domestic happiness.
The Sun enters Leo on July 22nd, and joins Jupiter there July 24th. It’s a great time to entertain at home, have family visits, and enrich your experiences (not your waistline). Two days later Warrior Mars finally leaves Libra after an uncharacteristically long nine months, and takes up his powerful and passionate sword from the deep waters of Scorpio. For the next six weeks, through September 14th, you’re in a time of critical culminations in your life, particularly in the areas governed by the 7th house--relationships and partnerships. Both Mars and Pluto (the ruler of Scorpio) are power mongers, and neither one likes to share. You can get caught in their power struggles if you listen to the voice of ego. Or, if you listen to the quieter voice of spirit, you can find the strength to assert yourself when someone else acts in a disruptive manner (a more likely scenario). In either case, there will be confrontations that increase your self-awareness, because whatever or whoever arouses your anger shows you the dying remains of an old belief. time to pull it up by the roots!
Gemini (May 21-June 20)
Your ruling planet, Messenger Mercury, shifted into forward gear in your sign on July 1st. He’s not immediately up to speed, but by now you are taking action on ideas that have been under review and revision since June 7th. This is a helpful start to a very busy month. Mercury moves into Cancer on July 12th, just hours after the Capricorn Full Moon. Your mind switches to ideas related to money and resources and these matters will be influenced more by emotion than by reason. However, it enhances your memory and you’ll be taking in information like a sponge until the 31st. Add to this, the Capricorn Full Moon falls in your 8th solar house of Scorpio, giving you intense emotional reactions and a strong psychic sensitivity to unseen or unconscious forces. Notice and record, but don’t make major decisions until Mercury is empowered in Leo August 1st.
The Big Guy, generous and jovial Jupiter, catches enthusiastic fire in Leo on Wednesday, July 16th. For the next year, optimism ignites your 3rd solar house of communications, Mercury’s home and the house of Gemini. Your mind expands and wants to travel to new and foreign places. This is literally true also. Travel, mentally or physically, will benefit you greatly and vastly expand your horizons. Writing and publishing are Jupiter’s domain, so this is the year for your story! You are more perceptive, a good analyst, and you’ll have more mental energy than you know what to do with!
You can count on lots of expansion and growth in Leo’s domains--creativity, romance and children. Leo loves to be on stage, so playwriting and theatre will be in the forefront--you can certainly look forward to some great movies this year!
The Sun struts onto the Leo stage July 22nd, and joins Jupiter there July 24th. A double whammy of harmony and good times with family, children and in whoever or whatever you are romancing. Some deflation of the wind in your sails will be felt around July 25th when Warrior Mars leaves airy Libra, your dear friend, for the deep and mysterious waters of Scorpio. The best use of this intense and powerful drive is to write a great mystery novel! Scorpio is the whiz kid of Who Done Its!
You’re on fire with creativity when the Leo New Moon heats up July 26th. Don’t miss this magically creative time to set your intentions, in a prayer that will be answered.
Cancer (June 21-July 21)
While Mental Mercury was in backward motion, (retrograde June 7th to July 1st), you probably gave too much attention to what you consider to be your weaknesses, and too little attention to what you really want. The result? You may not have said “no” when you needed to, or “yes” to taking a needed risk. You’ve never been a gambler, and you don’t need to start now, but it is time to break with convention. With the Sun solar-powering your personality, you can make up for lost time.
July 13th through the 22nd, you have extraordinary opportunities to assert yourself, to say what you really mean. And to use that powerful imagination of yours to create your own reality through visualization and positive thinking. More than the other sign, you are particularly sensitive to negative vibes, which means you can’t afford to be around them or to harbor them in your own mind.
Messenger Mercury moves into the sign of Cancer on July 12th, at 9:44 PM, the same day as the Capricorn Full Moon. Auspicious for you! Why? Jupiter is culminating his year long stay in Cancer, where he’s been your good luck charm. As he’s leaving (July 16th) you need to take the time to consider whether or not you’ve “unwrapped” the opportunities laid at your doorstep since June 26, 2013. Jupiter doesn’t get mad about it if you didn’t, he’s the archetypal Santa Claus and he’s simply moving on to Leo’s house. But some opportunities he gave you may have come to you so easily, or so simply, that you didn’t realize how important they were in setting the stage for this new 12 year cycle that you’ve now begun (it was exact on your birthday). Take stock.
For the next year, Jupiter in Leo will be hanging out like a regal lion in your 2nd solar house of money and resources. Bank accounts will expand! You can cash in on last year’s opportunities, and share them with those you love--and friends you haven’t met. You’ve accumulated more riches than you realize. And to help you remember to value yourself, keep this thought in mind:
“Count then the silver miracles and golden dreams of happiness as all the treasures you would keep within the storehouse of the world. The door is open, not to thieves, but to your starving brothers, who mistook for gold the shining of a pebble, and who stored a heap of snow that shone like silver.” A Course In Miracles
The opening days of July challenge you to reveal something you, or someone close to you, has kept secret. You’re ready to get to the bottom of it. Truth telling of some sort is guaranteed. For the 4th of July, the Cancer Sun opposed Powerful Pluto, the zodiac’s version of Darth Vader. Then, around July 8th, you’re struck by a sudden and uncomfortable urge to revolutionize your life. Take the chance, it will free you somehow.
When the goddess of love enters your sign on July 18th, it’s time to find your mate, or snuggle up closer to the one you already have. You feel all warm and fuzzy inside, which is the energy that will attract love to you like a magnet. It will probably show up right on your doorstep! At the very least, Venus in Cancer begins a three week period of comfortable warmth, good food, and loving feelings.
Leo (July 22-August 22)
You have a heart as big as the great outdoors, as vast as the Serengeti plains where you rule and protect your tribe. Now is the time you’ve been waiting for! Whether you consciously knew it or not, you’ve been overseeing projects and mulling over many ideas about how to make the world a more peaceful place. Time’s up. Step into your grandeur and magnificence. Put your ideas on the world stage. Command attention with a majestic roar or two!
Big-hearted Jupiter strides into Leo July 16th, laying gifts of expansive, optimistic self-confidence at your feet. A year of good fortune is guaranteed, not as an inflation of ego, but as your divine inheritance as a child of God. If you don’t use Jupiter’s expansive optimism to simply fill a hot air balloon, this will be the most prosperous year for you in over a decade. Jupiter in your sign marks the beginning of a new 12 year cycle of growth. This Big Guy will conjunct your Sun sometime during this year, depending on your birthday, and this marks the beginning of a new 12 year cycle of growth. For example, if you were born August 2nd, Jupiter will join your Sun on September 2nd, a most auspicious day.
The way you express yourself in the world is about to get a lot bigger, your horizons a lot broader. Jupiter carries the archetypal energy of courage, acting from your heart, which is the life lesson for Leo. The kick-off event is July 22nd, when the Sun enters your sign. Two days later, the Leo Sun runs right into the jolly arms of Jupiter and you’re given the en-courage-ment to try something you wouldn’t ordinarily do. Feel a tipping point ahead?
The Capricorn Full Moon on July 12th calls for a culmination of business deals and a review of your career ambitions. If something isn’t working now, let it go.
If you need to get to the bottom line about, to see what is driving you, follow your feelings of restlessness. On July 25th the warrior planet Mars leaves the intellectual air of Libra for the still-waters-run-deep territory of Scorpio. For the next six weeks you’ll apply your Leo courage to meet some difficult situations, places where fear appears to have the upper hand. Be uncompromising about your principles.
The Leo New Moon on July 26th is a perfect time to begin a new project. It’s as if you’ve been on a hunting expedition to conquer unruly emotions, and now you put your trophies, for skill in the face of unreasonable fears, on the mantle. Congratulations.
Virgo (August 23-September 22)
Generous Jupiter, moving into fiery Leo on July 16th, puts this planet of expansion and good fortune in your 12th solar house of the unconscious mind. You’re in for a feast of forgotten memories and empathic connections that have been unconsciously coloring your desires and actions. You’ll be shown events, during the next year, that have been hidden in secrets in order to avoid opposition or conflict. Jupiter expands and adds technicolor to these issues and emotions, so that you can see them for what they truly are.
No worries, Jupiter is a gentle giant. His only tools for helping you grow are honesty and openness. Jupiter rules the sign Sagittarius, the truth tellers of the zodiac. You can expect your voice to find bigger expression, but without the old socially acceptable filters! It will be much like playing the role of the innocent young bystander in The Emperor’s New Clothes. She simply blurted out the truth, “The emperor has no clothes on!” without concern for what other people would think.
Mercury shifted into forward gear on the 1st day of an exciting July. Communications have been perhaps too plentiful since then, but new understandings about your career choices have surfaced. Thoughts that have been brewing beneath the surface since June 7th are clarified further when Messenger Mercury moves into friendly Cancer on July 12th. It’s a wonderful time for you to clarify family issues--as if you’re a talented marriage and family therapist! This coincides with the Capricorn Full Moon, also in the 12th, which shows you where you have reached a limit and need to set priorities. The Grand Crossroads you came to in April set in motion a non-stop path of wonderful changes that are freeing you from restrictive beliefs--particularly about your career path.
Around July 20th, you will have a green light to move forward on ideas you’ve had under review since March 2nd. Believe it or not, the chaos starts to make sense!
Venus changes into something comfortable and relaxes in home-sweet-home Cancer beginning July 18th. Love of your family is cooking something comforting for everyone, all the way through August 11th. And remember, love has set its table in the space that used to keep you apart.
When Warrior Mars moves into Scorpio on July 25th, you have an easy 7 weeks ahead in which you’re actions generate communications with others that have an unusual depth and a penetrating quality about them. July is overall a very meaningful month for you, and one in which your make important choices about your life path.
“If there is a sin against life, it consists...of wishing for another life and missing the grandeur of the one you have.” -- Albert Camus
Libra (September 23-October 22)
Pull that “Life is Good” tee shirt out of the bottom drawer and get it on! Your life is about to get bigger and better. When Jovial Jupiter moves into Leo on July 16th, he’ll act as your stage manager for one very full year. Jupiter will lighten up your 11th solar house of friendships and humanitarian groups. Kind concern about the welfare of our planet, and all of its citizens, puts you in a position to offer a generous dose of help.
The exchange of inspiring spiritual advice is the feast tumbling out of Jupiter’s cornucopia onto the table love has set for you. Libra’s main desire and teaching, cooperation in relationships, finds mutual understanding with the friends and groups you belong to.
An end to the long era of Warrior Mars in you sign comes July 25th, when he dives into the still-waters-run-deep territory of Scorpio. While Mars has been in your solar 1st house (since December 13, 2013), you’ve been more assertive about getting your needs met, sometimes to the point of aggression. You’ve had enormous physical stamina too, accomplishing a great deal of hard work. Now, in Scorpio, Mars will march through your 2nd house of money and resources until September 13th. Your earning ability steps up, as you are driven to improve your financial status. And you wil! This is a time of financial gain, but Mars doesn’t confer the ability to hang onto it (and Jupiter is absolutely NO help here!). That has to come from another source. Since Mars is in Scorpio, you could secret it away--automatic deposits into savings, or an account that isn’t subject to impulse-buy.
Mars in the 2nd house is also a place of leadership, like running your own business. Mars is afterall the boss! And he does things his own, very independent, way. Luckily, literally, Jupiter is a big help with this one since he’s surrounding you with friends and groups you want to be part of, and you’ll be very good at establishing interdependent relationships. If you choose to.
The Sun struts onto the Leo stage July 22nd, and joins Jupiter there July 24th. This giant spotlight shines on exactly what you want, and you see it clearly. Go after it! The 24th is your kick in the pants! Done very benevolently of course.
On July 13th, before Mars leaves your sign, he will make harmonious music with Venus in Gemini. This should guarantee a lovely romantic time, but Venus is quite fickle in Gemini. She is however very flirtatious, so at the very least this is a party!
July 8th you may find yourself uncomfortably struck with an urge to revolutionize your life. Of course you’ve been at this for some time. The choices that you made at the crossroads in April are up for a refresher. Something wants to be more unconventional, less tied to old habits.
The Capricorn Full Moon on July 12th makes a stressful square with your Libra Sun. Your feelings and hunches about your career ambitions needs an inner adjustment. It’s very likely that you need to let go of whatever doesn’t serve you or your work.
Venus slips into some comfortable shoes and relaxes in home-sweet-home Cancer beginning July 18th. This falls in your 10th house of career. Wealth from your job, expanded creativity, and a beautification of the work environment are possible manifestations of this energy. It raises questions about balancing your personal needs with those of your career.
Your month ends on a very upbeat and optimistic note. The Leo New Moon on July 26th opens a new friendship, and highlights Jupiter’s gifts to you. Leo is always the romantic, so this is a new opportunity to be the first to say, I love you.
“So many people are shut up tight inside themselves like boxes, yet they would open up, unfolding quite wonderfully, if only you’d show an interest in them." -- Sylvia Plath.
Scorpio (October 23-November 21)
Time to get stuff done! Challenges to expose some secrets made the 4th of July a day to free yourself, by speaking your truth. Then, on July 8th the friendly Cancer Sun gets you on board with a lightning quick idea and a sudden and uncomfortable urge to revolutionize your life. You’ve already been doing this, so its a refresher and review of the choices you’ve made during the Grand Crossroads in April (or close to that time). Remind yourself to stay out of that old rut. Unconventional ideas usher in a new freedom, and a new happiness.
You are mentally organized with Serious Saturn in Scorpio making a lovely harmonious vibe with the Cancer Sun. The Cancer Sun is in your 9th house of travel, whether you travel in foreign countries or in the world of unconventional ideas. Now is the time or plan or start a trip. The god of lightning gets in a few shots July 8th also, so you may feel too antsy to sit still anyway. Might as well get going!
Mercury moves into Cancer on July 12th, and your mind clears and your communications are sharp yet sensitive to other people’s feelings. This is a very favorable time for you to write, close deals, and succeed in all matters pertaining to real estate. Also on the 12th (the most fortunate time of July for you) the Capricorn Full Moon brings a successful culmination to a career project you’ve been working on.
And you’re getting messages, leading up to the friendly Capricorn Full Moon on July 12th, telling you that it’s better to take a risk than stay in an old rut. Saturn is your friend when it comes to planning for your career or any ambitious project. He’s still insistent that you must avoid trying to skip steps. Saturn doesn't let you get to 3 without thoroughly completing 1 and 2. So if something isn’t working out, go back and see if you’ve left a bill unpaid or missed that dental appointment.
The Big Guy, Generous Jupiter, catches enthusiastic fire in Leo on Wednesday, July 16th in you 10th solar house of career. You can count on lots of expansive and creative growth in Leo’s domaine. For the next year, you’ll likely come into prominence in some way in your career. Benevolent actions lead you to positions of influence, even though you may work behind the scenes. You’ll feel considerably more ambitious, as well as expanding your honest approach and your reliability with clients. Your reputation will grow because of people’s trust in you. You are a woman of her word. You do what you say you’re going to do.
Jupiter has laid out a feast of successes and triumphs for you to grow in self-confidence. Hope is the main course for you--eat it up! It’s time to put an end to the wish to be separate, to keep yourself apart from those you love and those who would love you. Jupiter’s offering healing, drop your suspiciousness, it is your refusal to be healed and to heal.
Put on your running shoes! July 25th is the kickoff for action when the warrior planet, Mars, leaves Libra for the still-waters-run-deep territory of Scorpio. He’ll be there for 7 weeks, through September 13th. Talk about getting stuff done! You’ll be a dynamo. Your physical stamina is at a peak, with lots of energy.
Romance walks through your front door when Venus shifts into some comfortable shoes and relaxes in home-sweet-home Cancer on July 18th. For three weeks you’ll enjoy a new warmth and sensitivity in your relationships. A way in which you are truly fed, and you feed others. Love is the only diet there is!
Sagittarius (November 22-December 20)
Mental Mercury shifted into forward gear on the 1st day of an exciting July. The messenger planet is in the sign of your opposition, Gemini (meaning you’re very attracted to each other) until he settles into home-sweet-home Cancer on July 12th. Your mind has been preoccupied with thoughts about your relationships, and with the shift into Cancer, your thoughts gain concentration and depth. From the 12th through the end of this month, you will be preoccupied, if not out and out obsessed, with getting to the bottom line--with getting to the real truth. And you will. There will be a culmination at the time of the Capricorn Full Moon, which also occurs on the 12th. An auspicious day for speaking your truth.
July 8th the Cancer Sun shines a light right in Darth Vader’s face! If a secret has been hiding, it’s over. You’ll find yourself struck by a sudden and uncomfortable urge to change something in your life. And it won’t be in the usual way, it will be something quite unconventional that will usher in a new freedom, and a new happiness.
Jovial Jupiter, the ruler of Sagittarius, enters Leo on July 16th, where he’ll make a beautifully harmonious trine with your Sagittarius Sun for one whole year. Fire feeding fire! Jupiter’s cornucopia pours a feast of adventures in creativity onto the table that love has set for you. This archetypal Santa Claus in big-hearted Leo will fill your 9th solar house of the higher mind. Traveling through the higher realms of your mind, or through foreign lands and ideas, you become a worldly explorer. Trends in education will catch your interest, and you may read a lot about different learning styles. Publishing, lecturing, teaching, and travel are the areas Jupiter will expand with his optimistic outlook. This is a very powerful year for you. One that can change the direction of your life in a positive way.
The Sun struts onto the Leo stage July 22nd, and so do you! Two days later, you’re both joined there by the guy with all the dumb luck, Jupiter. This makes July 22nd a time of exceptional good fortune for you. Pay attention to the opportunities that show up. They’re gifts. Open them.
Leo New Moon on July 26th, ends this month on a passionate, loving note. Your heart is wide open, like your mind. The grandeur of who you truly are will become clear to you. You are so much bigger than you’ve been told, and littleness no longer serves you.
“Never dull your shine for somebody else.” --Tyra Banks
Capricorn (December 21-January 19)
Generous Jupiter brings you a different kind of feast - the more you allow yourself to receive, the more is left for all the rest to share. Your table is set by love, and the guests you invite in have brought with them an unlimited supply. No one is deprived, nor would deprive another.
The Big Guy, Generous Jupiter, catches enthusiastic fire in Leo on Wednesday, July 16th in your 8th house of joint finances, death and rebirth. For the next year, you can count on lots of expansion and growth in Leo’s domains--creativity, romance and children.
July 12th is your red letter day! Mercury shifted into forward gear on July 1st, so the log jam of communications started to loosen. It won’t get really free flowing for you until the messenger planet moves into Cancer on the 12th, just hours after the Capricorn Full Moon at 4:24 AM PDT. This is an emotionally rewarding time for you in which the excellence with which you performed a recent task is recognized. In your wisdom, you are successful because you employed the age ol’ technique of the relay race; you saw the value of developing group consciousness. Sell it!
You’re an evangelist for love! Venus shifts into some comfortable shoes and relaxes in home-sweet-home Cancer on July 18th. Cancer is the sign in opposition to Capricorn, meaning there’s a strong attraction to integrate its family-centered qualities. If you have a relationship or partnership that needs some tender loving care (don’t they all?), the next seven weeks mark a period of Venus bringing love and beauty into your 7th solar house of marriage and partnership. Renew your vows. Wear out the motto of the Zodius tribe: Be the first to say I love you!
The Sun struts onto the Leo stage July 22nd, and joins Jupiter there on July 24th. This is a big-heartedness the size of Texas! And the showmanship to go with it. Many less grounded people will be tempted to gamble, because they suddenly feel so lucky. But you, dear Capricorn, can take your obligations too seriously (no-nonsense Saturn is the stern ruler of Capricorn), and you wonder whether a whimsical stroke of dumb luck is of any real value?
Remember the scene in Dumb and Dumber when the two guys are hitchhiking, and a busload of bathing beauties, advertising suntan lotion, stop and ask them, “do you know any guys who’d like to come with us and rub suntan lotion all over us?” Dumb and Dumber referred them to the next town!
Let’s face it, it’s not stupidity. It’s lack of faith in a benevolent spirit, archetypally represented by Jupiter, who only wants to give you happiness. But you must be willing to accept. Allowing your good to come to you, even if it appears to threaten your security, will be your challenge while generous Jupiter transits your 8th solar house of inheritance.
Your drive, your actions, your warrior energy is taking on a whole new power! Beginning July 25th, and lasting seven weeks, Warrior Mars leaves people-pleasing Libra for the mysterious, still-waters-run-deep territory of Scorpio. You’ll have relentless courage, emotional intensity, and thoroughness in everything you do. How can this not mean success?
Stand under the fiery, passionate Leo New Moon July 26th, and dare to ask yourself, What is true freedom? Let yourself be inspired and led by this:
“Surely there is grandeur in knowing that in the realm of thought, at least, you are without a chain; that you have the right to explore all heights and depths; that there are no walls nor fences, nor prohibited places...in all the vast expanse of thought.” --Robert Green Ingersoll
Aquarius (January 20-February 17)
Claim your freedom from all delusional attempts to deny the power that lies within you, within your true Self.
When Jovial Jupiter moves into the sign of Leo on July 16th, he brings you a feast of openness, benevolence, a strong sense of justice, and good fortune through love and marriage. Love has set this table before you in your 7th solar house of relationships and partnerships. For the next full year, you can count on lots of expansion and growth in Leo’s domains--creativity, romance and children. The fire sign Leo is in direct opposition to Aquarius, meaning it’s an energy that attracts you because you want to integrate its qualities with your own. Leo says to Aquarius, You can’t find love by living in your head, you must come down from your ivory tower of intellect and melt in the warmth of your heart.
And now you can! You sincerely want to bring great spiritual and material well-being to others, and to enjoy their trust and friendship in return. Under Jupiter’s tutelage you will think bigger, you will love bigger, which often brings a fortunate and lasting marriage. The stars would teach you now that giving is the same as receiving, an endless loop of sharing, and this is the gift you have to teach.
July began with some challenges to speak your truth, perhaps when you knew it was unpopular. It may have been awkward, exposing secrets perhaps, but the goal is to free you. It would be facing your fears, a bit like unmasking Darth Vader in the dark cave. The light struck like a sudden and uncomfortable urge to revolutionize your life. Dust off those unconventional ideas and let them fly. It will usher in a new freedom, and a new happiness.
The wisdom in the Capricorn Full Moon on July 12th lands in your 12th solar house of the unconscious mind and the collective conscious of the universe. It’s the culmination of a spiritual ambition. You want to meet this moon with gratitude for yourself, and a job well done.
It’s a day of good fortune for you when the Leo Sun struts onto life’s stage July 22nd. The Sun joins Jupiter there on the 24th, and you can expect something in your life to expand and fuel your optimism for the future.
Under the Leo New Moon on July 26th, you find a new start. A new beginning in an existing relationship or you’ll meet a new love interest. Either way, inhale that lioness courage and be the first to say, I love you.
“If your mind is expansive and unfettered, you will find yourself in a more accommodating world, a place that's endlessly interesting and alive. That quality isn't inherent in the place but in your state of mind.” --Pema Chodron
Pisces (February 18-March 19)
July 1st Messenger Mercury shifted into forward gear in Gemini, opening up a month of big ideas. It makes for a busy beginning for you, as the log jam of communications begins to loosen. But you won’t feel like you’re really back in sync until July 12th when Mercury moves into Cancer, and fills your 5th solar house with creative ideas. He sings harmonious tunes with your Pisces Sun for three weeks, up to the last day of the month.
Challenges to expose hidden fears, sequestered as secrets, made the 4th of July a day to free yourself by speaking your truth. You are asked, with your psychic Pisces Sun, to stand apart from fear. Refuse to be a part of anyone’s fearful dreams, whatever form they may take, for you can lose yourself in them. This is the way to find your certainty of purpose, by not accepting the fearful dreams “given” to you by others.
July 8th brings finds the god of lightning throwing a few unexpected strikes. You find yourself with a sudden and uncomfortable urge to change your life. To embrace an unconventional idea that would usher in a time of more freedom, and happiness.
July 12th is auspicious for you in another way too. Just before communications get soulful in Cancer, the Moon becomes Full in her opposing sign, Capricorn (9:44 PM, PDT). Under the light of this moon, you’ll see more clearly the places where you’ve reached a limit. Your sweet Pisces sensitivity has to toughen up a bit, so you can step into your authority--both internally and externally. Expect some significant shifts in your creative energy.
Generous Jupiter catches enthusiastic fire in Leo on Wednesday, July 16th, where he’ll encourage you to take your creativity and put it to work for others. Jupiter in the 6th house is shows you places you can be of service, places where you can heal. He’s laying a healthy feast of opportunities for you to be a spiritual healer, for using natural remedies from the Great Mother, for ways to be of practical service to others.
Don’t think the expansiveness of your ideas are grandiose, they are simply being filled with more hope and optimism than you’ve had for quite awhile. And it all turns on love when Venus shifts into some comfortable shoes and relaxes in home-sweet-home Cancer on July 18th. The goddess of love wraps you in a security blanket, and paints your 5th house of creativity with light. You dream in technicolor. Venus becomes your muse.
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Mercury shifts into forward gear (5:49 AM) for the 1st day of an exciting July. A helpful start to a busy month.Mercury goes direct in Gemini, and moves into Cancer on July 12th, at 9:44 PM, just after the Capricorn Full Moon.
Challenges to expose some secrets make the 4th of July a day to free yourself by speaking your truth. Long before dawn, the Cancer Sun opposes Pluto, the zodiac’s version of Darth Vader. (1:03 AM)
July 8th the Cancer Sun finds himself struck by a sudden and uncomfortable urge to revolutionize his life. Unconventional ideas usher in a new freedom, and a new happiness--the Sun squares Uranus at 9:23 AM.
Capricorn Full Moon lights up July 12th at 4:24 AM PDT. Big ambitions!
The Big Guy, Generous Jupiter, catches enthusiastic fire in Leo on Wednesday, July 16th at 3:30 AM PDT. You can count on lots of expansion and growth in Leo’s domaine--creativity, romance and children. Leo loves to be on stage, so we can also look forward to some great movies!
Venus shifts into some comfortable shoes and relaxes in home-sweet-home Cancer on July 18th at 7:06 AM.
The Sun struts onto the Leo stage July 22nd, and joins Jupiter there July 24th.
July 25th the warrior planet leaves Libra for the still-waters-run-deep territory of Scorpio. (7:24 PM)
Leo New Moon on July 26th, at 3:41 PM PDT,
Blame it on the Moon
July 1st the Moon leaves Leo for Virgo at 2:24 PM, PDT
July 4th fireworks will be under a romantic Libra Moon at 2:43 AM
July 6th your feelings deepen into Scorpio’s intensity at 12:34 PM
The Moon jumps to conclusions in Sagittarius at 6:25 PM
Apply for that promotion after the Moon enters ambitious Capricorn at 8:25 PM
The Moon checks out some library books and heads for the ivory towers of Aquarius July 12th at 8:06 PM
A Pisces Moon arrives July 14th at 7:40 PM with oceans of love and compassion for all.
Open your Fortune Cookie July 16th when the Moon in Aries (9:07 PM) trines Jupiter in Leo.
Take your winnings to the bank as the Moon settles into money-wise Taurus at 1:43 AM.
Curiosity gets you googling when the Moon juggles her way into Gemini at 9:36 AM, July 19th.
June 23rd the Moon in Cancer dishes up somethin’ lovin’ from the oven at 8:00 PM.
At 7:55 AM, July 26th, feelings are bigger than Texas and broader than the Montana sky when the Leo Moon joins a Leo Jupiter.
Clean out your closets under the fastidious Virgo Moon on July 28th at 8:37 PM.
The month finishes under a graceful Libra Moon on July 31st at 9:08 AM.
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