Happy July! this is a big month, with the showstopper Venus Retrograde in Leo. Our desires are here to be seen and held, but this might be a little bit out of grasp in this period. We will be in this transitional space for 40 days, from July 23rd to September 3rd. The summer will be hot, languid, and asking for our full heart.
Some of the biggest days this month (JST)';
July 1st - There’s a beautiful Mercury cazimi sextile jupiter. In general, a wonderful time to journal, receive insights, share words of inspiration and encouragement, feel serendipity and the presence of cohesive system that enjoys you being a part of it. There might just a little bit of rejection or difficulties, or having to say no to someone else that you mostly overcome
2nd: Venus square Uranus; Not yet Venus retrograde hijinks officially, but this day, you might experience some weird, electric, unstable, and disturbed energy
3rd: Capricorn Full Moon
This full moon is rather auspicious, with its harmonious aspects to Jupiter and Saturn, allowing us to ground ourselves and do what we need to do. This chain of events show where we have been seeking stability even as we are seeking new variations.
11th: Mercury in cancer opposes Pluto and squares the nodes; there might be this urgency to start something or to say the last word, but try to avoid getting into a ego duel if its not conducive to what you want
18th Cancer new moon; This new moon might be a little intense. There may be some grieving, cleaning the graves, diving into our wounds. Because of the ambient aspect of mercury squaring jupiter, there is some thing in the air about speaking your truth, but still some limitation of how much you can do. You can’t fully jump into action to rectify the situation, and you might be really frustrated.
21st: Mars in Virgo opposing Saturn in Pisces; We’re definitely taking our lack of productivity, inefficacy, problems in the system personally.
22nd - Sun in Cancer opposing Pluto. This is also intense. It might foreshadow some big unravelling or dark secrets that come out and shape the journey.
23rd Sun enters Leo, Venus turns retrograde; This is the big aspect of the summer, as we’ll all be on this journey together for the next forty days.
how was your month of june? These are my 3 highlights
1) i watched pom poko by Isao Takahata. it made me cry so much!
2) i took myself on a solo mountain trip for my birthday this year
3) i started taking my trash out the night before and when i do that, i started also going on small ten/fifteen minute walks and i imagine my dog from my childhood walking beside me. we talk about my childhood together too.
horoscopes
(as always, please read for your rising and sun sign, and take what sticks and leave the rest!)
Cancer:
The water flows between you and your reflection. This interplay strengthens as you must carry on your repartee through moves between mountains, homes, new positions and identities. Are partners a threat to your sovereignty, a reminder of your greatest fears, or even if dark and brooding, a singing partner that brings out the flavor of the countermelody? This month, you will come to terms with where you are in partnership and practice tenderness around your own self.
Leo:
The biggest news for you is that you are undergoing a big transformation this summer. To feel authentically yourself, you need to undergo some shedding and face the insecurities that have been holding you back. You will need to come to terms with the power of your body and your presence, and enter your new era boldly. This month may hold also its shares of private troubles, loneliness, and health issues, that appear mainly to allow you to realign your lifestyle with what you need.
Virgo:
This month you see things from two different positions. You move between the position of being out in the world, in community, in striving, and the position of your own pleasure, your own creations, children. You will have to come to terms with the weight of your pleasure and creations, while practicing tenderness around how your aspirations. You may especially feel around the 20th-21st of the month that there is a lot conspiring against you. Don’t take these setbacks to heart just yet, find strength in holding your position lightly.
Libra:
This month your chart ruler Venus goes retrograde, and the south node enters your first house. What this means is that love and charm and beauty, your normal variables, are not as available for you to rely on. This month you may need to come to terms with things not being smooth and occasionally being ugly. I sense that some of this might happen more in the realm of community, although the arenas of authority, parents, and living spaces is also activated.
Scorpio:
This month you may experience some frustrations in your outer world. Your career is going through a molting period, and your sense of where you belong may be also challenged in this period. You may long to run far away since being home is bringing up awkward teenage memories. Watch out for around the 21st-22nd, when your energy is challenged. Don’t do anything extreme, lay low and work on your craft even if nothing seems like its flowing. The weather will pass.
Sagittarius:
This month you’ll be thinking about money, exchange, and contracts, especially as it relates to some ways you will be uphauling your creative practices and public personas over the course of the next few years. Additionally, this month will ask you to mull over some ideas about teaching, publications, travel, or faith. You may need to want to go bold and paint with new colors.
Capricorn:
The month starts off with a Mercury cazimi in your 7th house and follows up quickly with an auspicious new moon. This month could contain deeper connection and fated meetings. However, this comes also with a small caveat. These relationships help spur the last leg of a long transformational journey you’ve been on. In this journey, you are coming into your own power. Approach these connections with a gratitude for what they are enlightening within you, but do not attempt to hold on too tight or control.
Aquarius
This is a summer of love for Aquarius, but it’s not all party and games. You are finding ways to connect, and to feel that authentic connection, you need to undergo some shedding. Some relationships or partnerships this summer may feel awkward and uncomfortable, in some kind of transitional stage. This month may have its private troubles, loneliness, and health issues, that appear mainly to allow you to realign your lifestyle with what you need.
Pisces
This month you explore the drastic differences in needs between your community and collective desires with your own pleasure, creations, and children. You will have to come to terms with the ways aligning with others undoes you, or how it allows you to undo yourself. In turn, practice tenderness around your own private joys. You may especially feel around the 20th-21st of the month that you’ll need to set stronger boundaries. Don’t be too disappointed if you find yourself still struggling to hold yourself together. This month you are discovering the hot topics that set you afire.
Aries
This month the north node enters your first house. What this means is that from now until the early 2025, you will be more focussed on yourself. You won’t be able to hide in or depend on the decisions of others for your own life. In July especially, as various microthemes, I can foresee you rethinking some expensive hobbies or pasttimes and also feeling some grief around home and heritage.
Taurus:
This month you may experience some realignment in your inner world. Your home/family life is going through a molting period that will most likely stretch into the fall. Take the time to really think about what works for you. It might be a little surprising that this axis of change brings a kind of aesthetic or relational homecoming, such as reincorporating parts of your past to make space for all the parts of you across various streams of time.
Gemini:
Firstly, mid-month there may be some work-life imbalance that feels very frustrating, whether its being way too busy or feeling frustrated that you can’t let off your energy in a more public sphere. Otherwise, this month may have you in a bit of a shell, deep in a crafting stage. Pay attention to your body, especially the joints and muscles.