July is a kind of dreamy month, with mostly trines and sextiles. Air, space, sky opens up for connection and for allowing things to flow without the overbearing presence of control or anxiety. Key to this is a sense of emotional authenticity and acceptance of the texture of sorrow, obsession, jealousy, and nausea. All just shades of green, aquamarine, olive, grass and pine.
Cancer New Moon on July 5/6
This New Moon will be a time to focus on the themes of family, nurture, and our emotional world. There is also an opportunity to really make some progress on long-term plans. These few days would be a great time to burrow, cook yourself a meal, flip through old photo albums, hold a baby human or animal, link arms with your sisters and braid each others’ hair.
Capricorn Full Moon on July 21st
The biggest moment of the month is around July 21st - 23rd. The Capricorn Full Moon features a lot of actions, every planet in the sky is entangled in some conversation. There may be some shocking messages, last-minute changes, sweet connection, dramatic moves, dreaminess, and more. All this swirling motion is ultimately supported by an underlying theme of what does it mean to care for yourself. Where do you draw the line and where do you allow yourself to be porous? What structures do you need to feel safe? What are the things you can do to build up relationships in your life?
Other Energy
In the middle of the month, there are some gritty moments when Mercury (7/3) and Venus (7/12) oppose Pluto in Aquarius. For people with placements in early fixed signs (0-2 degrees Taurus, Leo, Scorpio, Aquarius), this might be felt more strongly as a confrontation with a kind of fear or loss.
Mars also enters Gemini on the 21st, but before it moves on, it conjoins Uranus on the 15th. On this day, there may be explosive energy, whether in your personal life or in the outer world. Review contingency plans and allow yourself some flexibility around this time.
horoscopes (read for your rising sign)
Cancer: This month, the focus is on you. You are the holder of the milky pearl, indivisible, unyielding, and feeling so fresh. Where does the earth part to let you drink, and where does it require bloodletting?
Leo: Time to lay low before things pick up in the latter half of the year. You’ll be plenty busy. You can meditate, you can feel grumpy, you can be filled with stones in your belly.
Virgo: How might friendships be more nourishing for you? Ask and you shall receive, a very very difficult belief-system for Virgos and Virgo-Risings to trust in, but you can allow yourself to be the baby at times too.
Libra: The work you are putting out into the world has the power to move people, due to way some very subconscious (or conscious) mother wound work is making itself manifest in your ideas. Where are you still seeking comfort, stability, a wholeness of understanding?
Scorpio: Home might be very far away, and this month is a moment to reflect on these themes of displacement, rootlessness, and belonging. You may find that they exist in an endless search in faith, philosophy, a conception of the world that allows you to make sense of it.
Sagittarius: Give-and-take, possession and debt, there are ties that can’t be cut so easily, as you will see in this period of time. Sometimes you may find joy in it, but other times, you just wish you had more freedom. I think this period is teaching you the ability to sit with uncomfortable situations and allowing the truth of it to reveal itself slowly to you.
Capricorn: The hard mask you hold up to the world finds soft landing spots this month. There are hands that can catch you and knowing smiles that find you, even if it is within yourself, the bodega cashier, the cat that lies on the side of the street. What would allow you to trust more in the softness of someone else witnessing you?
Aquarius: A hug and a glass of water, sleep, stretching, cat-cow, setting up a support system requires a holistic view of things, your feelings, your relationships, your body.
Pisces: July is a time for finger-painting, crafts, felted costumes for baby you, the ocean as a lover, and many long sighs. Let inspiration flow and marry you.
Aries: Crazy times requires crazy making. You might see a mother figure in the mirror, or in the shadow, or in the doorway. Every word holds a promise, which is an issue, a contention. You don’t need to leave to find it.
Taurus: Circling around the poetry, the long roads home, broken sandal strings, and late nights with the regulars. Mawkish sentimentality, like the streetlights on your road, will not allow embarrassment, when it’s the currency of the moment. Write the acrostic love poem.
Gemini: You may be needing to really consider what to give and what to take. Breathe in, breathe out. You’ll get, and you’ll give, and everything will never be equal. Can you be okay with that? No is an appropriate answer too.