This is another extremely transformational July month for you, Cancer, with a fresh start on identity and the way that you come across to others, due to the recent New Moon in your sign from the last full week of June, governing most of the current month. Your values and resources could also be going through some revolutionary changes considering that the Mercury Retrograde period of the second half of the month takes place in Leo. The highlighted position of Saturn at the top of your chart indicates powerful career focus, while Neptune is close conjunction with Saturn brings a softer and more compassionate influence to bear in vocational decision-making, that yet also might have to do with illusion or confusion in this important area. Jupiter in your sign with Sun and Moon indicates a certain degree of optimism, in spite of everything, although you might also need to reign your enthusiasm in, considering the somewhat dire equation of “stop and go and stop again” represented by prominent Saturn and the impending factor over the month’s second half of Mercury in retrograde motion affecting your resources sector. You find yourself, as in previous months, in a huge and quite general process of transformation that includes existing and potential partnerships. After the 4th, the Moon in Scorpio speaks to your creative self-expression, which must at this point be consistent with your inner moral compass to of maximum help as you evolve. The Full Moon of the 10th in your opposite sign sparks issues of self and other. On the 17th, the Last Quarter Moon is quite dramatic, encouraging you to move in the direction of true and total life purpose as Mercury also stations retrograde that same evening, creating further introspection. All in all, this is an incredible month of growing significance for you. August represents more of the same, so fasten your seat belt and take it a step at a time.


The following was written by our guest columnist, Kimberly Peta Dewhirst. You can find her at Star Sign Style.


The month begins with generous amplification of your zodiac sign. Not only are you in the 30-day window following the recent Cancer New Moon from the last full week of June, but our celestial giant Jupiter is also in your sign, and exalted, offering a sense of optimism for opportunity and growth. A major new beginning could be in motion for you over these next two seasonal months that feels very personal, so that you may be more than willing to take risks, develop knowledge, or embrace a solo journey tat leads you to your next evolutionary stage. There are plentiful outer planet connections to the Sun and Moon in this recent New Moon configuration, namely Saturn conjunct Neptune in your career sector, just half a degree apart and in square alignment to the New Moon, and also Pluto is Aquarius, your sector of intimacy, personal transformation, and partnership agreements, in collusion with the Sun, Moon, Jupiter, plus Mars in Virgo. This indicates an entirely transformational period of time for you this month in general, and as far as your relationships go, in particular. It could be that many adjustments take place this month and also during August.

Mars in Virgo or your sector of connection and communication is highlighted as well, being sextile the New Moon and the focus of a yod, or “Finger of God” aspect pattern from Saturn, Neptune, and Pluto. For the entire month, there will likely be a sharpening of your cerebral functioning or the inspiration for you to work locally to improve communicative connection between others and especially yourself. It’s possible you may grow by expressing your vitality, presence and completely identity with honesty, courage, and directness among close ties. Perhaps you’ll seize upon the chance to articulate a message of truth in business or adding a spiritual dimension to your goals and plans.

On the 2nd, the First Quarter Libra Moon lands in your sector of home, domestic settings and your psychological roots. Here, you could be examining your place within your household, with a focus on who you are to your family – or those under your roof. The ruler of Libra, Venus in late Taurus is closely conjunct radical Uranus at this time, which could result in attention on community circles and inner unconscious process. What is different, unusual, or radical, might come to the fore, and you may align with social networks or congregations of like-minded peers that go against the grain. At this juncture you might also notice gifts of Uranus in terms of intuitive information that comes to you unbidden. A good cause you have dabbled in or unusual friendships could become more prominent.

Venus then enters Gemini on the 4th, therefore appearing in your twelfth sector of dream imagination, inner work, and unconscious stirrings. This could offer up a phase of healing, or a window of respite, to retreat and regenerate. Numinous Neptune, planet of illusion, ideals, and spiritual attitudes – in Aries, or your tenth house of aspirations, goals and professional advancement – stations retrograde on this day also, You may be inclined to reimagine your title, career or public face from a different place of perhaps greater solitude, indicating evolution around the notion of success, leadership or your vocation. It’s possible that if you can continue to form a vision of what you might yet achieve, there could be a slow progress and refining of the cultivation of your reputation.

On July 7th, Uranus enters Gemini, along with Venus already there, and Venus with Uranus and especially the Venus/Uranus midpoint harmonizes with Saturn and Neptune in early Aries, also Pluto in Aquarius, with positive aspects. Inner and outer alignments predict that breakthroughs could arrive, touching on career path, your private obligations, and agreements, and deep inner connections that are intuitionally based. also, which teach you about trust, loyalty, death, and the legacy you leave. Pluto is instigating a potent comprehension of joint resources, investments and shared space, synthesizing with Uranus, Saturn and Neptune, and those charitable undertakings that go unseen, which in turn allow you to be perceived with prominence, visibility, or as a success.

For you, this celestial alignment could represent an 8-year chapter of spiritual
awakenings, with a call from deep within potentially encouraging you to support others with their wellbeing – as a professional or personal mission. It’s possible you’ll work confidentially, in secret, or uphold a selfless stance putting other people first, undertakings that compliment your outer facing profile

On the 10th, the Full Moon in Capricorn illuminates relations with key partners, falling in your seventh sector of unions and relationships, which could be symbolizing a focus on how you devote attention to a partner. You’ve perhaps made great progress understanding other people, and can now see how far you’ve come, so that it becomes easier putting yourself in another person’s shoes – seeing life from their perspective. The Full Moon answers to Saturn, himself at a standstill, ready to retrograde on the 12th in Aries and your sector of authority, public image and external factors. You might be coming to terms with your status or standing, how you’re seen, viewed or perceived, and revising the story there in certain ways, or initiating new ways of discerning your role as in accordance with your most cherished inner truth.

On the 17th, the Last Quarter Moon lands in Aries as Mercury is stationing retrograde in Leo, exact that same evening, in a sextile to Venus. As the Sun and Jupiter in your sign answer to the Moon in Aries, you might be highly influenced by a position of prominence, your career or calling, with unconscious process playing a role. It’s perhaps also important to pause for thought around the way you’re acting in a supportive capacity, or finding your true North and acting from that place of calling.

The Sun enters its domicile sign Leo on the 22nd, spotlighting your values, your assets, and what you have to offer while stimulating deep-seated intuition that supplies surprise information.

The New Moon arrives on the 24th in your second sector of income, featuring plenty of aspects. The luminaries play into the configuration of slow-moving planets, trine Saturn and Neptune, sextile Uranus and opposing Pluto. This could be an intense portal for your sense of self-worth and soloing ability attributes, for planning what you intend to build or amass, in line with your public profile, and spiritual life. Yet you may be forced to consider power dynamics, other people, and their input.
Venus is square Mars in Virgo during the New Moon, so an inclination to escape, isolate or serve others could compete with connection in local circles, or ways you’re showing up in social settings.

This is another changeful month for you, Libra, with an emphasis on vocational choices and possibilities. There is something of a fresh start in this area, with the recent Cancer New Moon, governing nearly all of July, having taken place in your sector of career and profession. Many outer planet influences are also in play, so that you can look ahead for a two-month period of rather intense events and revelations. Venus, your ruler, influences your sector of intimacy and personal evolution, indicating a focus also on the notable relationships in your life. Partnership agreements and shared resources are topics up for further attention and developments as the month continues to evolve. Besides key partnerships, your creative self-expression and as well your values and resources are in significant reorganization and transformation. There are likely to be surprises along the way, especially in July’s first week, when Venus conjuncts Uranus and ingresses into Gemini. On the 7th, Uranus follows, shifting signs, and bringing shifts of awareness that could shock your beliefs and worldview. These impactful skies could wind up sending unexpected facts and re-interpretations of existing ideas scattering like leaves before the wind. With the Capricorn Full Moon of the 10th, issues of pubic versus private concerns could manifest, while a week later, on the 17th, the Moon’s Last Quarter is also pretty wild for you. Your social scene, including the societal impact of your burgeoning creativity are potentially in flux, along with your sense of identity and self-worth. Mercury is stationing to retrograde motion in the late evening of the 17th also, with continuing introspection implied as you contemplate your long-term goals and the friends and groups you favor in a new light.


The following was written by our guest columnist, Kimberly Peta Dewhirst. You can find her at Star Sign Style.


The recent Cancer New Moon has set the tone for the first three weeks of July, with a generous emphasis on that sign, representing your tenth house of personal and professional success, aspirations and your public image. In this New Moon configuration, Jupiter is closely conjunct the Sun and Moon, amplifying themes of good fortune, leadership, and viability as applying to your vocational sector. A major new beginning could be in motion, with opportunities to expand on your career, reputation, title, or contra-wise, your notoriety. Pluto in Aquarius is powerfully aspected in this New Moon, so that your artistic creativity is in a process of significant change. Also highlighted in this New Moon configuration are Saturn and Neptune in close conjunction in the early degrees of your opposite sign of Aries, corresponding to your partnership sector. With Saturn there, things could be going slowly on the relationship front, and yet there will be important lessons. Neptune puts a different spin on things, on the one hand the potential for illusion or confusion to plague your awareness in this important area; if present, that would have to be dealt with, as you can, or else on the other hand there could emerge a spiritual and compassionate situation with an important person in your life that may be a truth that you will also have the opportunity to try to better understand over the course of this month as you integrate what you have going on.

In the New Moon chart, also, Mars is sextile the luminaries from its position in Virgo, or your twelfth house of unconscious process, and inner work, or retreat, where he will this month be giving energy to digging down into your depths. This internal exploration could be making a strong connection to your relationship situation, because Mars rules Aries. This work undertaken privately, inwardly, or behind closed doors could also align with your external goals, public life, ambitions or calling due to the focus of this New Moon. Supporting someone else, taking a backseat, or surrendering control could be a key to getting ahead.

On the 2nd, the First Quarter Moon lines up in your sign and emphasizing your identity and sense of self, so that you might embrace and embody more of who you really are. Venus , your planetary ruler, is conjunct Uranus at this quarter Moon, both appearing in late Taurus and your eighth sector of partnership agreements and shared resources. You might want to be aware of alterations and radical upheavals that are playing out around contracts, agreements, and joint resources. Your understanding of investments, commitments, and whatever else you’re willing to come together on has likely been subject to change. There could be a degree of tension between identity, relationships, and your work in the world, and also the opportunity to create an amalgam of these several needs.

Venus enters Gemini on the 4th, in your ninth house of higher mind wisdom and beliefs or worldview, just as Neptune stations retrograde in Aries corresponding to your relationship sector. Venus finds harmony with Neptune and Saturn, and forms a trine to Pluto in Aquarius, or your sector of creative interests, passion projects, celebrations, children, and joy. There’s perhaps the potential to go the distance, exploring knowledge, the world, and its multifaceted beliefs, as Venus sets you on a path of higher learning, and global exploration. Your adventurous side is complimented by an evolving dynamic in intimate unions, now gently calling your attention. You might find your perception of others is shifting, that you’re dissolving expectations of what an intimate partnership ‘should’ look like, with a willingness to work with others in a more malleable fashion. You could find a deep sense of inspiration, love or a compulsion to enjoy life, thanks to your own creativity that’s able to be harnessed.

Uranus enters Gemini on July 7th, and this is an important ingress, creating a sense of brilliant intuition in your evolving worldview, and because connecting to transformational Pluto plus Saturn and Neptune in your relationship sector, indicating an entirely changeful time as well. There may be an awakening around what you believe to be true, with a radical perspective shift, and path of higher mind seeking opening up novel ideas and unexpected solutions. Your viewpoint may broaden exponentially, with a reverence for people, places and things you cherish, or thanks to your talents, passions, and playful nature. The things that make your heart race could be a transformative catalyst, nudging you to probe with more curiosity, so that your own interests and desires lead to discoveries that are mind-altering, and totally refreshing. Experiences with key partners feed into this liberation of heart and mind. Note that Uranus only spends about four months in the initial degrees of Gemini before returning to Taurus by retrograde on November 7th, and then re-entering Gemini on April 25th, 2026.

On the 10th, the Full Moon lands in Capricorn and illuminates your sector of home and domestic life, roots, stability and foundations. It might be important to acknowledge progress made around parenting or a family matter, while also looking to a significant other. The Full Moon answers to Saturn in Aries, so you’re perhaps led towards unions and a partner, integrating realizations about the past, your inner landscape and stability with a new rulebook being forged. Saturn is at a standstill, getting ready to retrograde on the 12th, suggesting that a re-working of one-to-one connections. You could be firming up your approach to partnerships, coming to terms with limits and boundaries within interpersonal dynamics.

The Last Quarter Moon is in Aries on the 17th, in which configuration Mercury is stationing retrograde in Leo, and making a sextile to Venus. Because the Sun and Jupiter are presently guided by the Moon in Aries, you might sense the way you feel about success or a title rests with another person and their feedback. Relationships may be prominent, and it’s perhaps also important to pause and hear from your allies, reaching out to those that understand you, and more deeply looking into the path you’re on. Mercury retrogrades through Leo for the remainder of the month, and beyond, introducing an introspective period of questioning your participation in social structures and your future goals, which you might find yourself revising as you go further into the retrograde,

The Sun enters its domicile sign of Leo on the 22nd, appearing resplendent in your social sector ad giving you a boost to counter the otherwise slow start to the month’s second half. This is your area of team spirit, collective wishes and networking where Mercury is also giving you motivation for reflecting on where you are truly heading.

The Leo New Moon arrives on the 24th, highlighting this same area and offering a fresh start in your friendships, groups, and goals. This New Moon is very strong with a trine to Saturn and Neptune, a sextile to Uranus and an opposition to Pluto so that transformation is once again in the air for you and your plans, or your collective purpose, within the process of quietly tending your inner landscape.

This is another doozy of a month for you, Capricorn, as your transformation continues, with prominent Pluto in these astrological skies, plus Neptune is close conjunction with Saturn, your ruler. The recent Cancer New Moon, in your opposite sign, indicates that there is this time a concentration of focus on relationships of all kinds, business, friendship, and more personal. Mercury is also in retrograde after mid-July in your intimacy sector, indicating that you might be spending time – this month and next – on re-thinking certain aspects of your relationship dynamic. Home and family concerns have likewise been prominent for you lately, continuing into the present month. There is simultaneously a rosy glow of compassion and spiritual connection to current familial dynamics. With prominent Pluto, your values and resources are also in transition, affecting finances and perhaps your attitude toward the material itself. With the Full Moon in your sign of July 10th, partnerships in your life remain a big focus, while your own self-development within that is also an important part of the story. You are taking in how much of what you do is practical, yet life in some ways partakes of that which is essentially mystical. The Last Quarter Moon in Aries on the 17th highlights this conundrum and adds an attention on internal wounding, likely stemming from childhood trauma, that forms a significant piece of your own current evolution. Your true life purpose can be seen in that way as rather more private than out in the world. Mercury turns retrograde in this same timing, which lasts until August 11th in its backward motion, and until the 24th as it recovers during it post-retrograde shadow period. This next New Moon – which transpires on July 24th – indicates that the August month is a somewhat difficult one as well, as these themes continue to emerge.


The following was written by our guest columnist, Kimberly Peta Dewhirst. You can find her at Star Sign Style.


July begins for you in the afterglow of the recent Cancer New Moon, which due to its lunation cycle of thirty days has energetic effects that last throughout the weeks ahead, up to the Leo New Moon of the 24th. The New Moon in your opposite sign indicates a new beginning for your seventh sector of partnership, and your relationship dynamic itself participates in this. An amplification of this theme occurs courtesy of Jupiter, closely conjunct the Sun and Moon, and exalted in Cancer, which adds a generous emphasis to partnerships of all kinds. You might have expansive feelings toward existing partners and be open to learning about all kinds of collaborations that inspire you to go the distance. The New Moon also highlights Saturn and Neptune, closely conjunct in Aries, or your home and family sector, indicating that there is a new-found dedication to making things work in this area, where you are also subject to a certain degree of illusion or fantasy, with the upside of a feeling of spiritual connection to issues of your dwelling or your familial concerns. It is possible that you might also be feeling progress on old issues that have long been festering within you; perhaps indicating that there are issues inner wounding that you are ready to deal with.

Mars is configured in a sextile to the New Moon, located in Virgo or your sector of higher mind pursuits, inner wisdom, philosophy – thus encouraging personal growth in this area. There are implications as well for long-distance travel and adventure, plus enthusiasm for educational paths, and projects that see you driving ahead. This might be bringing a positive influence to a fresh approach toward family or relationships. You might wind up talking to advantage with a best friend or business alliance – or a coach, guide, family member.

On the 2nd, the First Quarter Moon arrives in Libra, emphasizing your public image and reputation, and here you might be balancing your career or outer profile, and what you’re striving to accomplish within a significant union. Venus, the ruler of Libra, is conjunct radical Uranus in late Taurus at this time, the two blending their planetary signatures to bring extra attention to your passions, any children you may have, or as well, your creative self-expression. You might find that there are adjustments in your approach to your love life or artistic talents. It may be apparent that the way you indulge or pursue pleasure has undergone significant alterations, with unconventional affections or hobbies that seem unusual, odd or perhaps set you apart as an outlier. At this point, awareness of your personal or professional goals, aspirations or ambitions might make it apparent how you are able to enjoy yourself, and follow your heart!

Venus enters Gemini on the 4th, in your sixth sector of health, wellness and daily upkeep, while Neptune stations retrograde in Aries or your fourth sector of home and family. With Venus’ ingress into this mutable air sign you’re perhaps able to be more creative and playful in your workplace, or in the pursuit of your habitual efforts in support of your wellbeing. There could be a sense of fun about your daily habits that you can come to at this time, and the way you organize or systematize. Meanwhile, Neptune’s station to retrograde motion in the base of your chart, your psychological roots could instigate a re-visioning of your past, and the way you contextualize your ancestry, origins or start in life. Parenting or property issues could seem confused or illusion-filled, so that extra effort is required to remain discerning.

On July 7th Uranus enters Gemini, indicating a shift in this same area of day-to-day habits and environment. This could represent an awakening and unexpected left turn in your approach to healthy living and your body, routines, or your sense of service to others. Uranus has the potential to deliver shockwaves or breakthroughs, with significant alterations to your duties or lifestyle. You might suddenly overhaul the way you take care of yourself, or unexpectedly start doing things differently. Both Venus already in Gemini, and Uranus, newly entered, harmonize with Saturn and Neptune, thereby aligning a changing approach to managing yourself and others with an evolving understanding of your foundations, roots and nurturing tendencies. Further, a trine to Pluto in Aquarius taps into a transformation around finances or personal values, plus how you aspire to your own sense of self-worth.

On the 10th, the Full Moon in your zodiac sign illuminates your first house of personal life, ego, and character. It might be important that you acknowledge your sense of self or encourage others to look your way too at this time. As this lunation answers to Saturn in Aries, household interests could factor in here, as well as your identity in family settings so that you might direct attention to who you are within your inner sanctuary or the family fold. Saturn is at a standstill, ready to retrograde on the 12th, thus elevating his potency in this home and family sector, perhaps slowing things down at your residence, property, or sense of home base. Your family life could be realigning or you may be coming to terms with new responsibilities underfoot. There’s perhaps a slow restructure underway or more work to do in familiar surroundings, with a re-definition of safety, security or boundaries.

The Last Quarter Moon in Aries, or your root sector of home and family, arriving on the 17th, focuses additional energy there and brings up potential conflicts with key relationships in your life, symbolized by the Cancer Sun in your opposite sign. This same day, Mercury is also beginning to retrograde in Leo, or your sector of shared resources, with a supportive sextile from Venus. Partnership agreements could be the introspective subject of review and revision, while your emotional roots and domain are also important. With the retrograde underway it might be time to review and revise shared spaces, looking into what you have going and what you do not.

The Sun enters its domicile sign of Leo on the 22nd, appearing in this same sector where the Mercury is taking place. Partnerships and close relationship shine a little brighter.

The Leo New Moon arrives on the 24th, giving fresh energy to your sector of shared resources and also intimacy, and initiating another difficult and yet transformationally rewarding monthly cycle lasting into August. This New Moon is also loaded with outer planet aspects, really plugging into them, trine Saturn and Neptune, sextile Uranus, and opposing Pluto. This is another very potent lunation, with many of the same areas affected as during the beginning of July. You are up against massive change and do well to accept the inevitable and get on with it.

This is another powerful monthly cycle for you, Aquarius, focused on your existing habit patterns of day-to-day behavior, some of which are currently in flux. With Pluto in your sign greatly stimulated by a partile or same-degree inconjunct (quincunx) aspect from Jupiter conjunct the recent Cancer New Moon, and with also a Mars position in the New Moon in partile sextile to the New Moon degree, creating a yod formation to Pluto, also known as the “Finger of God,” there is a strong transformational drive for members of your sign that accompanies the entirety of this month and next. You have been in this for quite some time, ever since back in November, when Pluto entered your sign to stay, so that this moment of peak intensity is icing on the cake. Society itself, represented by the Aquarius sign, is changing, and so is your sense of your own identity. The recent New Moon featured communication and learning, with a great deal of commitment, and a distinctly mystical flare. In the Capricorn Full Moon of July 10th, taking place in your sector of dream imagination, inner work, and unconscious process, your inner world more greatly commands your attention. By this time, also, Uranus has ingressed into Gemini (on July 7th) and trined Pluto in your sign, with Saturn and Neptune conjunct in early Aries, at more or less the midpoint. During your ongoing investigations of self therefore, important allies have emerged. Your learning curve remains steep and productive. A week later, on the 17th, at the Moon’s Last Quarter, in Aries, and simultaneous with the retrograde of Mercury in your opposite sign, you could encounter a dramatic inner conflict that is not totally resolved until the upcoming Leo New Moon signaling a fresh start in all your relationships. The quarter Moon in Aries is found in conjunction as well with Eris, feminine warrior in support of soul intention, indicating the importance of your current quest.


The following was written by our guest columnist, Kimberly Peta Dewhirst. You can find her at Star Sign Style.


The recent New Moon in Cancer has set the tone for July, with its thirty-day lunation cycle lasting through most of the current month, helping with a generous focus to your sixth sector of health, wellness, and current day-to-day environment or habitual patterning. You might embrace a boost of awareness around regular daily practices in the afterglow of this lunation, with Jupiter exalted in Cancer, further emphasizing re-visualizing and revitalizing your habits and workplace. There’s perhaps the potential to develop knowledge about your own upkeep, particularly those regular tasks, duties and rituals that help you take care of your day-to-day functioning. An education underway around your management style, and an expansion around your wellbeing could be further enhanced by the input of others. Saturn and Neptune, in close conjunction, are also featured in this New Moon, and located in your sector of communication and learning. These two powerhouse planets might be influential in dedication to a deeper sense of practical or spiritual meaning arising in your conversational contexts. If your speech is slowed down due to Saturn’s highlighted presence, you could regard this as a prelude to more thoughtful commentary eventually emerging.

In this New Moon also – and therefore influencing you throughout the month – Mars in your sector of joint resources, commitments, shared space and interests, and in harmonious sextile to the New Moon suggests a great deal of drive to start looking within yourself for useful answers to any questions you may have about partnership agreements. You might look within to better understand how to connect with trusted partners in a personal or a business sense.

On the 2nd, the First Quarter Moon arrives in Libra, emphasizing your sector of higher mind concerns and thought. Your worldview may be shifting, and potentially a conflict could be working itself out between these newer ideals and existing habitual patterns that no longer fully serve you. long-distance travel, educational initiatives, and your understanding of global issues, potentially guiding you to engage with the wider world, all are potential shifts that also could breed tension around practical work schedules or healthy living. The ruler of Libra, Venus, is with Uranus in late Taurus during this lunar phase, in your home and family sector. so that your inner landscape, home, or psychological roots could figure into this, with breakthroughs – and perhaps alternative choices made – in your domain. You could notice profound alterations in your approach to family dynamics, a parent, or your residence, with a different take on the past, domestic settings, or a change in your perception of caretaking.

Venus then enters fellow air sign Gemini on the 4th, which could fare well for your creativity, your sense of play, artistic self-expression, hobbies, or any children that might be in your life. On this day too, Neptune stations retrograde in Aries or your communication sector, so that your interpersonal skills, sibling relations and your capacity for learning could be an extra-potent factor. There may be a re-invigorating of your cognitive process, with inspiration forthcoming, and your imagination could be heightened.

Uranus, your modern ruling planet, enters Gemini on the 7th, This indicates a shift taking place in the way that you conceptualize passion projects, your talents, and your creative output. You might also find unexpected joy in your life, making new plans or awakening to new affections. It’s possible your mental approach is formal, yet visionary, and the way you relate as an individual could be formidable and powerful, as well. You could find a newfound maturity and responsibility around your words, attitude, and mindset, or your deep inner resolve.

The Capricorn Full Moon takes place on the 10th, illuminating your private twelfth sector of dreams, gestation, healing, and respite. Governed by Saturn in Aries at a standstill, ready to retrograde, you may be aware of what you perceive in your immediate surroundings, which adds context to what you’ve overcome behind closed doors. Unconscious matters may become more conscious – and these topics may be broached or talked about. You can have an opportunity to articulate or leverage an inner process of surrendering, catharsis or perhaps trauma among kindred spirits. It’s also possible you’ll be firming up your delivery, restructuring or reframing what’s been under wraps.

The Last Quarter Moon in Aries occurs on the 17th, during which Mercury is stationing retrograde in Leo or your partnership sector, with a sextile to Venus. As Mercury reverses direction, you could find yourself reviewing and revising your existing partnerships, or your relationship dynamic in general. In the timing of this retrograde, lasting to the end of the current month, and beyond, it might be important to pause, reflect and perhaps initiate pulling back in order to reflect on the ways you connect to happiness, laughter, or joy – potentially revising your approach to re-capture some of that earlier momentum. With the Aries Moon also pointing to potential revelations around your ability to express yourself, emphasis swells around communications, and what you need.

The Sun enters Leo on the 22nd, your seventh sector of marriage partners, intimate unions and collaborations, which it rules. You may be encouraged to be more aware of a significant other, or close friendship, spotlighting special people in your life.

The Leo New Moon arrives on July 24th, inviting fresh starts in your one-on-one sector, and perhaps a reimagining of how you connect, relate and express loving, playful affection. This New Moon features a powerful trine to Saturn and Neptune, a sextile to Trickster Uranus, and closely opposes Pluto in your sign. This lunation is thus very dynamic and could imply further transformation deep within you. This new beginning could be challenging, as was the current month just ending. As Venus is square Mars during the New Moon, what seems sensible, practical, and enjoyable might not land easily within an energetic investment you are forging.