www.psychicwalter.com Horoscope
2009 - July by
Henry Seltzer
Your
horoscope will be more accurate if you read your Rising
sign, your Moon sign,
as well as your Sun sign. This is what they mean:
Your Rising sign represents your outer mask, the
self you show to others. It symbolizes how you appear to others, how others perceive
you, in your true interaction with the world.
Your Rising sign horoscope will tell you what to expect in these areas of your
self this month.
Your Moon
sign symbolizes your personal self, your feelings, your subconscious.
It represents how you relate to others, how you have nurturing relationships
with others, your intuition, your spiritual self, your sense of security,
and your habits. The Moon symbolizes your feminine, nurturing side (we
all have one).
The Moon also indicates the type of partner you will attract, since it represents
your emotional self.
Your Moon sign horoscope will show you what these areas of your self will encounter
this month.
Your Sun
sign represents your Self, your way of being in
the world. It can represent both the ego (mental) self
and the higher Self (soul purpose). It symbolizes your
will and sense of vitality.
Your Sun sign horoscope will tell you what these areas of your self will
encounter this month.
Aires (March
20 - April 18) Fire. Ruling planet Mars. Top
You
are feeling the fires of transformation, Aries. This
month the evolutionary pressure mounts and the choices
become more limited, stark and clear. Home and family
are extremely important. You are delving into the internal
basis for everything that you do, discovering the power
of right relationship and a return to classic values.
You are determined at this time to be all that you can
be, even if this requires moving mountains. You are fantastically
idealistic at this time but also cognizant of the practical
limitations of the situation, as difficult as they might
be to fully comprehend. There is nowhere to go but up.
As the month begins, you are feeling the energy for change
all around you, and especially in terms of business goals and
personal relationships. There is no doubt that you find yourself
in the midst of a powerfully transformative period of time,
both for yourself and for society, and for your family or extended
familial tribe. The proverbial notion certainly applies of
crisis as equal to danger plus opportunistic new beginning.
There is no difficult situation that cannot be perceived as
a powerful opportunity to rise above and you build your moral
fiber while doing so. In fact each character-defining moment
turns out to be a difficult one.
The Full Moon and Lunar Eclipse of the second week of July,
coming along on Tuesday, July 7th, might bring these reflections
to a boiling point. You are on one hand entirely optimistic
at this time, almost naively so, and yet with another part
of your mind you are simultaneously suspicious and watching
for some potential pitfall to manifest. You could choose to
just relax as much as possible and take whatever happens as
it comes. It’s certain that no good thing comes without
struggle. Every moment represents either something weighted
down by the un-alive burden of past conditioning or else it
is a chance to breathe life into circumstances that are in
some ways beyond your control, by your very attitude to what
is going on. Everything is possible for you right now only
it takes enormous faith in the universe to pull it off.
The Last Quarter Moon of the 15th represents in some ways a
further trial, when you are mediating between optimism and
despair, and taking up the gleanings of what you have learned
from experience as grist for the mill of change that surrounds
you. Communication becomes vitally important for you now, both
for support from loving partners in your life and as a way
of seeing more clearly your own process. You are delving into
the silent depths of your innermost nature at this time so
that it will become a springboard for further activity.
With the New Moon of the evening of Tuesday, July 21st, which
is another eclipse and therefore another quite powerful lunation,
you are ready to explode upon the world stage with increased
moxie and idealism and with the joyful and sometimes painful
wisdom of what you have learned from everything that has gone
before.
Taurus (April
19 - May 19) Earth. Ruling
planet Venus. Top
This is a month of digging in and getting on with it, Taurus.
You are deadly serious these days regarding your creative self-expression
in all its forms, and experiencing restrictions there as well.
The good news is that lasting benefits will accrue after this
period of time has been long gone in terms of lessons learned,
plus expectations and worldview readjusted. As you review your
experience a mental restructuring takes place that serves you
well in the long run and is more precious than gold. It is
comforting to recognize that nothing that is worthwhile comes
easy, while what is supremely valuable is well worth waiting
for.
As the month begins, you are feeling the impact of relationship
in your life, both personal and professional. This is a time
of huge positivity for you with every aspect of your life and
you might find yourself taking an optimistic stance in the
way that you connect with others. You are also continuing to
feel the limitations and restrictions of life in realistic
terms as you have over the past month or so, and this may undercut
the starry-eyed idealism that you are also feeling right now.
With the Full Moon and Lunar Eclipse of Tuesday, July 7th,
you are coming to a culmination point for both these types
of attitude, a time when you are seeking to find the right
balance. This is time of optimism that borders on illusion
so that you might even need to beware of deception as you concentrate
your energies on the fundamental basis for your own security
independent from the voices of others. You are seeking to communicate
your deepest truth to others around you right now, and to find
your own perspective in the kaleidoscope of opinion that swirls
around you. This is a powerful time, and a spiritual one, when
you must at least in part turn to the inside for the answers.
Your perspective is changing with the tides of the times, and
your idealism needs to be nurtured or it will die on the vine,
so that strong action is needed, but first you must be quite
sure of your direction.
With the Last Quarter Moon of the following week, that comes
along on Wednesday, July 15th, you are taking in everything
that has gone before, making a strategic assessment. The information
you gain from this type of inner reflection is very valuable
right now, and also the information which comes from helpful
associates. Blending these differing viewpoints into your own
unique perspective is key.
When the New Moon and Solar Eclipse comes along in the middle
of the following week, taking place on Wednesday, July 21st,
you are on the verge of breakthrough. It’s not all smooth
sailing; there could be obstacles to contend with especially
in terms of the tapes of old conditioning that try to trip
you up just when you least expect it, but it’s nothing
that you can’t handle. You are coming to a place of inner
knowing that takes your heart and mind and soul, all three,
and seeks from them a higher degree of integration and resolution.
Gemini (May
20 - June 20) Air. Ruling planet Mercury. Top
You are going over a waterfall in the proverbial barrel, Gemini,
but you will never hit bottom. This month is a time of great
flux and a fair degree of stress but also one of great joy
and beauty when you recognize the way things are going and
pull your oars in that direction. Your finances and your values
may well be in need of adjustment over the course of this month-long
period. Surprises over the last ten days of the month require
course corrections. Emotional insight comes slowly but the
miracle is that it comes at all. The rewards are there for
you when it does.
As the month begins, you are full of life, enjoying your interactions
with others and taking a spiritual approach to life and love.
You are transforming in the way that you view the material
world, and in where you turn to find your most basic sense
of self. The things in your life, even your personal possessions,
do not matter to you nearly half as much as you might have
previously supposed. This month represents an important segment
of the arc of development that you are currently engaged in.
You are taking in the events that have transpired lately and
attempting to rearrange the puzzle pieces into some new kind
of order. When your world changes and your perceptions along
with it, you must go with the flow and allow fresh points of
view to come in or else become mired in irrelevant artifacts
of a prior time.
These ruminations might come to a head at the time of the Full
Moon and Lunar Eclipse, taking place on Tuesday, July 7th,
in your sector of intimacy and personal evolution. This is
a time when you are forming your own basis for security independent
of the actions and the opinions of others, when you are feeling
for the balance point between relationship and going it alone.
You are very aware at this time of the impact on your life
from others, and also the necessity for balance so that you
do not lose yourself in the process.
At the time of the Last Quarter Moon of Wednesday, July 15th,
you are coming to some important conclusions. Your world view
is changing these days in response to the conditions that you
have encountered and the conclusions that you have drawn from
them, and now this fact has become more than evident. There
might be some bumps in the path of your progress as you make
necessary adjustments.
With the New Moon and Solar Eclipse of Tuesday evening, July
21st, you are getting into a new way of thinking about your
world that takes all your past into account. At this time also
you might be more prepared to take a novel stance on how you
see things as compared to how your forbears did, to set off
on a departure from traditional ways of thinking if that is
what it takes to get yourself down the road.
Cancer (June
21 - July 21) Water. Ruling
planet is the Moon. Top
You are feeling the rush, Cancer. You are all go-power right
now with the urge to get things done, and to show yourself
to best advantage. You may also be feeling a good deal of energy
from significant partners in your life, who are perhaps making
a play for control or for greater recognition. Your nurturing
is legendary, but the way you manage partnership and peer-to-peer
connection is changing. Groups that you are constructively
engaged with are also in need of your sustenance, so that you
have further wrinkles to work out before everyone, including
yourself, is satisfied. You are asking some major questions
about how to find an equal footing with the important others
in your life, perhaps seeking a new way to balance the competing
demands of connection and separation.
As the month begins, you are exploring your sense of who you
are and your creative self-expression also. This is your birthday
time of the year after all, and it is definitely your turn
to make a grab for the limelight. At this time you are also
concerned with the transformation of self that is implied by
the changing dynamics of relationship in your life, both with
significant others in your universe and in terms of a spiritual
bond between yourself and your own inner guidance. This is
a monthly period when you might also find yourself exploring
issues of old woundings that remain buried in your unconscious
process and come upon you from below, as it were. Such residue
of ancient trauma can leave traces in your behavior that seem
anomalous so that it might be difficult to ascertain the root
causes. Clarity regarding these issues is obviously extremely
beneficial and might even be something that is coming up for
you during this period of time.
The Full Moon and Lunar Eclipse of Tuesday, July 7th, is a
powerful time for you, since the Moon is your ruler. This Full
Moon speaks to you of relationship, since the Moon in Capricorn
opposes the Sun, across the Zodiac from your own sign. You
are focusing this entire month on the significant partners
in your life, and how you mediate the connection between you
and them, and this week would definitely represent one highlight
of this energy, when you are more aware than usual of the ongoing
transformation that is occurring for you in this area.
This is also a time when you will very likely see the potential
conflicts between spiritual and practical concerns. You have
tremendous energy at this time to remake your agenda for social
goals that you have, but you must always come back to the connection
with your deep internal process as you do so.
With the Last Quarter Moon of the middle of the following week,
taking place on Wednesday, July 15th, you are taking a long
hard look at what can be concretely accomplished in a way that
is consistent with this spiritual imperative. You are making
a stand for yourself right now, but it must be the right stand.
The New Moon and Solar Eclipse of the 21st signals another
extremely potent period of time, when you are firming up the
basis for your security, again consistent with these higher
principles. There are undoubtedly issues of past trauma and
its aftermath that could come up for you at this time, perhaps
reflecting the departure from consensus thinking that is often
necessary in order to take a fresh approach to these and to
gracefully move through them. If not now then later; there
is always plenty of time for the important things to work themselves
out, once you are aware of them.
Leo (July
22 - August 21) Fire. Ruling
planet is the Sun. Top
This is a month of contrasts for you, Leo, and of paradoxical
solutions. On one hand you are wandering in the fog, seeking
the ideal, especially in terms of partnering with like-minded
others. But all who wander are indeed not lost, just searching
for a deeper sense of Reality than straight-jacketed consensus
thinking will allow. This month you will also find that escaping
gravity is not adequate to the situation either, as you are
brought up short by the power of practicality. Your task over
the entire cycle is to integrate these views into a whole that
is meaningful for you and for you alone. Then you can move
forward gracefully and don the mantle of earthly divinity that
you so truly deserve.
As the month begins, you find yourself in an intensely spiritual
period of time. You are taking clues from important persons
in your life that steer you closer to the heart of the mystery
but only you can penetrate if completely. Since the last week
of June there has been a stirring deep inside your soul that
is subtle but definitely there, and that impels you toward
finding your true place in this world. You are seeking fulfillment
not so much in terms what you might achieve in the eyes of
the world but rather in terms of your own; not so much in terms
of deeds but rather of presence.
As these meditations continue within your heart the time of
the Full Moon and Lunar Eclipse of Tuesday, July 7th, almost
literally speaks to you of what might be possible and perhaps
move from ideal to practical reality. This is the culmination
of all your dreams and schemes in one sense, but in another
a mere stage along the way, a jumping-off point for future
journeys.
Partnership is powerful for you right now, and helpful in staking
your claim to meaningful existence. There is also the shadow
of old relationship issues from the past that could come back
to haunt you at this time, perhaps in recognizing the magnitude
of the idealization that you would like to see more fully realized
versus its real-world correlation that is somehow failing to
meet that ideal. In the end, it is within yourself that you
must find the relevant answers and this realization too, might
prove painful, but necessary.
With the advent of the Last Quarter Moon of Wednesday, July
15th, there is likely to be further development of all these
ideas. This is a time when you will absorb the wisdom of both
victories and defeats from the past three weeks of the lunar
cycle.
The New Moon and Solar Eclipse of the following week will be
the basis for an innovative new start, and a significant one
at that. While you are still operating from within the confines
of your private soul and mind, this time has the potential
of taking you out into the world again in a fresh way, with
the grace of recent experience to guide you, as you allow it.
Virgo (August
22 - September 21) Earth. Ruling
planet Mercury. Top
You are coming to a point of clarity, Virgo. It has been in
some ways a long haul. This month you can see your path forward
with extended vision, and you might even have the courage to
act on that vision, provided you do not get distracted by the
excess baggage that you have been carrying around all this
time and that you were more than ready to toss overboard in
any case. This sounds easier than it may prove to be in practice,
but your heart tells you that it is the only way to go. Your
wishes are powerful for you now, and point the way forward,
so that you benefit from lightening the load.
As the month begins you are feeling like the sky is the limit,
this in spite of recent reversals and imposed restrictions.
These might have cramped your style but not your spirit. Of
course you must also beware of false optimism and naïve
idealism, and take seriously the dictum that you will take
whatever the universe has to offer you, willingly and gladly.
It is certainly true that whenever the situation comes up roses,
that is very nice, and when not so rosy there is also occasion
to rejoice, since positive growth and successful outcomes are
in any case just around the corner. This is a lucky period
of time for you right now, when your wishes could easily come
true as long as you stick to your highest principles and desire
what you need and not what your little mind thinks that it
wants. You are strong on service at this juncture, and need
only to keep alert to all your possibilities and watch that
you don’t mistake cheerful giving of yourself for martyrdom
or resentment. Finding the right mix of action and holding
back is always an art, now even more so.
With the Full Moon and Lunar Eclipse of Tuesday, July 7th,
these ideas and more will come to the surface of your mind
and be ripe for the plucking. You are summoning up all your
wisdom and experience right now to enable you to make the correct
choices, and within yourself you know what these are, when
you take the trouble and spend the focus of concentration to
fully tune in. There is a metamorphosis occurring and like
the butterfly you are engaged at this time in an intense process
of becoming that is not always fun or even easy, and will last
through to the end of the year. It might be comforting to recognize
that this is but the necessary next step for your soul’s
evolution.
The Last Quarter Moon of the middle of the following week,
taking place on July 15th, may mark a time of acceptance of
what you cannot change in your situation, just as the serenity
prayer would have it. You are arriving at a place of wisdom
and grace under pressure as you take the largest possible picture
into account in your summing up.
Then the New Moon comes along on Tuesday evening, July 21st.
This is another eclipse and therefore quite potent, and if
you will let go, it takes you to the next level of what it
is that you are attempting to accomplish in this lifetime.
Over this entire month there is a delicate balance to be struck
between on the one hand accepting what the universe has to
offer and on the other hand taking charge and making your own
way forward. By the end of the month you will be integrating
an improved and quite different solution based on the experience
of this monthly cycle.
Libra (September
22 - October 22) Air. Ruling
planet Venus. Top
This is a huge month for accomplishment, Libra, but with a
twist. Since your inner world is also extremely active right
now, real-world achievement is only one part of the story.
You are going down in order to come up. ItÃ-s a difficult
passage and one that is storied in myth and song, of the hero
who dares the descent into the underworld to find the treasure
of secret wellness that lies within. This might involve family
dynamics or restructuring your home turf in a literal or a
metaphorical sense. When you have these inner ducks in a row,
so to speak, then everything above and below ground starts
to settle smoothly into place.
As the month begins, you are riding the transformational energy
of the New Moon in your career sector from the end of last
month. There is an important process of change going on right
now in the very depths of your being and you do well to acknowledge
its power. You are coming into yourself in a new way, exploring
your possibilities for creative self-expression, and getting
a glimpse of the architecture of your future self and where
the construction efforts in which you are currently engaged
might actually be heading. You are simultaneously dealing with
over-the-top expectations and the shadow of unfulfilled self-realization
that also comes up at times to haunt your journey at this important
juncture.
With the Full Moon and Lunar Eclipse of Tuesday, July 7th all
these issues and more are on the table, awaiting your conscious
assessment. Your point of view is all-important as you attempt
to integrate the information flowing from life’s multitude
of ups and downs. Shakespeare rightly said that nothing is
either good or bad but thinking makes it so, and similarly
you win when you realize that perspective makes all the difference
in whether you choose to glumly accept an outcome that is less
than perfect or shrug your metaphoric shoulders and simply
get on with it. One never knows in the moment the ultimate
advantage that accrues from rising to meet a challenge head-on.
You might also be forced at this time to deal in some way with
an escapist urge to go for the miraculous, or perhaps suffer
under life’s disappointments and take them as implying
a poor connection to self-fulfillment and future happiness,
but these tendencies can also be overcome by a calm attitude
and an over-arching sentiment of inclusion of all the disparate
parts of your being.
The Last Quarter Moon that arrives mid-month is another crux
of tension in your process of unfolding natural wisdom, and
represents the maturity that comes at the expense of surviving
hard knocks. This is a time when you instinctively understand
what makes sense for you going forward and what does not, as
you make a strong stand for yourself and allow active partners
in your life to do likewise.
With the New Moon and Solar Eclipse of the evening of the 21st —another
powerful point in time and worthy of your most careful attention — you
are on the verge of breakthrough. The next two weeks may prove
to be particularly miraculous.
Scorpio (October
23 - Nov 21) Water. Ruling
planets Mars, Pluto. Top
This is a great month for progress, Scorpio, and of the most
intense kind. You are solid in your commitment to a better
world for yourself and for everyone around you, and only a
few doors need to be broken down in order to get there. The
good news and the bad news is that rather than out there in
the physical world where you can clearly see them, these doors
are to be found inside your very own mind and heart. This is
truly a win-win if you can bring yourself to step up to the
plate, or even if you choose to wait a while longer. You also
have the cooperation of significant others in your life who
have perhaps been waiting all their lives for the opportunity
that you are only now bringing to the table.
As the month begins, you are embracing partnership as a way
to bring out the latent talent in yourself. You are quite used
to going through changes but the profound metamorphosis of
this year as a work in progress is over the top, even for you.
Part of the magic and the beauty of this time in your life
is the way that as you constantly reinvent yourself, you are
also navigating the shoals of inner spaces, finding the joyful
mystery down in the warm dark roots of your being. This is
the way that you participate in the universal oneness, by pulling
together tribal connection and relationship connection as an
important part of the individual being that you also are.
With the Full Moon and Lunar Eclipse of Tuesday, July 7th,
these considerations come to a head and call you to attend
to them. Communication with others is vital for you now, and
allows you to meld their perspective with your own emerging
consciousness. It’s not so surprising that your world
view is evolving along with the rest of you, since you are
so busy being born in each and every moment; the only surprising
part perhaps is that most of the time you are blissfully unaware
of the changes coming along for you, creeping into new focus
as you traverse the landscape of your future direction. You
might also become aware of prior patterns within you that replay
themselves over and over like old tape loops until with awareness
on them they self-destruct.
The Last Quarter Moon of the middle of the following week,
taking place on the 15th, will be the crux of greater recognition
of the ways that you are held back by the residue of the past,
and how your mind can take you past them. You are accumulating
and synthesizing the stored-up wisdom of the experience of
the past three weeks at this juncture.
With the New Moon and Solar Eclipse of the 21st you are ready
to move forward in a new way, and with a new informing vision
of your possibilities. There is a built-in state of unusual
sanity within you right now which seems out of touch with consensus
thinking. It is difficult for you to tune into, and undermines
your most basic security needs although it is more of a blessing
than a curse. You can only see this multi-dimensional aspect
of your evolving self in fits and starts, perhaps by looking
slightly away and letting your eyes un-focus. There are riches
to be found inside, and these may remind you of cosmic glory
or else may speak of prior woundings that were undigested at
the time of their occurrence and remained beneath the surface
of your conscious mind to fester until a future time, perhaps
now. You could be ready to cast a healing gaze at these sites
of former traumas and accept them for what they are, the normal
residue of the human condition.
Sagittarius (Nov
22 - Dec 20) Fire. Ruling
planet Jupiter. Top
The world is not what it seems, Sagittarius. When you are on
easy street you are actually ill-prepared to deal with crisis,
and when you are not, as now, you are experiencing what might
prove to be the most valuable lessons of your life. This is
a time for you of hard work that brings recognition in the
eyes of the world, and of deeply transforming personal evolution
that responds to troubles by taking them as opportunities for
growth. As you navigate the shoals and swift currents of modern
times you will find clues for managing your day-to-day existence
in such a way that it brings you closer to an understanding
of what your life is all about.
As the month begins, you are feeling your way forward to a
new manner of being in the world. In this journey to a new
universe for yourself that you are embarking upon, communication
with others around you is vitally important and helps you to
read the signposts and search out your direction. You are incredibly
optimistic at this time, perhaps even bordering on illusion,
especially regarding ideas and written or spoken communication
with others around you, or your future plans. Fortunately a
dose of hard-nosed reality is also an important part of your
makeup right now and takes you toward a more practical frame
of mind that could serve you well over these next few weeks.
You are also concerned with the material side of your existence
these days, and ultimately with taking a large-picture view
of your material resources that gets to the very root of the
matter. How and why is materiality important? Perhaps the main
reason is to give you a greater sense of security and freedom.
With the Full Moon and Lunar Eclipse that takes place on Tuesday,
July 7th, these issues will likely come to a head. This is
a time of balance, when you are equally involved with your
own sense of personal evolution and with the concerns of others.
You are dreaming of a more perfect world beyond the demands
of this one and yet are also concerned with the practical necessity
of self-imposed limits and the hard work required to accomplish
what you want in the physical world. Another factor that is
emphasized right now is your motivation toward a future ideal
that makes sense for you long-term. You are very aware at this
juncture of the eclectic and multi-faceted nature of true reality,
and yet also of the practical goal that compels you to put
all your heart and energy into one way forward as a means to
an end that you can really get behind.
The Last Quarter Moon that comes along a week later might be
a time of settling in to one form of progress or another, a
time when you will be gathering the fruits of your experiences
over the last three weeks and seeing what jells out of the
understanding that you have gained by dint of hard work and
by the conscious application of attention. Some areas that
you have been involved with must fall by the wayside at this
time in favor of those that you have the chance to make concretely
workable.
With the New Moon of the evening of July 21st, another eclipse,
you will be making a leap of faith, based in part on what you
have learned, and in part on a powerful determination to see
your way through to a new beginning.
Capricorn (Dec
21 - Jan 19) Earth. Ruling
planet Saturn. Top
This is an important month for you, Capricorn. You have been
dealing for many weeks now with a developing world view that
responds to these troubled times, and along the way morphing
in your overall presentation. You have been going gracefully
or going hard, depending on your choices, but you have been
brave in the center of the storm. Now you are being given the
opportunity to face yourself in the mirror of relationship,
and to assess the distance you have come. Sharing with partners
can be helpful in this regard to the extent that you are able
to let them in, provided of course that you avoid the error
of losing your own identity in the process.
As the month begins, you are riding the wave of the previous
New Moon from the last week of June that took place in your
sector of partnership. You are all about relationship right
now. The metamorphosis in which you are currently engaged has
come full circle and in order to complete itself needs the
input of others in your life, taking as a truism the old saw
that two heads are better than one. Of course the paradox is
that you are still ultimately alone in all your decision making,
and you can certainly choose to emphasize solitary activity
over partnering up. There are big shifts in the works either
way, but you will likely gain at this time from embracing the
perspective of helpful partners. Your sense of security is
on the line in a big way as you absorb the information that
just keeps on coming at you.
With the Full Moon and Lunar Eclipse of Tuesday, July 7th,
you may come to a form of resolution regarding these meditations,
and feel the definite influence of significant others on your
life and your outlook. With one foot on the tightrope and the
other waving around in mid-air, this is a time of achieving
balance, and striving for the middle ground between public
and private concerns. You are getting a glimpse of direction
and notions of service to the greater collective and it does
seem that the team in this case is greater than the sum of
the individual players. You are marked for action but of the
softer and more spiritual variety, or else you will be subject
to internal conflicts. There is optimism, even naïve optimism,
in your makeup these days to an unusual degree, and you may
need to beware of overdoing. Your characteristic caution will
serve you well at this time.
With the Last Quarter Moon of Wednesday, July 15th you might
find the chances for tuning into inner wisdom are magnified.
You might have to recognize that there is only so much that
you can do in spite of all your desire for positive outcomes.
Then the second eclipse of the month comes along a week later,
taking place on Tuesday evening the 21st, and presents an opportunity
for going deeper with important partners and also within your
own understanding of yourself. You might find at this time
that the residue of old trauma of self-acceptance starts to
dissolve. These broad-based security needs, based on the wounded
child within you, yield with increased attention. Self-love
can work wonders once you finally yield to its summons and
let it in the door.
Aquarius (Jan
20 - Feb 18) Air. Ruling
planets Uranus, Saturn. Top
This is a magical month for you, Aquarius. These days you are
getting a better and better idea of what you want to do with
yourself in order to accomplish what constitutes your own unique
contribution. An opening exists right now to find your way
through the maze of outer world responsibilities to the core
of what is yours and yours alone, an inner realm that appears
more fully to your mindÃ-s eye as the month unfolds.
After the Solar Eclipse of July 21st partnership is valuable
in getting priorities straightened out. Even as early as mid-month
there is likely to be the dawning of a more mature awareness
that takes the place of previous guesswork.
As the month begins, you are experiencing the joy of connection
at all sorts of levels and the degree of spiritual centering
that has been characteristic of your life lately. This continues
to be a powerful time for you when many things in your life
could alter, and when ideas of god or goddess that have been
rolling around in your mind for weeks now could come into sharper
focus. You are coming at the world from an extremely positive
place right now and there is some danger from over-idealizing
your situation. This month is one in which you will come to
appreciate the multiple paths of where your life is taking
you and also perhaps find a way forward that brings everything
into account in the broadest possible manner. You are tempted
by your scientific mentality to want definitions that make
sense and resolve into black and white distinctions but the
truth of the soul is more paradoxical than that. You are in
the process of discovering this truth for yourself these days.
With the Full Moon and Lunar Eclipse of Tuesday, July 7th,
you could experience a breakthrough in your dealings with this
universal issue of where to put your energy, and especially
with regard to activities on the home front or that take place
within a private world of your very own. You are being asked
to step up to the plate at this time, to put your money where
your mind is, and to trust in the benevolence of the universe
to catch you if you fall. This is also might be a moment when
it becomes important that you balance the claims upon your
time from others in your life including family members versus
that required for your own spiritual evolutionary journey.
The Last Quarter Moon of the following week could provide another
moment of noticeable tension in your process. This is a time
when you are summing up the lessons of what has gone before
over the last three weeks of the lunation cycle, and when you
may be feeling the passion for what you want to accomplish
in the world in terms of your own unique contribution.
The New Moon and Solar Eclipse that follows another week later,
taking place on Tuesday, July 21st, represents a fresh start
with these issues and a further chance to rise above material
circumstances to an enlarged and more balanced perspective.
It is possible during this month that a shadow could arise
between how you see your world as pure and beautiful self-statement
and the reality of patterns of behavior that have no place
in this more idealized vision and that seem to come upon you
from below the level of consciousness. These patterns, which
are often the residue of past trauma that was not fully integrated
at the time of its original occurrence, can be healed with
acceptance of who you are at the deepest possible level, and
that is one of the most important lessons of this period of
time for you.
Pisces (Feb
19 - March 19) Water. Ruling planets
Neptune, Jupiter. Top
You are in the world these days, but not of it, Pisces. The
affairs of earthly existence are quite active for you now,
with your creativity buzzing as you step forward, a committed
and dedicated player on the world stage. Partners in your life
are also a huge factor right now, and serve to contain your
sometimes wild and free-form impulses. But in spite of your
real-world activity, the more involved you get, the more you
realize that it all depends in an unseen presence that you
could call your angel guides, or goddess, or your own higher
self, that underlies everything that you do. There is new way
of seeing societal connection that is starting to settle in,
a joyful re-orientation.
As the month begins, there are creative juices flowing and
terrific information coming your way from all your relations,
both familial and otherwise. You feel your self-expression
blossoming and spiritual connections between yourself and these
important others as well, in proportion to how closely you
are able to pay attention. There is a strong interior component
to your energy at this time, since the two co-rulers of your
sign, Jupiter and Neptune, are conjunct exactly and also retrograde
in your sector of dream realizations and inner vision. These
riches are there for a reason and you benefit when you acknowledge
the power of the universe to guide you onward and to keep you
safe while doing so, in spite of all appearances to the contrary.
With the Full Moon and Lunar Eclipse of Tuesday, July 7th,
you are coming into a new balance. You are morphing in what
you expect to get out of your social setting and also in your
sense of what you expect to put into it, exploring the ways
that your creativity manifests as a gear in the machinery of
the larger collective that surrounds you. This is an electric
period of time, full of surprising communication information
and fantastic new ways of perceiving the world around you.
It’s true what they say that seeing is believing but
it goes both ways. It is equally true that there is nothing
that is seen that is not first believed.
With the Last Quarter Moon of the following week, taking place
on Wednesday, July 15th, you are taking your ideas to another
level, and using your mind to try to understand your process — even
though what you are currently up to may be at times a largely
unconscious process. Your creativity is bursting at the seams
all this month and now more than ever takes on a mystical quality.
Additionally it might be said that you are also in some ways
finding the limits of creativity at this time.
The New Moon and Solar Eclipse taking place on Tuesday, July
21st, represents another opportunity for you to let your light
shine especially with regard to your unique contribution to
the surrounding social matrix. This powerful end of month period
is also a time to further explore the way that Spirit enters
into the equation of your life. Like the tail that wags the
dog, you really can’t get anywhere without it.
The
Astrology of July features Venus, Mars,
Saturn and Pluto, along with three potent
lunations, the New Moon of June 22nd that
began the current cycle, together with
the eclipses of mid-July: the Full Moon
and lunar eclipse of Tuesday, July 7th;
and the solar eclipse in the final degree
of Cancer taking place on the evening of
the 21st. All three of these moments in
time are very powerful, and signal a sea
change in the affairs of the earthly realm
which the celestial realm reflects. Perhaps
we are finally ready, as a species, to
take the next step forward into our maturity.
The New Moon of June 22nd, the first of two Cancer lunations,
was an extremely potent event that marks this period as exciting
and entirely transformational both personally and collectively.
The Sun and Moon at the 11⁄2 degree mark of Cancer directly
opposed Pluto. Also Venus and Mars, conjunct in Venus' own
sign of Taurus, were a semi-square away from the Sun and Moon
and in strong dynamic aspect to Pluto. Saturn trined Venus
and Mars as well, from discriminating Virgo. These aspects
set the stage for the thirty days to follow, taking us to the
third week of July. With Venus and Mars so closely aligned
at the start of this period, we are looking beneath the covers
of all our motivations — our relationship impulses in
particular.
Furthermore with Pluto emphasized we are seeing what Pluto
represents, namely a metamorphosis of values, as the country
and indeed the world struggles with the latest economic news
and attempts to right the ship of state. What is of becoming
manifest is that it will take a series of major changes in
attitude and in spending priorities in order to do so. It's
not a question of a simple fix and back to business as usual,
ignoring important social values that have been neglected for
far too long. Instead, we are collectively in for a major restructuring.
That is the message of Pluto in Capricorn. On an individual
basis we are all going through a similar restructuring, as
we attempt to determine what we truly value and how all our
relationships reflect this.
The July 7th Full Moon in Capricorn represents an evolution
of these themes from the time of the previous New Moon, and
with Mercury in Cancer now opposed to the Moon/Pluto midpoint,
greater consciousness surrounding these ideas as well. The
Sun and Moon at this time directly aspect Saturn, highlighting
this somber energy of limitation along with its important life
lessons. At this time also, Venus newly in Gemini aspects Pluto
while Mars in Taurus squares the triple conjunction of Jupiter,
Neptune and Chiron in Aquarius, bringing up and highlighting
yet another powerful configuration of these spring and summer
skies that has been with us for weeks now.
The July 21st Full Moon and Solar Eclipse takes place in the
last degree of Cancer, and also make aspects to Jupiter, Neptune
and Chiron — and to Pluto. This will again represent
a potent and very energized time as we move forward with our
activities in service to the greater collective. At this time
the Jupiter, Neptune and Chiron triple conjunction is even
closer to exact, and since aspected by the eclipse energy of
this powerful New Moon even more greatly emphasized. The symbolism
of this configuration reflects on one hand a total and unquestioned
reliance on Spirit, and on the other the fear of failing to
meet our highest expectations for ourselves. A descent into
doubt can manifest at this time, but there is the potential
for major healing as well. This spiritual archetypal combination
has provided a more optimistic backdrop to the difficulties
represented by the Saturn and Pluto archetypes, also prominent
in these summer skies.
We must also keep in mind the pending Saturn — Pluto
dynamic aspect, which last occurred in the fall of 2001. This
challenging connection between these two powerhouse planets
perfects just as Saturn enters Libra in late October, forming
a square. Judging from the intensity of this combination our
societal difficulties will magnify toward the end of the year,
beginning in the fall. Equally, so too will magnify the potential
for redemption if we can face them unflinchingly and head on.
Current Moon Configurations
July 7th Full Moon
This powerful lunation brings the restrictions and difficult
limitations of Saturn to the fore by trine and sextile, and
with the Moon in mid-Capricorn opposing both the Sun and Mercury
in Cancer, emphasizes Pluto in early Capricorn. In fact, the
Moon/Pluto midpoint almost exactly opposes Mercury, meaning
that throughout this month we will become more conscious of
the deep changes being wrought in the very fabric of our lives
as the transit of Pluto through Saturn's sign of Capricorn — representing
the structure of society — continues to unfold. This
Full Moon period of time also emphasizes the triple Aquarius
conjunction of Jupiter, Neptune and Chiron, now only minutes
of a degree apart from each other and squared by Mars in Taurus.
Mars also exactly sextiles volatile Uranus at this time, bringing
his trickster archetypal pattern into the mix of energies swirling
around us now. Venus has entered Gemini and there makes a quincunx
or inconjunct aspect to Pluto, completing the picture for dramatic
change and the recognition of change that characterizes the
entire month.
July 15th Last Quarter Moon
This is traditionally the time when we contemplate the successes
and failures since the beginning of the lunation three weeks
prior, with a thought for what we have learned and what we
can try to do differently as we absorb the wisdom of experience
and prepare for the next cycle. In this event, Jupiter, Neptune
and Chiron are further emphasized since aspected by the Sun
and also Mercury in conjunction as they are also sextiled by
the Moon in Aries. This is just as Jupiter slips past Neptune
backwards and moves closer to problematic Chiron, representing
the painful places within us that we can choose to either accept
or reject, together with the potential joys of integrating
what is after all an essential part of our nature.
July 21st New Moon
This is another powerful lunation, the third in six weeks,
taking place in the final degree of Cancer. The Jupiter, Neptune
and Chiron triple conjunction in Aquarius is once again emphasized,
since the eclipse degree aspects this spiritual configuration.
Jupiter has by now drawn quite close to Chiron in this beginning
point in time for the next four-week cycle, so that the archetype
of the Wounded Healer is therefore emphasized for this entire
mid-summer timeframe. Jupiter with Chiron brings up the wound
of the mis-placed belief system, and is characteristic of our
times, when we have to struggle to find new maps of Spirit
to replace the ones that are outmoded and dying now, overburdened
by the institutionalized and currently irrelevant philosophies
of the past. The transition we as a society are entering into
might have something to do with one world and one Spirit as
opposed to the nationalistic tribal religions that have dominated
thus far. Uranus in Pisces is also aspected by this New Moon
degree, indicating that we must look to our own unique inner
guidance for the pathway out of the maze of failed traditions
that we are currently traversing.
(March
20 - April 18) Fire. Ruling planet Mars. Top
(April
19 - May 19) Earth. Ruling
planet Venus. 
(May
20 - June 20) Air. Ruling planet Mercury. 
(June
21 - July 21) Water. Ruling
planet is the Moon. 
(July
22 - August 21) Fire. Ruling
planet is the Sun. 
(August
22 - September 21) Earth. Ruling
planet Mercury. 
(September
22 - October 22) Air. Ruling
planet Venus. 
(October
23 - Nov 21) Water. Ruling
planets Mars, Pluto. 
(Nov
22 - Dec 20) Fire. Ruling
planet Jupiter. 
(Dec
21 - Jan 19) Earth. Ruling
planet Saturn. 
(Jan
20 - Feb 18) Air. Ruling
planets Uranus, Saturn. 
(Feb
19 - March 19) Water. Ruling planets
Neptune, Jupiter. 