Most Stressful Days Overall: 1, 7, 8, 21, 22
Best Days for Love: 1, 9, 10, 19, 20
Best Days for Money: 1, 8, 9, 10, 16, 17, 18, 20, 21, 27
Best Days for Career: 2, 7, 8, 9, 18, 19
Retrograde activity increases even further this month. We will have three days – the 23rd to the 25th – where 60 per cent of planets will be travelling backwards. This is the maximum for the year, although we will hit this number again in September. Retrogrades are annoying for everyone, but especially for you Aries. The pace of life slows down even more than last month. Aries, the lover of action, needs to learn patience.
Much retrograde activity is the cosmos calling us to be more perfect in all that we do. Handle the details of life perfectly. Avoid short cuts (these are an illusion this month) and make slow, methodical progress. Being perfect in what you do won’t eliminate delays, but it will reduce them.
Health is an issue this month after the 21st. This is not as severe a problem as in January but still something to watch. Do your best to maintain high energy levels. Do your best to reduce your schedule around the two eclipse periods this month as well.
The lunar eclipse of June 5 occurs in your 9th house, affecting college-level students – there can be shakeups in their schools and changes in educational plans. If you’re involved in a legal action it takes a dramatic turn, one way or another. With the Moon as your family planet, every lunar eclipse affects the family and family members – and this one is no different. So repairs could be needed in the home and passions at home can run high. Two other important planets in your chart – Mars and Venus – are also impacted here, so this is a powerful eclipse. The impact on Mars, the ruler of your Horoscope, can bring a need to redefine yourself and your personality. Often this comes from slanders or bad-mouthing from other people. It can bring a detox of the body too. The impact on Venus shows financial and romantic/social changes. You need to make course corrections in your financial life. Your financial thinking hasn’t been realistic. Your current relationship gets tested too.
The solar eclipse of the 21st is powerful on a worldly level – it occurs on a cardinal point. Those of you born early in Aries (March 20 and 21) will feel the effects most strongly, but all of you will feel it to some degree. This too impacts on the home and family as it occurs in your 4th house. There are more dramas in the lives of family members. Children and children figures are having life-changing kinds of experiences. A parent or parent figure is making important financial changes. The marriage or current relationship is being tested.
July
Best Days Overall: 2, 3, 11, 12, 21, 22, 29, 30
Most Stressful Days Overall: 4, 5, 19, 20, 25, 26, 31
Best Days for Love: 6, 7, 8, 16, 17, 25, 26
Best Days for Money: 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 14, 15, 16, 17, 23, 24, 25, 26, 31
Best Days for Career: 4, 5, 15, 24, 31
After the two eclipses last month, we have another one this month – a lunar eclipse on the 5th. This one occurs in your 10th house of career, indicating changes going on there in your company, in its management and policies, and dramas in the lives of bosses. The government can change regulations that force changes in your industry, too. Once again the home and family is impacted. There are more dramas at home. There are dramas in the lives of family members and with parents or parent figures.
This eclipse ‘grazes’ three planets in your chart, affecting Mercury, Jupiter and Mars. The impact on both Mercury and Jupiter suggests that travelling is better off delayed (if you must travel, try to schedule your trip around this eclipse). It also affects students and there could be changes of schools, educational plans or shakeups in the actual school. The health regime will also change – but wait until after the 12th to make these changes.
Health still needs attention until the 22nd. Mercury, your health planet, will spend the month in the sign of Cancer, your 4th house. Thus, abdominal massage and correct diet will enhance the health. However, maintaining emotional harmony and harmony in the family will be more important, healthwise (and this will be a challenge because of the eclipse).
Career is becoming more important again as Saturn retrogrades back into your career house. Yet home and family is also very important, with your 4th house strong. So you will have to balance both. You go back and forth. You can’t ignore either of these areas.
Retrograde activity is still strong this month; until the 12th half of the planets are retrograde, and after that date it is still 40 per cent – still a high percentage. Patience. Patience. Patience.
Love and money are good this month. Venus has been moving forward since June 15, so there is good financial clarity. She spends the month in your 3rd house and this favours sales, marketing, advertising and PR activities. Whatever it is you do, good marketing is important. People have to know about your product or service. It is also a good transit for writers, teachers and journalists. Your gift of the gab is important in finance.
Love can be found in the neighbourhood and perhaps with neighbours. There are romantic opportunities at school functions or other educational-type settings – lectures, seminars, workshops, the library or bookstore.
August
Best Days Overall: 8, 9, 17, 18, 25, 26, 27
Most Stressful Days Overall: 1, 2, 15, 16, 21, 22, 28, 29
Best Days for Love: 3, 4, 15, 16, 21, 22, 23, 24
Best Days for Money: 2, 3, 4, 10, 11, 15, 16, 20, 23, 24
Best Days for Career: 1, 2, 11, 20, 28, 29
Planetary retrograde activity is more or less the way it was last month. August starts with 40 per cent of the planets retrograde, and after the 15th, 50 per cent of them will be moving backwards, as Uranus begins to reverse.
The good news is that since July 22 you’ve been in a yearly personal pleasure peak. A time to enjoy life. This continues until the 22nd of this month. You may as well have some fun as nothing much is going on in the world. It’s a good time to take a vacation.
Health is much improved since July 22. However, with four (and sometimes five) planets in stressful alignment with you it still needs watching. Correct diet and abdominal massage is still beneficial until the 5th. From the 5th to the 20th, chest massage will be effective, while abdominal massage and diet become important again after then.
From the 20th onwards there will be a rare Grand Trine in the Earth signs. This is good for prosperity and for handling the details of the material plane. Children and children figures will be prospering during this period too.
Your love and financial planet changes signs on the 7th, after spending the past four months in your 3rd house. So both love and financial changes are happening. Family support seems stronger than usual. You will spend more on the home and family. There will be opportunities to earn money from home. Family connections are important financially too. Be careful of being too moody about finance. Financial decisions – and major spending – should be made when you’re in a calm peaceful mood, never when you’re upset or depressed.
It is a similar situation in the love life. You’ll be entertaining more from home and with the family. Family and family connections are playing Cupid. You’re attracted to people with whom you can share feelings; emotional intimacy seems as important as physical intimacy.
Mars has been in your own sign since June 28, giving you more energy, which is in general good for health. However, it can make you impatient and, with so many retrogrades, can make you feel frustrated. Also, it can lead you to push the body further than is warranted. This is the downside healthwise.
The power in your 6th house from the 22nd onwards is good news for health. It shows that you’re paying attention here. It is also good for job-seekers and for those who employ others. There