Legal matters are delayed but the end result looks successful. There are happy travel opportunities this month, but allow more time getting to and from your destination.
July
Best Days Overall: 2, 3, 12, 13, 21, 22, 29, 30
Most Stressful Days Overall: 9, 10, 11, 17, 23, 24
Best Days for Love: 1, 2, 3, 10, 11, 12, 13, 17, 19, 20, 21, 22, 29, 30
Best Days for Money: 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 16, 17, 25, 26
Best Days for Career: 1, 12, 13, 21, 22, 23, 24, 27, 28
In order to manifest the desires of your heart, the cosmos has sometimes to shake things up, sometimes in dramatic ways. This is what is happening this month. Love continues to be severely tested all month. There are important career changes happening. And the family situation also seems unstable. All these changes will ultimately be good, but while they are happening they are not so pleasant.
Part of the family stress can be attributed to a move, renovation or other home improvement. It is good that you are focusing on the home and family now. Career issues will take time to resolve and there is no quick solution there. Your career planet goes retrograde on the 17th and will be retrograde until December 17 – almost the balance of the year ahead. Appearances are deceptive now. Avoid judging the career by what ‘seems’ to be; work now to attain mental clarity here – this is the most important thing.
Your 3rd house of communication is still very powerful until the 22nd. This is a very nice transit for students below college level. Learning is fun. There is success in their studies. A sibling or sibling figure enters a two-year period of prosperity and overall success.
This is a hectic, active month. Happily health is good until the 22nd and you have all the energy you need to deal with all this activity. After the 22nd though, you need to rest and relax more and do whatever you can to maintain your high energy levels. Spend more time at the health spa. Get massages. Until the 23rd you can enhance your health by paying more attention to the heart. Avoid worry and anxiety as much as possible. Right diet also seems important. After the 23rd pay more attention to the small intestine – see the reflexology chart in Taurus.
For singles this is a good month for practising unconditional love. Those working on the second marriage have very nice love opportunities now (and last month as well). A foreign trip could materialize from the 12th to the 19th, but with your travel planet Saturn still retrograde, allow more time for getting to and from your destination.
There are important financial changes happening this month. Your financial planet Mercury camps out in square aspect to Uranus from the 17th to the 21st. However, it’s best to make the changes after the 21st when Mercury is going forward once more.
The planetary power is starting to shift from the East to the West – the social sector of the chart. So your period of personal independence is starting to end. The shift is not yet complete but it is in process. You are starting to shift psychological gears; the focus is now on other people rather than your own personal interests.
August
Best Days Overall: 8, 9, 17, 18, 25, 26, 27
Most Stressful Days Overall: 6, 7, 13, 14, 19, 20
Best Days for Love: 8, 9, 13, 14, 17, 19, 25, 26
Best Days for Money: 1, 2, 3, 4, 13, 14, 15, 16, 21, 22, 24, 25, 28, 29, 30, 31
Best Days for Career: 6, 7, 15, 16, 19, 20, 23, 24
By the end of the month the planetary shift to the Western sector will be complete, and between 60 and 70 per cent of the planets will be in the West. It’s time to down play the self and focus on the needs of others. Hopefully, you’ve already created good conditions for yourself – now is the time to road test them. If you built well, you will be enjoying your creation. If not, you will see the flaws and be able to correct them during your next cycle of personal independence, next year.
Your 10th house of career is basically empty this month, while your 4th house of home and family is strong all month. So the focus is on the home, as it should be. Your emotional harmony, your family focus, will actually help your career this month. Bosses will be looking at this.
Finances look good this month. Mercury now moves very speedily through three signs and houses of your Horoscope. This shows financial confidence and fast progress. The changes you made last month seem to be working out. Mercury is in Cancer until the 8th and then moves into your 4th house of home and family until the 24th. Thus you are spending more on the home and family this period, but can also earn here too. Family members are financially supportive, family connections and parent figures likewise. Most likely you are earning from home as well, doing more work from home. Mercury in Leo indicates that money is earned in happy ways and that you are enjoying the wealth that you have. On the other hand it can make you more speculative and risk-taking. If you overdo this, it can hurt. This speculative tendency continues even after the 24th as your financial planet enters your 5th house. The children in your life inspire you to earn more, and often they have good financial ideas: ‘out of the mouths of babes …’
Health is much improved after the 22nd. But until then continue to rest and relax more. Review our discussion of last month. Health can be enhanced by giving more attention to the small intestine (like last month) until the 16th. After that, give more attention to the kidneys and hips. Hip massage will be especially beneficial. Keeping harmony in the love life is always important for you from the health perspective, but especially so after the 16th. If you feel under the weather, bring harmony back into the love life as much as you can. With love so stressed this won’t be easy, but as we mentioned, you can choose to minimize the negativity rather than maximize it.
September
Best Days Overall: 4, 5, 6, 13, 14, 22, 23
Most Stressful Days Overall: 2, 3, 9, 10, 15, 16, 29, 30
Best Days for Love: 4, 5, 8, 9, 10, 13, 14, 17, 18, 22, 23, 27, 28
Best Days for Money: 1, 5, 6, 9, 10, 15, 16, 18, 19, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28
Best Days for Career: 2, 3, 11, 12, 15, 16, 20, 21, 29, 30
On August 22 you entered one of your yearly personal pleasure peaks, one of your cosmic vacation periods and a time for recreation and the enjoyment of life. You are still very much in this peak until the 22nd of this month. No matter the problems we face or the complications, life can still be enjoyed – and the joy itself alleviates many of the problems. This is the lesson of the month ahead.
For the past two months Taureans of child-bearing age have been at their most fertile for the year. This trend continues this month. (In 2014 they will be even more fertile than now.)
On the 22nd as the Sun enters your 6th house of health and work, you enter a more serious, work-oriented period. You have a need to be productive. It’s a very good period for job seekers. There is good fortune now. If you are a job seeker, family connections should be explored.
This month we have a very dynamic Grand Square in the heavens. It began on August 16 and will be in effect all this month. This indicates a challenging kind of period. You are involved in some huge, complicated undertaking and this tends to be stressful. You want to manifest something big in the world. Many competing interests have to be balanced and harmonized – love, career, personal interests, work, home and family. Each pulls you in a different direction. Each demands their due. When things are this complicated it is best to handle each day as it comes. Handle the needs of the day – the needs of the hour – and try not to project too far into the future. If today is handled right, tomorrow will also be handled right.
Love is once again being severely tested. As we mentioned, this has been going on all year, but the severity tends to wax and wane. Now it is more severe than in the past. You won’t be able to completely eliminate the negativity,