July
Best Days Overall: 3, 4, 12, 13, 22, 23, 30, 31
Most Stressful Days Overall: 5, 6, 19, 20, 21, 26, 27
Best Days for Love: 5, 6, 15, 24, 25, 26, 27
Best Days for Money: 1, 2, 5, 6, 9, 10, 11, 15, 16, 19, 20, 21, 24, 25, 28, 29
Best Days for Career: 1, 5, 6, 9, 19, 20, 28
Retrograde activity increases this month. Neptune started to move backwards last month. Pluto has been retrograde since April 10. Uranus starts going backwards on the 13th and Mercury on the 15th. From the 15th onwards 40 per cent of the planets are in retrograde motion, the highest percentage so far this year. The pace of life – the pace of events – starts to slow down.
The retrograde of Uranus shows that your career is slowing a bit, which is perhaps a good thing now. Your major focus now is on home and family, and career can be downplayed. Avoid, where possible, making important career decisions at this time.
On June 21, the Sun crossed from the Eastern sector of your Horoscope to the Western sector, and now the Western social sector of your chart is more powerful. You are in a ‘paying karma’ phase of the year – you have to live with your previous creations, it is not so easy to change them now. If you created well you are enjoying your ‘good karma’. If you created amiss, you are paying the price now. You need to adapt to conditions as best you can and make corrections when the next ‘independent’ cycle begins.
When the Western half of the Horoscope is strong, personal initiative (even personal ability) is not that important. It is the social skills that matter. Attainment happens by the good graces of others. Your ‘people skills’ are what bring success.
Health is basically good, but after the 22nd you need to rest and relax more. You can enhance your health this month by paying more attention to the heart, the lungs, respiratory systems, arms and shoulders. (Regular shoulder massage will be wonderful.) Good mental health also seems important this month. Avoid thinking or talking too much (big wasters of energy!). Keep your speech positive and constructive and strive for intellectual purity.
Mars enters your 6th house on the 4th and stays there all month. Thus vigorous physical exercise and good muscle tone are important these days. And since Mars is your spiritual planet, spiritual types of exercise seem good too – things like yoga, tai chi or chi qong. You will also get good results from spiritual healing techniques such as prayer, meditation, the laying on of hands and manipulation of subtle energies.
Mars makes a very dynamic transit from the 15th to the 21st: it opposes Uranus and squares Pluto. Everyone needs to be more careful and mindful on the physical plane. Avoid confrontations or risky kinds of activities. Daredevil stunts are to be avoided like the plague. Drive more mindfully, keeping alert and paying full attention.
August
Best Days Overall: 8, 9, 10, 18, 19, 27, 28
Most Stressful Days Overall: 1, 2, 16, 17, 22, 23, 29, 31
Best Days for Love: 2, 3, 8, 13, 14, 18, 22, 23, 27, 31
Best Days for Money: 1, 2, 6, 7, 11, 12, 16, 17, 20, 21, 24, 25, 29, 30
Best Days for Career: 1, 2, 6, 16, 24, 29, 30
Continue to rest and relax more until the 23rd. Enhance the health in the ways mentioned last month. After the 8th you can also enhance your health by paying more attention to the stomach and breasts. You need to pay more attention to the diet then too.
Last month Mars was making dynamic aspects with Uranus and Pluto. This month, from the 14th to the 17th Venus makes a similar aspect with these planets. Keep in mind our discussion of last month. Take things nice and easy. Slow down and be mindful on the physical plane. This period also seems to test your marriage or current relationship in a very severe way. Emotions are high, so do your best to stay calm and to avoid making things worse. By the 17th the worst of this should be over with. Career changes could also happen under this transit.
When the Sun enters Virgo on the 23rd, you enter another yearly personal pleasure peak. Enjoy. Personal creativity will be a lot stronger than usual. You are more involved with children and health and vitality will also start improving.
Your financial planet, Mercury, retrograde since the 15th of last month, goes forward on the 8th. Avoid major purchases or financial decisions before this date. The financial life – investments and changes – should be being reviewed now. If you do this properly you will be in a good position on the 8th when Mercury starts moving forward. You seem to be spending more on the home and family this period. Family support will tend to be good, and family connections also seem important financially.
The Sun in your 4th house (a powerful position – this is his own sign and house) shows that this is a month for psychological-type breakthroughs. Emotional patterns or moods that have been holding you back are revealed so that you can correct them. You have greater insight into moods and feelings this month, and this helps you in your dealings with family members.
Mars moves into your 7th house on the 24th. This will further test marriages and current relationships. You can make things easier by avoiding power struggles with your partner as much as possible.
September
Best Days Overall: 5, 6, 14, 15, 23, 24
Most Stressful Days Overall: 12, 13, 19, 25, 26,
Best Days for Love: 1, 5, 12, 14, 18, 19, 21, 22, 23, 29, 30
Best Days for Money: 4, 5, 7, 8, 15, 16, 17, 25, 26
Best Days for Career: 2, 12, 20, 21, 25, 26, 29
Retrograde activity is reducing this month, and after the 18th only 20 per cent of the planets will be moving backwards. Glitches and complications are slowly but surely resolving themselves and this tendency will get even stronger in coming months. The pace of life quickens.
You are still very much in a yearly personal pleasure peak until the 23rd. This is a time to enjoy your life, to express personal creativity (one of the great joys) and to be more involved with leisure and entertainment. After the 23rd the focus will shift to more serious things such as health and work.
Venus enters your 4th house on the 7th and so home and family remain a major focus. This is a good period to beautify the home, redecorate or buy objects of beauty for the home. It is also good for entertaining. If there has been discord in the family this is a good period to create harmony (you have cosmic support for this).
The health of the family and family members seems a major focus this month, and you seem successful here. It is a good period for making the home itself ‘healthier’, for example by removing unhealthy kinds of paint or chemicals from the home, and by installing some health or gym equipment. You seem more interested in a healthier diet too, both for yourself and for your family.
Mercury, your financial planet, moves very quickly this month, indicating the achievement of financial goals quickly. Your financial decision-making is probably quicker too (and if you did your homework during Mercury’s retrograde period, your decisions will be good). Your spouse’s or partner’s finances will improve after the 23rd.
Love is still stormy. Like last month the advice is not to make matters worse. Minimize the negativity as much as you can. (The period from the 28th to the 30th seems especially stressful.)
The Sun makes a very dynamic aspect to Uranus and Pluto between the 28th to the 30th. Family members, especially parent figures, need to avoid stressful, risky activities. It wouldn’t hurt for your spouse or current love to also avoid taking risks and daredevil-type stunts.
October
Best Days Overall: 2, 3, 12, 13, 20, 21, 29, 30, 31
Most Stressful Days Overall: 9, 10, 11, 16, 17, 22, 23
Best Days for Love: 1, 2, 12, 16, 17, 20, 21, 29
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