In July, we really want to be mindful. Sun and Venus in soft Cancer, together feel like a walk on the beach and warm nights of candles and magic. And, with all the personal planets in direct mode, things do flow more easily than they have recently or for that matter, than they will for the next several months. In fact, during the beginning of July, it may feel like we’re finally sailing in fair waters, and it can be tempting to just float along. Yet, the currents are more mixed than they seem on the surface, and they’ll soon shift.
Mars has a strong presence that shows up early, and at midmonth, comes into sharp relief. Two vigorous lunations in cardinal signs bring a dynamic call to action. Also at midmonth, Mercury enters preretrograde shadow. After this, for the next three months, new projects, communications, and initiatives will be harder to get off the ground.
Cancer season will make fertile ground, while other influences indicate the expedience of seizing the moment, picking up our garden tools and planting. What will we seed? Two days before July starts, Saturn goes retrograde. As we enter a retrograde process of shunning outer authority, we’ll be looking more to our own inner teacher for the last word. Four days later, on July 2, Neptune retrogrades also. This is the planet of spirit and angels; its retrograde sharpens our intuition and dream wisdom. Neptune rules itself as well as Saturn in Pisces, sign of the subtle realms. Tendencies or teachers will become less magnetic as we turn to our inner guidance system.
Accenting our emotions, Cancer season can seem soft. Yet this does not mean passive. We can use our innate mother-force to make things grow. Not only is this Cancerian inner mother tender, attentive and sweet, but she is also powerful. This month comes on like a she-bear. The bear, one of the strongest animals, is also one of the most affectionate and ferociously protective mothers among all species. July brings a balance between intuition and ferocity, gentleness and force. Contacts from assertive Mars to outer planets, the ingress into regal Leo of Mercury, Venus and Sun, and the presence of Pluto, make this a month to grab hold of what most matters to each of us, with the force of a she-bear grabbing up her cubs—and get it going in the direction revealed by our own inner guidance.
In late June, even as I write, we are feeling the effects….
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