Cancer
22nd June – 22nd July

The big news is that this month’s eclipses take place in your sign. Eclipses are long-term scene setters, so if you thumbnail sketch the major emotional themes running through events, especially on or around the 22nd, you’ll get an idea of what’s going to feel important for months to come. If things are less than perfect, fear not, they are not fated to always feel so static; it just means this is the area of your life you are now perfecting; starting with this clear idea of where you are in relation to where you want to end up.

Aries
21st March – 20th April

For a while now, issues of security and resources have been at the forefront, and during the first week of July, both Jupiter and Neptune (expansion and imagination) are involved. Jupiter/Neptune get bad press for producing ‘unrealistic’ thinking, but maybe that’s a judgement born of doubt. Or self-doubt. You’ll know the level of self-doubt you hold by the tone events carry around this time. ‘Am I kidding myself here?’ for example. You aren’t kidding yourself about what’s possible right now, but rely on your gut to feel whether what’s showing itself right now is part of that.

Taurus
21st April – 21st May

Your ruler Venus moves into the security and resources section of your chart from the 5th, joined by desire planet Mars from the 12th, which means situations seem to be all about value and worth, and the seeking (and finding) of it (from the inside out). Linked to this is a powerful eclipse on the 22nd, hitting the angle of your chart linked to comfort zones, emotional attachments, and home and family ties. Eclipses symbolise new long-term cycles unfolding, and the energy of this one expresses through events highlighting what you need to nourish and nurture your soul at the deepest levels.

Gemini
22nd May – 21st June

The month opens on a nice optimistic note, but it takes confidence in your own imagination and ideas to reap the full benefit. Your ruler Mercury meets Pluto in the first week, and along with a potent full moon around the 7th, across the security angle of your chart, the challenge is to trust that others don’t have the power they might seem to regarding the outcome of a current situation. The new moon eclipse (new long-term cycle) happening from around the 22nd is a nurturing and supportive influence in your efforts to feel your true value and worth regarding this.

Leo
23rd July – 23rd August

A fabulous full moon around the 7th brings benefit if you can relax and trust a feeling of the bigger picture and your place in it. Saturn (structure, limits, boundaries) is an important part of this picture and is always about giving yourself permission to experience what you want. Sounds simple, but the temptation with Saturn is self-denial to satisfy the expectations of others; but as others are part of your bigger picture, it’s time to perceive them in a way that feels easy on you, not them. The eclipse around the 22nd nurtures the way you decide to lean on all this.

Virgo
24th August – 22nd September

During the first week of July your ruler Mercury meets Pluto, which brings a strong desire for understanding, information and communication, mixed with Pluto’s tendency to hold on tight for control; so knowledge is power, or a power struggle, until someone stops fearing letting go of control is equivalent to losing it. Then there’s an eclipse around the 22nd hitting the hopes and dreams angle of your chart, helping to incubate some new ones. Eclipses are long-term influences though, so let them grow and hatch with time.

Libra
23rd September – 23rd October

Your ruler Venus has been in close alignment with passion planet Mars for months now, making desires seem less unattainable, and there’s an interesting planet line up as the month opens, involving Jupiter/Neptune who together symbolise expansion of dreams and imagination. Neptune is about what’s not physical, so it’s easy to dismiss what you are feeling as castles in the air, but everything physical starts with an idea or a vision, and this one isn’t as mad as the cold light of day would have you believe. The eclipse around the 22nd will help you nurture this more over the coming months.

Scorpio
24th October – 22nd November

Because the sun is moving through the part of your chart connected to beliefs and viewpoints, you’ll find a lot of this months events have the importance of perspective at their heart. And because there’s a really powerful eclipse on the 22nd at the top your chart, straddling the belief section and your long-term aims and ambitions, it’s going to amplify the idea that what you see is what you get, or that you get what you expect from any situation. Eclipses work on a long-term basis, but the theme is cooking within events all this month.

Sagittarius
23rd November – 21st December

Hopefully you let the naysayers down gently when they realised recently you couldn’t be swayed by doubt, but during the first week of July there’s a strong desire to ground some of your highest ideas into tangible solutions. While your message is spot on, don’t worry if others don’t get it; it’ll find its way to those who need to hear it. This experience of trust is the theme of the eclipse on the 22nd for you. Letting go and letting god (or whatever your preferred term is) is a nourishing concept for you for the foreseeable.

Capricorn
22nd December – 20th January

The sun is moving through the relationship/partnership angle of your chart, symbolising what has your full attention during July. The first week is ripe for a power struggle over communication or information; then there’s an important full moon on the 7th that highlights how relationships are shaped by the beliefs you hold about them. Most importantly, there’s an eclipse (long-term new phase) on the 22nd, straddling the relationship and trust sections of your chart. It means that for the foreseeable, situations keep telling you that you can’t have one without the other.

Aquarius
21st January – 18th February

This months eclipse action takes place in the area of your chart connected to problem-solving, healing, and ‘finding the cure’ (especially around the 22nd and connecting to the most significant areas of your life). Because eclipses indicate the beginning of a new long-term emotional phase, the real benefit of this cycle takes time to unfold, and sometimes starts with circumstances that magnify what it is you want to bring change or growth to. So in this case, fear not if a problem appears to be getting bigger, the solution will match its intensity, like for like.

Pisces
19th February – 20th March

The meeting of your two ruling planets, Jupiter and Neptune, continues this month, and while it has been mostly expressing as an indefinable feeling of intuition or guidance from above, you’ll get more of a tangible indication of this energy through communication and information that comes your way during the first week of July. Then around the 22nd there’s an eclipse (new long-term cycle) in the matters of the heart angle of your chart, involving a new emotional phase emerging regarding anything that you long to put your heart and soul into.

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