While the Sun will always spend the first three weeks of July in your relationship sector and the solar spotlight is always on your relationships at this time of year, with some major differences this time. The first is that for the first time in 16 years, there are no planets in Capricorn for the Sun or any of the planets moving through your relationship sector this year to clash with. This means a noticeable decrease in the potential for personal and/or relationship tension that until now has been more likely at this time of year. While the Moon’s return to Capricorn from 9th July to 12th July will see the Sun and Moon clash to create a Full Moon on 11th July, this is the only time that there will be a clash between your own and your relationship needs. This is a Full Moon that always has and always will fall at some point during the Sun’s month long visit to your relationship sector and is key to understanding what you want from your relationships and what they need from you. The other big difference is that the Sun is not on his own, with Jupiter in the first full month of what will be a 12 month visit and the start of your most important relationship year in over a decade. However, the real magic is likely to begin after the Sun leaves on 23rd July, the point when the focus often shifts off your relationships. Not this year, with Jupiter not only here until June 2026 but Venus’ return on 31st July bringing the planets of love and luck together. Meanwhile, as the Sun returns to your financial sector, something that at this time each year will always turn the solar spotlight onto your financial situation and money matters, it will be to find that you already have a head start. Not only has Mercury been here since late last month, giving you the smart head for money needed to keep your head in the game and to think on your feet, but when he returned last month, it had been less than two weeks since Mars left, ending his longest visit in eight decades. Mars had spent five of the previous seven months fuelling your financial passions and fighting spirit, with Mercury having ushered in a smarter and more practical phase. Meanwhile, Venus and Uranus will be working to put some guardrails in place before first on 5th July, Venus will leave and return to your busy work sector, then Uranus two days later on 7th July.
As you move into the new month, you are in the final days of one era and the early days of a brand new era, while at the same time shifting the focus off matters of the heart and onto your relationships. While you begin the month with Venus, the planet of love in your romantic sector and the Sun and Mercury have already moved through since Uranus, the first of the slow outer planets returned in 2019, there has been continuous, year round planetary activity on the romantic front. As the planet of surprise, synchronicity and the unexpected, Uranus has not only kept the laws of synchronicity in effect, but he is a planet that will constantly work to put things on their true and authentic path. This means giving your heart a clear sense of direction, something that Venus has harnessed, as until leaving on 5th July she is working to get the month off to a romantically charged start. As Venus works through the laws of attraction and Uranus through the laws of synchronicity, it is during the planet of love’s final 48 hours, when they align, that you most need to be willing to trust your heart. As always, when Venus leaves Uranus will stay on, however this time, only for another 48 hours until he too leaves on 7th July, leaving your romantic sector empty for the first time since 2019. Uranus will return for a few months later in the year, but until then, it is the Moon’s monthly visits that will keep the spirit of romance alive. You will get your first chance when the Moon moves through from 18th July to 20th July. Meanwhile, while planetary activity on the romantic front is coming to an end, it is just starting up on the relationship front. While the Sun will always spend the first three weeks of July in your relationship sector and the solar spotlight is always on your relationships at this time of year, Jupiter’s return last month means that this is the first full month of your most important, expansive and important relationship year in over a decade. Held back by a retrograde phase, Venus won’t finally return to your relationship sector until 31st July, with the planets of love and luck ending the month together here.
While the Sun won’t return to your financial sector until 23rd July, the point in each year when the solar spotlight will always shift onto your financial situation and money matters, the month begins with Mercury having just returned four days earlier. Mercury is not the first planet to return this year and when he returned with a chance to use his smart head for money to get your head in the game and to think on your feet, it had only been 10 days since Mars left, ending his longest visit to your financial sector in two decades. By then, Mars had spent five of the last seven months fuelling your financial passions and fighting spirit. Mercury has returned with a chance to pick up from where Mars left off, though with a smarter and more practical approach to money matters. With the Sun not returning until 23rd July and Mercury usually moving through in just 14 to 15 days, he should be long gone by then. Instead, a retrograde turn will not only keep Mercury here for the rest of the month, but right through to September. Because Mercury is usually here for such a short time, this is usually a time for thinking on your feet and making snap decisions. Instead, this will give you time to think things through and, in retrograde motion, even return to the drawing board. With Pluto now in your income sector until 2044, no planet can return to your financial sector without clashing. That was the case when Mercury returned late last month and it will be the case when the Sun returns on 23rd August. However, this is more a brief reminder when it comes to a balance between money coming in and money going out and as you move into the new month, any financial tension this might have created will be easing back. Helping to turn this around will be Venus, the planet of money’s return to your work sector on 5th July and Uranus’s return two days later, putting them in harmony with Pluto from the start. The Moon’s return to your income sector from 12th July to 14th July could have positive implications on both the income and job fronts.