Most Stressful Days Overall: 6, 7, 20, 21, 27, 28
Best Days for Love: 1, 4, 5, 10, 11, 13, 14, 20, 21, 22, 23, 27, 28, 29, 30
Best Days for Money: 2, 3, 6, 7, 10, 11, 15, 16, 20, 21, 24, 25, 29, 30
Best Days for Career: 2, 3, 6, 7, 10, 11, 20, 21, 29, 30
Saturn retrogrades back into Scorpio on the 15th – a stressful aspect for you. Most of you won’t feel it too much, but those of you born late in the sign of Taurus – from May 19 to May 21 – will feel it strongly. By itself Saturn is not enough to cause health problems, but later on in the month (and especially after the 24th) some short-term planets move into a stressful aspect and you will need to be more careful. You can enhance the health in the ways mentioned in the yearly report. But there is more you can do in the coming period too. You need to be more diet conscious. Eat foods that are easy to digest. Give more attention to the stomach, and women should give more attention to the breasts. After June 5 give more attention to the heart. Those of you of an appropriate age need to watch the blood pressure. Good emotional health is important all month. Keep in harmony with the family and family members and avoid depression like the plague. Keep your mood positive and constructive. Meditation is a big help here.
The yearly financial peak continues this month and will last for longer than usual. Your financial planet will be in your money house all month. Mercury will also start moving forward on the 11th which is another positive for finance. Your financial judgement will be much better. Confidence improves too. Good sales, marketing and PR is always important for you financially, but this month more so than usual. People need to know about your product or service. Family support was good last month and is good this month too – especially until the 21st.
Your 3rd house of communication and intellectual interests is powerful this month – especially after the 21st. This is a great time to catch up on your reading and to attend lectures and seminars, and to catch up on those letters and emails that you owe. If you have a good knowledge base or expertise in a given field, this is a good time to disseminate that knowledge.
This is not one of your best love periods. The beloved seems stressed out and probably needs to rest and relax more. You haven’t been in sync with the beloved that much lately. You seem distant. However, important love decisions shouldn’t be made now. Your love planet, Pluto, has been retrograde since April 17, and Saturn in your 7th house (from June 15 onwards) is not helping matters. Singles are probably doing less dating. This is not a trend for the year or for your life, so don’t panic. Love will improve in the coming months.
July
Best Days Overall: 1, 2, 10, 11, 19, 20, 29, 30
Most Stressful Days Overall: 3, 4, 5, 17, 18, 24, 25, 31
Best Days for Love: 1, 2, 8, 9, 10, 11, 17, 18, 19, 20, 24, 25, 26, 29, 30
Best Days for Money: 7, 8, 9, 12, 13, 17, 18, 27, 28, 29, 30
Best Days for Career: 3, 4, 5, 8, 9, 17, 18, 26, 27, 31
Retrograde activity spikes this month. By the end of the month half the planets will be in retrograde motion – the maximum for the year. So, it is a slow month in many areas of life. Slow doesn’t mean ‘bad’, just a slower pace of life. It is, however, a great period to review your image, your career, love life and health regime. See where improvements can be made, and when the planets start moving forwards again you can set your plans in motion. It is a time for resolving doubts and gaining mental clarity. This is the most important thing now. If this ‘cosmic pause’ is used properly your future actions will be more successful.
Though there are many retrograde movements this month, Mercury, your financial planet, is moving forward speedily. Financial progress is rapid. Financial confidence is good. It should be a prosperous kind of month. Sales, marketing and PR are still important until the 22nd. From the 8th onwards there is good family support. Family connections seem important financially. Many of you will be earning money from home – and these kinds of opportunities will come to you.
The love life has been in the doldrums for the past month or so, but you should see improvement towards the end of the month.
The planetary power reaches its nadir (its lowest point) in your chart this month. Your 4th house of home and family is powerful all month but especially after the 23rd. Your career planet, Uranus, goes retrograde on the 26th. So, there are no quick answers on any career issues. Only time will solve things. Give your attention to your home, family and emotional life. Work on your career by the internal methods of night (you are approaching the midnight point of your year): visualize, dream and imagine you are where you want to be. This builds the psychological foundations for future career success – and we could argue that the foundation of a building is just as important as the building itself.
Venus, the ruler of your chart and your health planet, makes one of her rare retrogrades this month on the 25th. So you might feel that you lack direction and confidence. Self-esteem and self-confidence could be lacking. This is why it is good to review why you feel as you do and to make the internal corrections needed.
Health is more delicate this month, and especially from the 23rd onwards. Saturn and Jupiter are in stressful aspect to you and the short-term planets are joining in the party. So rest and relax more and make sure you get plenty of sleep. Review our discussion of health in the yearly report.
August
Best Days Overall: 6, 7, 15, 16, 17, 25, 26
Most Stressful Days Overall: 1, 13, 14, 20, 21, 22, 27, 28
Best Days for Love: 5, 6, 7, 14, 15, 16, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 31
Best Days for Money: 5, 8, 9, 15, 16, 25, 26, 27
Best Days for Career: 1, 4, 5, 13, 14, 23, 24, 27, 28, 31
Last month the planets began to make an important shift from the Eastern, independent sector to the Western, social sector. This month, from the 9th onwards, this shift is completed. The Western sector will dominate for the rest of the year ahead. This means that the planetary power is moving away from you rather than towards you. The focus is now on other people, rather than on your own personal interests and desires. Your good comes through others and not from your personal merit or personal actions. The cosmos impels you to develop your social skills, to attain your ends by consensus and through the co-operation of others. As we have mentioned, there is nothing wrong with self-interest, but you are now in a different stage of your cycle. It is more difficult now to have things your way, and if the truth be told, your way is probably not the best way these days. Hopefully you have used your creative power to create pleasant circumstances for yourself over the previous months. Now is the time for living with your creation. If it is good, you will enjoy the good. If there have been mistakes, you will experience the unpleasantness. When your next cycle of independence comes – early next year – you will be able to make the appropriate changes again.
Love, as we mentioned, has not been particularly good the past few months. However, this is about to change. Jupiter enters your 5th house of fun and love affairs on the 11th and starts to make beautiful aspects to Pluto, your love planet. Romance is starting to happen. Saturn, though, is still in your 7th house and you will still need to go slowly. But Saturn will be gone next month and the social life starts to bloom.
Jupiter’s move into your 5th house brings opportunities for love affairs, rather than necessarily serious romance. Serious romance will happen later on, but at least the frozen love life is starting to melt.
Health still needs watching until the 23rd. Review our discussion of this in last month’s forecast. After the 23rd you will feel huge improvement. Next month will be healthier than this one.
Your 4th house of home and family became very powerful on July 23 and is powerful until the 23rd of this month. This is a month for making psychological progress. Many psychological breakthroughs and insights will come to you. It is very natural under these transits to become nostalgic, to relive the past, to look at memories