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Welcome to a new week with new beginnings and endings, potentials and continuations. Our weekly horoscope includes big shifts and movements in the cosmos, which translate into big shifts and movements in our perspectives, beliefs, and ideas. There is deep wisdom available and, when we allow it to induce self-reclamation and self-empowerment, deep alchemy as well.
Weekly Astrology July 21-27
July 21 | Mercury square Venus; Full Moon in Capricorn
July 22 | The Sun enters Leo
July 23 | The Sun opposes Pluto
July 24 | The Moon enters Pisces
July 25 | Mercury enters Virgo; Moon enters Aries
July 26 | Chiron retrograde
Mercury square Uranus
On July 21, 2024, Mercury in Leo squares Uranus in Taurus. Squares require our attention. Although they are often associated with tension, they can also be a gateway to change.
The square between Mercury and Uranus invites you to open your mind. It highlights the structures, narratives, and ideas in your mind that are not empowering at all. While Mercury represents linear thinking and mental processing, Uranus is liberation and keen intuition. This encounter confronts logic with intuition and patterned thoughts with a new way of doing things. It is a meeting place between the present and the future.
Tension can arise when we try to incorporate new ways of being. According to your weekly horoscope, today is a time to open your mind. Journal, listen, and play in the realm of ideas. Allow yourself to wander outside your current boundaries, structures, and beliefs for a moment to remain open to what is new, different, and waiting for your attention.
Full Moon in Capricorn
The second Capricorn Full Moon of the year will take place on July 21, 2024. This Full Moon has a depth that manifests itself in the form of liberation, activation, and initiation.
As the Moon lights up the night in Capricorn, the Sun is spending its final moments in the opposite sign of Cancer. While Cancer invites us to take care of what lives within us, Capricorn creates what is in our external realms. Capricorn is a sign that leaves its mark on the world and builds a legacy.
It is a Full Moon that asks us to be honest with what we want to build in our lives, with who we want to be and with the legacy we feel drawn to leave. It is also an alchemical Full Moon, where what is illuminated in our unconscious contains the necessary information to achieve what we want.
The Sun enters Leo
One day after the full Moon, the Sun leaves the calm waters of Cancer and enters the fiery, expressive realm of Leo on July 22, 2024.
Leo season is an invitation to reconnect with your own spark and ask it how it wants to express itself. It’s a time of creative and passionate desires. It’s an invitation to take more care of yourself and discover your own frequency, flavor, and vitality. And it’s a season to feel the pleasure of life moving through us.
As we move through Leo season from July 22 to August 22, 2024, notice what brings about feelings of confidence, pleasure, and connection with your spark. Notice what you are doing, thinking, or being when you feel most like yourself. Let these spaces fill you.
Sun opposite Pluto
Shortly after the Sun enters Leo, it will enter into opposition with Pluto in Aquarius on July 23, 2024. Oppositions remind us that everything exists in polarity and duality, unable to exist without its opposite.
The Sun is the core of who we are. It is our identity and our expression of all that we are. Pluto is our underworld and everything that exists beneath our conscious awareness. In this opposition, we are granted access to more of ourselves. We can reclaim what has been living beneath the surface by shedding the light of consciousness into previously unconscious spaces.
Introspection, expansion, and the recovery of parts of ourselves that are ready to be seen and integrated into ourselves are accessed. When we create space to sit with both parts, we create space for integration and alchemy.
Mercury enters Virgo
On July 25, 2024, Mercury enters Virgo. Mercury is the mind. It learns, communicates, and processes information. Mercury rules Virgo. Together, they are logical, practical, and clear-headed. They help us take care of the practical details of life—the spaces that need clearing, organizing, and refining. They also bring that same clearing, organizing, and refining to the mind and its thoughts, patterns, and perspectives.
Mercury will begin its retrograde motion next month, which means that the path we travel this week and beyond will be the same path we travel backwards while Mercury is in retrograde motion.
Chiron Retrograde
Chiron, which is both an asteroid and a comet, orbits the Sun from its place between Saturn and Uranus. In astrology, it is known as the healer of wounds, as it reminds us that when we are present with our pain, alchemy occurs.
Chiron, which begins its retrograde motion on July 26, 2024, takes us on an inner journey through the essence of who we are: our self-expression, individuality, and relationship to desire. Chiron retrograde invites us to become our own healer by addressing the wounds and fears that simultaneously exist within us and prevent us from moving forward into ourselves.
Weekly Horoscope for July 21-28
Your weekly horoscope can help you understand specific invitations. Read according to your rising sign.
Aries ascendant
This is a week that invites you to begin making transitions that will help you realize your visions, purposes, and long-term legacy. Let everything that lies ahead inform your unconscious beliefs and patterns and you can begin to experience liberation.
Taurus ascendant
There is a deeper belonging within you that invites a restructuring of your mind, your perspectives, and your connection to meaning and higher purpose. As you tend to these foundations, your relationships, your desires, your pleasures—everything in your life—will follow suit.
Gemini ascendant
Presence, intimacy and vulnerability with all that exists within you can be catalytic and alchemical. Explore them. Then observe the way life speaks to you and the way the future calls you to it.
Cancer on the rise
How do you feel safe, secure, and at home with yourself? Explore those spaces so you can step into an expansion in how you relate to the world, others, and yourself. The week begins a longer chapter of healing around your legacy and desires.
Leo ascendant
Others act as mirrors of all that exists within us. This week, the clarity of these reflections is heightened. As you continue to attend to your well-being and desires, notice what other people highlight and what reactions, patterns or emotions arise in response.
Virgo ascendant
Pleasure in the moment is something to be cultivated, nurtured and strengthened through the way we approach our moments, days and lives. This week reminds you that changing your habits can create space for happiness.
Libra ascendant
Come back home to yourself and all that you’ve ever loved. What did you want as a child? What gave you pleasure? And how can you get back to that spark?
Scorpio ascendant
Your weekly horoscope offers you a cleansing of your mind, an open line of communication between your conscious and your unconscious, and a release of everything that does not belong to you. It is a rethinking of everything that is ready for you to see it differently, and it is an opening to new ways of being, seeing and believing.
Sagittarius ascendant
This week acts as a gateway to new ways of seeing, thinking, believing, connecting and perceiving. It helps release all that is holding you back from entering into your own conversation with life, wisdom, knowledge and understanding. And it kicks off your dedication to nurturing your creative expression, joy and courage.
Capricorn ascendant
Your weekly horoscope offers you the kind of transformation, medicine, and attention that alters every aspect of your life. It allows for changes in your identity, your emotional world, and your unnoticed patterns. Surrender to whatever ideas and medicine come into your awareness.
Aquarius ascendant
Sit back, relax, and let go. Let go of everything that weighs on your shoulders and go with the flow of life. This week is less about action and more about surrender. It’s about letting go of expression and just listening. It’s about trusting the kind of knowing that bypasses the mind.
Pisces ascendant
The visions that catch your attention continue to unfold this week as you create space in how you relate to them. But don’t hold on too tightly to what you expect, but instead remain firm in your trust that you are being led somewhere on purpose.
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