This will probably feel most palpable around July 10 through 12, during the Full Moon in Capricorn ruled by Saturn stationing retrograde. Things are probably coming to a head for you professionally or in a public-facing way. Try not to feel embarrassed if there’s anything you have to walk back or own up to—your honesty and accountability will ultimately win you more trust and respect. Chances are pretty good that there’s no one in the world who’s being harder on you than yourself right now anyway, so give yourself some credit for showing up with integrity.
As your ruling planet, Mars, approaches a conjunction to the South Node on July 20, you will probably feel like you’re running on fumes this month. Burnout is not a copout, in case you forgot—it’s actually a perfectly valid reason to scale back your workload, or at least move your timeline. This is definitely a month when you’ll want to be more mindful of your health overall, and to not minimize any exhaustion you’re feeling. A vacation wouldn’t be the worst idea (note: not the kind of vacation where you bring your laptop to the pool).
There are certainly other forms of active rest that would do you good right now, but you know as well as anyone else that “active rest” doesn’t usually look like your normal working week. Venus and Uranus both moving into your third house of writing and ideas early in the month, plus Mercury retrograding through your fifth house of creativity starting on July 18, means this is an especially fertile time to breathe fresh inspiration into your unfinished drafts. Don’t be afraid to play and get a little weird, or incorporate new techniques you’re learning.
Taurus Rising
If someone thinks they have you pegged, no they don’t. The big news this month is that Uranus leaves Taurus for the first time since 2019, but not before it makes a big splash out the door. Venus conjoins Uranus in Taurus on July 4 before slipping into Gemini that same day, and Uranus then makes its initial entry into Gemini on July 7. The first week of the month finds you playing with new looks, modes of self-expression, genres, and aesthetics, and Uranus at the 29th degree of Taurus will make you especially antsy about conforming to people’s expectations. Uranus will return to your rising sign for one last rodeo later this November through April 2026, but this intermediary push to exceed the limitations of your own predictability is still significant. If your wardrobe or branding is several years behind the person you now feel yourself to be, it might be time for a radical makeover.
Your ruling planet, Venus, then goes on to spend the majority of the month in Gemini, your second house of money and stuff. Together with the novelty that Uranus is introducing into this area of your life, you might be experimenting with new ways of bringing in money, creating new offers, or doing a refresh on your inventory in other ways. But also, don’t overlook the less tangible ways Venus is helping you clarify your values and walk your talk—through your embodiment, through what you’re offering to the world, and through your consumption habits. Between July 21 and 23, Venus squares the lunar nodes and then squares Mars. Some of the spending decisions you’re making right now could feel especially consequential, or maybe you’re launching an offer that takes you across a certain threshold of controversy.
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On July 10, the Full Moon in Capricorn brings things to a head for you in the realm of travel, education, or the framing of your beliefs. You might be realizing the ways in which you’ve needlessly isolated yourself, or that you’ll probably need the company and support of a community before you go off on your rugged solo adventure. Solitary travel can be rewarding, but it’s okay to admit that you might need the group for a while longer. This, coupled with a Mercury Retrograde in your 4th house this month, suggests that you’ll need to go back to find the answers you’re seeking, and that those answers will likely be found within your social circles or your family. A deep inventory of your past could be in order, or maybe a return to a previous home.
Gemini Rising
It’s time for a personal renaissance. Uranus enters Gemini on July 7, which is kind of a big deal because it hasn’t visited this part of the sky since the late 1940s, and because this now begins a new seven-year chapter of experimentation, change, and agitating for liberation. You’re not one to stay stagnant for very long as it is, and you’ve probably gone through your fair share of phases. But if there was ever a time to play with the versions of yourself that have gone un-entertained, now is the time to remind the world that you didn’t come here to be predictable. You do contain multitudes, and you will feel increasingly itchy in situations that flatten your multidimensionality over these next few years.