Wisdom of the Month:
JULY 2010

Cancer

It will be early August before all the powerful planetary aspects hit exactly, but you are already certainly feeling them now. The big wind is already sweeping through your life, both professionally and personally, and although you are most likely going to wobble back and forth and think maybe you could, should and would return to the safer, familiar (and totally boring and anxiety-producing) way you had been living your life, you will find over the next eight months that the die is cast and that there is no turning back. You might as well accept the new life and move forward.

To say that this new path is exciting is a ridiculous understatement, since you already see that new opportunities are putting you in another bracket and level of society. That part has got to be a total upper.

Stressful, however? The needle is off the chart! This is especially true a hundred fold for the members of your sign who were born the last ten days of June. These enormous changes are hitting all Cancers, but it’s the June births that are getting walloped immediately.

The astrology behind it all: Jupiter and Uranus on the astrological world axis in your solar tenth house of career are putting you up and out there in ways you have never dreamed could happen. It can definitely be scary to be so exposed in every possible way imaginable, but you are being carried upward by a draft you can’t escape. At the same time both Mars and Saturn are coming around to the solar fourth house, reminding you that you need the support of a family that could easily be put in jeopardy by whatever publicity your new position brings you. And yet you don’t want family to hold you back.

As if that weren’t enough to cope with, That whole opposition between Mars, Saturn, Jupiter and Uranus, that will be completed in early August will be hit by Pluto’s long slow transit of your solar seventh house of relationships. The result: Much stress. You are sure to be bugged by all these changes, even though every one of these planetary aspects will prove to be exciting and welcome and most assuredly needed.

 

LEO
Once any financial headaches are removed, will you finally be able to relax and free your mind from all worry? You’ve been at the edge for so long, maybe you can just come to terms with the fact that there’s a big part of you that is just as attracted to danger and risk as you are to security.

 

VIRGO
When you think of the trials and tribulations endured over the past three years, you’ve got to give yourself a congratulatory hug for coping as well as you have, not to mention surviving. Not that life is going to be a breeze from now on, but once Mars and Saturn leave Virgo this month, you’ll breathe a lot easier.

LIBRA
There is always some guilt involved when you have to move on your own behalf and leave behind some responsibilities and people who have meant a great deal to you. Relationships don’t really end, however. People may move away or even die, but the relationships merely changes shape. You have to deal with your own issues now.

SCORPIO
Although you are definitely going to be busier and more productive at work and facing greater challenges to keep lines of communication open with everyone, you have to remember that you are about to enter a more spiritual and intimate period of your life–which means you can’t stand most people.

SAGITTARIUS
If and when a Sadge decides to walk away from the protection of a full time job, there are bound to be consequences. Besides the financial uncertainty, sometimes the being on your own can be as nervous-making as being under a boss. Creatively? The rewards can be enormously refreshing.

CAPRICORN
To avoid conflict, maybe you should send the following message to all those who love you and depend upon you: “Everybody! Prepare yourselves. If I seem unreasonable, impossible, or crabby, or take out all my frustrations on you these days, forgive me and stand by me. I’m still a good person.”

AQUARIUS
If you focus on the fact that you have a useful and noble service to perform from now on, maybe you won’t be so wracked with confusion or worry about whether or not you are making the right choices. Mental and physical health will depend on how your meditative practices deal with all that pressure.

 

PISCES
Despite the fact that you may be bustling around and busy professionally and financially, Chiron’s entrance into Pisces is probably giving you strange feelings of being alone in this world. Now that some relationships are changing or even ending, can you remember that being different can also mean being gifted?

 

ARIES
Even if you are not snorting down three double espressos at once, it will probably seem as if you are. Talk about having a buzz! Your engine is flying at 300 KPH now, and in spite of your optimistic and cheerful ability to deny personal problems, the relationship thing is getting really weird.

TAURUS
considering the fact that you are completely unclear about where work is going, and how exactly you’re going to cope with the private grief or turmoil that has been turning your head inside out, you know what’s great about you? You can party like mad, sail around the world and still perform with gusto.

 

GEMINI
The time is coming to leave the comfort and safety of home. You have to pack a few things, kiss a few people good-bye for a while, and then prepare to let yourself be seen and known and socially and creatively exposed as you haven’t in a long time, if ever. Thee outlet for any tension? Money, of course.