Aries All of a sudden, the pace of life, which has been pretty much non-stop over the last six months, suddenly drops down a gear or three.  It’s as if you’ve become becalmed after a long and challenging journey.  So if you feel that the universe is telling you to slow down, why not listen to it?  Otherwise you may arouse unnecessary opposition.  Far better to step back for a month, rest your weary mind and body, and slip gently below the radar screen to recharge your batteries.  By doing this you can stabilise and steady yourself, catch up with things that have needed doing and deal with the pending tray of life.  The alternative is pushing and wading through treacle, so slow down.

Romance and Relationship

There’s nothing particularly wrong around you at the moment, but neither are you getting the kind of attention you think you deserve.  You’re stuck between two options.  Either you behave true to form and go and get the attention you want one way or another, or you step back and bide your time.  Either way, make a clear choice because if you try and ‘put up with’ lack of attention you’ll feel neglected, and then romance becomes a bit like sandpaper – grating because it’s not working properly but struggling through.

Career and Finance

It’s easy to overreach yourself now, so keep an eye on the pennies and the pounds will look after themselves.  It may be that work situations suddenly loom larger than life, that people around you start making mountains out of molehills and that words get taken out of proportion to reality.  Don’t jump to conclusions now, because by doing so you may miss out some major details in your headlong rush to the top.  Keep a solid head on your shoulders, and don’t let others panic you into fast changes – steady movement forward.

Health and Spirit

The times since September 2007 have challenged many of you to reassess issues of value.  What still has worth?  Especially in terms of career, is it more important for fame and money, or for respect and integrity?  What price success?  See how your attitudes have changed in the last nine months, and know that new patterns that have formed are likely to provide you with the basis of a new understanding for many years to come.  There’s an energy of reflection around you, which you can now start to summarise accurately.

Best time of the month – A feisty and active Moon in Aries on the 23^rd, 24th. 

Taurus There are lots of pleasant echoes reverberating around you now.  Although it seems that all of the action is happening to other people, the spin-offs that are coming your way seem to be doing you a number of favours.  There are certainly opportunities, at the financial and professional levels, as well as a general indication that your social and romantic life should be working out quite nicely for you.  It’s a jovial month, where your enthusiasm and sensuality come to the fore and improve your popularity levels to a better degree than of recent times, so don’t waste your time looking in the mirror, get out there, enjoy yourself and make things happen! A better month than usual.

Romance and Relationship

Both Venus and Mars seem to be smiling sweetly at you at the moment, so affairs of the heart should steadily prosper.  There’s a larger than normal element of sensuality about you now, most likely to come through in the kitchen, although the bedroom may be a close second.  There’s even the potential to incorporate the two, nothing like having the best of both worlds!  Your capacity for snuggling is your greatest attribute during July, so ensure the company you keep is good for the body as well as the heart.

Career and Finance

You’re neither a spendthrift nor a miser this month, there’s seems to be a more level headed approach to the use and spending of money at the moment.  By all means indulge and treat yourself to some of the niceties of life, just ensure that you know where to draw the line.  There’s a better than usual perspective now, a good attention to detail and a good understanding of the value of things.  You can make things happen for yourself now by taking a few careful chances and reaping the rewards of calculated actions.

Health and Spirit

As ever, it’s all about where the next meal is coming from, where your secure home is and where’s the next amount of money coming from, yes?  Well, this is often the case, but during July circumstances seem to change and usher in a feeling of well being that allows you to at least temporarily differentiate between your needs and your wants with a greater clarity than normal.  Needs are always meet, wants can be achieved through hard work, especially now.  Desires?  Ah well, that’s another matter entirely.

Best time of the month – The 11^th and 12^th, and then when the Moon is in Taurus on the 25^th, 26^th and 27^th. 

Gemini The fastest time of the year now seems to be behind you, you can begin to relax and let your shoulders come down from your ears.  As July unfolds, so you’ll see a steadily decrease in the levels of stress and tension that has been so strong over recent months.  By the 11^th of this month you’ll have all the information that you need to start making long term decisions.  Decisions, not actions.  The time for action has yet to come, but what you can do now is begin to work out what it is that you don’t want.  Now you’ve got all the facts at your fingertips you can begin the analysis knowing that the facts don’t lie and that out of them will come clarity and new directions, but for now think, don’t act.

Romance and Relationship

Feeling a bit spiky are we?  Feeling as though the steamroller of life has just rolled over you without so much as an acknowledgement?  You should find that as this month develops so your social life and popularity levels begin to pick up again, July is a month to look to the future instead of dwelling on the past.  Endings are always followed by new beginnings, and the ongoing conclusions around you now are sorting the wheat from the chaff.  This is a time of weeding and pruning and letting go of redundant energies.

Career and Finance

The first ten days of this month are excellent times to successfully bring to a conclusion affairs of the last eight weeks.  Recent confusion and misunderstandings (to be polite) are now a thing of the past, and whilst you may not like everything about your current position, at least you can see it clearly.  Strike whilst the iron is hot, this is a time when you can be very black and white about what is working for you and what is not.  The only danger is that of underestimating your potentials, leading to you undercutting yourself.

Health and Spirit

It would be easy to paper over the cracks and ignore problems of the last ten weeks, but all that would do is bury, suppress and repress things that need airing, with potentially disastrous results later on.  Go and watch a good movie, go to the theatre or the beach, get stimulated and inspired.  But stay on planet, imagination can be created but the fantasy lives between the ears.  You need a panacea for the trials and tribulations of life on earth, something to make you feel good inside.  To use ‘Hitchhikers’ terminology, don’t panic!

Best times – Good links until the 10^th, and Moon in Gemini on the 27^th, 28^th and 29^th. 

Cancer A combination of the Sun, Mercury and Venus in Cancer over the whole of this month makes for an interesting time, lots of little developments at the day by day level with a general all round feeling of being supported and nurtured.  A little indulgence hurts nobody, as long as you know when and where to draw the line.  It’s easier to live within self imposed limits rather than those imposed upon you by others, and issues of boundaries seem to be quite relevant at this time.  You can state your case quietly and clearly, being projective and assertive without being confrontational, and make others clear as to where your boundaries lie.  A rapid and buzzy month, but not too fast.

Romance and Relationship

With Venus in your sign until the 13^th you are likely to find that the start of the month brings better quality interactions with others that that to which you’ve been previously used.  You can attract a better quality of attention now by emphasising your more sensual side, fluttering your eyelashes and only eating the best of chocolate.  You can get what you want at the start of July; just make sure that you want it for the right reasons.  As the month unfolds, the foot doesn’t go onto the brake but it does come off the accelerator.

Career and Finance

Providing that you tread the middle path and don’t over indulge nor undercut yourself, the period of the 11^th to the 26^th of this month is fantastic for networking, facilitating, co-ordinating and generally getting your name around.  The potential for clear and strong communications is strong, as is your ability to listen with a more discerning ear than usual.  A good two weeks for projecting and promoting yourself, for improving your public image and for being the person who can walk their talk and get things done.

Health and Spirit

There’s an unusual veneer of flambouyance around at the moment, bringing a touch more hope and optimism into your life.  Negativity can’t exist where there is humour, and your ability to laugh at yourself now really is your strong point.  You are in a good space to nurture yourself during July, it’s a great month to detox, clean up your diet and nutrition, and lose a few pounds through gentle but regular exercise.  The basic message from the planets now seems to be – lighten up!  The worlds a better place when you smile. 

Best times – Venus and Mars bless you from the 2^nd to the 12^th, and the Moon in Cancer on the 2^nd and 3^rd brings added zing. 

Leo A month of change that steadily becomes mellower.  The hectic and charged energy of the last two months is drawing to a close – by the third week of July the wounds are sealed, so the healing process can begin.  The second half of the month brings a soothing and calm energy into your life and heralds the beginning of a more laid back and chilled time, but don’t get complacent, because as Venus moves into Leo around the 11^th so the risk of gluttony or over-indulgence arises again, with the most likely victim being the waistline.  There’s no rush, put yourself back together again, but don’t get too laid back.  You start July with Mars and end with Venus – can’t be bad.

Romance and Relationship

It’s not quiet on the romantic front, is it?  Even those Leo’s that are alone at this time should be feeling the social urge, or at least the desire for some type of company.  The urgency and the desire of recent times has given way to a more touchy-feely energy, based around hugs and cuddles as much a s anything else.  But that’s not all – with Venus bringing sensual and exotic warmth to your interactions with others at the personal level you can charm and purr your way into anyone’s good books right now.

Career and Finance

This is not time to strike out on your own; better to work with other or others for the common good now, as the synergy around you is better than usual.  Sometimes there’s strength in numbers, and much of this month supports this.  But as the end of the month unfolds, so the capacity for negotiations, discussions and agreements comes to the fore and you begin to thing once again of personal development.  There’s no new financial challenge – it’s just the old problems sorting themselves out.

Health and Spirit

The background feel to the month is that of compromise, and how far you’re prepared to go in order to help others.  How can you help anybody else if you’re not in good working order yourself?  Putting yourself first is not selfishness, it’s self enlightened interest, but at the same time meeting others halfway is good for the common good and gives you potential brownie points for the future.  The real lesson of this month is learning how to maintain personal boundaries without shutting people out of your loop.

Best time of the month – With Venus in Leo from the 13^th onwards, how can you fail to shine? 

Virgo Sudden acceleration, big shift forward in the gears, Mars is in town – all month. Expect your physical drive to increase, with sudden surges of enthusiasm and energy. Great time for doing things that require sustained effort, or for being incisive and dynamic in specific areas.  However, it’s a lousy time for being subtle or tactful or for being aware of exactly whose toes you’re treading on.  Being projective and assertive is fine, but it’s a fine line between that and being aggressive or confrontational – at least in other people’s eyes.  You’re not at your most sensitive now, but you can get things done in a direct and powerful way.  Sometimes, actions speak louder than words, and now is such a time.

Romance and Relationship

Your ‘get up and go’, your libido and your enthusiasm for being more touchy/feely are all enhanced this month, you’re likely to become a lot more tactile than usual.  Lots of hugging and cuddles could very easily lead to other forms of physical pleasure if desired.  The first half of the month is likely to have a more team or partnership feel about it, whilst the second half of July is focussed on self satisfaction.  Sometimes, putting oneself first isn’t selfishness, it’s self enlightened interest, and now is such a time.

Career and Finance

What you can’t do is sit on the fence.  Situations around you have evolved to the point where you’re dammed if you do and dammed if you don’t, so better to try and fail than not to try at all.  Actually, effort in equals results out at this time, and if you take decisions or actions in an incisive and direct manner the chances of being successful are considerably higher than usual.  Just be ready for charges of ruthlessness.  Keeping up your balancing act now will only leave you behind in the long run.  Take your chances.

Health and Spirit

Get your skates on, because your ability to influence your long term future is looking bright now, although you may have to depend on the flexible and adaptable sides of your nature to pull you through.  It’s time to walk your talk, to promote yourself and take actions but without being seen as challenging or provocative.  It’s direct experience now, not thinking or talking.  So there’s a good argument for doing things the hard way, on the grounds that then you only have to do them once.  Short cuts are to be avoided now.

Best time of the month – The times from the 6^th to the 11^{th bring} a fast and active energy. 

Libra The month starts in a frustrating way; other people’s emotional states can impact upon you if you don’t maintain boundaries.  But as July evolves, so the confusion dissipates and a warmer buzz envelops your life.  By the second half of the month, your love life is looking good, although this is more in a romantic way as opposed to relationship.  Romance is day by day, relationship is year by year.  But in the background, it’s a month for gathering your energies about you and recharging your batteries.  By mid August, you’ll be needing all the physical energy you can muster, so concentrate now not on dramatically moving forward, but in preparing yourself for times to come.

Romance and Relationship

It’s either all talk and no action or else it’s that ‘I dare you to suss me out’ look.  In either case, there’s going to be a frustration and impatience with other people’s apparent role playing, and the more you snap or let your buttons get pushed the more you buy into the game playing.  Maintain your distance from the superficialities of life at the moment, your time is coming soon, by August you’re going to be a lot more proactive.  But in the short term, bide your time and keep a dignified and detached head on your shoulders.

Career and Finance

The first ten days of the month are definitely the best time for negotiations and contractual arrangements, as after then emotional content can become a major factor in professional decisions, possibly to your detriment.  It’s better to hold your horses after this time, as expansion at the financial level after the 11^th is unlikely to succeed.  For this, wait until the end of the month, when normal service will be resumed.  July is primarily a holding month, where you consolidate existing structures in readiness for the future.

Health and Spirit

It’s about your gifts and unique talents now.  What can you do that’s different to normal and that also makes you feel as if you are both creative and successful?  July’s great for dreaming in a more innovative and artistic energy that is conducive to subtlety and gentleness.  Not a good month for punk or heavy metal concerts – a visit to art galleries or a good movie is likely to be more rewarding.  Whatever you can dream that you can do, try and make it a reality now.  Believe it or not, your feet really are on the ground.

Best time of the month – When the Moon is in Libra, on the 9^th and 10^th July. 

Scorpio Without trying too hard, opportunities taken now should prove to be both fulfilling and successful.  It’s the chance to press your attentions, to be more perseverant and persistent whilst at the same time not being pushy or overly assertive.  By quietly and steadily plugging away in the background you can get to the bottom of things in a way that leaves no room for error.  In fact the only way you can shoot yourself in the foot now is by becoming arrogant and complacent about your own abilities, so don’t go off the boil and get distracted by superficial niceties.  Keep your focus and concentrate on becoming the well oiled and efficient person you know you secretly are!

Romance and Relationship

Everything seems to be going according to plan, in that the slow but steady build up of solid and healthy romantic development continues apace.  There are new pinpoints of light on the horizon, and some of these are going to have the quality – not quantity – that you secretly desire.  You’re beginning to send out the right signals into the world again, and you should find that popularity and interest in you becomes steadily stronger.  You’re not ready yet to take the initiative, but the time for this is not that far away.

Career and Finance

Synergy is when the output of people working together is greater than the added output of people working individually, and now you’re definitely in a synergetic state.  The more you expand your teamwork and group ambitions now, the more successful you’ll become.  The first half of July shows a tendency for foreign affairs, people or businesses to have a greater impact than normal, so keep your antennae up.  By the middle of the month, you should be able to start putting shape and form into your long term plans.

Health and Spirit

It’s not the best time of your life for making friends and influencing people, but neither are you in a state of unpopularity.  Sometimes it’s quite easy to be just part of the throng, almost fading into the background, because here you can be at your most functional, often in a way that other people don’t notice until it’s too late.  Energetically, you’re in a fine space – just don’t over expend your energy too soon because if you do then later in the year you may find yourself deficient just when you need it most.

Best time of the month – the 11^th and 12^th are excellent days for spotting a bargain. 

Sagittarius The first half of the month brings a higher potential than usual for argumentativeness and challenge in areas concerning all systems of authority, whether employer, teacher, state or parent.  Respect has to be earned not demanded, and you’re better off learning by direct experience now than you are from books or teachers.  But don’t bite!  You could easily buy into other people’s game plans now and become a pawn in someone else’s game by letting your buttons get pushed.  By the 14^th this short term period of challenge ends and situations around you mellow to the point of comfort, where the biggest challenge will be to avoid complacency.  July starts fast and ends slow.

Romance and Relationship

Despite the ongoing day by day attitudes and opinions of everyday romantic life, there’s an almost invisible undercurrent slowly making itself more obvious.  Questions of value and worth are beginning to surface – what really is it that turns you on in relationship, what do you really want for the long term?  You can make a big change in your opinions and ideas at the moment, although it’s not currently advisable to take dramatic new actions as yet.  It’s a time of opinion and thought, not impulsive action or decision.

Career and Finance

If you can zip the lip when under pressure and knuckle down, this is an excellent month for positioning yourself in your professional world.  There’s more profile and visibility, so seize the opportunity to create an impact.  There even seems to be an increase in the finding of external sources of funding, so again – be open to new approaches to funding.  But the hard thing to do will be to keep quiet when placed under pressure; you could easily blow a lot of chances just by cracking and saying the wrong thing.  Don’t.

Health and Spirit

It’s as if a lot of ‘old’ stuff from recent years that you thought you’d dealt with has come back for one final go at you.  Don’t panic, this is just the last gasp attempt by vested interests in keeping you the same, and it’s doomed to failure as long as you don’t kowtow to other people’s demands.  It’s a question of being strong enough in yourself to say no and thus set up new and permanent boundaries which others can either accept or else they can exit your life.  Elimination is sometimes a necessity, and now is one of those times.

Best time of the month – An enthusiastic Moon in your sign on the 14^th and 15^th.

Capricorn The first two weeks of July bring a number of opportunities for creative development through hard work, so don’t shirk from challenges.  By plugging away you can put in place situations that bring a great deal more solidity and structure into what so far has only been a pipedream.  Chances taken at the start of the month should blossom as the second two weeks of July unfold, and for once it seems that your fate is in your own hands.  Hard work brings its own rewards, and now is a productive and creative time.  And if you don’t take the opportunities around you now, you lose nothing.  But if you do take them, you gain lots.  Capricorn full Moon on the 18^th is the turn around point.

Romance and Relationship

‘All the world’s a stage, and all the people players’.  When Shakespeare wrote that he could have had you in mind, because in July it does seem as if you’re the stage for other people to act their lives out upon.  You could get stroppy or upset about what may be seen as a lack of attention now, but that would really be a waste of energy.  Far better to bide your time, there’s no real problem and if you can get away from immature anger you’ll see that actually, things are slowly working out fine.  If it’s working, don’t fix it.

Career and Finance

The first two weeks of the month have the potential to be some of the most rewarding times of the year if you act appropriately and keep your nose to the grindstone.  Your capacity for hard work is strong now, and through sheer persistence rewards will come.  You are in an excellent space for fine analysis, for understanding the operations that power your business, and for making realistic assessments not only of current situations but also of future potentials.  It’s not as if you’re scared of hard work, after all.

Health and Spirit

The Capricorn full Moon on the morning of July 18^th acts as a brake in your life, asking you to stop and smell the roses for a time whilst allowing the rest of the world to catch up with you.  By voluntarily stopping now and re-assessing your situation you can regroup and prepare yourself for the next surge, due in late October and November.  But if you overextend yourself now, what energy reserves are you going to have to draw on in coming months?  This full Moon is not about endings, it’s about consolidation.

Best time of the month – The period just before full Moon is a great time for successfully bringing things to a close. 

Aquarius During the last couple of months your subtlety and tact have been severely tested, to the point of explosion.  Now, it seems that the boils have been lanced and the urgency and action of recent times is suddenly switched down a gear or three.  You’ll find that from about the 12^th onwards there’s a gentle and soothing energy becoming apparent, one that blossoms and grows as the month evolves.  Romance beckons – the chance to feel wanted, more valued by other, and to be treasured.  By the end of the month you’re serious ‘babe’ material, with your social life and your diary both fuller than you’ve been used to of late.  Grab the opportunities whilst they’re there.

Romance and Relationship

It’s like an itch that you can’t scratch at the start of July; there are situations around you that are just unwinnable.  This doesn’t mean defeat, however.  By adjusting and meeting people halfway, no-one is perfectly happy but everyone gets something.  Compromise is such an ugly word, but for the first two weeks of the month it’s acceptable.   By mid month, the pressure is off and at least by then you’ll know where you stand.  From then you can take more decisive actions without having the current fog around you.

Career and Finance

By the second half of the month your love life and social scene are going to become more dominant, so take the opportunity to press ahead in your work in the first two weeks of July.  Communications at the impersonal level will be clearer then, you’ll be able to get things done more efficiently and effectively.  But concentrate on firming up your current position rather than expanding forwards, this is an excellent time for consolidation and grounding.  You’re in a position to influence opinion of those who matter – use it wisely.

Health and Spirit

Your ‘link’ with the divine, whether you call it God, the universe or the upstairs department is under review now, you’re probably picking up a few things that are making you doubt your sanity to a small degree.  Don’t worry, the once in a lifetime current combination of planets in your sign is just making you more sensitive and intuitive than you’ve recently been, it’s as if you’re accessing higher circuitry.  You’ll get used to it in a few weeks and by mid July you’ll be seeing many things in a different light.

Best time of the month – On the weekend of the 19^th and 20^th both Venus and the Moon bring leisure and pleasure. 

Pisces Some of you – mainly those born in February – are having a difficult time now, whilst others are finding this a time of refreshing new challenge and big opportunity.  But none of you are quiet.  This is a month of decision and developments.  Sometimes actions speak louder than words, and now is such a time, it’s no longer possible to sit on the fence.  Are you the puppet or are you the puppeteer?  Whose strings do you dance to?  If you don’t act now, then there’s a strong chance that soon you’ll have to react, the ball will be out of your court.  Cut a few losses now, concentrate on those things at are actively supporting you, and pop a few of the hot air balloons.

Romance and Relationship

Trigger time.  Some things just can’t be put on hold any longer, and the time for decision has past.  It’s either action or inaction now.  By being lovingly assertive, you can make great strides forward in getting what you want.  By being aggressively projective you can really get people’s backs up.  Persuade others that what you want is what they want to and all will be well.  Alienate them by being pushy or mercenary and you’ll really miss out.  It helps if you go into all negotiations with a sincere smile on your face.

Career and Finance

If you’re going to do the typical Piscean thing where you become the victim of circumstances then your financial outlook during July doesn’t look that good.  But if you take the initiative, you can place yourself in the driving seat both for now and the long term future.  Being decisive is what is being asked of you now, it’s time to get your work and money priorities sorted out.  What and how much do you need?  How are you going to get it?  Focus on your needs now – wants and desires feature later in the year.

Health and Spirit

Believe it or not, now is a time of opportunity for you.   If you’re finding it challenging then perhaps you’re being too resistant to change.  By being flexible and adaptable you can ensure that this month brings positive change at the measureable level into your life.  Surf the wave of change; don’t get rolled over by it.  This is a great time for experience and experiment, test or trial.  The reason things are leaving is because they’ve done their job and now they’re moving on, the pain of ending is replaced by the freedom of the new.

Best time of the month – both the 17^th and the 22^nd are great days to take chances. 

About Steve Judd

Steve was born near Southampton in southern England in July 1955. After leaving the army at twenty, Steve found his first astrological book in 1980, and spent the next years buried in books studying astrological basics, leading to his first consultations in 1982. He is totally self taught. Over the next fifteen years, he expanded his ability by doing 4,000 + chart readings.

In 1994, after many years working at the Glastonbury Festival Green Fields, Steve was a founding members of the Big Green Gathering and is currently on the Board of Directors. Since 1998, Steve has increased his astrological career exponentially, starting when he began work for the astrological phone lines. He wrote for Jonathan Cainer, as well as contributing to Jon's web site and column in the Daily Mirror and the Daily Mail. During 1999/00 Steve worked as a real-time internet astrological consultant for World International Television. He now works solely for himself.

In the last seven years, Steve's number of consultations has increased to the point where he now has records of over 20,000 horoscopic readings, with a loyal client base, many of whom return for monthly/yearly updates.

Steve has considerable experience of dealing with different media. He has appeared on local radio stations in Cornwall, Bristol, Hereford, Stevenage and the highlands of Scotland amongst others, on local TV in the HTV and GMTV areas, and has national TV appearances to his name. He has his own brand of idiosyncrasies which endear him to his many clients and fans, which coupled with his bohemian and sometimes direct attitude makes him a unique individual.

In September 2003, Steve began studying for the Master of Arts Degree in Cultural Astronomy and Astrology at the Sophia Centre, Bath Spa University. He was awarded his Masters Degree on July 22 2005.

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