ASTROLOGICAL energy of July

Welllll, who felt that June had a very different feeling to it? June, July and August are going to have a very different astrological energy to them than the previous five months of the year. This is because our outer planets have experienced significant shifts.

A little astrology 101 just in case I’ve lost you… The inner planets that we hear about a lot in astrology; the Sun, Moon, Mercury, Venus and Mars are fast moving and they are our personal planets. They are closest to us and we feel these planets on a personal level. They affect our moods, our communications, our sleep, our reactivity. We feel their influence daily.

Our outer planets are slower moving; Saturn, Jupiter, Neptune, Uranus, Pluto. They shift on a slower timeline but they hold weight – they affect us at a collective level, they impact the trajectory of our planet. So, with so many of these outer planets shifting, it changes the dial on the themes our planet works through. We can often link these planets to major shifts that take place on a global scale: stock market movements, war, pandemics, cultural shifts, natural disasters. These planets are slow moving but carry a grand weight of energy in their orbit.

Neptune and Saturn both in Aries have been squaring off to the Sun and Jupiter this past month – this continues to pose the question: what is being birthed within you? Aries wants to start something new, and with Neptune there it tugs on a higher version of you, asking for you to meet a higher level of consciousness within yourself.

This can feel uncomfortable at times – like there is a push and pull within yourself. To hold steady in the security of what you know, verses the subconscious pull to expand and follow Aries' charge into the unknown of Neptunian waters. Think of this time as an invitation – an invitation to create further alignment within yourself and your life, to make new choices, to take actions that reflect this new rising you are feeling within yourself.

Making our departure from Gemini season we part ways with the busyness of the Gemini archetype, the fast talking, fast thinking, the head noise and overload of information and ideas we can feel in this season, and we find ourselves in a heavy Cancer season. Even in June it was still rich with Cancer energies, letting us know Cancer is a major player this year – Cancer themes of home, family, roots, nostalgia, emotional wounds, support, depth, sensitivities are what is coming up for a lot of us. Deep Cancer energy asks us to slow down, and this could feel almost like an uncomfortable shift in pace following a fast-moving June.

Sometimes we don’t know how fast we have been moving, how tired we are until we meet a pause, and that can be a startling feeling. If you get tired, pause don’t quit.

Cancer is the first water sign of the zodiac. We run with a blaze of fire in Aries, we slow down to enjoy the grass under our feet in Taurus, we conjure new ideas, information, and perspective in Gemini, and in Cancer we jump in the lake and feel the submersion of the water. A feeling of surrender and support from the watery energy submerging us.

This Cancer energy poses the question – what needs to be watered within you? Where do you need to be restored and nourished? And this Cancer energy is really kickstarted by Jupiters arrival into Cancer that took place on June 9th. Jupiter expands this energy, like I said before, it expands Cancerian realms in our life. But also, Cancer holds onto things – feelings, memories, experiences, wounds – sometimes to its detriment.

People think “oh Cancers are so overly emotional” but I’ve never met a Cancer without a tough exterior. Just like the Crab, they wear a hard shell to protect their vulnerability from the world. If they consider you safe, they let you under their shell. But under their shell you will find potentially some scars and baggage that could do with disposal. Cancers can hold grudges ( sorry, cancers but you know it). When they’ve let you in and you’ve hurt them, they forgive but they don’ttttt necessarily forget, and they place the shell back around them and you may no longer be under it in the same way you once were. They know the art of self-preservation. So, with amplified Cancer themes throughout July, you may find old emotional wounds resurfacing. Jupiter comes through to reveal where you have been holding these wounds, where under your shell you’ve had them tucked away, how you have been carrying them, and asks you to heal them, surrender them, and move them forward and create a new pathway moving forward.

Cancer is ruled by the Moon, reminding us as a collective as well of the power feminine energy can hold. That sometimes approaching a situation with a level of softness and sensitivity can be a much more powerful force than anything else.

So pay attention to nostalgia, old memories, wounds, emotional triggers, and you will likely feel these in your body – a memory that doesn’t just pass through the mind but one that is felt in the body. Water might be your medicine during this month of July. Seek out the ocean, baths, showers, lakes. Use water as a cleansing element, as a ritual to let go and release anything sticking to you, weighing you down.. Let go of the past, let go of the baggage, allow the water to take it and wash it back to sea.

Learn to float in Cancers waters and feel that support and comfort the water can provide, don’t let it drown you.

For PART 2 of July astrology (yes there is more haha) click here!!