June was about your communication going out to others, and July is about it all finally coming back to you! Many Aries have felt stymied in the area of trying to reach a loved one. Please listen to me when I say: it is NOT your fault, dear Aries! You know this logically. But your emotions need to start feeling better now -- and they will. Starting NOW.
Take a deep breath.
Deep. In.
Then.
Breathe Out.
Doesn't that feel a bit better? Do it again.
As I said in your June horoscope,
a fortune was to be made from channeling your power from the Venus Transit in your communication area. This includes all professional forms of communication. Whether you sent e-mails to your boss / colleagues, co-ordinated a networking blitz, or appealed to organizations for help, you will soon be very happy you did.
June was frustrating for these results, that's for sure. Venus has been retrograde since May 17, making you feel all your communication efforts were paddling upstream -- against the current. You've been putting out. But getting back? Hardly.
Now, the siege is over! Hallelujah! This is fantastic news for you. On Tuesday, June 29, Venus goes direct in your communications and suddenly it's like all those messages in all those bottles get discovered - and read. You can expect some good replies as of the Full Moon on Friday, July 2. This kicks off the whole month of July.
Bravo, Aries, you hung in there, and now you get the rewards.
Because the Full Moon is huge and brilliant in your tenth house of career and professional acclaim, this is where you can expect the greatest harvest. It may even feel like too much! After all this waiting - and then a deluge. So, pace yourself, dear Aries.
You don't have to do everything at once. There will be a lot on your plate. All of a sudden, everyone wants you. You will feel the PUBLIC PRESSURE.
Pace, plan, delegate.
Even though you are a fiery and creative winner, you need to use longterm practical thinking here rather than emotional impulse now. If you really want to take advantage of these professional and social opportunites, that is. If you want to succeed to a level where you can QUIT worrying about your home and money all the time.
Yes, the above is possible now. July is your month to guarantee it.
Remember: Saturn, worrying parent planet, has been making you worry about your home. This also concerns homes and family in the past. This whole area has been quite a pressure this year. You've met the challenge very well. But do you feel it sometimes holding you back when you want to be moving on?
Saturn is essential to winning in life. If you don't listen to its message, if you don't do its work, you will fail in this area - and no matter how far forward you go in your other areas, it will catch you up. That's its job.
So concentrate on your professional rewards that will be coming in the early part of July. Then, as of Saturday, July 17, get back to tending the matters ruled by your fourth house: home, property, early family, even your father. Because this is a New Moon time, you succeed by any NEW approaches you try now. Start a new routine. Do it differently.
But until Saturday, July 17 -- go for the gold in your career and how you are received in the world! Use your lucky Jupiter to make it happen. Your lucky Jupiter is blessing your sixth house of routine and everyday. In other words, if you proceed in terms of ROUTINE AND EVERYDAY DUTIES -as boring as it sounds-you get the gold.
Be undramatic to achieve the dramatic. Just for now, Aries, just for now! It WILL work!
Other tips for success right now in your communications, both professional and personal: do not keep bringing up the past. Stop harping on your childhood. Act like a competent grownup, even if you don't FEEL like one.
The rewards make it worth it.
July's anxiety and tension is best released through tending to your body. Your pure, physical body. Nothing else will help it. Again - because lucky Jupiter in your sixth house which also rules your health and what you eat. Correct bad dietary habits. And don't fall into any just because you're at the fun fair this July. Do daily exercise, walks, aerobic exercise.
Don't skip these, no matter how much is happening, or whatever the whirlwind looks like!
Especially because you are the Star right now, THE flavor of the month - and it will feel GOOD - you need to keep extra healthy and in good shape. You want to look and feel your best, don't you?
The roller coaster of success brings anxiety and drops in confidence to the best of us - but that's why it's called a roller coaster! As you go down, so you will come up. Remember that this month when it all gets to be feeling too much.
Now, love and relationships. You seem to be a little sad as I look at you right now, these last few days of June. You have been missing someone close to you. Separations and lost ones from the past have been surfacing. Have you suddenly found yourself thinking about someone you haven't seen in a long time?
Take some Time Out and prepare a new approach mid-July. Your sadness lifts completely by then. This is the best time to begin repairing any broken bridges. If you have any time that is, being a star now n'all...:)
Getting back in closer touch with siblings (or those who feel like siblings) would be a great idea as the month begins.
Romance-wise, the whole month is captivating, but you really start to ENJOY it after mid-month.
Isn't it time, dear Aries? Haven't you suffered enough?
I LOVE happy endings, don't you?
E-mail this horoscope to an Aries or Aries Jupiter you care about - if you want him or her to do well this July!
Your days to push the envelope: Thursday July 8 and Friday July 9.
Also the days the Moon is in the SAME SIGN as your Jupiter sign.
Consult Jupiter for more on this, and on how to be successful in the world at large.
P.S. Dear Reader, Happy Summer! It is - finally - here!
Isn't it time for us to take a breather from this time of madness, of difficult personal exchanges, and of too much to bear?
How often have you been able to make a wise decision when stressed?
Research has proved that anxiety and stress inhibit the brain's ability to function. We cannot think clearly and effectively when the brain is being short ciruited with anxiety.
I'm not talking about instinctual survival-based decisions - for immediate preservation of life - I'm talking about longterm life choices. These cannot be made during crisis. We have been living in a state of crisis-simulation for almost three years now. Complete with bright kid-friendly colors telling us HOW MUCH IS RIGHT. It has become harder to THINK.
I prefer, instead of Code Yellow; Code Orange; Code Red --
Code Linen; Code Off-White; Code Putty, myself. (Thank you, Saturday Night Live.)
You need to take care of yourself, dear reader. (No matter how much success you may be having.)
You, and all that is inside of you.
I would like to share with you something that has always renewed my breath - and delight! About the choices we have, if we can but choose them...our various, incredible routes...Travel with me as you read this...enjoy the journey with me.
Extracted from one of my very favorite books, Invisible Cities, by Italo Calvino. (Born a Libra, and yes, LIBRO in Italian means book!). Translated from the Italian by William Weaver.
In Esmeralda, city of water, a network of canals and a network of streets span and intersect each other.
To go from one place to another you have always the choice between land and boat: and since the shortest distance between two points in Esmeralda is not a straight line but a zigzag that famifies in torturous optional routes, the ways that open to each passerby are never two, but many, and they increase further for those who alternate a stretch by boat with one in dry land.
And so Esmeralda's inhabitants are spared the boredom of following the same streets every day.
And that is not all: the network of routes is not arranged on one level, but follows instead an up-and-down course of steps, landings, cambered bridges, hanging streets.
Combining segments of the various routes, elevated or on ground level, each inhabitant can enjoy every day the pleasure of a new itinerary to reach the same places. The most fixed and calm lives in Esmeralda are spent without any repetition.
A map of Esmerelda should include, marked in different colored inks, all these routes, solid and liquid, evident and hidden.
It is more difficult to fix on the map the routes of the swallows, who cut the air over the roofs, dropping long invisible parabolas with their still wings, darting to gulp a mosquito, spiraling upward, grazing a pinnacle, dominating from every point of their airy paths all the points of the city.
Marco Polo describes a bridge, stone by stone.
"But which is the stone that supports the bridge?" Kublai Khan asks.
"The bridge is not supported by one stone or another," Marco answers, "but by the line of the arch that they form."
Kublai Khan remains silent, reflecting. Then he adds: "Why do you speak to me of the stones? It is only the arch that matters to me."
Polo answers: "Without the stones there is no arch."
Water (a city of water!) is ruled by the Moon, and this July we have TWO full Moons. The second full Moon is called a Blue Moon. A month with two full Moons, a rare event, is always a dramatic month.
Tending to your Moon - that is, your inner needs and emotions - will help you to remain calm, to stay in touch, and allow you to make clear and good decisions.
For your inner child needs, read the horoscope for your Moon sign.
For example, if you are a Sagittarius with a Taurus Moon, read the Taurus horoscope.
Consider your inner child's needs to be Taurus (you need home comfort and security. Think how a cat is if you take them out of their home. Cats are ruled by Taurus.) Even if you are a rock n roll, fly-by-the-seat-of-your-pants Sagittarius!
If you are a Scorpio with a Libra Moon, consider your inner child's needs to be Libra (you need love-love, harmony- harmony, beauty-beauty everywhere.) Even if you are a independent proud I-can-go-without Scorpio!
And so on.
Read my astrology book for young'uns, and you'll remember your original Moon needs as a child. Trace the cause of what makes you inexplicably nuts on any given day NOW.
Here are some excerpts.
I also recommend - of course - Linda Goodman's Sun Signs. Her sections on the Child for each Sun sign are still the best around. She wrote her books for grownups though. When I was a kid, her book was the only one available for me to read! I've had countless people tell me they wished there'd been an astrology book for them when THEY were kids.
Now there's mine, and it is the only astrology book for kids (and inner kids) in print AT ALL, and I am asking you to help me keep it in print! Otherwise, there will be NOT A ONE. (It is in its third edition from Penguin USA, thick color pages, spiral bound, beautiful illustrations, with a poster.) It is also an amazing gift. Only $10.99.
You can buy it here.
Take care of yourself.
P.P.S. For an individual reading, please go to PRIVATE READINGS.
Until next month, dear reader -
Madalyn
