You’re in a financially lucky position, especially under the generous new Leo Moon Thursday, July 24, and I advise you to take a leap of faith. Even to gamble! Play the lottery. Invest in crazy. Now is the time, cautious crab. Trust yourself.
You have lucky Jupiter in your sign of Cancer until June 30, 2026. Then, lovey Venus after Wednesday, July 30, making you at your most attractive this August, and it seems you can do no wrong. So, why are you still suffering?
You’ve worked so incredibly hard this past year – on every single level – and you deserve reward and also deserve some breaks and a time of peace, with no more conflict, no more endless worry. With a whopping five planets in retrograde, or going into retrograde, in your tenth house of career, your profession will not necessarily go forward smoothly, but your finances will! An interesting dynamic, that.
If one of your valued possessions goes missing this August – which it will (hello, Mercury retrograde! July 18 to August 11.) you will feel surprisingly bereft. It is because, really, it is a substitute for valuing the self. For valuing YOUR self. You’re doing better in holding back your irritation at those who don’t value you as you feel you should be valued, but it’s time to come clean with someone you don’t feel right about. Someone honestly doesn’t know what’s going on and needs to hear it from you. No confrontation, just communication. Venus in your sign has you looking gorgeous so it’s confusing for people. You’re charismatic and charming when you don’t even feel like it.
Keeping your professional reputation is a challenge as August begins. If you could just…if everyone could just… RELAX more.
Mercury is about to go retrograde in your financial second house. The thinking planet is going backwards, slowing down from Friday, July 18 to Monday, August 11.
Retrograde is all about going backwards, right? Going over stuff from the past. Over and over. Re-examining. Every step, every action. Rewind the video of your life. Over and over. What really happened. Rewind as many times as you need. You must catch every detail. Can’t miss, nor skip, a beat.
Write it down and record it, if it helps. You are here to make the record straight.
What you’ve done. What you can do better. How you can make your life better.
In your second financial house you currently have:
Awesome, life-giving Sun
Brilliant thought and word planet Mercury
A generous new Leo Moon on Thursday, July 24
And your second house, traditionally ruled by practical Taurus, covers these areas of your life:
Money and finances
Possessions
All your finances and financial agreements
Self- value
Self-worth
Self-esteem
Resources
Safety
Security
Your income
The element of soap opera leaves your personal life. By soap opera I mean repetition, the predictable, the obvious drama, which I’ve addressed in past months’ horoscopes.
And here, also, you share the horoscope with a country! Both you and the U.S. will experience a financial shift and new status. (Birthday for the U.S. July 4, 1776.)
Gemini’s gestures to impress cease. Libra can stop trying to please friends and social groups. Aries can be truthful about her passions, Taurus about his parents’ origins, Cancer about finances, Leo about his maturing body, Capricorn about what she has shared, Aquarius about what agreements she made, and so on. Uncomfortable initially, but such relief.
I predict hubris will fall, just as Icarus did. Wherever we have felt so inadequate that we had to cover up, impress, even lie, we can finally let it all go. Let it all fall, like idols on pedestals, like desperate gestures. We will be free of pride and illusion. C. S. Lewis wrote that pride is the anti-God state.
“It was through Pride that the devil became the devil. Pride leads to every other vice. It is the complete anti-God state of mind.”
Wikipedia describes HUBRIS:
In its ancient Greek context, it describes behavior that challenges the gods which in turn brings about the downfall of the perpetrator of hubris. Hubris indicates a loss of contact with reality.
Icarus was punished by the gods for hubris, flying too close to the sun, the fire melting his false wax wings, and he fell from the sky. Just as Trump’s hubris will bring about his fall. What better illustration than looking defiantly at the sun during its sacred union with the moon? The reality – his blindness – will be glaring.
This will be a time of reckoning for those who have allowed pride and greed to take over to the extent that they are no longer healthy. Forcing the eyes open is a painful surgery! So don’t be surprised if, prior to your deeper vision, you are in agony.
The planet of reckoning is wise Saturn, which rules Capricorn, which rules foundations.
As the sun’s power is eclipsed, the moon’s power brightens. Revealing unconscious drives, the inner movement of the world, the energy of the water on the earth: All that is ruled by the moon.
A fascinating point about the moon: It rules need.
When does need become greed, and when does addiction take over?
When does addiction become so powerful that other beings are disregarded?
When does a sociopathic disorder begin?
For the world, this will be overwhelmingly positive. After much doublespeak, the truth – no matter what it reveals – will be a great relief. August’s last week will be an eye-opener, in every sense of the word.
Every country has its secrets, but the two most highlighted during this time will be America (higher ups coming off their pedestals) and to a lesser extent Britain (the royal family.)
Shakespeare – the greatest, Leo Jupiter – has this to say. He writes of the direct connection between the heavens, stars, nature, animals, and human beings.
I end with Carl Jung, who wrote:
There is no coming to consciousness without pain. People will do anything, no matter how absurd, to avoid facing their own soul. One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious.
For you, Crab, look deeply into your financial house. It will be forever altered. For good, and forever. What do you owe yourself?
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In the mute August afternoon
They trembled to some undertone
Of music in the silver air; Great pleasure was it to be there
Till green turned duskier and the moon
Coloured the corn-sheaves like gold hair. — August by Algernon Charles Swinburne
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