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The night side of your Horoscope is the strongest it will ever be this year. The day side is still stronger though, and thus the career and outer activities are still most important. But you can shift some attention to your home, family and emotional life – not a whole lot, but some.
June
Best Days Overall: 7, 8, 16, 17, 18, 26, 27
Most Stressful Days Overall: 3, 4, 9, 10, 24, 28, 29
Best Days for Love: 1, 3, 4, 8, 9, 10, 18, 19, 20, 27, 28, 29
Best Days for Money: 3, 4, 8, 11, 12, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 27
Best Days for Career: 7, 8, 9, 10, 16, 17, 26, 27
On one level the month ahead is very eventful. Two eclipses show change and disruption. On another level the month ahead is non-eventful as retrograde activity reaches its peak for the year. (It will reach the same peak again in September.) Overall, changes and disruptions are likely but with a delayed reaction.
The lunar eclipse of the 5th, the second of four that we will have, occurs in your 8th house and causes important financial changes for the spouse, partner or current love. It can bring encounters – generally psychological-type encounters – with death. Sometimes there are near-death kinds of experiences; sometimes there are deaths of people you know; sometimes there are dreams of death. The cosmos is urging you to confront death and get a better understanding of it. Sometimes surgery is recommended – but you seem healthy and you should get a second opinion. Siblings and sibling figures are impacted here. They can have health scares or changes in their employment. There can be dramas in the lives of neighbours too. Cars and communication equipment get tested and might need repair or replacement. It would be wise to drive more carefully, more defensively.
This eclipse is powerful because it has an impact on other planets in your chart – Mars and Venus. The effect on Venus can bring a redefinition of your self, your self-concept and the overall presentation that you make to others. This will go on for a few months. You’ll dress differently, and probably change your hairstyle and your overall image. It can bring health scares (probably no more than scares) and upheavals at work or dramas in the lives of co-workers or employees. The impact of the eclipse on Mars indicates changes in your spiritual life – in your attitudes, practice, teachings and teachers. There are shakeups in spiritual or charitable organizations that you’re involved with and dramas in the lives of gurus or spiritual guides. Take it nice and easy this eclipse period. Avoid stressful activities – there’s no need to tempt the fates.
The solar eclipse of the 21st occurs in your 3rd house and thus again affects siblings and sibling figures. It brings important financial changes and a need to redefine themselves – their image and presentation to the world. This can be the case with neighbours too. Students below college level are affected by both eclipses, and there are probably changes in educational plans or disruptions at school. Again, cars and communication equipment get tested, and it will be a good idea to drive carefully over this period.
July
Best Days Overall: 4, 5, 14, 15, 23, 24, 31
Most Stressful Days Overall: 1, 6, 7, 8, 21, 22, 27, 28
Best Days for Love: 1, 5, 6, 7, 8, 15, 16, 17, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28
Best Days for Money: 1, 4, 5, 9, 10, 14, 15, 16, 17, 19, 20, 23, 24, 27, 28, 31
Best Days for Career: 4, 6, 7, 8, 14, 24
Your siblings and sibling figures in your life, neighbours, cars and communication equipment can’t seem to catch a break. They were pounded and tested last month and it just keeps going on. Another lunar eclipse on the 5th hits these exact same areas. This month’s occurs in your 9th house. Thus it not only affects students below college level (as last month’s eclipses did) but college-level students too. There are changes in educational plans and disruptions at school. If you are involved in legal issues they will take a dramatic turn one way or another – they will move forward.
Mercury, Jupiter and Mars are marginally affected by this eclipse. Thus there can be some minor financial disruption, more change in spiritual or charitable organizations you’re involved with, more dramas in the lives of gurus and guru figures, and more psychological confrontations with death.
Saturn moves away from his stressful aspect with you on July 1. Health, which has been good all year, gets even better – and it will be still be good even after the 23rd when the Sun makes a stressful aspect with you. True, it is not one of your best health periods, but nothing serious seems to be happening there. You can enhance your health even further through arm and shoulder massage. Shoulder massage will also help the neck, which is always important for Taureans.
Finances are good this month. Venus will spend all month in your money house again. This shows your focus. By the spiritual law we get what we focus on. It also indicates gaining money from work. Your good work ethic is money in the bank. Your financial planet Mercury will spend the month in your 3rd house. This favours trading, retailing, buying and selling. It favours a good marketing and advertising strategy for whatever you are doing. Until the 12th your financial intuition is good; afterwards it needs some verification. The only financial complication – aside from the eclipse of the 5th – is Mercury’s retrograde on the 12th. Avoid making major purchases or investments after that date: try to wrap things up before then.
You are entering the midnight hour of your year, beginning on the 23rd. But this midnight hour is different to most. You’re not soundly asleep. You’re still very focused on the career and outer affairs. Figuratively speaking it is as if you sleep and then wake up, sleep and then wake. You nap and then focus on your outer life. Still, as we said last month, you can shift some energy to the home and family.
August
Best Days Overall: 1, 2, 10, 11, 19, 20, 28, 29
Most Stressful Days Overall: 3, 4, 17, 18, 23, 24, 30, 31
Best Days for Love: 2, 3, 4, 11, 15, 16, 20, 23, 24, 29
Best Days for Money: 2, 8, 11, 13, 14, 17, 18, 20, 28, 29
Best Days for Career: 1, 2, 3, 4, 10, 11, 19, 20, 28, 29, 30, 31
Planetary retrograde activity is very intense this month. From the 15th onwards half the planets are in retrograde motion. This is not quite the maximum for the year but we’re close to it. Things slow down in the world. Taurus handles this slow down better than most. You are patient by nature.
The upper half of your chart – the day side – is still stronger than the lower half. But the retrograde planets are all in the upper half of your chart. Even your career planet, Uranus, is retrograde from the 15th onwards. So you may as well focus on the home, family and your emotional wellness. Career issues will need time to resolve.
Venus has been in your money house for four months now, but on the 7th she moves into your 3rd house of communication and intellectual interests. So you are more focused on these things. You’re reading more, studying more, talking more and connecting more with others. It is a good transit for students below college level and for marketing people, PR people and retailers. Your mind is sharper now and the communication skills more enhanced.
Health is good overall but this is not one of your best health months. You will feel the difference
