AstroForecast July 2004

by Lance Rodriguez

The month of July begins with the Sun transiting the watery sign of Cancer. Strong identification with the themes of family, home, security, patriotism, emotions, nurturance, comfort and safety is the focus of the sign of the Crab. Cancerian issues can involve insecurity, negative nationalism, moodiness, guilt, stuck-in-the-past syndrome, worry, instability, sidestepping of issues ostrich-head-in-the-sand syndrome, food issues and emotional manipulation to name a few. The governing angel of the month of July is Verchiel and the governing angel of Cancer is Muriel.

Thursday the 1st is the annual opposition of Mercury with Chiron that can symbolize the healing of wounds inflicted through breakdowns in communications. This is especially apt for involving the following individuals: brothers, sisters, aunts, uncles, cousins, nephews, nieces, social peers and neighbors. These two heavenly bodies were last conjunct one another February 1, 2004 so if some dysfunction has arisen since then this date is great for actively engaging resolutions.

Later Thursday evening is a Perigee Moon (closest approach of the Moon to Earth) that symbolizes strong intense emotions that can come easily to the conscious surface. This Perigee Moon especially intensifies the Capricorn Full Moon the following day, Friday. In other words this Capricorn lunation on the 2nd could be called a Super Full Moon. This Perigee Moon is associated with the conscious need to take action in regards to elderly mothers, grandmothers or aunts unable to live an independent life. There maybe social withdrawal involved or the withholding of love somehow.

The annual Capricorn Full Moon occurs Friday the 2nd at 6:09am that symbolizes the completion/surrender/let go phase of the Moon. All issues involving career, status, success, authority, hierarchy or issues of insecurity, instability, fear, inadequacy, pessimism, control and limitations come to the fore with this lunation. Angel Geliel is associated with this Capricorn lunation if you want assistance. This Full Moon focuses on themes/issues of health and work especially improved quality of life. Meticulous budgetary details are important to attend. Let go of feeling the victim to budgetary constraints and recognize that you are ultimately the master of discipline over budgets. Keywords associated with this Capricorn lunation are: the strikingly new and the traditionally old are face to face in an embrace of fate and destiny. Whatever impels the immediate desire to pull apart this contest must be staved as each side no matter what the convictions and affinities may be are together as an inevitability. The desire to keep these two apart is what renders everything to mediocrity. Allowing them to remain together, giving them each their due honor will encourage forms to develop according to the old and new. A monumental hybrid emerges that aids a redemptive process.

The Astro*Carto*Graphy Map of this Capricorn Full Moon for the United States affects the following areas: New Orleans and Shreveport Louisiana, Houston and Dallas Texas, Tulsa and Oklahoma City Oklahoma, Wichita Kansas, Cheyenne and Casper Wyoming, Billings, Helena and Butte Montana, Rapid City and Pierre South Dakota, Fargo North Dakota, Tuscaloosa Alabama, Saint Louis Missouri, Des Moines Iowa, Pittsburgh Pennsylvania, Roanoke Virginia, Raleigh North Carolina, Charleston South Carolina, the entire state of Florida, as well as Nome, Anchorage, Fairbanks and Juneau Alaska.

The A*C*G Map for the rest of the world sensitizes the following areas: Edmonton, Fort McMurray, Ottawa and Toronto Canada, Cancun Mexico, Havana Cuba, Port-au-Prince Haiti, Panama City Panama, Medellín and Bogotá Columbia, Quito and Guayaquil Ecuador, La Paz Bolivia, Santiago Chile, San Juan, San Francisco and Buenos Aires Argentina, Montevideo Uruguay, The Hague and Amsterdam Holland, Copenhagen Denmark, Brussels Belgium, Oslo Norway, Munich and Berlin Germany, Venice, Rome, Florence and Palermo Italy, Budapest Hungary, Stockholm Sweden, Tripoli Libya, N’djamena Chad, Bangui Central African Republic, Cape Town South Africa, Nairobi Kenya, Addis Ababa Ethiopia, Windhoek Namibia, Vladivostok Russia, Bhopal and New Delhi India, Seoul South Korea, Shanghai and Hong Kong China, Bangkok Thailand, Ho Chi Minh City Vietnam, Singapore, Pontianak and Jakarta Indonesia, as well as Brisbane and Sydney Australia.

Sunday the 4th is an adjustment aspect between Mars and Uranus that can symbolize confusing and tentative feelings create awkward actions that other individuals become upset over. Sudden delays and detours way lay the best of plans. Any type of trip whether by automobile, plane or train can become frustrated.

Mercury on this same Sunday makes an inharmonious contact to the Aries Solar Eclipse chart of April 19, 2004. Here is a brief quote from the April AstroForecast 2004 that sheds light on this Mercury alignment: “This current Aries Solar Eclipse is strongly associated with the legislative branch of government. Keywords for this Aries lunation are a provincial mindset is cracked open to reveal maggots that are delightfully playing in games of empty-headedness and gullibility. Where did we as a society go off course? Are we so caught up with “Who Wants to Be a Millionaire” trivia that debases our depth of soul and breadth of intelligence? A day of reckoning is before us all.” Problems with miscommunications, misperceptions, misunderstandings, disinformation and misinformation are now thrown in the Mercury bucket.

Monday the 5th is the annual Aphelion (farthest distance of a planet to the Sun) of Earth early in the morning. This Earth Aphelion symbolizes how the inhabitants on Earth can work on fine discernment, fine discretion and fine discrimination in regards to the stewardship of Mother Earth as Gaia, a living sentient organism containing all creatures great and small as well as humans, coupled with human civilization that strives for simple and yet elegant structures of quality. It is our collective past fears, past butchery and negative past subjugations that hold us back from acquiring a resolute heart to implement acts of compassion, charity as well as unconditional forgiveness and love.

Tuesday the 6th is an adjustment aspect between the Sun and Neptune that is a follow-up to the Earth’s Aphelion from the previous day. Before any of the collective action comes about the individual first must make it personal. How does the individual implement an act of compassion, charity as well as unconditional forgiveness and love with another? On this day implement one of these actions with a total stranger and know that you have contributed to the universal collective dharma.

Wednesday the 7th is the exact degree alignment of Saturn with the Cancer Full Moon of January 7, 2004. Here is a quote from the January AstroForecast 2004 that helps understand this Saturn conjunction: “Security involving executives, legislators and military personnel is extremely crucial as violent attempts can be made and successfully completed. Keywords associated with this Cancer lunation are a web of destiny is soon to emerge. Periods of remembrance and forgetfulness intertwine as a dance of incongruities. Deep personal emotions well up and cast out the non-nurturing, uncaring and heartless dysfunctions of humanity.” Saturn’s positive expression of securing and stabilizing a firm foundation is healthy to apply. This planet’s negative expression is to allow fear, pessimism and knee-jerk reactions to hold sway.

This same Wednesday is the inharmonious alignment of Mars to the Lunar Nodes. Anger, frustration, irritability, annoyance, aggravation and violation can occur especially with vitriolic, selfish and aggrandizing behaviors that pit one group against another group. Heightened feelings can run amok especially when overwhelming, disastrous might clobbers passive/aggressive weaknesses. An instant martyrization occurs that gathers strength in numbers and what the purveyors of apparent might and strength don’t realize is they have created a potent Hydra with many heads, each capable of growing two heads when one is cut off.

Thursday the 8th a couple of aspects occur, one involving Mercury with Uranus and the other the Sun with Saturn. The Mercury – Uranus adjustment aspect emphasizes that arrogant and self-absorbed communications bend to the urgings of unity. The Sun – Saturn conjunction is a “seeding” time period of strong identification with self-discipline, self-adequacy, self-sufficiency as well as accountability of security and stability associated with home, family and reputation/respect in society. The Sun will oppose Saturn next January 13, 2005 so what is seeded now can come to the conscious surface then.

This same Thursday is the bi-monthly ecliptic shift of the Moon that symbolizes changes with meteorological, seismic and volcanic activities. Brash, impromptu behaviors grate against the sensitivities of certain individuals in regards to privacy. Act on sudden insights or hunches that seem to come out of nowhere as they may lead to a significant revelation.

Friday the 9th an adjustment aspect between Jupiter and Neptune occurs. Last March 3, 2004 as well as October 16, 2003 were previous adjustment alignments of these two planets. Here is a quote from the March AstroForecast 2004 about it: “This planetary interaction pits practicality and perfection against idealism and utopianism. Here broad and diffuse concepts clash with precision and execution. Excessive critical politics can emerge.”

This same Friday is the inharmonious alignment of Mercury with the Lunar Nodes right on the heels of the Mars alignment with the Nodes earlier in the week. Duplicity, disinformation, fraud, theft, lies and too much black & white literalness can potentialize. Some individuals may feel jittery, nervous, anxiety-ridden, and/or mentally agitated as if something is about to happen without rhyme or reason.

Saturday is the conjunction of Mercury with Mars that symbolizes the “seeding period” of these two planets with one another. Mars’ assertive, aggressive and action orientation is applied to Mercury’s orientation of curiosity, information, details, connections and exchanges. Aggressive debates, assertive discussions and active negotiations can also emerge. These two planets will oppose one another next October 22, 2005 so these two dates may correspond to one another as well as that future date will be the conscious surfacing of what is “seeded” on this July date.

Sunday the 11th is a harmonious contact between Mercury and Venus as well as an adjustment aspect involving the Sun with Pluto. The Mercury – Venus contact is excellent for compromises in any and all negotiations, harmonious conversations as well as loving words being exchanged. The Sun – Pluto adjustment is about letting go of past emotional issues in a catharsis-like manner to help implement a new philosophy or attitude about present as well as future life.

Monday the 12th is the Sun’s inharmonious alignment to the upcoming Solar Eclipse of October 13, 2004. The strong identification of national security issues may be prominent. Agri-business interests may also be of importance. Interest rate hikes may begin to exact a toll on the booming housing market of previous months.

Tuesday the 13th is the opposition of Mercury with Neptune that brings to the conscious surface what these two planets “seeded” with one another last February 15, 2004. A lot of times these two planets intermingling with one another can cause distortion, confusion and plain old “fuzzy math” with information, facts and/or contracts. Be careful a couple of days before and after for these potential aberrations to happen. Political hype, hysteria as well as propaganda can be explosive.

Wednesday the 14th is the monthly Apogee Moon (farthest distance of the Moon to Earth) that symbolizes the ability to cultivate objective and impartial emotions/feelings. Healthy boundaries are important to maintain in regards to favors asked. Good fences help keep good neighbors.

This same Wednesday is the alignment of Mercury with the Leo Full Moon of February 6, 2004. Mercury always symbolizes dialogue, facts, details as well as information and now it brings its Detective Joe Friday approach to this Leo lunation. Here is a brief quote from the February AstroForecast 2004: “The conservation of financial resources is pitted against the greed and avarice of vested interests. Bribes, extortion, abductions and terrorism can also manifest. Keywords associated with this Leo Full Moon are all illusions are dissolved so that the spirit of the law triumphs over the letter of the law. Pretenses of power and control are shattered and exposed for the falseness they are. Grandstanding will no longer suffice, as meaningful and harmonious dialogue is necessary.”

Thursday the 15th is the annual opposition of the Sun with Chiron that symbolizes the culmination of what was “seeded” in their conjunction to one another last January 10, 2004. Themes of efficiency, streamlining, spiritual values, philanthropy and charity are defined and clarified. Issues of heavy criticism, victimization, impotency, and wounded pride can surface for healing.

Friday the 16th several Venus – Mars – Neptune contacts take place, some harmonious and one inharmonious. Venus and Mars harmonious to one another are excellent for relationships, finances and values as general agreements and effective actions take place. Mars and Neptune oppose one another on this day bringing to the conscious surface what their conjunction last May 14, 2003 was all about. Here is a brief quote from the May AstroForecast 2003 about this conjunction: “A disenfranchised segment of society may witness a dynamic, political warrior that will be like a David versus Goliath battle. This “David” will be intelligent, shrewd and cause effective.” Due to Venus’ previous retrograde motion from May 17 – June 29, 2004 a final and third harmonious contact with Neptune occurs. Previous contacts to Neptune by Venus occurred on April 21/June 12, 2004 earlier this year. Here is a quote from the April AstroForecast 2004 about this Venus – Neptune contact: “The true appreciation of spiritual growth and direction is highlighted with this aspect. An attitude of gratitude is healthy especially in functional partnerships. Inflationary tendencies involving the petrochemical, pharmaceutical and gas industries are strong. Gasoline prices can reach the highest levels yet.”

Saturday July 17th at 6:24am is the annual Cancer New Moon symbolizing the new beginnings/new initiatives phase of the Moon. Positive themes to cultivate are unconditional love, nurturance, improving family ties, foster parenthood, sympathy, homage to ancestors and genealogy. Domestic themes of feathering the nest include furnishings, décor and food preparations like canning and preserves do well with the early summer crops. Real estate and agri-business have a new focus with this New Moon. This lunation’s angel is Barbiel if you require any assistance. Keywords associated with this Cancer lunation are: in the best sense of community we all contribute our best of insights, intuitions, hunches and foresights for our mutual benefit. Since our best is what we have cultivated there is unbounded healthy deservedness that all can share in good measure. Our wisdom matures. Interestingly enough this Cancer New Moon degree position happens to also be a critical degree in astrology thus imparting significance and power to it.

The A*C*G Map lines of this Cancer lunation sensitizes the following US locations: New Orleans and Shreveport Louisiana, Houston and Fort Worth-Dallas Texas, Tulsa and Oklahoma City Oklahoma, Wichita Kansas, Cheyenne and Casper Wyoming, Billings, Helena and Butte Montana, Rapid City, Sioux Falls and Pierre South Dakota, Bismarck North Dakota, Saint Louis Missouri, all of Colorado and New Mexico, Omaha Nebraska, Kansas City, Memphis Tennessee, as well as Nome, Anchorage, Fairbanks and Juneau Alaska.

The A*C*G Map for the rest of the world sensitizes the following areas: Edmonton, Fort McMurray, Calgary and Dawson Creek Canada, Chihuahua, Mazatlan, Monterrey, Vera Cruz and the entire Yucatan Peninsula of Mexico, all of Central America especially Tegucigalpa Honduras and San Jose Costa Rica, Quito and Guayaquil Ecuador, Lima Peru, La Paz Bolivia, Santiago Chile, San Juan, San Francisco and Buenos Aires Argentina, Montevideo Uruguay, London England, Paris, Limoges and Toulouse France, Barcelona and the Balearic Islands Spain, Oslo Norway, Munich and Stuttgart Germany, Venice, Rome, Florence and Milan Italy, Dakar Senegal, Niamey and Agadez Niger, Douala Cameroon, Lagos Nigeria, Lhasa Tibet, Bhutan, Bangladesh, Calcutta India, Pakse Laos, Bangkok Thailand, Ho Chi Minh City Vietnam, Beijing and Hong Kong China, Malaysia, and Indonesia.

Saturn will align with this Cancer lunation over the following dates: September 20, 2004, December 28, 2004 and June 7, 2005 so all these dates may correspond to one another.

Earlier this same Saturday morning a harmonious contact between Mercury and Pluto occurs that symbolizes healthy communications that are profound, sincere and principled. Ethical investigations can render important documents and facts. This is an excellent aspect for fundraising for educational/collegiate programs. A prominent sports figure makes a major announcement.

Monday the 19th is an adjustment aspect involving Mercury with Chiron that is excellent for repairing wounded communications or damaged negotiations. Mars also on this day is aligned with the Leo Full Moon of February 6, 2004. Refer to the paragraph of July 14th with Mercury making the same contact to this Leo lunation. Mars stirs up action and initiative or anger and recklessness with this lunation.

Tuesday the 20th is an inharmonious aspect of Venus with Jupiter that can symbolize overindulgences, laziness, lethargy, lavishness that breaks the budget as well as over compensatory behaviors with eating binges. Over generalizations in discussions frustrates individuals who want the facts clearly delineated. Exacting anal-retentive perfectionism destroys a sense of camaraderie. Negative religious statements betray intolerances and/or hypocrisy. Weak appeasements reveal dysfunctional vacillations. Due to Venus’ recent retrograde motion this aspect was already witnessed last April 14, 2004 and June 19, 2004. This is the third and final inharmonious aspect for this year involving these two planets.

Wednesday the 21st is the Pre-Shadow Point of Mercury that refers to the degree position that Mercury stations direct on September 2, 2004 with this date in July the position by direct motion that Mercury holds. Keywords associated with this degree position are: the lasting significance of connecting with one’s inner radiance and illumination surfaces at last. Rusty old laws with no relevance to the present are due their sunset. Freedom and independence are inviolate.

This same Wednesday Jupiter aligns itself with the degree position of the Virgo Full Moon of March 6, 2004. Previously on November 26, 2004 as well as February 10, 2004 Jupiter also made an alignment with this full moon. Here is a quote from the November AstroForecast 2003 about this alignment: “Military intelligence, cost effectiveness and scandals involving shady partnerships have an impact on a national/international scale. Hypocrisy, double standards, hypercriticism, fraud, hush funds and scathing verbal attacks are other forms of fallout with this alignment”.

Thursday the 22nd at 6:50am is the entrance of the majestic Sun into its own ruled sign of Leo for the following 30 days. This is the middle month of summer and strong identification with creativity, confidence, authority, playfulness, recreation, and children is emphasized with this Solar passage in regal Leo. Negative expressions of Leo are arrogance, melodrama, false pride, stubbornness, dictatorial and authoritarian behaviors, boastfulness and self-absorption. The governing angel of Leo is Verchiel.

Earlier this same Thursday is the first inharmonious alignment of the Sun to the Aires Solar Eclipse of April 19, 2004. Refer to the previous Mercury paragraph of July 4th for further elaboration of the Sun’s alignment to this Solar Eclipse. Refer to the above written paragraph for negative associations the Sun manifests, as it is the natural ruler of the sign Leo.

This same Thursday is the second ecliptic shift of the Moon that symbolizes changes with meteorological, seismic and volcanic activities. Strange, bizarre behaviors that can be due to alcohol and/or drug inducement can strain partnerships. Pharmaceutical drug reactions can create chemical imbalances in the body as well.

Friday the 23rd is the positioning of Jupiter at a critical degree that will last until the 28th of July. Political partisanship can be very stinging with the lack of cooperation and power gridlock being rampant. Budgetary quandaries can almost be insurmountable due to financial excesses and poor excuses. Coercion is not compromise.

Sunday the 25th at 8:58am is the entrance of Mercury into its own ruled sign of Virgo for a brief stay due to its retrograde motion that will begin in early August 2004. This passage of Mercury in Virgo is excellent for meticulous analysis, evaluation and assessment of quality of life themes especially those concerning work and health. Virgo is a productive earth sign that desires to implement and apply whatever it analyzes, evaluates and assesses so that a goal is manifested through changes the individual can embrace. The following Arabic Proverb best describes this Virgo industriousness: “Ten minutes of planning can save you hours of squandered time”. Do be careful of criticism and perfectionism as this sign can be anal-retentive when in its negative expression.

This same Sunday are the contacts of Mars and Venus with Pluto. Mars has a harmonious aspect with Pluto that is excellent for activation of transformation due to new philosophies and attitudes. A can-do attitude meets a gung-ho attitude. New international military diplomacy can emerge. “What you are, the world is. And without your transformation, there can be no transformation of the world” J. Krisnamurti. Venus’ opposition with Pluto on this date is the final of three with the two previous ones on May 2nd and June 2nd, 2004. This Venus opposite Pluto is the definition/clarification period of these two planets. They were last conjunct one another last November 17, 2003. Venus rules relationships, finances and values coupled with Pluto a planet associated with sharing, merging, bonding, intimacy, investments and power; all of these areas are of strong orientation. The negative consequences and dysfunctional behaviors are associated with jealousy, control, manipulation, betrayal that can be due to procrastination, indecision, complacency, apathy, indifference and vacillation.

Tuesday the 27th is a rare repeat harmonious aspect between Venus and Mars in the same month. Please refer to the paragraph of July 16th of this AstroForecast for understanding of this planetary alignment.

Wednesday the 28th is a day for adjustments involving the Sun with Uranus and Venus with Chiron. Problems with electricity, electronics, computers, software and freakish accidents are likely with the Sun – Uranus contact. The Venus – Chiron contact can symbolize flaky, flippant and/or superficial behaviors especially within relationships can create wounds that inflict inadequacy issues. Hard to pin down financial commitments can instigate draconian measures later that will limit and restrict future options.

Thursday the 29th Mars and Chiron experience an adjustment aspect especially involving bureaucratic boondoggles. Executives and their administrations experience being caught between a rock and a hard place. Accountability is important to uphold.

This same Thursday is the inharmonious alignment of the Sun with the Lunar Nodes. The Nodes in ancient astrology had strong connotations of “fate and destiny” and modern astrology associates them with future directions and how the past can influence the present. This Nodal alignment symbolizes what is the will of the people and their priorities in regards to legislation, taxes, financial resources and hidden agenda?

Friday the 30th is a Perigee Moon (closest approach of the Moon to Earth) that symbolizes strong intense emotions that can come easily to the conscious surface. This Perigee Moon especially intensifies the Aquarius Full Moon the following day, Saturday. In other words this Aquarius lunation on the 31st could be called a Super Full Moon. This Perigee Moon is associated with how best to expand and advance self-mastery. Sustain having faith in oneself and believing in oneself as an emerging optimism is created.

Saturday the 31st at 1:05pm is the annual Aquarius Full Moon that is also a rare Blue Moon in the month of July. Full Moons symbolize the completion/surrender/let go phase of the Moon. Issues involving mental cruelty or perversity, extreme emotional detachment, rebelliousness, Teflon behaviors (nothing-will-stick-to- me!) and aloofness are emphasized for surrender. Let go of stubbornness, ineffective rebelliousness, extreme emotional detachment, anti-social behaviors and the out-in-left-field syndromes. Aziel is this lunation’s celestial angel to invoke for assistance. How to deal with any chaos, confusion, undermining behaviors with a healthy dose of diverse opinions and objective input is what will be defined and clarified. Keywords for this Aquarius lunation are: a spiritual vision nurtures strong loyalties of humanity to create a new social foundation of worldwide compassion, understanding and philanthropy. Humanity is at the precipice either to plunge deeper into chaos or bridge divergent philosophies fusing them as one vision of holistic integration of the universal love principle. Divine mercy is tender and soothing. Deflate the illusion of false ego-image. Mastery of the ego to submit to one’s true identity is sublime creation of vital force and creative expression. Ego suffering or genuine self-knowledge is the choice or not-choice of the individual.

The A*C*G Map for this Aquarius lunation sensitizes the following US locations: New Orleans Louisiana, Jackson Mississippi, Memphis and Nashville Tennessee, Bowling Green and Louisville Kentucky, Indianapolis Indiana, Lansing and Saginaw Michigan, Wausau Wisconsin, Saint Louis Missouri, San Juan Puerto Rico as well as Honolulu Hawaii.

The following world locations are sensitized: Thunder Bay Canada, the Yucatan Peninsula Mexico, Guatemala, El Salvador, Caracas Venezuela, Saint Petersburg and Moscow Russia, Vilnius Lithuania, Minsk and Brest Belorussia, Kiev Ukraine, Kishinev Moldavia, Budapest Hungary, Belgrade Yugoslavia, Tiranë Albania, Sofia Bulgaria, Bucharest Romania, Athens Greece, Sicily and the southern boot of Italy, Istanbul and Ankara Turkey, Nicosia Cyprus, Niamey and Agadez Niger, Lagos Nigeria, Cape Town South Africa, Alexandria and Cairo Egypt, Tashkent Uzbekistan, Islamabad Pakistan, all of India especially Bhopal and Hyderabad, Lhasa Tibet, Bhutan, Bangladesh, Mandalay and Rangoon Myanmar, Beijing China, Indonesia, Perth and Albany Australia as well as New Zealand.