AstroForecast July 2005

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.

Friday July 1st is an inharmonious contact of the Sun with Jupiter that can witness excessive and exaggerating behaviors as well as overboard tendencies. Intemperate flare-ups along with hypocritical and double standard behaviors can happen. Domineering behaviors coupled with negative judgmental behaviors and negative opinions can also occur.

Saturday the 2nd is a harmonious contact of the Sun with Uranus that can facilitate breakthroughs especially with insightful perspectives with future trends. Everyone has equal opportunity to connect with one’s own inner genius. Priorities can be centralized and greatly focused for success later.

Monday July 4th is the annual Aphelion (farthest distance of a planet to the Sun) of Earth late in the evening. This Earth Aphelion is strongly associated with what could be strife involving legal, judicial and jurisdictional matters. As long as political polity can withhold extremist positions and extend political compromise civility will reign. Polarization will offer nothing in return.

This same Monday is the Pre-Shadow Point of Mercury, which refers to this July date’s degree position that will be the degree position of this planet’s direct station next August 15, 2005. These two dates can correspond to one another. This Pre-Shadow Point of Mercury is associated with international diplomacy, the judicial branch of government, exports/imports, international trade and commerce as well as universities and colleges. Keywords associated with this degree position of Mercury are: The divine breath is now infusing those individuals with the creative force to propel humanity into a new level of manifestation, privately and publicly. Remember that this divine breath is to imbue you with the gift of being quintessentially yourself and abound in it. The drawback is the willful or unintelligent distortion of reality. Suffering and self-knowledge. All comes easy; nothing comes easy - the riddle of destiny.

Wednesday the 6th at 7:03am 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. This Cancer New Moon can strongly identify with the daily practice of meditation, contemplation, visualization, affirmation and prayer. Individual spiritual progress can tend to be more successful. Those individuals who’ve considered hypnotherapy can now take positive steps of using this therapy for self-help. Keywords associated with this Cancer lunation are: Many individuals are ready to address karmic debts from the deep past whether the current lifetime or previous ones. The soul is helpful in regards to deep emotional cleansing especially related to the collective unconscious memories. Atonement is a simple exercise with complex mysticism attached to it. A sense of collective tribal unity can be established.

The Astro*Carto*Graphy Map for this lunation sensitizes the following United States geographical areas: Barrow, Nome, Anchorage, Fairbanks and Juneau Alaska, Hawaii, Seattle and Spokane Washington, Pendleton and Eugene Oregon, San Francisco and Northern California, Winnemucca Nevada, Flagstaff Arizona, Boise Idaho, Salt Lake City Utah, Albuquerque New Mexico, El Paso Texas, Bismarck and Fargo North Dakota, Sioux Falls South Dakota, Omaha Nebraska, Des Moines Iowa, Kansas City and Saint Louis Missouri, Memphis Tennessee, Mississippi, Tuscaloosa Alabama, New Orleans Louisiana, Bloomington and Chicago Illinois, Wausau and Milwaukee Wisconsin, Michigan, Pittsburgh Pennsylvania, Roanoke, Norfolk and Virginia Beach Virginia, Raleigh North Carolina, Providence Rhode Island, Boston Massachusetts, Concord New Hampshire, Burlington Vermont as well as Puerto Rico.

Across the globe the following areas are sensitized: Vancouver, Fort McMurray, Winnipeg, Thunder Bay, Montreal, Labrador and Nova Scotia Canada, Chihuahua, Monterrey, Guadalajara, Mexico City and the Yucatan Peninsula Mexico, Belize, San Salvador El Salvador, Honduras, Panama, Western Cuba, the Caribbean Island of Hispaniola, Colombia, Peru, Caracas Venezuela, Georgetown Guyana, La Paz Bolivia, Santiago Chile, Buenos Aires Argentina, Manaus and Western Brazil, Birmingham and Rochester England, Toulouse, Limoges, Marseilles and Paris France, Madrid and Barcelona Spain, Milan and southern Italy, Stuttgart Germany, Copenhagen Denmark, Amsterdam the Netherlands, Brussels Belgium, Norway, Sweden, Finland, Prague the Czech Republic, Zagreb Croatia, Budapest Hungary, Poland, Minsk Belorussia, Saint Petersburg, Vladivostok and Moscow Russia, Istanbul and Ankara Turkey, Nicosia Cyprus, Morocco, Algiers Algeria, Tripoli Libya, N’djamena Chad, Niamey Niger, Mali, Burkina, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, Benin, Kinshasa Zaire, Angola, Windhoek Namibia, Cape Town South Africa, Botswana, Zimbabwe, the Sudan, Cairo Egypt, Eastern India, Beijing and Hong Kong China, Rangoon Myanmar, Thailand, Southern Japan, Manila the Philippines, Pontianak, Ujung Pandang, and Jakarta Indonesia, Ho Chi Ming City Vietnam, Port Moresby New Guinea, Perth, Richmond and Adelaide Australia as well as New Zealand.

This same Wednesday Mercury and Venus are active as well. Mercury makes a harmonious contact with Jupiter that can symbolize efforts made by any individual to promote, present and press negotiations tend to be successful. An adjustment aspect of Mercury with Uranus may have to deal with work solutions that team members can contribute inventive and insightful ideas.

Venus mimics Mercury’s aforementioned aspects so the harmonious contact with Jupiter can represent celebration, elation, effective diplomacy and sincere compromise. The adjustment aspect of Venus with Uranus can be a friend, particularly a female, who is undergoing challenges of loss of confidence, lack of healthy creative expression and feeling excluded emotionally.

Thursday the 7th is a harmonious aspect of Mars with Neptune that can represent chivalrous behaviors, active advocacy for disenfranchised members of society, the desire to strengthen the naval branch of the military as well as the acceleration of imaginative connections.

Friday the 8th is a day involving celestial adjustment aspects with the first one involving Jupiter with Uranus that symbolizes the application of thoughtful consideration for what may be emotional misery for some individuals. The second aspect is that of the Sun with Neptune that symbolizes conservative and traditional leanings run across liberal and reformist attitudes.

This same Friday is the Apogee Moon that symbolizes the ability to cultivate objectivity and impartiality with emotions/feelings. Individuals that have issues with bosses and superiors feel dejected, demoralized and denigrated.

Saturday the 9th is the conjunction of Mercury with Venus that symbolizes harmonious communications, the appreciation of a well-thought out plan, financial solutions being hammered out, fraternal and sororal bonding, thoughtful values as well as dexterous coordination of aesthetic form and function.

Monday the 11th is the opposition of Venus with Neptune that can symbolize partners on edge about feeling taken advantage of along with a sense of abandonment and neglect. These two planets were last conjunct one another February 14, 2005 so these dates can correspond to one another. This opposition aspect of these two planets is the definition and clarification period of whatever was “seeded” with the previous February date.

Tuesday the 12th is an inharmonious aspect of the Sun with Mars that can witness volatility, explosive temperament, rash acts of domination, extremely risky behaviors, fires of all types, extreme heat and drought as well as stubbornness and abrasiveness. Ego conflicts of all sorts can manifest.

This same Tuesday is the declinational shift of the Moon that symbolizes changes with meteorological, seismic and volcanic activities. A partner may feel excluded and left out. Coquettish behaviors can cause upset.

Wednesday the 13th is the first of three oppositions of Mercury with Neptune due to Mercury’s upcoming retrograde motion later this same month. The later two oppositions will occur August 2, 2005 and August 26, 2005. All three of these dates can correspond to one another. This July opposition is heavily involved with relationships, communications, financial planning, selfishness as well as fierce egotistical posturing.

Thursday the 14th is an adjustment aspect of the Sun with Pluto that symbolizes unnecessary negative emotional sensitivity that interferes with broadmindedness and tolerance. Provincialism and prudishness is confronted by urbane savoir-faire.

This same Thursday is an inharmonious contact of Pluto with the United States Sibly astrological chart’s birth Neptune. These planets were last inharmonious with one another December 23, 2004 and will make one last inharmonious contact with one another this coming October 19, 2005. All three of these dates can correspond to one another. Here is a quote from the December AstroForecast 2004 about this alignment: “In a lecture I gave at the Theosophical Society here in San Antonio this past July 2004 I focused on Neptune being the astrological ruler of oil and astrological aspects being made to the United States birth Neptune. Mention was made during that lecture of impending oil price increases especially two weeks before and after August 20, 2004 being the new benchmark prices of crude worldwide. Pluto’s inharmonious contact to this US Neptune can have several implications including the following: illegal subjugation, subversion, sabotage, terrorism, undermining and betrayal associated with all petrochemical facilities and their associations. Confusion can arise as to how to address new sources of energy whether renewable resources or carbon based materials. Massive corruption can also ignite scandals within the petrochemical industries. Abandoned prosecution of international laws applicable to oil disasters can also be prevalent. Please consider a month before and after these three dates to be significant.”

Friday the 15th is a harmonious contact of Mars with Pluto that can signify strong, resolute, determined and driven behaviors to get to the bottom of any mystery, riddle or conundrum in life. Strong sexual overtones can also be witnessed. “Only the strong will survive” is an appropriate saying for this planetary aspect.

Saturday the 16th at 7:30am is the entrance of the ringed planet Saturn into the sign of Leo for the next approximate 2 ½-year journey. The last time Saturn was in the sign of the lion was mid-September 1975 and off-and-on through late July 1978. The following individuals will be strongly sensitized with the upcoming transit of Saturn from July 2005 to July 2006: the first 11 days of Leo, Aquarius, Taurus and Scorpio. The first eleven days of Aries and Sagittarius can experience an astounding constructive time period during this July 2005 – July 2006 timeline. Saturn is usually depicted in astrology as the taskmaster that strips away the unnecessary in life, who enforces limitations and restrictions and always asks for accountability as well as responsibility. The more the individual rebels the worse the scenario becomes. Melancholy, pessimism and isolation are dysfunctional behaviors associated with this planet.

Individuals who like working with Bach flower remedies (these remedies are usually in a solution containing alcohol so individuals that cannot handle alcohol should refrain from usage of these remedies) can use Vervain to help during this passage of Saturn in the sign of Leo.

The following industries, occupations and/or individuals can be “saturnine”: the entertainment industry, individuals who deal with speculation, gold, children in general especially the first born, ailments of the heart, solar anomalies, impresarios, monarchs, mints, spinal ailments in general, amusement parks as well as jewelry to name a few. Some of these industries experience a “depression” and slump.

This same Saturday is a harmonious contact of Venus with Pluto that can represent certain individuals that are adventurous, bold and creative with profound and deep yearnings for discovery and exploration. Shared philosophies are deeply appreciated. Kindred spirits experience multiple rendezvous.

Sunday the 17th is a harmonious aspect involving Venus with Mars. These are the ancient gods of love and carnal knowledge. Romances can roar at this time. Spontaneity stimulates amorous couples. Healthy generosity is given as well as taken.

This same Sunday is the Perihelion of Mars, which is the closest approach of the red planet to our Sun. Pioneering excellence can be achieved especially the consideration of insightful alternatives and serendipitous invention.

Thursday the 21st at 5:01am is a rare second Capricorn Full Moon for the year 2005 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 Abrinael is associated with this Capricorn lunation if you want assistance. This Full Moon focuses on themes/issues of workers’ health care, pharmaceutical companies, foreign competitors, partners demanding attention, individuals who feel outcast and alienated as well as the elderly. Keywords associated with this Capricorn lunation are: As scaffolding is necessary to bring finishing touches to the exterior of a building, minor but very important small details are necessary to bring about smooth negotiations and conclusions. Penetrating insights are important to cultivate in any relationship. The individual has the capacity to see the outer shell and yet has the ability to discern the inner essence of whatever is the focus. Realize the dawn of an innermost truth that conveys life’s true meaning.

The A*C*G Map of this Capricorn Full Moon sensitizes the following US locations: Nome, Fairbanks and Anchorage Alaska, Hawaii, Bismarck and Fargo North Dakota, Pierre and Sioux Falls South Dakota, Minneapolis – Saint Paul Minnesota, Des Moines and Iowa City Iowa, Grand Island and Omaha Nebraska, Kansas City, Springfield and Saint Louis Missouri, Little Rock Arkansas, Memphis Tennessee, Mississippi, Alabama, all of Florida especially Miami, Fort Lauderdale, Tallahassee and Daytona Beach, Augusta Georgia, Charleston South Carolina, Raleigh and Winston – Salem North Carolina, Cincinnati Ohio, Grand Rapids and Marquette Michigan, Pittsburgh Pennsylvania as well as Roanoke Virginia.

Internationally the following areas are sensitized: Edmonton, Winnipeg, Fort McMurray, Dawson Creek, Yellowknife, Thunder Bay and Toronto Canada, Cuba, Jamaica, Panama, Medellín and Bogotá Colombia, Guayaquil Ecuador, La Paz Bolivia, Buenos Aires Argentina, Montevideo Uruguay, central and eastern Brazil, Surinam, Stockholm Sweden, Vienna Austria, Zagreb Croatia, Poland, Finland, the Czech and Slovak Republics, Budapest Hungary, N’djamena Chad, Bangui Central African Republic, Kinshasa Zaire, Windhoek Namibia, Cape Town and Johannesburg South Africa, Douala Cameroon, Harare Zimbabwe, Madagascar, Mogadishu Somalia, Mecca and Riyadh Saudi Arabia, San’a Yemen, Baghdad Iraq, Tbilisi Georgia, Erivan Armenia, Vladivostok Russia, Lhasa Tibet, Bhutan, Bangladesh, Beijing, Shanghai, Hong Kong and Hainan Island China, Ho Chi Minh City Vietnam, Taipei, North and South Koreas, Indonesia, Singapore, Papua New Guinea, New Zealand as well as Darwin Australia.

Besides a Full Moon on this day there is also a Perigee Moon (closest approach of the Moon to Earth) that symbolizes strong intense emotions that can come easily to the conscious surface. Due to this Perigee Moon this Capricorn Full Moon could be called a “Super Full Moon”! There will be a definite howling at the Moon this evening. This Perigee Moon is strongly associated with patriarchs of the family, executives, monarchs and celebrities.

This same Thursday is the opposition of Saturn with Chiron that emphasizes clarity and definition with national resources and fiscal policies vis à vis bankruptcy tendencies. These two heavenly bodies were last conjunct one another April 12, 1966 and the chart from then was strongly oriented to the communications and pharmaceutical industries.

Friday the 22nd at 12:41pm 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.

Friday the 22nd at 8:01pm is the entrance of Venus into Virgo for the following 28-day period. The health and nutrition industries will have a financial focus during this period of Venus' transit. Personally, value new health/diet regimens and seek out services that cater to the physical body's need and care. Massages, acupuncture, Reiki, pedicures, facials and other similar body care services are highlighted with this passage of Venus. “Health is not a condition of matter, but of mind, nor can the material senses bear reliable testimony on the subject of health” Mary Baker Eddy. Resolve budgetary issues by adhering to thriftiness, prudence and bargain hunting.

Friday the 22nd at 9:59pm is the station retrograde of Mercury is the station retrograde of Mercury launching the classic Mercury retrograde Murphy’s Law associated with snags, snafus and snits about schedules, delivery systems, transportation, mechanical breakdowns and computer viruses or dysfunctions over the next three weeks. The classic Mercury retrograde is also a time period to review, reevaluate, reanalyze or reassess documents, contracts, important signatures, learning or teaching materials, and important communications. Be sure to back up all important computer related materials before this retrograde of Mercury by at least a week. The degree position of this retrograde Mercury will be seen again on August 29, 2005, as that is when the Post-Shadow Point of Mercury is reached. These two dates can correspond to one another. Those individuals born the middle ten days of the following signs are sensitized strongly with this Mercury retrograde: Leo, Aquarius, Taurus and Scorpio. The following themes/issues are associated with this retrograde of Mercury: political martyrdom, scandals, secrecy, psychological insights, breaches of commitments, healthy focus on education, international cooperation as well as adoption agencies. This is also a critical degree position of this station of Mercury that can represent importance, relevance and significance. Keywords for this retrograde of Mercury are: Some individuals confront their own self-polarization and verify their own dysfunctional complicity. An enormous honesty ensues and fills the individual with hope and elation. The sun shines eternal overhead and saintly ways are observed.

The A*C*G Map of this Mercury retrograde sensitizes the following US geographical areas: Alaska, Hawaii, Eugene Oregon, Seattle Washington, Albuquerque, Taos and Santa Fe New Mexico, Pueblo and Denver Colorado, Cheyenne Wyoming, Pierre and Rapid City South Dakota, Bismarck North Dakota, El Paso, Austin, Dallas – Fort Worth and San Antonio Texas, Tulsa and Oklahoma City Oklahoma, Kansas City and Springfield Missouri, Des Moines and Iowa City Iowa, Wausau Wisconsin, Bay City, Saginaw, Flint and Ann Arbor Michigan, Toledo Ohio, Atlanta Georgia, Tallahassee Florida, Bangor and Caribou Maine as well as San Juan Puerto Rico.

Across the globe the following areas are sensitized: Vancouver, Winnipeg, Churchill and Thunder Bay Canada, Guadalajara and Monterrey Mexico, Cuba, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Caracas Venezuela, Asuncion Paraguay, Montevideo Uruguay, Sao Paolo, Brasilia and Manaus Brazil, Buenos Aires Argentina, Portugal, Seville Spain, the Scandinavian countries, Saint Petersburg and Moscow Russia, Kiev and Odessa Ukraine, Kishinev Moldavia, Istanbul Turkey, Rabat Morocco, Niamey Niger, Lagos Nigeria, Burkina, Benin, Cape Town and Johannesburg South Africa, Lusaka Zambia, Addis Ababa Ethiopia, Dar Es Salaam Tanzania, Mecca Saudi Arabia, Tehran Iran, Azerbaijan, Ashkhabad Turkmenistan, Western Afghanistan, Western Pakistan, Mandalay and Rangoon Myanmar, Manila the Philippines, Beijing, Shanghai and Hong Kong China, Taiwan, southern Japan, Indonesia, Port Moresby New Guinea, Perth, Adelaide, Richmond, Edmonton, and Melbourne Australia as well as New Zealand.

Saturday the 23rd several celestial aspects occur. The first is the annual opposition of the Sun with Chiron that wants to define and clarify wounds, weaknesses and vulnerabilities involving fathers, executives, creative individuals, children as well as mentors. These two heavenly bodies were conjunct one another last January 16, 2005 so these two dates can hold a lot in common with one another.

The second aspect is an adjustment aspect between Venus and Chiron that would like to address issues of financial matters in partnerships.

The third aspect is the annual conjunction of the Sun with Saturn that symbolizes patriarchy, executives, rigid identification with power and dominance, emotional coldness, adequacy/inadequacy issues as well as perseverance. This is the “seeding” time period of these two planets and they will oppose one another next January 27, 2006 so these two dates can correspond to one another.

Monday the 25th is a declinational shift of the Moon that symbolizes changes with meteorological, seismic and volcanic activities occurs on this same Tuesday. Spontaneity, entertainment, amusement, pastimes as well as hobbies do very well.

Thursday the 28th at 12:12am is the entrance of fiery Mars into earthy Taurus for an extended stay other than its usual 45-day period due to its retrograde station that begins October 1, 2005. The arousal of sensual desires and passionate earthly delights will be ignited. Whatever initiatives were begun over the last 45-days when Mars was in Aries will now be consolidated and given concrete form. This is a follow-up time period to put into action personal resources and finances to gain productive profitability. William James made an appropriate quote that plugs into this earthy action energy “The great use of a life is to spend it for something that outlasts it”. The drawback to this astrological passage of Mars in Taurus is a childish temperamentality of possessiveness that reflects the “It’s MINE!” syndrome. Be patient and considerate of other individuals’ “territoriality”.

This same Thursday is an inharmonious aspect involving Mars with Chiron that can symbolize wounds, vulnerabilities and weaknesses in the following areas: devaluation and invalidation behaviors, possessiveness, envy, greed, hoarding as well as injuries of the neck and ankles.

Sunday the 31st at 10:39pm is the re-entrance due to retrograde motion of Chiron into the sign of Capricorn for a temporary reanalysis, reevaluation and reassessment of patience, perseverance, accountability, responsibility and self-discipline to bridge gaps of the lack of any type of success.

This same Sunday is the annual opposition of Venus with Uranus that is a definition and clarification time period of partnerships, teams, priorities, financial affairs, values as well as intuitive insights. The two planets were last conjunct one another last March 4, 2005 so these two dates can correspond to one another.

Also this Sunday is an inharmonious contact of Mars with Saturn that can symbolize great impatience with monolithic individuals and structures, the eschewing of spontaneity due to a bleak outlook, stop and lurching syndromes as well as caustic disciplinary approaches that strangle the life of anything or anyone.

“Peace comes to the souls of human beings as they realize
that they are one with the universe”
Black Elk

“People are very much like the moon,
they always have a dark side that they never show to anybody”
Mark Twain