Today’s Moon:
- The Moon is in Libra.
- There is no void Moon period today.
- The Moon is waxing and in its Waxing Crescent phase.
- The New Moon occurred on July 5th in Cancer.
Retrogrades:
- Saturn is Rx, Neptune is Rx, and Pluto is Rx.
Ingresses:
- Venus spends its first full day in Leo (Venus is in Leo from July 11th to August 4th).
**Times are Eastern Daylight Time (EDT).
Daily Horoscopes/Astro Highlights for each Sign:
Aries
Venus is now transiting your solar fifth house, dear Aries, which puts you in a beautiful light. This is your sector of joy, and Venus here encourages you to express and enjoy yourself. Until August 4th, your personal appeal increases, and you find it more natural and easy to express your charm and affection. However, today, Venus opposes Pluto, and while intensity can be passionate sometimes, it can be problematic with this transit in play. Extremes are tempting, as Pluto is all-or-nothing energy. Consider that your initial reactions to stressors in your environment may be immoderate, but they can be very revealing, particularly of insecurities, fears, and even resentments. Your need for guilt-free personal enjoyment runs high with Venus in your solar fifth house now and in the coming weeks, and taking time for play can be healing. Fortunately, as the day advances, it becomes far easier to live and let live. Avoid allowing complicated friendships to take up so much of your time that you barely get to relax and enjoy yourself.Taurus
Venus is now transiting a new sector of your solar chart, dear Taurus, and your emotional orientation is shifting. Until August 4th, you’re a little more reflective with your affections, preferring to share them only when feeling completely safe and comfortable. It’s a gentle period that’s particularly beneficial for home and family matters. You might want to plump your nest or beautify and harmonize your living space. However, Venus opposes Pluto today, and it’s a complicated transit. With this influence, you can be concerned about losing a position or value in someone’s eyes, or concerns about your work can be strongly on your mind, affecting your affections. While you might need to deal with pressures from competition, you also need some peace to bring the best version of yourself to your practical affairs and responsibilities. A compromise seems your best bet! Shaking particular frustrations or worries can be challenging, but channeling your energy into repairing vulnerable areas can be helpful.Gemini
With Venus now in your solar third house for a stay until August 4th, dear Gemini, you’re thinking, talking, and analyzing your relationships or love life. It’s also a fine time to enjoy connecting or pursuing your personal interests. You can make happy and beneficial connections or enjoy learning and studying. However, Venus opposes Pluto today, and it’s a complicated aspect. It challenges you by bringing buried feelings and perhaps resentments or insecurities to a head. This aspect occurs across your communications sectors, and the discomfort it stirs can motivate you to seek new and more rewarding channels for making connections. Clashing with someone, especially over an opinion or mindset, is possible, and you might take differences of opinion more seriously than usual. Remember that attempts to over-manage your life can lead to unnecessary stress. Instead, aim to be more mindful of fears and concerns and avoid allowing them to drive your behavior.Cancer
Venus has just begun its visit, lasting until August 4th, of your resources sector, dear Cancer. This transit is helpful for money matters, even if it also seems to encourage some self-indulgence! You’re more interested in getting comfortable in the weeks ahead. It’s a good time to stabilize your love life or to enjoy steadier affections. Your powers of attraction with favors, money, and valuables are stronger. However, Venus opposes Pluto today, and it’s a hump to get over. By nature, this aspect stirs tension, perhaps just enough to get you in better touch with your fears or ambitions. Ideally, it helps uncover something vital about yourself, another person, or a circumstance. For instance, if you’ve been overly attached to someone or something, there can now be a test or turning point. If this aspect leads to questioning or examining your attachments, it may be a good exercise, but it’s best to aim for moderation.Leo
Venus has just entered your sign, dear Leo, and you’re experiencing a wonderful shift! During this cycle that lasts until August 4th, you shine as Venus enhances your natural charm and personal appeal. Indeed, you can utilize your charm and personality to get a little more from life than you usually do. It’s also a fine time to do some self-pampering. However, you must first overcome a minor obstacle in the form of a Venus-Pluto opposition today. Disagreements with someone over attachments and allegiances are possible with this transit occurring across your relationship axis. Instead, intense feelings put you in touch with what you’ve been missing. Perhaps as you get more attention from others, someone in your life feels insecure if they fear you’re drifting away. You may feel anxious about a relationship, and worries or fears reach a boiling point. For the best results now, consider ways to ease up on over-managing an area of life you fear losing. As the day advances, it becomes easier to let frustrations go.Virgo
Venus has just begun its transit of your privacy sector, dear Virgo, as it visits the sign behind yours until August 4th. This cycle is strong for enjoying some introspection, rest, anonymity, and reflection. While it can be a time of less clarity about your feelings or love life, it’s also a period of reorienting yourself, which is healing and beneficial. With Venus-related areas, such as your pleasures and loves, you’re digesting and processing things. However, a Venus opposes Pluto today, bringing some frustrations to a head. As such, a part of you can resist your need to relax or retreat so that you can heal. This transit can temporarily aggravate your fears of falling behind or letting someone else take the reins. Consider reaching a compromise for improved emotional, physical, and mental health. If you identify a tendency to obsess, micromanage, or oversee all of the details of your daily life, consider whether it’s preventing you from taking a well-deserved break.Libra
Yesterday, Venus moved into your sector of dreams, wishes, and friendship, dear Libra, and will continue visiting this area of your solar chart until August 4th. It’s a booster transit that supports your social life and its benefits, happiness goals, and a stronger sense of community. It’s also a wonderful time to appreciate friends and social activities. However, Venus opposes Pluto today, and this yearly transit reminds you to check in with your deeper needs or ambitions. Of course, this can initially feel disruptive if you’ve been out of touch. With Venus in this area of your chart, the need for easygoing connections is high, but the pull of intense relationships or projects is also substantial right now. You could feel reeled into something intense or complicated, but you may need to draw on self-control and find ways to detach enough to unwind. These experiences can prompt you to address excesses in your love life or personal world, particularly if they drain material or emotional resources. Keep in mind the importance of taking responsibility for your social commitments and not allowing them to become limiting or burdensome.Scorpio
Yesterday, Venus moved to the top of your solar chart, dear Scorpio, and it will continue to transit your sector of reputation and responsibility until August 4th. This transit reminds you of the need to smooth over your relationships with those in authority, with the people you work with, or with the public. It’s also a good cycle for enjoying putting in the work, attending to your duties, or making long-term goals and plans. Venus brings out your charm, warmth, and pleasure, especially in the more public or visible settings of your life. However, a Venus-Pluto opposition presents a minor obstacle to overcome, largely in the realm of feelings. This transit can stir fears and insecurities, but it can also reveal your hidden ambitions and desires. While you’ll be taking more pleasure in your work, connections to friends, or outside responsibilities in the weeks ahead, concerns about your personal life distract you today. Complicated living conditions or personal matters could leave you feeling reticent about spreading your wings or leaving your post. However, it’s a great time to find out where you can make some compromises to improve your life. You may need to find ways to compartmentalize or cut down in some areas so you don’t unnecessarily stress yourself out.Sagittarius
Venus has just begun its harmonious transit vis a vis your sign, dear Sagittarius, as it moves through a sister Fire sign until August 4th. This warm transit can also spark your innate spirit of adventure. You’re more frank about how you’re feeling during this transit. In the weeks ahead, you’re discovering yourself, your pleasures, and your affections. A change of pace or mental refreshment may be just what you need or a key relationship needs. However, Venus forms its annual opposition to Pluto today, asking you to overcome an obstacle before pursuing these goals. It might alert you to the need to make changes, for instance, if the activities you’ve been overseeing have kept you from growing, exploring, and discovering. With Pluto in your solar third house, watch for obsessive thinking, especially since it can limit your enjoyment of new ideas, connections, and experiences. If a difference of opinion is getting to you more than usual, consider whether it’s more about a fear of change or concern that you’ve lost value in someone’s eyes. This Venus-Pluto aspect returns every once in a while to remind you that you need to leave your post occasionally without guilt! Remember, this is a time for personal growth and discovery, so don’t be afraid to step out of your comfort zone.Capricorn
Venus has just begun its transit of your solar eighth house, dear Capricorn, where it will visit until August 4th. Venus brings light, warmth, love, and compromise to this hidden, intimate, deep, and psychological area of your solar chart in the weeks ahead. You might thoroughly enjoy exploring your deeper desires or a special, exclusive relationship during this cycle. It’s also a fine time for investigating, researching, analyzing, and pouring yourself into a passion project or special connection. It’s a great time to attract support or iron out power imbalances in a relationship. Today, however, all of this is initially challenging. Venus opposes Pluto, triggering worries or concerns. If you’ve held on too tightly to people, situations, and things, this transit can bring the issue to a head. It can reveal where you’ve been holding back or avoiding engaging emotionally. Aim to identify areas where you may act compulsively or possessively and pledge to release some control. This transit can pull up deep feelings, which might lead to a powerful reveal or epiphany.Aquarius
Venus has just moved into your opposite sign, dear Aquarius, where it will visit until August 4th. This cycle is wonderful for harmonizing, negotiating, balancing, and moderating your life and boosting your relationships. You might seek feedback, and it’s generally coming to you in pretty packages! People are on your side now. Your inclination now is to make peace with others, and you can be quite approachable and attractive. It’s also a period of more joy experienced through others. However, Venus quickly opposes Pluto in the first half of today, and worries and concerns can move in. The tendency with this aspect is to insist on “all or nothing” when you would be better off meeting someone halfway. It may be best to avoid extremes, as stubbornness or unwillingness to budge can prevent you from enjoying, learning, mediating, and improving. It may be better for you to welcome more rewarding, self-empowering, and positive activities into your life instead of laser-focusing on what seems wrong. This is not about glossing things over but rather taking a wait-and-see approach rather than jumping to conclusions.Pisces
Venus has just begun its transit of your solar sixth house, dear Pisces, and while it’s a rather hidden and nonglamorous transit for Venus, it’s a great time to find things to love about your work, routine, and daily affairs. Until August 4th, you’re in a fine cycle for bringing more balance to your physical wellness routines, rounding out your habits, and finding more joy in the details of your everyday affairs. It’s a great time to boost relationships with people you share your day with, such as co-workers. There can be distinct benefits in your work, service, or health. Cooperation and sharing can figure strongly and successfully. Today, Venus opposes Pluto, presenting a minor obstacle or brewing up tension. It can be difficult to acknowledge or understand some of your feelings as they seem to emerge out of nowhere. This is the nature of Pluto transiting your hidden sector–it tends to pull up various unprocessed desires, fears, and resentments. There is joy to discover in your daily life, and it’s best to avoid allowing insecurities to get in the way of this process. Fortunately, whatever touches a nerve today can reveal or alert you to something you’ve avoided or buried.* Remember to read horoscopes for your Ascendant sign and Sun sign. If you don’t know your Ascendant sign (and you know your birth time), you can look it up here.
Astrology of Today – The Details:
If you’re astrologically inclined and interested in the details of the Astrology of today, here are some of the factors considered in the forecasts:
Planet Color Key: The longer the bar, the slower the aspecting planet, and the longer the duration of the planet’s transit.
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