Heavens Above
Celestial Indications for JULY 2004

By Jani Allan

Aries
March 21 - April 19

You are a vital sign ruled by adrenaline Pooh-Bah Mars. With Mercury and Mars in your house of fun, you need a dramatic change of pace. Introduce some spontaneity and creativity into your life.

With Saturn and Chiron in your home and career environment, even your, warrior spirit that you are, want to run for cover! Could you be feeling threatened by events? Have no fear. There are merely indications of a larger situation that you will be well equipped to deal with in a year.

After the 24th the Aga saga dramas that arose in the previous couple of months can be resolved amicably. This may open the door to counseling or other forms of support from others. Solving problems is never a quick fix.

Finances may have taken a hit in the past two months, but there is a chance that Venus will swan into your life and provide you with an opportunity to at least break even, if not make money.

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Taurus
April 20 - May 20

Your questions are directional in the grandest sense. Your insights in the second week on the month are particularly intuitive. Dust off old plans, revise them and set them in motion.

While keeping on with you regular routines, keep a private diary of what precisely is causing these almost daily disruptions.

By the end of the month, the financial situation with a partner will be cleared, if not healed. Expect another 18 months before your books are balanced. Remember, as Dr Phil is fond of saying ‘Money problems are not caused by money.’ Sort out the problem and the chances are the money is not the real issue – it could be control, malice, and envy – pick any of the deadly sins…

Around the 8th or the 9th listen to your heart. If big changes are needed, embark on them with a joyous confidence. Around July 24 you’ll get a clearer picture of what your finances and these changes are likely to effect in your life for the next 18 months.

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Gemini
May 21 - June 20

Chiron and Saturn – the Hinge and Bracket, so to speak, in astrological terms, will help you out, yet again, in healing and re-establishing something that your have in your lovable, scatterbrained, Gemini way been avoiding…leastways, one of the twins have avoided facing what you need to face: One more time, on July 24, the relationship issue must be sorted out for once and for all.

Accept the support of family and friends before the 25th. You will be best served in calling in the troops for a meeting before you put your plans into action.
Your friends and family are the building blocks in putting a new way of life together. No matter how small, there has been a transformation in your thinking in the past few months, you may find yourself relating to people differently,

Relating to different people too…

Saturn remains in your second house – personal finance is spotlighted. But – there is always a ‘but’ where Saturn is concerned – you are asked to do some solid work.

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Cancer
June 21 - July 22)

Now that Venus is back to its normal pattern, your life will return to some kind of normalcy. Chiron and Saturn, like a pair of hospital matrons, strict and stern but with your healing uppermost in their minds, begin dancing a duo around the mid-month.

Could be that you are being helped in some way to work out a new financial balance. Around the third week of the month that old relationship problem challenges you again. Regular readers of horoscope columns know that a ‘challenge’ is a euphemism for a lesson you are simply not learning…

Be ruthlessly honest with yourself - what inoculation have you had that hasn’t taken?

Your social life will expand in every direction. The key is to refrain from taking on anything that you are not yet ready to do, not matter what others expect. Mind you aren’t tempted to poke your proboscis into other people’s problems even after you have agreed to leave it alone.

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Leo
July 23 - Aug 22

You are intuiting the first clues to a process of healing that you’ll be involved with for the next nine months.

The triumvirate of the Sun, Saturn and Chiron, is a fabulous prescription for healing. In your case it may be physical or psychological, since 6th and 12th house are indicated.

Possibly you may become ‘coincidentally’ aware of a new therapy or approach, just as a new symptom appears. Be aware of this around the second week in the July. Whenever Chiron is involved, you should look at the link between your emotional situations. It will manifest in physical ways that are uncanny. Get hold of Louise Hay’s book! There may be an emotional explanation for your chronic backache.

July 24 brings the last contact involving the Venus-related events of the past two months. Spend some time on your own and learn to be comfortable with yourself.

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Virgo
Aug 23 - Sept 22

Saturn is touched off by the Sun on July 8th. Then is connects with Chiron on the 15th to create this planet’s culmination.

Translated into New Hope Speak, you are in the middle of dynamic change in your social and creative life. The changes are ultimately healing.

You will be feeling like a damp dishrag – who can live in the jungles of Bucks country without wilting in the humidity, so you need to take especial care of yourself. You may have to seek the help of an alternative health practitioner. You need more starch in your spine in order to turn over the new page of your life.
The opportunities that you have been developing over the past few months are moving forward as Jupiter moves into the last phase of its cycle. New ventures will have twelve years to grow, mature and bear fruit.

Focus on the possibilities that fire you up – you may start bonfires in all the right places.

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Libra
Sept 23 - Oct 22

The emphasis this month is shifting to career and family concerns.

In the second week of July, on-going challenges in your home-life will collide with the demands of career and your path to achievement. Relationship and educational issues will resurge around the 24th.

While you are needed both at home and at work you must seek a balance as to which way the scales will tip.

Don’t be anxious, Libra. You have so much tact and charm you could sell it by the pound. When the planets release tension, it is as well do the same. Take a real vacation – not one of those rushed weekend jobs. Go to a spa.

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Scorpio
Oct 23 - Nov 21

Tensions may have eased but these are issues still brewing as Venus sets to make on final challenging contact on July 24. In the second week of July, what could be called the astrological third triumvirate – Sun, Saturn and Chiron – occur in your 3rd and 9th solar houses. Education, paperwork, communication and legal affairs are top billing issues.

Although disagreements are put to rest, there may be a long-standing issue that has not yet been resolved. This may take a year and half before you reach clarity and overcome. You have all the determination and insight to stay in touch with the process and keep the flame of change burning.

Someone else has, for the most part of your life, controlled your finances. That phase is drawing to a close. It is time to assume a proactive plan. Take control over your financial future. You have savvy more than most to do it.

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Sagittarius
Nov 22 - Dec 21

Health matters may have been bothering you for a while. If you’ve been thinking about cosmetic surgery, or an acupuncture course, now is the time to do it.
On July 1, one last Venus contact will bring a relationship matter to completion. For better or for worse, the emotional roller coaster ride has come to an end. Move on with confidence. One of your best qualities is that you are never one to bear grudges or indulge in recrimination sessions.

In the second week of the month, Saturn and Chiron will usher in a new awareness of how to work with income and expenses to create a more sanguine financial future for yourself. Life is not a set of finite limitations but a world of possibilities.

As Saturn starts a new cycle its important to remember that opportunity has always frequented that tailor which dresses it up as hard work.

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Capricorn
Dec 22 - Jan 19

The balance of power and support in your relationships is going through a major change.

Your challenge is to learn to reach out and ask for help, as much as learning to accept it gratefully. If your partner is less available for whatever reasons, use this time to think about the way you are in the world.

What arises in the second week of the month has probably been an unacknowledged issue for years. You will find yourself focusing on it until the end of 2005,

After the 24th the situation that has been disrupting your daily routine and possibly your health, will recede. Always the cautious one, this is the time to embrace the unexpected, as Deepak Chopra advises. Take care that you don’t have your hair in metaphorical curlers - and don’t be tardy in opening the door when Mr. Opportunity Jupiter comes knocking!

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Aquarius
Jan 20 - Feb 18

A new cycle has started and an old one has run its course.

You are perfectly poised to gain a new perspective on how to manage the next phase of your life. Around the 8th you have a chance to refocus your plans for optimum health and productivity. Chiron reaches its culmination in the second week of the month offering you a chance to heal your deepest wounds. Only by healing yourself can you heal others.

Chiron, as you know, was the wisest of the Centaurs. His lesson is that health is far more profound than merely physical. There is an element of giving back, of offering healing in order to heal yourself. Perhaps it is a long-term project or commitment, because this is a function of Saturn’s yearlong interaction in the area of your solar chart.

You have been able to avoid dwelling on financial matters for a couple of months, but now its time to firm up your plans this month. If you want until next month you will be more limited in how they are accomplished.

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Pisces
February 19 – March 20

Health is a prominent concern this month. If you have been running yourself ragged in the past few months, you may find it difficult to shake off that cold or get rid of that nagging muscle ache. Your body is the most reliable indicator of psychic health, so listen to those aches and pains.

Everyone has knees, but no one needs to hear from them!

You have been dealing very tactfully with personal difficulties and your focus has returned to the home front. Don’t despair – mending things make take a little time. After July 24 you will have traveled a long way along the road to Significant Other Bliss, but remember its step in the process, not the end of the road.

You may consider taking up a new hobby that will diversify your creativity. Pottery may be good. After all, look at what the Great Potter in the Sky creates out of mud!

Key roles these months are Chiron and Saturn – healing and building. They will point the way to your search for the right balance of giving and receiving in fulfilling your life’s purpose.

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