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As Neptune begins its annual retrograde this week, it invites us to anchor creative pursuits in the here and now with practicality. Meanwhile, Mercury enters Leo and finds itself opposite Pluto, bringing consciousness to unconscious patterns, beliefs, and narratives relating to self-expression in your weekly horoscope. At the end of the week, the new Moon helps you begin again in the emotional waters of Cancer.
Weekly Astrology for June 30-July 6
June 30 | Moon Enters Taurus
July 2 | Neptune Retrograde; Mercury Enters Leo; Moon Enters Gemini
July 3 | Mercury Opposite Pluto
July 4 | Moon Enters Cancer
July 5 | Cancer New Moon
Neptune Retrograde
Welcome to Neptune retrograde, beginning July 2, 2024, and continuing through December 7, 2024. Neptune is our planet of mysticism and inspiration. It clouds our vision so we can remember there is more than this tangible reality. It’s an entire world we can enter through imagination, poetry, and art. It’s our dreamscape.
When Neptune turns retrograde in Pisces, however, our entry to the dreamscape becomes slightly less accessible as we are instead guided to tend to the physical world—the here and now that is our existence. Neptune retrograde is a reminder that we must tend to both worlds. It allows us to see what was previously veiled, ground our dreams in the practical, and organize ourselves so that our imaginations can land in our lives.
Mercury Enters Leo
Mercury is our mind. It is our communication, thinking, and learning. It is the lens through which we perceive the world and take in information. As Mercury shifts into a new sign, the energy of our mind and thoughts shift along with it.
As the planet enters Leo on July 2, 2024, it is an invitation for self-expression. It is a space of creativity, sharing passion through our voice, and communicating the longing of our hearts. There is an invitation within this space and your weekly horoscope to see the world in a way that brings us more into life, imparts pleasure to our experience, and supports vitality in our mind. This transit, which lasts until July 25, 2024, prepares us for Leo season, which begins on July 22, 2024.
Mercury Opposite Pluto
The day after Mercury shifts into Leo, the planet comes into opposition with Pluto. Mercury represents our conscious mind while Pluto represents our underworld and our unconscious. As Mercury moves through Leo, highlighting the realm of our self-expression and vitality, Pluto creates a thread of communication between the underworld and our conscious mind.
This opposition is an attempt to bridge together polarities within ourselves—light and dark, self-expression and self-repression—and help you find spaces where they can begin working together. We all have parts of us hidden in the shadows from the world and shunned as we remain fearful of being rejected…yet rejecting ourselves through that very fear.
Consider where this divide came from. Is it our own framework of what is good and accepted or a framework we have learned? What is ready for a rewrite here? This opposition highlights polarity within us all and invites questions, presence, and healing.
Cancer New Moon
On July 5, 2024, we begin again alongside the new Moon in Cancer. Cancer is pure feeling. It is a new Moon that invites us to listen. A new Moon that invites us to feel. A new Moon that invites us to receive.
The Moon is in a constant dance between the seen and the unseen. During a new Moon, she is out of sight. As she empties and bares herself, she exists only in the unseen. Yet she still speaks to us through intuition, feeling, and sensing. With our eyes closed, our attention draws inward instead of outward.
This new Moon initiates a new chapter from this space of intuition, mystery, feeling, and deep listening. It is our opportunity to receive the inspiration, visions, desires, and clarity that can reach us when we surrender our minds for a moment. What we receive here will be the very elements upon which we build our new chapter.
Weekly Horoscopes for June 30-July 6
There is a shift this week. There is depth, creativity, play, and self-expression. And there is questioning, reframing, and rewriting. As the new Moon begins in Cancer, create a moment in time for yourself so that you can surrender and receive. There is healing available not only under this lunation but all week.
As the planets shift in our cosmos, they simultaneously shift through our astrological charts, highlighting different areas of your human experience. Look to your weekly horoscope for your rising sign so you can begin to discern related shifts and invitations.
Aries Rising
How do you connect with the unseen? How do you touch the sacred? Your relationship with and understanding of the spiritual aspects of life begins to shift this week as your sense of safety in yourself and belonging in this world invite your presence and healing.
Taurus Rising
The mind has access to vast spaces. This week, your mind is moving through your emotional storehouse of memory and patterns, and opening itself to intuition and inspiration, and revealing to you truths that were previously unseen that relate to your desires.
Gemini Rising
What is it that you want for yourself? What are your long-term visions when you let yourself imagine and allow inspiration to pour through you? This week is an invitation to begin exploring the practicalities of exactly those things and witnessing what is out of place, both within and around you, as you build these dreams.
Cancer Rising
There is more of yourself waiting to fill your being in your weekly horoscope. More of your energy waiting to enter your awareness. More of you waiting to become accessible. It is through tending to your sense of safety, belonging, and vaster perspectives on life that this shift can begin to take place.
Leo Rising
There is a cracking open awaiting you so that you may reach greater depths of yourself, so that more of what is unconscious within you can become conscious, and so that more of life can begin to hold and support you on your journey. If only you surrender to it.
Virgo Rising
Clarity makes its way into your life, as if the lens through which you have been interacting with the world is shifting and revealing what has previously gone unseen. As the Moon begins again, there are inspiration and insights waiting to guide you through your feelings and intuition.
Libra Rising
How you tend to your days, your habits, and your well-being is beginning to shift. If you have been seeking clarity around your health, work, or creativity, this is the week to welcome that guidance into your awareness. As you tend to yourself in ways that you deserve, there is a shift that takes you closer to your long-term desires.
Scorpio Rising
How do you allow yourself to be seen? How do you allow yourself to express all that lives within you? There is a restructuring happening in this space that can support your bigger dreams and your understanding of—and sense of belonging in—this vast world.
Sagittarius Rising
It’s a week of inner journeying and discovery. A week of rewriting patterns, reframing memories, and reconsidering past experiences. As Mercury and Pluto bring transformation to your mind, the new Moon creates opportunity in your psyche for integration and completeness.
Capricorn Rising
There is a restructuring happening within your mind, a clarifying of your perspectives and a sharpness of your sight. Find safety in your body. The more you allow yourself to anchor into your own being as a result of your weekly horoscope, the more open you can be to all that is revealing itself.
Aquarius Rising
There is information coming that desires to shift your sense of identity—to crack it open and create more space for transformation. Neptune begins a shift in the way that you relate to tangible security and money, while the Moon this week speaks through your body. The more anchored you are in yourself, the more you will hear.
Pisces Rising
As both Saturn and Neptune retrograde in your sign through the remainder of the year, allow your sense of self, identity, and world understanding begin to shift with them. Boundaries, practical steps, and devotion to your desires and creative self-expression are calling your name.
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