Duly July....

Capricorn

Making progress? Since the month of Cancer, your opposite sign, marks the halfway point between birthdays, today’s new Moon is an apposite moment to assess whether your Grand Plan (all Capricororns have one) is on schedule. With the Sun in opposition until the 23rd, you are likely not at your most empowered – run down and in need of a holiday is more likely. Plus even a minor eclipse like today’s throws an element of uncertainty into any equation, especially one involving your beloved other half or tennis partner.

July’s is, though, a chequered planetary picture. Saturn, only now starting to inch forward (from our point of view on planet Earth) asks you to be clear about the next six months of your professional schemes, since almost all of you, and certainly January birthdays, will be feel the pressure to move up a gear and/or cope with the machinations of power-crazed bureaucrats. Those of you born around new year’s eve are those being leant on most heavily in July, and with the same birthdays also in firing line of the eclipse, it could mean quite a shake-up.

For all of you, the full Moon in your skies on the 14th and 15th should make the deal involving both job and partner/ex that much clearer. This isn’t the moment for rash decisions (not that Goats make too many of those) as emotions invariably run high with full Moons, but it does mark a high tide in your affairs, a point where you know exactly what or who you are up against.

Though there is an element of adversarial politics in these stars, there is also support and enticement. The presence of Jupiter and Venus in the relationship zones of your ‘scope is positive news for singletons, who may wish to break the ‘no rash decisions’ rule and jump into a romance. At the least you have relationship options. Those of you already in tandem are granted the opportunity to enrich your association, perhaps by pursuing a new mutual interest, via pregnancy/children, or by a romantic gesture.

The chance to make money, a subject dear to Capricorn hearts (if only because you tend to be surrogate banker round these parts), is also on the cards. The alignment between Jupiter and Pluto (both money planets) on the 7th is one signal. Mercury spending two and a half months in your resources zone is another – that the messenger planet goes backwards in August makes July the time to set affairs in place, August the time to tweak them.

Lucky Days: 4, 5, 13, 14, 24

Yucky Days: 6, 7, 20, 21, 29

Fashion Icon: Sienna Miller

Colour: Tiffany Blue

July is one of the most dramatic months of the year by far. On 1 July, the New Moon Solar eclipse in your opposite sign of Cancer amplifies relationship issues. Whatever comes to light now remains in effect for the next six months. All of the questioning and deliberation about whether to stay or go will reach a fever pitch this month, and you'll be forced to make some heavy life decisions once and for all. When Uranus goes retrograde on 9 July, expect a slowdown in your domestic world. And to add more fuel to the emotional fire, the Full Moon on 15 July is in Capricorn. This is sure to bring dramatic closure to all unfinished business that you may have conveniently tucked away or compartmentalised. Mars activates your work sector all month long, making it difficult to remember it's summer and the living should be easy. You'll finally get a little playful reprieve at the end of the month on the New Moon in Leo on 30 July. Let this sexy New Moon set the tone for an amazing August and fabulous fall.

Your July Monthly Forecast: Most of us are good at talking. Few of us, though, are quite so skilled in the art of listening. There are times when we simply cannot hear what we are being told. We are too wrapped-up in our emotions and opinions - our passions and our prejudices. When, though, we can find some way to go beyond these, and to pay close attention to the people near us, we can make the most amazing and potentially profitable discoveries. In July, someone wants to let you know something. Ask the universe for what you want and you could actually get it.