Hello, everyone.
This week is not as heavy as the last couple weeks, although it has enough sparks to keep us on our toes. We have a Full Moon and just two other major aspects, but one of them is MAJOR.
Full Moon in Capricorn
This week we go up and over the top with the Full Moon early Friday morning (MDT). Spend the first few days of the week adjusting and refining your current projects through input from others: cast a wide net and let people’s opinions inform your final touches. Then you’ll be fully ready to display the best of your work. With the Full Moon in Capricorn, bring your project home with a proficient presentation. Display your mastery and let others know you’re serious about the outcome. Systems, structure, and your own sense of authority will impress people this week.
Mercury sextile Mars
Two other aspects highlight the week. On Monday, Mercury in Leo sextiles Mars in Gemini. The Mercury in us is always thinking, communicating, analyzing, and problem solving. The Mars energy is always asserting, initiating, and competing. When these two get together, and when they get along as they do with the sextile aspect, it spells rapid progress. Ideas will start to take on a life of their own, and if they do, you should go with it. You’ll be able to synthesize data from different sources and know just how to put the information to good use.
A comment on Mercury in Leo: If your sales team gets a little flamboyant, let them. Just remind them that the customer is the star.
Venus square Saturn
The other important aspect this week is Venus in Cancer squaring Saturn in Libra. Usually squares can be quite challenging; they depict energy moving in two different directions, producing conflicts or “horns of dilemmas.” The Encarta Dictionary defines a dilemma in this way: a situation in which somebody must choose one of two or more unsatisfactory alternatives. That’s a pretty good description of the square aspect. In this case, there is the possibility of ultimate resolution as Saturn is in the sign ruled by Venus. With some hard work, there could be a compromise.
Actually, we’ve been dancing to this music for the last year. Venus last conjoined Saturn in Libra last August, and throughout the year we’ve been meeting challenge after challenge and opportunity after opportunity to find the point of harmony between these two. Venus represents the part of us that wants to secure material stability and establish harmonious relationships, cooperation, and collaboration. Saturn wants to achieve, succeed, control, and master. With Saturn in Libra, we strive for success through alliances, mediation, diplomacy, and public relations. All year we’ve been perfecting the art of collaboration and partnership.
This week could bring our interpersonal and professional relationships to some kind of crisis point. There could be an ideological parting of the ways. You may have to let something go. If so, try to do it diplomatically and kindly, and bring as much nurturing and protection that you can into the matter. That could ease an otherwise difficult transition. But keep in mind the prospect for harmony; with a possibly painful concession, you could still find reconciliation.
That’s all for the week. Have a good one.
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For an overview of the month, see Astro4Business Month Ahead – July 2011
To read more about the business descriptions of the planets mentioned today, see
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