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This lunation chart was drawn up at the exact moment of the Sun / Moon conjunction on July 10, 2021, it gives the “general” astral trends for the coming month mainly based on the Aspects and Signs of the zodiac.
This study must be nuanced by bringing it closer to your birth chart, and to your Transits and Progressions for Forecasts.
Think, to help you, to read my interpretation article of the New moon and Full moon in houses.
Venus / Mars conjunction in Leo, a trigger factor to follow
This new moon is very “dynamic”, several forces are still very interesting to exploit, especially on the side of the transits of personal planets ! (this can form some important contrasts with the transits of the social planets in particular).
We can see that Mercury, who recently operated its retrograde motion in its Gemini domicile, is now regaining a lot of speed…
In this configuration, the other important point in my opinion is in this second decade of July, the conjunction of the planets Venus and Mars within the 2nd decan of Leo, forming a tip of a T-square with Uranus at the apex and Saturn in opposition !
All the Cross of Fixed Signs is thus particularly sensitized by this pattern (Leo, Aquarius, Taurus, Scorpio), and if therefore the Saturn / Uranus quadrature acts in the medium term, thus underlining in particular patterns of the “Security / Freedom” duality in particular (see what I evoke for the transit of Saturn in Aquarius, which insists a lot on this square), we can clearly say that these conjoint transits of Venus and Mars in the sky come to operate a form of “trigger factor” of these forces and tensions, which should not be neglected…
In the Solar Fire of Leo, and due to the intrinsic symbolism of Venusian and Martian energies, it can activate forces that are necessarily very intense, passionate, even carnal.
The affective and relational domain may have to be watched more directly with the involvement of these energies, and in particular it may involve a particular “encounter”, or certain flashbacks within the current relationship.
These are energies that can encourage “risk-taking” for example, there will be impulsiveness, impetuosity, and as much if we feel otherwise trapped, the straitjacket may shatter, as much as if someone holds out the prospect of “novelty”, it will be difficult to resist it !
We must not lose sight of the fact that this increasing square of Mars in particular brings us back to the initial conjunction that took place around the lunation of mid-January, and which formed an important triggering factor of the year, and on the Uranian wave (also on the side of social transits, Jupiter / Saturn which passed in Aquarius).
Several things to understand from that, may be for example that some of the “Uranian fruits” that may have been planted since January will already be harvested here…
Perhaps, if this Uranian wave is linked to the worldwide campaign of vaccination against coronavirus (which seems to be the most directly valid interpretation in mundane astrology), it could mark an important step in this one (as I write this, the new president of the United States, Joe Biden, is announcing 100 million vaccinations by August! Never before in the history of mankind have so many vaccines been inoculated in such a short period of time).
In any case, in this lunation, there is a kind of “in-between”, on one hand with the need to assess the results and consequences of the Uranian wave of the first half of the year, then on the other hand with the retrograde social transits, the social dynamics can be put in brackets, it will be more useful to continue on the momentum of what has been initiated in the previous months, without trying to go against the current, by piloting as well as possible on these foundations…
This lunation of July/August could also be very interesting to form a reflection or a preparation, with regard to what Jupiter has been able to awaken since mid-May by making a quick foray in its domicile Pisces! (on the side of the Neptunian emotional receptive forces)
Especially until the full moon of July 24, 2021, this may put on the table some emotions or intuitions from this period, and there may be a stronger question of “how to concretize them”, but even if all the solutions cannot be found here, there are several months to come to develop this.
For example, we can become aware that this may require various social confrontations, we may have oppositions, including from “authority figures” (the boss, the state), which may come to impose limitations, constraints, and always the same, making it clear that freedom and emancipation “must be paid for” in one way or another (Santa Claus will have taken some time off, and this may motivate disillusionment).
It may be wise to pay close attention to new laws, which could be passed on the sly (and which could concern the coronavirus), while everyone is “on vacation” and looking the other way, as usual, our democratic parliamentarians often like to take advantage of it to sweeten the pill…
In addition we see that at this phase, it’s also the beginning of the transit of the Black Moon in Gemini, which will also highlight the transit of the north node in this sign in the short term, I will have the opportunity to talk about it again in a dedicated article…