Astrological Insights for July 8 - 14, 2024
Hidden Love and Deep Desires
I thought to first share some updates and offerings with you. Scroll down to find the astrological reflections for this week.
Updates + Offerings
Stellar Access
I’ve recently created a new offering, called Stellar Access, which weaves together astrology and family constellations to help you clarify and create a pathway to manifest your intentions including shape-shifting patterns that have kept you stuck. Want to see if Stellar Access is for you? Read more about it here, and then schedule a free discovery session and we can explore, through the lens of your astrology chart, how my dedicated guidance can best support you.
Seattle Sessions
I’ll be back in Seattle in a few weeks and have opened up my calendar for in-person sessions while I’m there. If you’d like to schedule one—whether an astrology or family constellation session—send me a note. Oh, if you’re not in Seattle, don’t worry; I’m still doing my sessions via Zoom while I’m there. (For more on family constellations, see this discussion I had with astrologer Megan Skinner on this facet of my work.)
Seattle Classes
I’m doing an astrology and jewelry-making workshop at WEND in West Seattle that focuses on how your astrology chart can help you better understand what you need, appreciate, and desire when it comes to partnerships and alliances. (July 28, see here for more information.)
Altars are small sacred spaces that you create that are not only beautiful and magical but can also be expressions of your personal creativity. After finding them to be so personally powerful in helping me manifest intentions, work with new moon energies, and more, I’m excited to teach a class about them next month at fruitsuper in Pioneer Square (August 7, see here for more information.)
Astrological Reflections for the Week
As the week begins, we may find ourselves connecting to more possibilities for accessing important information and getting our message across. Some of this could arise through new friends and/or letting yourself be surprised by what a trusted ally shares, something you hadn’t anticipated. In addition, staying flexible with social plans may reduce stress and open up opportunities that previous arrangements didn’t offer.
If you’ve listened to July’s episode of So Divine!, the podcast I co-host with Megan Skinner, you know that this month features three planets shifting into shimmery Leo. You’ll remember that as they do, they make an almost-immediate opposition to break-it-down Pluto in Aquarius. Messenger Mercury kicked this special planetary parade last week, inviting us to take conversations a bit deeper while also unveiling facts and figures, thoughts and ideas, that may have been previously shrouded.
When Leo season begins on July 22, and the Sun shifts into this sovereign sign, it has its turn to oppose the planet of transformation. And with that, we may find ourselves digging deep down to see how our ego stands in the way of letting ourselves shine our unique light.
And between Mercury and the Sun having Pluto in their sights, this week it’s Venus’ turn. On Thursday, the love planet enters Leo and then it directly opposes Pluto the next day.
What may this reflect?
It’s a moment to dig deep and see how to take your relationships to the next level. We may find ourselves less able to just give our partners a pass, feeling compelled to really want the core of our connection to be deep, truthful, and passionate.
A clarion call for honesty may take center stage. Any burying-the-head-in-the-sand strategy we’ve been employing may just seem to run out of steam as we find ourselves compelled to deal with feelings we’d been avoiding, whether about a friend, our finances, and/or how we’ve defined what it means to live a rich life.
Get clear about your values, as well as your value. Dig deep within to harness your inner power and to purge whatever it is—including personal narratives—that get in your way of owning your richness and your worth.
There may be peaks of intensity as we open to that which has been out of sight, perhaps even including buried feelings such as jealousy, grief, fear, and anger. Find windows that allow you go to deep within while opening to and embracing yourself should it seem as if things feel especially eruptive or explosive.
We could very well connect into energy that wants to be released, and movements that want to occur, that can shake us up since they seem to shake us out of well-etched patterns. That’s because also on the day of the Venus/Pluto Opposition, we have a Mars/Uranus Conjunction.
Combine action-oriented Mars with rebellious Uranus and it seems important to heed the invitation to be surprised, to be open to occurrences we hadn’t anticipated, and to keep an open mind when it comes to the best way to get from point A to point B. Remember that pivots and detours that put you on a new route, taking you out of a rote stance, may be rattling in the moment but can open up your viewpoint to a larger landscape of possibilities.
Heed the call for innovation, move around the literal or proverbial furniture, and see what changes are being beckoned. That said, be on the lookout for the potential for bursts of anger or frustration that you may not have anticipated. (And sidestep situations if you feel that they will be too agitating for you.)
Dig deep, be open-minded, embrace adaptiveness, and release that which has reached its expiration date and no longer has the value that it once did. This feels like a way to orient to what’s being called forth via this dynamic duo of these two powerful planetary alignments.
May this week give you more access to what you love and desire.
All my best,
xxStephanie
Astrology Highlights
July 8: Mercury/Jupiter Sextile; Venus/Uranus Sextile
July 11: Sun/Saturn Trine; Venus enters Leo; Venus/Neptune Trine
July 12: Venus/Pluto Opposition; Mars/Uranus Conjunction
All days reflect Eastern Daylight Time (- 4 hours GMT)
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