Shuistrology

Your Stars:
Remember when Barbra Streisand guaranteed us that “people who need people are the luckiest people in the world”? Well, those same sentiments might not be as applicable as usual for you this month Aries. Although these sassy summer days will be filled with people from all walks crossing your path in every which direction, you will be best advised staying stuck to yourself for many of July’s potentially sticky days. And I ain’t just talking about the weather. You are poised to encounter a wide variety of others this month. Some will be super supportive while some will rankle and raise the hairs on the back of your neck. Still others might even try to deliberately sabotage or even mislead you. With intent. Boo Hiss! But, word up and to the wise says that on any heated day you should cool off by jumping feet first into a couple of ‘c’s that will bring your temperature down while drenching you in both recognition and respect. Caution and keeping confidential communications to yourself will represent the smoothest sailing that you can find in July, especially where any conflicts are concerned. If you can manage to keep to yourself when it counts this month then you will find the only explosions on the horizon are the ones you’ll be watching on the 4th! You may want to watch the waters as well when Mercury backstrokes into overly emotional Cancer on July 3, causing contradictions and miscommunications all over the place. Hold your nose before you jump in. It stinks. And, just in case you haven’t figured it out yet, the early days of this month will be just the perfectly perfect time to keep it buttoned up. And then zip it, you know, just to be sure. It looks like you will be busy, busy, busy all month but mostly when Mars enters your 3rd House of Siblings and Communications on July 11. This follows a ‘nose to the grindstone’ Full Moon on the 7th as well as some fuzzy Neptunian energies fizzling on the 10th, so, it’s the perfect time to treat your sister (or someone who feels like one anyway) to lunch. In fact, the energies this month might portend some problems with peripheral people but promises happy and loving times with loved ones. Seek them out. They mean no harm at all and you might even find yourself strengthening some previously strained family ties. Nice. The fussy Cancer New Moon that rises on the 21st seems to only remind you what you’re still lacking in the ‘making dreams come true’ department. Don’t go there! It’s just the moon making you wacky, and, well, maybe an extra added expense or two. This too shall pass, and will. But, in the mean, keep your eyes on the prize and please keep feeding your dreams. With luck and some strategy the Sun really will come out tomorrow (or in August) and it might just be shining directly down on you. Watch for a small windfall next month. And watch your spending this one. Because you ALWAYS have a choice. Choose to concentrate on building your dreams while we’re both building your bottom line and, then, you’ll end this month right back on top. Exactly where you belong.

Your Shui:
Starting on the July 7 Full Moon and continuing for 27 consecutive days wake each morning and begin your day with this mantra: “Today’s my lucky day. A money miracle happens to me TODAY.” Repeat this both silently and aloud as much as you can during each of these days. If possible, post this same mantra on your bathroom mirror, your computer monitor, the front of a kitchen cabinet; just anywhere it’ll remind you that you are about to receive some extraordinary financial news. Expect! Believe! And, by all means get ready to receive! It’s in the stars.

Your Stars:
Turn off the text, silence the cell and ignore the emails because this month you will be hearing a calling of a different kind that will fill you with inspiration, hope and a commitment to strengthening your spirit beyond anything you’ve ever felt before. Beyond anything you’ve ever felt before. That’s right you should definitely get ready to unplug so that you can consciously reconnect with a higher calling that will now sweetly sing directly to your soul. Really this is a simply perfect month to slow the pace and embrace the peace. Ghandi style. Just when you thought there was too much static on the line to actually plug into cosmic or divine delights, July comes along to offer you true and authentic freedom from the bonds of constant worry. Honestly, I swear, your concerns are sure to shift from what’s happening on the outside to the miracles and the magic all now taking place within. This action starts as early as the very first day when your ruling planet, Uranus, goes retrograde thereby liberating your attitude and altering your limiting beliefs; the ones that say that true freedom does not lie within. Because, well, it does. The energies of these early days allow you to realize that you are always directly connected to your Higher Power and can add any amount of invisible assistance to that friends and family calling circle any time you please. This significant shift in your perceptions comes thanks, in part, to that aforementioned Uranus stall, but also attributable to an important Full Moon on the 7th that falls in your 12th House of, what else, Higher Calling. Saturn’s inspired trine to this Full Moon on that same date even aids you in finding the perfect spirit-filled practice to add to your daily life. A daily doing that will float you far away from the routine, the mundane, the grind while leaving you restored, revivified and reconnected with energies you instinctively and inherently long to embrace. Well, here they be, just ripe for your pickin’! Now all this internal action certainly doesn’t mean that you should immediately don the collar robes and get thee to Tibet. With Mercury flying through your 7th House of Partnerships on the 17th and the Sun shining inside that same space on the 22nd, you will need to strategically split your time and efforts between an active and rewarding love/social life and loving your more quiet and newly contemplative one. Don’t stay too quiet though since it does look like there could potentially be a hot and sultry new romance to totally distract you saturating your thoughts by month’s end. Bring me a higher love indeed! At least that’s what Venus transiting through your 5th House of True Love from the 4th through the 30th promises. A repeat of the profound and purpose driven May conjunction pushes planetary forces in your sign at the end of this month that will broaden your horizons and bring you an expanded vision of your expounding and more meaningful life. Will there be bumps in the road for you this month? Sure. Will you care? Uh uh. The drama of daily life diminishes as magic and mysticism takes its place. Appreciate your intuition and listen to the inner voices, they have some messages to share that are simply heavenly!

Your Shui:
The Great Sunshine Buddha method in Feng Shui is used to purify and heal the body, mind and spirit. Perfect for your energies this month. The first part of this mediation says to hold your palms and arms uplifted in the air while turning your head up to face the Sun. Now imagine the Sun singing the sacred ‘hum’ sound and swirling down, getting hotter and hotter before entering your body through your ‘third eye’. The Sun now moves quickly through your whole being bathing it with healing heat and sacred sound. It exits through the bottom of your feet leaving you feeling calm, centered and completely connected to a beneficent and blessed Higher Power. Now that’s hot.

Your Stars:
Town displays of bottle rockets might be red and glaring during this year’s 4th of July celebrations, but, other than a somewhat tense and terse first week, you should be positively exploding with enthusiasm for the majority of this month. You might also find yourself hugely excited to start charting an entirely new course for your life. But, first, before you can move forward you’ll be well advised to take a few steps back in order to release all the old stuff that’s just no longer wanted, needed or necessary. It looks to me like where you’re heading there won’t be any heavy lifting required. Unless you make it so. Don’t. Let it go. The past that is. With that messenger, Mercury, entering your sign on July 3 and then opposing Pluto on the 4th, there are bound to be some conversations early in this month that might make you a bit uncomfortable. Now is the perfect time though to share your feelings or even actually make that long awaited break. This planetary pairing leading up to the Full Moon on the 7th eclipsing your 7th House of Relationships can actually make for an energetic environment that will allow you to underscore open communications, strengthen existing ties as well as unfastening that noose that’s been hanging around your neck for way too long now. Release emotional energy that’s holding you hostage and the freedom you will feel will rival what those earlier in the month celebrations harken. But listen Gemini, with the Sun in your sign and a simply stunning and stellar New Moon eclipse happening on the 21st, you will feel like the sky’s the limit by the end of this month while making plans on exactly how to get there during the next twelve. There really is such a lot of world to see, and, although you are strongly cautioned not to travel during the first week of July, the rest of this year is going to be so trippy you just won’t believe! Review your life to date and get rid of what doesn’t and/or isn’t working. The recommit to everything that is. Once you have all that in place, pack the passport to the possible because, soon enough, not only will your spirits and your soul both be truly lifted but so will all the limitations that have been holding you back. Get ready to be able to now see far beyond your present circumstances to a world full of enchanting opportunities. Celebrating freedom has never meant more.

Your Shui:
Place a globe of the world in the ‘Fame’ area of your main floor, your bedroom and/or your office and be sure to light it somehow. Some globes come already lit from within (as do some Cancers) while others need a little more help….speaking strictly about the globe, of course. You can go and grab a small spotlight from any home-improvement place and shine it out from behind the globe. This simple but hugely empowering action step will now create and then illuminate opportunities from every corner of the…well…..globe, while also allowing you energies to achieve and enhance dreams and desires that promise to put you on a whole new part of your life’s journey. Wear comfortable shoes.

Your Stars:
The theologian William Barclay once wrote that “there are two great days in a person’s life - - the day we are born and the day we discover why.” Well, get ready Capricorn as the energies that surround several even greater days during July promise to allow you the opportunity to not only fete the birth of a nation but also to celebrate a series of personal discoveries that speak directly to your own life’s purpose. In a month were fireworks are sometimes shooting high in the sky a light bulb will go off over your own head that will serve to brighten your very existence by bringing illumination to some of the reasons that you are here now. Heavy stuff that promises to lighten your life. All these sparks start as early as the Capricorn Full Moon on July 7, a moon that positions you squarely in the spotlight. All I can really say here is that you should take full advantage and shine, baby, shine! Turn on that charm that only you have, share that information that only you know and reel ‘em all in. Like shooting fish in a barrel. Relationships also have a special glow this month, especially around that same lunar eclipse that happens on the 7th. That said, you also have Mercury the messenger whispering sweet somethings into your 7th House of Partnerships from the 3rd through the 16th, so, don’t be surprised if commitment comes calling with a big, loud ring. This current commitment turn of events could potentially be life-altering, whether happening in the bedroom or the boardroom. But you must let go of expectations. If you do, let go of expectations and outcomes that is, then there couldn’t possibly be anything to discourage, frustrate or even disappoint you. Right? Be clear about your intentions and express your feelings freely in order to find a cooperative and comfortable flow where all this action mid-month is concerned. You may even sense a familiar pattern unfolding these month, almost like some déjà days all over again since you had a pre-cursor to these purpose driven energies back in May. But, believe me, this month those elucidating energies are ramped. And ratcheted too. Listen closely to your gut instincts and intuitions and then follow your heart’s desires. They will bring you to a piece your life’s purpose and the whole kit-n-caboodle will bring you to an August that portends and then promises much more of same. Mo money. Mo love. Mo and bigger, better prospects. Patience, Cap, because the day you discover one reason you were born is about to be birthed. And as this knowing occurs it will gift you with a serene sense of idealized independence. And, well, really, is there any better month to find that freedom than this one? Nah. Happy Birthday Cap. In July.

Your Shui:
Uncovering your life’s purpose is no small feat. And, yet, here you are doing exactly that. With the help of some mighty powerful planets. And gemstones too. Malachite is a stone that is often called the “gem of transformation.” It is a beautiful green color and carries a vibration that is believed to help heal the heart of past painful experiences by absorbing and unblocking all negative energies. It allows you to break through fears surrounding all and any sort of solid relationships as well as gifts you with the qualities and characteristics of tolerance and deep, purposeful self-knowledge. Carry or wear this stone close to the skin when going through times of positive transformation so no one or nothing can get under it. Your skin that is. By month’s end, you’ll be glad to be in it. Your skin that is. It seems there are jewels to be mined all over the place this sparkling month!