Taurus Horoscope for July 2013

This is a dynamic month for you, Taurus, one where expectations falter and inner trumps outer in significance. Being true to yourself might turn out to be more valid than success by any other measure. Since Mercury remains in retrograde through your communications sector, while you might miss the mark on keeping caught up, you are staying current within yourself, for an important meditative awareness of your issues. Partners can appear as mentors now, or else personify that critical voice reminding you of parental issues that you are more than ready to discard and move beyond. There is room for confusion and illusion as well as the excitement of finally taking significant steps toward ditching old patterns. Or you might be at least getting a better handle on them, perhaps by catching yourself in the very act of enacting them.

As the month begins, you could be feeling challenged and or limited, and yet also with a paradoxical sense of expansion in other, more purely mystical, realms. With Venus, your ruler, having recently moved into your sector of home and family concerns, and just now coming into square to the limitations and practicality of Saturn, you are perhaps fighting circumstances that hold you back from your fullest expression, while also being pulled toward more substance and focus in this important area.

Even though you are full of accrued wisdom that you would like to share, you might feel more like reaching in than reaching out. With Mercury Retrograde in your communication sector, this entire month is ideal for meditation and for journaling on where within your inner landscape you might possibly find yourself. You are on huge learning curve, and the subject matter is yourself.

All four outer planets hit your solar chart in the first week of this month, leading up to next Monday's New Moon. You might feel this as a palpable sense of tension, and also a feeling of evolutionary pressure to get on with your most important business, which is that you figure out what concrete near-future steps you might need to take, to get where you are trying to go. The first few days of July the Sun opposes Pluto in Capricorn. The first weekend of the month, on the 6th and 7th, Venus also aspects Pluto, and begins to trine Uranus. You are therefore getting a preview of the intensity that surrounds the next exact collision of the Uranus-Pluto square by the fall. This is essentially a call from the cosmos to more fully understand your changing worldview. This is vital as it continues to color your interpretation of the events that are actually playing out in your life, which you are more and more beginning to view from the standpoint of soul-purpose.

Saturn and Neptune remain in exact trine all through July, with Saturn stationing on the 7th just as Jupiter in Cancer begins to trine them both. By mid-month, the grand trine between Jupiter, Saturn and Neptune emphasize these two intense outer planet energies even more, which are located in your sectors of connection: Saturn in your relationship sector, while Neptune resides in your sector of group affiliation, friendships, and plans for the future. The way that you connect with others, especially with romantic partners, is changing in mysterious ways as you recognize a new mandate to plug into social realities that surround you, as you move ahead with the awareness of Spirit acting through you.