Capricorn Horoscope for July 2013

The cosmic energy is right for relating, Capricorn. At the same time you are mulling over the essence of what relationship really means to you as you partake of the meditative spirit that is another hallmark of this month's energy. As you chart newer and more open paths toward a livable future, attempting to integrate strange information from the very deepest parts of your psyche, you are making a fresh start on joint solutions that include others in the mix as well as yourself. Others count with you very much right now, and can be helpful in business arrangements. You have a tightrope to walk between paying respect to the opportunities represented by honoring your partnership connections of all kinds and continuing to toe the line for fostering your own self-development.

As the month begins, you are feeling the transformational pressure on your life, either in terms of events that force you into new ways of perceiving and doing, or perhaps in more subtle ways. The last weekend of June might have been especially powerful for you in this regard, since the Quarter Moon highlighted Pluto in your identity sector, as well as Uranus in another angular sector, also emphasized by the recent Quarter Moon, which therefore represented a tiny time window of intensity on their years-long collision in square formation that so perfectly hits your solar chart. The Uranus-Pluto square that has been so strong these past few years is backing off lately, before it comes roaring back at several more exact hits over the remainder of the decade, with its next one taking place in early November.

With Uranus highlighted in your sector of home, family and tribe, the few days preceding July 1st have been more than just a bit unstable in this department as well, and full of surprising insights into issues that you perhaps thought were more or less settled. You are in a process of reconsidering the significant relationship in your life, including familial ones, and might come out the other side after month's end with some very new takes on these important connections. A sense of security that feels shaky could become solidified by taking on a more individualized definition of what your basis for psychological security truly consists of. Mercury is retrograde in your relationship sector all month long, counting the period of Mercury's retrograde shadow, indicating that July will likely be a reflective period that will allow you to mull over much of what has been happening for you lately, especially in the area of interpersonal connection.

In addition to the outer planet heaviness of Uranus and Pluto, Neptune has been very active for you these past few weeks also, and becomes a touchstone for a more spiritual basis for communication. You could find yourself adopting a mystical stance with your written and verbal output over the entire first two thirds of the month, peaking in the mid-July time frame, when Jupiter in your relationship sector come closest in combining with your ruler, Saturn, and Neptune in a grand trine formation. There is a huge focus now on key relationships in your life; how these can make for greater spiritual involvement and enhance rather than inhibit the arc of your own unique development. This is a fortunate as well as a somewhat difficult time in that regard.

With Mercury in retrograde, this is an important month for research and for realizations, and not so great for direct action. There will be time for making significant changes after the dust has settled in early August.