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Virgo horoscope for July 2024
While this isn't a month of two halves, Mars will be making it seem that way when he makes a dramatic shift in focus on 21st July. Mars is the planet of passion and the warrior planet of the cosmos and the planet that gives us our energy and motivation, so no matter where the Sun and the other planets are, this is where our attention is likely to be drawn. With Mars spending the first three weeks of July in your sector of adventure, travel, learning and discovery, this will be fuelling a passion for adventure and a hunger for life's richer experiences. While the Sun, Venus, Mercury and Jupiter all left here in May, Mars is keeping their legacy alive.
This will make Mars' departure and return to your career sector on 21st July an abrupt change and especially as he will be meeting up with Jupiter, the planet of luck and expansion here for the first time since 2013. Until then, Jupiter is making the most of a few quiet weeks on his own, with a chance to regroup after the Sun, Venus and Mercury all left your career sector last month. It will be a month to the day between the Sun's departure from your career sector on 21st June and Mars' return on 21st July and in that time, there is a chance to settle into what Jupiter is working to make your biggest year for professional growth and expansion in over a decade before things really get busy.
Even before Mars' return Jupiter's events around 9th July to 13th July will see a partnership between forces across the income, work and career fronts tighten. Meanwhile, the Sun, Mercury and Venus have moved on and all begin the month in your friendship sector, just as Saturn and Neptune are turning retrograde in your relationship sector. Before Mercury, the planet of communication leaves on 3rd July and Venus, the planet of love on 12th July and the Sun on 22nd July they will all form a friendly aspect, making the first three weeks of the month especially good for friendship and relationship building but also for both new beginnings and the past and second chances.
Love & Romance
There is a lot of nostalgia in the air this month and this will increase when Venus, the planet of love returns to a nostalgic and reflective part of your chart on 12th July. Venus will only spend 24 days here, but this will mark the start of a nostalgic trip down love's memory lane that will end with her return to Virgo early next month. Until then, Venus will begin the month in your friendship sector, which for her is the most social and serendipitous part of your chart. Here Venus can work with the laws of attraction and synchronicity to put you in the right place at the right time, increasing the potential of serendipitous moments and/or encounters.Venus is not on her own with Mercury, the planet of communication here until 3rd July and the Sun until 22nd July. With all three forming a friendly aspect to Saturn and Neptune in your relationship sector before leaving, this will make the first three weeks of the month especially good for friendship and relationship building. Meanwhile, even before Venus returns to a nostalgic and reflective part of your chart, on both the romantic and relationship front the focus is on the past, though in the case of the latter, this is something you are still adjusting to. The dwarf planet Ceres has been in retrograde motion in your romantic sector since May, while Saturn only turned retrograde in your relationship sector on 30th June.
With Neptune still in direct motion as you move into the new month but at a standstill ahead of her retrograde turn in your relationship sector on 2nd July, the tide is just turning on the relationship front. With the Moon having just moved through late last month but before they had turned retrograde, this is something you are still adjusting to and might not get a real feel for until the Moon returns to your relationship sector from 24th July to 26th July, by which time Venus will be in a nostalgic part of your chart. Venus will still be there and her nostalgic trip down love's memory lane underway when the Moon returns to your romantic sector from 19th July to 21st July and not only comes full circle from last month's Full Moon, but a rare second Full Moon.
Business & Career
As you move into the new month things are just starting to settle down professionally and there will be reason for confidence across the income, work and career fronts. On 1st July the Sun had been gone from your career sector for just 10 days and Venus and Mercury for two weeks, something that in most years would have brought all planetary activity on the career front to an end. Instead, it was just days after the Sun returned to begin his month long visit to your career sector in May, that Jupiter returned to begin your biggest year for professional growth and expansion in over a decade. This makes the Moon's return from 3rd July to 5th July an important chance to check in.This won't be the Moon's first visit since Jupiter returned, but it will be the first while the planet of luck and expansion is on his own and when his is the only voice that your professional instincts and imagination will be picking up on. This is also when your over the horizon radar will be telling you that you are not quite ready to settle into the long haul journey that Jupiter will take you on before leaving in June 2025, though for now there will be a chance to pause. As the Moon moves through it will form a friendly aspect to Pluto in your work sector and the South Node in your income sector, companions for Jupiter and the journey ahead.
Jupiter has already moved into a friendly aspect to Pluto since returning and from 9th July to 13th July will move into a friendly aspect to the South Node, further tightening the bond across the income, work and career fronts. There will also be a growing sense of change in the air and a sense that this is drawing closer by the day. It is on 21st July, the same day that the Moon will return for its monthly visit to your work sector from 21st July to 23rd July that Mars will return to your career sector, joining the warrior planet of the cosmos here for the first time since 2013. This will bring Mars' professional passions, fighting and competitive spirit together with Jupiter's quest for professional growth and expansion and keep them together until September.
Money
While it is business as usual on both sides of the financial fence, things are becoming settled and therefore more predictable, something that is putting the power back into your own hands. Because the lunar nodes will spend the whole of 2024 in your financial sector and they are constantly policing a balance between money coming in and money going out, too much planetary activity on one side not only gets things out of balance but triggers eclipses, which we saw a few months ago. This was triggered by the Sun moving through your financial sector, but the active months on the financial front didn't end until Mars left last month.While you still have the dwarf planet Eris, the warrior princess of the cosmos and the asteroid Chiron, the planet of healing and learning in your financial sector and there is none in your income sector, helping to keep things balanced is the planetary activity on the job and career fronts. With Eris turning retrograde on 22nd July and Chiron on 27th July, the planets watching over money matters are moving into review mode while having the North Node here will ensure you also keep one eye on the road ahead. Until the Sun returns to your income sector in September and triggers another series of eclipses and the balance of power shifts to the income side of the financial fence, for the first time this year things are nicely balanced.
Stopping the planets in your financial sector from tilting the scales in their favour is the external support that income matters have, including a friendly aspect between Jupiter on the career and the South Node on the income front from 9th July to 13th July. With the Moon moving through your income sector from 12th July to 15th July, something that every four weeks can sharpen your nose for money and act as a trigger, you will be perfectly positioned to exploit this. Meanwhile, the Moon's return to your financial sector from 26th July to 28th July will ensure your financial instincts are sharp and you are emotionally and intuitively engaged as the planets there turn retrograde.