Thursday, JULY 30

Mercury opposes Jupiter this morning and forms a trine to Neptune this afternoon, boosting our desire for ideas, inspiration, or more meaning. We can miss or gloss over technical details and mundane facts and figures. We’re stretching our minds now, and this is an excellent mental exercise, but we should avoid making commitments until we’re clearer. We tend to make decisions based on our intuition, imagination, or moral sense.

The Moon spends the day in Jupiter-ruled Sagittarius, reinforcing a striving for meaning, truth, and adventure. We’re cheerful, hopeful, adaptable, and resilient.

However, with Venus forming a quincunx to Pluto tonight, we may have a hard time shaking a feeling that we’re missing something. We may be grappling with issues of power and control or jealousy. It’s a time of adjustments and re-assessments in our close personal relationships, with our spending or entertainment, or related to our social lives. Fears and jealousy can emerge, seemingly out of nowhere, and they can help us see our personal blind spots.

The void Moon occurs from 8:08 PM EDT, with the Moon’s last aspect before changing signs (an opposition to Venus), until the Moon enters Capricorn tomorrow, Friday, July 31st, at 7:58 AM EDT.