Libra Monthly Horoscope
{Monthly Horoscopes 2023}
A horoscope guide to the month ahead for Libra Sun and Libra Ascendant.
July 2023 Horoscope: Predictions for Libra
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Overview for this Month: Libra (All)
July 2023 Monthly Horoscope Overview for Libra:
July is strong for your long-term goals, career, or reputation, dear Libra, but with Venus retrograde from the 22nd, it's better to develop current ventures and projects rather than take on new ones. Venus is your ruler, after all, and its retrograde cycles point to some need to take things easy, gain perspective, and reassess a few things in your life.
There can be more activity on the career front this month, or additional responsibilities and the need to take on a managerial role in your life can emerge. More focused or constructive activities fare the best. You are thinking about what matters and what's useful, and there's extra emphasis on your overarching, longer-term objectives.
Family matters grab your attention around the Full Moon on the 3rd. Balancing family and responsibilities to the outside world can be tricky but far from impossible. Getting more acquainted with your needs and wants can only help your decision-making.
There can be times this month when you feel everyone is looking over your shoulder. You're in higher demand, or responsibilities are in strong focus. The New Moon on the 17th brings additional power to your sector of career and reputation. It can be a time for a promotion, award, or significant turning point. You might come into the limelight somehow, or there can be the need to follow the rules or straighten out an area of your life. Others recognize your talents and abilities, but the real drive for success emanates from within, as you're incredibly motivated, ambitious, and goal-oriented this month. It's a beautiful time for taking charge and sorting problems out.
Fortunately, you can make great strides toward meeting your goals. You might frequently find yourself in situations that require you to be on top of your game, and you're in a wonderful position to impress. While you can sometimes struggle with your desire for more personal freedoms, you are inclined to keep up appearances with the rest of the world.
Still, with Mars in your privacy sector from the 10th and Venus retrograde from the 22nd, you're focusing more and more on tying up loose ends and a work-in-progress rather than brand-new beginnings. With Mars here, your inner world animates and often pulls you inward. While this is a time of reorganizing and redirection, this transit is good for recharging yourself so you can realign with your deep desires. You may need to lay to rest some plans or projects that have outgrown their purpose. Honor your needs for extra rest, meditation, privacy, and reflection.
Some complications surrounding friends and lovers are possible during the retrograde Venus cycle from July 22nd to September 3rd, but it's also possible you reconnect with a long-lost friend. Old issues are easy to dredge up, or there can be a distance between you and a buddy, just for now.
Instead, you might be doing a lot of reminiscing, or you could feel stuck or in limbo on a social level. It's important to pull back a little to gain perspective. You can view this as giving others space rather than keeping a distance, but make sure the people you care about know your intentions. Avoid, if you can, secret involvements, as attractive as they may be with so much up in the air in your life in the affections department. Let things flow and observe how things unfold with as much patience as you can muster. If the pleasure factor has been missing in your social life or with happiness goals, now is the time to recognize the problem.
On the day that Venus turns retrograde, the Sun heads into your social sector, and your social life begins taking more precedence over your professional life. You may be doing some guiding or teaching, and it's fulfilling. Even if the usual channels aren't performing as well, alternate ones can emerge, and new pleasures can be in store.
Indeed, retrograde Venus can temporarily give you some pause with current relationship matters. However, with the North Node of the Moon moving into your opposite sign for an eighteen-month cycle, you're moving toward a stronger identity and a sense of purposefulness through your connections to others. Challenges and rewards will come from pairing or partnering up. Through partnership and cooperation, you will more likely achieve the inner balance necessary to achieve your goals.
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Libra (Born September 24 to October 3) and Libra Ascendant 0 to 10 degrees Libra:
July 2023 Libra Horoscope: Love, Career, & General Trends
July 2023
The Sun this Month: Central Focus, Consciousness
Until July 22nd:
The Sun continues to put a spotlight on your solar tenth house. Satisfaction and fulfillment during this cycle come from doing your professional best, shining as a responsible and capable person, and contributing to the world in practical ways. You might have a chance to receive acknowledgement or praise for your work or good character now. Landing support from authority figures is easier at this time. Avoid the pitfalls of pride or arrogance standing in your way of success.
From July 22nd forward:
The Sun lights your solar eleventh house. The Sun illuminates your sector of friends, groups, and dreams coming true this month. It's a sociable sector of your chart, and that's exactly how you are feeling--happy, light-hearted, cosmopolitan, and social. Group affiliations capture your attention. Connections can be made now and networking pays off, or at least satisfies. Being part of a community or circle of friends and building your social network is important to you at this time.
This is a rather happy, goal-oriented cycle. A lively agenda is promised, you're attracting quite a bit of interest, and your energy for making contact with others is high. A stronger sense of community is with you during this cycle. Relationships take on a fun, if impersonal, tone now. Activities with children (especially others' children) may increase. You are more stimulated by all that is unconventional during this cycle, and your ideas are original and progressive now. This is a time to follow your dreams and ideals, and to plant a seed in the form of a wish for the future.
Venus this Month: Love, Romance, Social Life, Comfort, Pleasure
Venus is retrograde from July 22nd to September 3rd:
Venus retrograde in general: As the planet of love and values, Venus retrograde periods are periods during which we re-assess what--and who--we value. It is a period that most astrologers consider inopportune for getting married or starting a new relationship. Major financial undertakings are not advised during this period as well.
Venus retrograde cycles are good times for creating budgets and financial plans, and for re-thinking our personal relationships. Old friends and lovers may re-appear, perhaps complicating current relationships. We are called upon to deal with relationship issues from the past. Events occur that seem fated or predestined.
It can be a real challenge getting close to a lover during this period of time. Unorthodox, experimental, and non-intimate relationships may be favored. Relationships that have been especially challenging may come to an end during this cycle.
However, strong relationships will survive it, even if there are a few bumps and bruises along the way. For singles, this is a good time for "eyes wide open" or experimental dating. It is not a time when people recognize the need for another person to complete them, or some people may be questioning whether they are with partners who actually fulfill them. This period is good for re-evaluating our relationship needs; but, again, major love decisions are best saved for after the cycle ends.
This Venus Retrograde cycle occurs, for the most part, in your solar eleventh house of friendships, groups, and aspirations. Your friendships or associations with groups may be a little strained during this period--a time when you may withdraw and others might misinterpret your intentions, or when friends are distant. You may get the feeling that friends are either disinterested or insincere during this cycle.
You are ruled by Venus, and you are likely to be more withdrawn than usual, which can be a source of concern for your lover. People from the past may resurface either physically or simply coming to the forefront of your mind. You may be dealing with past karma now. Your eighth house of shared resources and intimacy is Venus-ruled as well, and you might find your intimate life leaves you wanting, and that it's hard to find emotional (and financial) support when you need it most.
Mercury this Month: Communications, Learning, Connections, Transportation
Until July 10th:
Mercury continues to transit your solar tenth house. Career matters are busy at this time, and there can be plenty of thoughts and/or conversations about your profession, your reputation, or your social standing during this cycle. It's a good time to analyze your work tasks and to streamline them or improve your skills. There may be increased contact with the public now, or you might experience an increased need to be heard and acknowledged for your intelligence, skills, capabilities, and ideas.
From July 11-28:
Mercury is transiting your solar eleventh house. Your mind is bright, alert, and active during this cycle, and you have the ability to come up with unusual and inventive ideas. Sharing your thoughts with others is a prime interest. Others tend to particularly enjoy your conversations during this transit--you are willing to listen as well as add your own thoughts.
As well, your ability to grasp unusual subject matter and to intuitively understand what others are trying to say win you some brownie points! You could also do a lot of thinking and musing about your own happiness and long-term goals.
From July 28th forward:
Your mind is focused on private matters and past issues while Mercury transits the twelfth house of your solar chart. This is a time when you are least likely to speak out of turn or to express yourself freely. You're searching behind the curtain, and examining the past for answers.
This is a good time for research, quiet contemplation, and meditation; but do avoid getting dragged down by issues that have outgrown their worth and purpose. Examining the past in order to improve the future is certainly worthwhile, as long as you don't waste your energy on guilt. Creative endeavors could prosper now, particularly those that draw upon the emotions or that require creative visualization skills, such as poetry, art, acting, and other such activities.
You are likely to require a certain amount of solitude in order to get your thoughts together or to be mentally productive. You are less likely to chat indiscriminately during this transit, and tend to be a little secretive or tight-lipped for the time being. This may be important, in fact, because this position of Mercury is sometimes associated with the uncovering of secrets, so discretion may be in order.
Mars this Month: Energy, Drive, Courage
Until the 10th:
Mars continues to activate your solar eleventh house. You take a more direct approach to realizing your dreams now, rather than simply hoping and wishing.
You might find that you have more energy and enthusiasm for spending time with others, but arguments now may be with or on behalf of friends. You can be especially effective at encouraging others now, as well as at leading or organizing a group.
From the 10th forward:
With Mars moving through your solar twelfth house, this is the time to research and reflect upon your goals. It can be a time when past actions catch up with you--and this is not necessarily a bad thing!
It could also be a time when much of your energy is channeled into private matters, or when you prefer that others not observe what you are doing. This is natural--you may just as well do your best work alone for now. Unconscious behavior patterns could influence the way you assert yourself.
Some may experience insomnia during this phase, especially if they are not allowing themselves the chance to recoup and if they are not letting their intuition serve them. Others may enjoy a more active dreaming life (this includes day-dreaming), and, if allowed to run free, the imagination can serve them very well, especially with regards to goals and new concepts.
Overview Horoscope:
July 2023 Monthly Horoscope Overview for Libra:
July is strong for your long-term goals, career, or reputation, dear Libra, but with Venus retrograde from the 22nd, it's better to develop current ventures and projects rather than take on new ones. Venus is your ruler, after all, and its retrograde cycles point to some need to take things easy, gain perspective, and reassess a few things in your life.
There can be more activity on the career front this month, or additional responsibilities and the need to take on a managerial role in your life can emerge. More focused or constructive activities fare the best. You are thinking about what matters and what's useful, and there's extra emphasis on your overarching, longer-term objectives.
Family matters grab your attention around the Full Moon on the 3rd. Balancing family and responsibilities to the outside world can be tricky but far from impossible. Getting more acquainted with your needs and wants can only help your decision-making.
There can be times this month when you feel everyone is looking over your shoulder. You're in higher demand, or responsibilities are in strong focus. The New Moon on the 17th brings additional power to your sector of career and reputation. It can be a time for a promotion, award, or significant turning point. You might come into the limelight somehow, or there can be the need to follow the rules or straighten out an area of your life. Others recognize your talents and abilities, but the real drive for success emanates from within, as you're incredibly motivated, ambitious, and goal-oriented this month. It's a beautiful time for taking charge and sorting problems out.
Fortunately, you can make great strides toward meeting your goals. You might frequently find yourself in situations that require you to be on top of your game, and you're in a wonderful position to impress. While you can sometimes struggle with your desire for more personal freedoms, you are inclined to keep up appearances with the rest of the world.
Still, with Mars in your privacy sector from the 10th and Venus retrograde from the 22nd, you're focusing more and more on tying up loose ends and a work-in-progress rather than brand-new beginnings. With Mars here, your inner world animates and often pulls you inward. While this is a time of reorganizing and redirection, this transit is good for recharging yourself so you can realign with your deep desires. You may need to lay to rest some plans or projects that have outgrown their purpose. Honor your needs for extra rest, meditation, privacy, and reflection.
Some complications surrounding friends and lovers are possible during the retrograde Venus cycle from July 22nd to September 3rd, but it's also possible you reconnect with a long-lost friend. Old issues are easy to dredge up, or there can be a distance between you and a buddy, just for now.
Instead, you might be doing a lot of reminiscing, or you could feel stuck or in limbo on a social level. It's important to pull back a little to gain perspective. You can view this as giving others space rather than keeping a distance, but make sure the people you care about know your intentions. Avoid, if you can, secret involvements, as attractive as they may be with so much up in the air in your life in the affections department. Let things flow and observe how things unfold with as much patience as you can muster. If the pleasure factor has been missing in your social life or with happiness goals, now is the time to recognize the problem.
On the day that Venus turns retrograde, the Sun heads into your social sector, and your social life begins taking more precedence over your professional life. You may be doing some guiding or teaching, and it's fulfilling. Even if the usual channels aren't performing as well, alternate ones can emerge, and new pleasures can be in store.
Indeed, retrograde Venus can temporarily give you some pause with current relationship matters. However, with the North Node of the Moon moving into your opposite sign for an eighteen-month cycle, you're moving toward a stronger identity and a sense of purposefulness through your connections to others. Challenges and rewards will come from pairing or partnering up. Through partnership and cooperation, you will more likely achieve the inner balance necessary to achieve your goals.
See our Time Line Forecast report for a personalized forecast for the year ahead.
Get your unique Personalized Horoscope for the year ahead—over 100 pages long—for a detailed guide to your best days and your most challenging days for attracting love, career success, communication, and more.
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Love & Romance Forecast Report
Love outlook for the year ahead. Try our Love & Romance Forecast report.
Romantic Compatibility Reports
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romantic compatibility reports, including the Synastry and Love Ties reports.
See also general trends for Libra in 2023 and the full 2023 Yearly Libra Horoscope.
Libra (Born October 4 to 13) and Libra Ascendant from 10 to 20 degrees Libra:
July 2023 Libra Horoscope: Love, Career, & General Trends
July 2023
The Sun this Month: Central Focus, Consciousness
All month:
The Sun illuminates your career and reputation sector. More than any other time of the year, your focus is drawn to your "place" or standing in the outer world, and your reputation. This is the time when you are more interested in, and focused on, accomplishing something important. Your competency is something that you are especially sensitive to during this cycle.
You want to shine! Your vision is practical right now, and you want to see tangible results for your efforts. More contact with authority figures is likely during this period. Recognition is likely to come your way whether you ask for it or not, and the responsibility that comes right along with it! Do what you feel is right, keeping in mind that you are at your most visible during this period in the year.
Venus this Month: Love, Romance, Social Life, Comfort
Venus is retrograde from July 22nd to September 3rd:
Venus retrograde in general: As the planet of love and values, Venus retrograde periods are periods during which we re-assess what--and who--we value. It is a period that most astrologers consider inopportune for getting married or starting a new relationship. Major financial undertakings are not advised during this period as well.
Venus retrograde cycles are good times for creating budgets and financial plans, and for re-thinking our personal relationships. Old friends and lovers may re-appear, perhaps complicating current relationships. We are called upon to deal with relationship issues from the past. Events occur that seem fated or predestined.
It can be a real challenge getting close to a lover during this period of time. Unorthodox, experimental, and non-intimate relationships may be favored. Relationships that have been especially challenging may come to an end during this cycle.
However, strong relationships will survive it, even if there are a few bumps and bruises along the way. For singles, this is a good time for "eyes wide open" or experimental dating. It is not a time when people recognize the need for another person to complete them, or some people may be questioning whether they are with partners who actually fulfill them. This period is good for re-evaluating our relationship needs; but, again, major love decisions are best saved for after the cycle ends.
This Venus Retrograde cycle occurs, for the most part, in your solar eleventh house of friendships, groups, and aspirations. Your friendships or associations with groups may be a little strained during this period--a time when you may withdraw and others might misinterpret your intentions, or when friends are distant. You may get the feeling that friends are either disinterested or insincere during this cycle.
You are ruled by Venus, and you are likely to be more withdrawn than usual, which can be a source of concern for your lover. People from the past may resurface either physically or simply coming to the forefront of your mind. You may be dealing with past karma now. Your eighth house of shared resources and intimacy is Venus-ruled as well, and you might find your intimate life leaves you wanting, and that it's hard to find emotional (and financial) support when you need it most.
Mercury this Month: Communications, Learning, Connections, Transportation
From July 1-16:
Mercury transits your solar tenth house. You are likely thinking a lot about your career and business matters, or your career requires more communication than usual during this cycle. You speak with authority during this period, and you are more accountable than usual for what (and how) you communicate. Your ideas may come into public view now.
Use the power of words to influence authority figures. This is an excellent period for developing career and professional plans or strategies. You may be turned to for advice or for your opinion on important matters. Although approachable and ready to communicate, you are less inclined to chat about frivolous matters now.
You tend to think about your position or standing on a professional level more frequently during this cycle. You are likely doing some multi-tasking regarding career and business matters. Negative use of this influence would be to worry unnecessarily about your reputation and responsibilities.
From July 16th forward:
Mercury is transiting your solar eleventh house. Your mind is bright, alert, and active during this cycle, and you have the ability to come up with unusual and inventive ideas. Sharing your thoughts with others is a prime interest. Others tend to particularly enjoy your conversations during this transit--you are willing to listen as well as add your own thoughts.
As well, your ability to grasp unusual subject matter and to intuitively understand what others are trying to say win you some brownie points! You could also do a lot of thinking and musing about your own happiness and long-term goals.
Mars this Month: Energy, Drive, Courage
Until the 26th:
Mars continues to activate your solar eleventh house. You take a more direct approach to realizing your dreams now, rather than simply hoping and wishing.
You might find that you have more energy and enthusiasm for spending time with others, but arguments now may be with or on behalf of friends. You can be especially effective at encouraging others now, as well as at leading or organizing a group.
From the 27th forward:
With Mars moving through your solar twelfth house, this is the time to research and reflect upon your goals. It can be a time when past actions catch up with you--and this is not necessarily a bad thing!
It could also be a time when much of your energy is channeled into private matters, or when you prefer that others not observe what you are doing. This is natural--you may just as well do your best work alone for now. Unconscious behavior patterns could influence the way you assert yourself.
Some may experience insomnia during this phase, especially if they are not allowing themselves the chance to recoup and if they are not letting their intuition serve them. Others may enjoy a more active dreaming life (this includes day-dreaming), and, if allowed to run free, the imagination can serve them very well, especially with regards to goals and new concepts.
Overview Horoscope:
July 2023 Monthly Horoscope Overview for Libra:
July is strong for your long-term goals, career, or reputation, dear Libra, but with Venus retrograde from the 22nd, it's better to develop current ventures and projects rather than take on new ones. Venus is your ruler, after all, and its retrograde cycles point to some need to take things easy, gain perspective, and reassess a few things in your life.
There can be more activity on the career front this month, or additional responsibilities and the need to take on a managerial role in your life can emerge. More focused or constructive activities fare the best. You are thinking about what matters and what's useful, and there's extra emphasis on your overarching, longer-term objectives.
Family matters grab your attention around the Full Moon on the 3rd. Balancing family and responsibilities to the outside world can be tricky but far from impossible. Getting more acquainted with your needs and wants can only help your decision-making.
There can be times this month when you feel everyone is looking over your shoulder. You're in higher demand, or responsibilities are in strong focus. The New Moon on the 17th brings additional power to your sector of career and reputation. It can be a time for a promotion, award, or significant turning point. You might come into the limelight somehow, or there can be the need to follow the rules or straighten out an area of your life. Others recognize your talents and abilities, but the real drive for success emanates from within, as you're incredibly motivated, ambitious, and goal-oriented this month. It's a beautiful time for taking charge and sorting problems out.
Fortunately, you can make great strides toward meeting your goals. You might frequently find yourself in situations that require you to be on top of your game, and you're in a wonderful position to impress. While you can sometimes struggle with your desire for more personal freedoms, you are inclined to keep up appearances with the rest of the world.
Still, with Mars in your privacy sector from the 10th and Venus retrograde from the 22nd, you're focusing more and more on tying up loose ends and a work-in-progress rather than brand-new beginnings. With Mars here, your inner world animates and often pulls you inward. While this is a time of reorganizing and redirection, this transit is good for recharging yourself so you can realign with your deep desires. You may need to lay to rest some plans or projects that have outgrown their purpose. Honor your needs for extra rest, meditation, privacy, and reflection.
Some complications surrounding friends and lovers are possible during the retrograde Venus cycle from July 22nd to September 3rd, but it's also possible you reconnect with a long-lost friend. Old issues are easy to dredge up, or there can be a distance between you and a buddy, just for now.
Instead, you might be doing a lot of reminiscing, or you could feel stuck or in limbo on a social level. It's important to pull back a little to gain perspective. You can view this as giving others space rather than keeping a distance, but make sure the people you care about know your intentions. Avoid, if you can, secret involvements, as attractive as they may be with so much up in the air in your life in the affections department. Let things flow and observe how things unfold with as much patience as you can muster. If the pleasure factor has been missing in your social life or with happiness goals, now is the time to recognize the problem.
On the day that Venus turns retrograde, the Sun heads into your social sector, and your social life begins taking more precedence over your professional life. You may be doing some guiding or teaching, and it's fulfilling. Even if the usual channels aren't performing as well, alternate ones can emerge, and new pleasures can be in store.
Indeed, retrograde Venus can temporarily give you some pause with current relationship matters. However, with the North Node of the Moon moving into your opposite sign for an eighteen-month cycle, you're moving toward a stronger identity and a sense of purposefulness through your connections to others. Challenges and rewards will come from pairing or partnering up. Through partnership and cooperation, you will more likely achieve the inner balance necessary to achieve your goals.
See our Time Line Forecast report for a personalized forecast for the year ahead.
Get your unique Personalized Horoscope for the year ahead—over 100 pages long—for a detailed guide to your best days and your most challenging days for attracting love, career success, communication, and more.
Know More About Yourself and Others
Try Cafe Astrology's in-depth
birth chart reports, relationship reports, future forecasts, and more.
Love & Romance Forecast Report
Love outlook for the year ahead. Try our Love & Romance Forecast report.
Romantic Compatibility Reports
Try Cafe Astrology's in-depth
romantic compatibility reports, including the Synastry and Love Ties reports.
See also general trends for Libra in 2023 and the full 2023 Yearly Libra Horoscope.
Libra (Born October 14 to 23) and Libra Ascendant from 20 to 30 degrees Libra:
July 2023 Libra Horoscope: Love, Career, & General Trends
July 2023
The Sun this Month: Central Focus, Consciousness
Until July 12th:
The Sun continues to shine its light on your solar ninth house now. This is a cycle in which you seek to expand your experiences and awareness, whether through philosophical thinking, higher education, travel, or simply activities that take you away from your everyday routines. You may feel a little restless if you don't find ways to explore.
It's an excellent period for looking at your life from a different perspective--a broader one--whether you initiate this process or you make contact with others who stimulate you to think about your circumstances differently. Your energy is strong, open, and friendly right now, you come across well to others, and you are a little bolder and adventurous than usual.
From July 12th forward:
The Sun illuminates your career and reputation sector. More than any other time of the year, your focus is drawn to your "place" or standing in the outer world, and your reputation. This is the time when you are more interested in, and focused on, accomplishing something important. Your competency is something that you are especially sensitive to during this cycle.
You want to shine! Your vision is practical right now, and you want to see tangible results for your efforts. More contact with authority figures is likely during this period. Recognition is likely to come your way whether you ask for it or not, and the responsibility that comes right along with it! Do what you feel is right, keeping in mind that you are at your most visible during this period in the year.
Venus this Month: Love, Romance, Social Life, Comfort
Venus is retrograde from July 22nd to September 3rd:
Venus retrograde in general: As the planet of love and values, Venus retrograde periods are periods during which we re-assess what--and who--we value. It is a period that most astrologers consider inopportune for getting married or starting a new relationship. Major financial undertakings are not advised during this period as well.
Venus retrograde cycles are good times for creating budgets and financial plans, and for re-thinking our personal relationships. Old friends and lovers may re-appear, perhaps complicating current relationships. We are called upon to deal with relationship issues from the past. Events occur that seem fated or predestined.
It can be a real challenge getting close to a lover during this period of time. Unorthodox, experimental, and non-intimate relationships may be favored. Relationships that have been especially challenging may come to an end during this cycle.
However, strong relationships will survive it, even if there are a few bumps and bruises along the way. For singles, this is a good time for "eyes wide open" or experimental dating. It is not a time when people recognize the need for another person to complete them, or some people may be questioning whether they are with partners who actually fulfill them. This period is good for re-evaluating our relationship needs; but, again, major love decisions are best saved for after the cycle ends.
This Venus Retrograde cycle occurs, for the most part, in your solar eleventh house of friendships, groups, and aspirations. Your friendships or associations with groups may be a little strained during this period--a time when you may withdraw and others might misinterpret your intentions, or when friends are distant. You may get the feeling that friends are either disinterested or insincere during this cycle.
You are ruled by Venus, and you are likely to be more withdrawn than usual, which can be a source of concern for your lover. People from the past may resurface either physically or simply coming to the forefront of your mind. You may be dealing with past karma now. Your eighth house of shared resources and intimacy is Venus-ruled as well, and you might find your intimate life leaves you wanting, and that it's hard to find emotional (and financial) support when you need it most.
Mercury this Month: Communications, Learning, Connections, Transportation
Until July 6th:
Mercury continues to transit your solar ninth house. During this cycle, you are especially fond of exchanging ideas with others, particularly your personal philosophies. You are inclined to take a broader look at things now, rather than concentrate on the details. You are communicating with more persuasiveness, enthusiasm, and optimism at this time.
From July 6-22:
Mercury transits your solar tenth house. You are likely thinking a lot about your career and business matters, or your career requires more communication than usual during this cycle. You speak with authority during this period, and you are more accountable than usual for what (and how) you communicate. Your ideas may come into public view now.
Use the power of words to influence authority figures. This is an excellent period for developing career and professional plans or strategies. You may be turned to for advice or for your opinion on important matters. Although approachable and ready to communicate, you are less inclined to chat about frivolous matters now.
You tend to think about your position or standing on a professional level more frequently during this cycle. You are likely doing some multi-tasking regarding career and business matters. Negative use of this influence would be to worry unnecessarily about your reputation and responsibilities.
From July 22nd forward:
Mercury is transiting your solar eleventh house. Your mind is bright, alert, and active during this cycle, and you have the ability to come up with unusual and inventive ideas. Sharing your thoughts with others is a prime interest. Others tend to particularly enjoy your conversations during this transit--you are willing to listen as well as add your own thoughts.
As well, your ability to grasp unusual subject matter and to intuitively understand what others are trying to say win you some brownie points! You could also do a lot of thinking and musing about your own happiness and long-term goals.
Mars this Month: Energy, Drive, Courage
All month:
Mars continues to activate your solar eleventh house. You take a more direct approach to realizing your dreams now, rather than simply hoping and wishing.
You might find that you have more energy and enthusiasm for spending time with others, but arguments now may be with or on behalf of friends. You can be especially effective at encouraging others now, as well as at leading or organizing a group.
Overview Horoscope:
July 2023 Monthly Horoscope Overview for Libra:
July is strong for your long-term goals, career, or reputation, dear Libra, but with Venus retrograde from the 22nd, it's better to develop current ventures and projects rather than take on new ones. Venus is your ruler, after all, and its retrograde cycles point to some need to take things easy, gain perspective, and reassess a few things in your life.
There can be more activity on the career front this month, or additional responsibilities and the need to take on a managerial role in your life can emerge. More focused or constructive activities fare the best. You are thinking about what matters and what's useful, and there's extra emphasis on your overarching, longer-term objectives.
Family matters grab your attention around the Full Moon on the 3rd. Balancing family and responsibilities to the outside world can be tricky but far from impossible. Getting more acquainted with your needs and wants can only help your decision-making.
There can be times this month when you feel everyone is looking over your shoulder. You're in higher demand, or responsibilities are in strong focus. The New Moon on the 17th brings additional power to your sector of career and reputation. It can be a time for a promotion, award, or significant turning point. You might come into the limelight somehow, or there can be the need to follow the rules or straighten out an area of your life. Others recognize your talents and abilities, but the real drive for success emanates from within, as you're incredibly motivated, ambitious, and goal-oriented this month. It's a beautiful time for taking charge and sorting problems out.
Fortunately, you can make great strides toward meeting your goals. You might frequently find yourself in situations that require you to be on top of your game, and you're in a wonderful position to impress. While you can sometimes struggle with your desire for more personal freedoms, you are inclined to keep up appearances with the rest of the world.
Still, with Mars in your privacy sector from the 10th and Venus retrograde from the 22nd, you're focusing more and more on tying up loose ends and a work-in-progress rather than brand-new beginnings. With Mars here, your inner world animates and often pulls you inward. While this is a time of reorganizing and redirection, this transit is good for recharging yourself so you can realign with your deep desires. You may need to lay to rest some plans or projects that have outgrown their purpose. Honor your needs for extra rest, meditation, privacy, and reflection.
Some complications surrounding friends and lovers are possible during the retrograde Venus cycle from July 22nd to September 3rd, but it's also possible you reconnect with a long-lost friend. Old issues are easy to dredge up, or there can be a distance between you and a buddy, just for now.
Instead, you might be doing a lot of reminiscing, or you could feel stuck or in limbo on a social level. It's important to pull back a little to gain perspective. You can view this as giving others space rather than keeping a distance, but make sure the people you care about know your intentions. Avoid, if you can, secret involvements, as attractive as they may be with so much up in the air in your life in the affections department. Let things flow and observe how things unfold with as much patience as you can muster. If the pleasure factor has been missing in your social life or with happiness goals, now is the time to recognize the problem.
On the day that Venus turns retrograde, the Sun heads into your social sector, and your social life begins taking more precedence over your professional life. You may be doing some guiding or teaching, and it's fulfilling. Even if the usual channels aren't performing as well, alternate ones can emerge, and new pleasures can be in store.
Indeed, retrograde Venus can temporarily give you some pause with current relationship matters. However, with the North Node of the Moon moving into your opposite sign for an eighteen-month cycle, you're moving toward a stronger identity and a sense of purposefulness through your connections to others. Challenges and rewards will come from pairing or partnering up. Through partnership and cooperation, you will more likely achieve the inner balance necessary to achieve your goals.
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Our detailed monthly horoscopes are designed to reveal and interpret the current transits of the Sun, Mercury, Venus, and Mars in your solar chart. Because these energies or transits do not unfold neatly into any given calendar month (many transits carry forward from one month to the next), you will find some of the energies continue from the previous month. For example, the Sun might transit the second house of your solar chart from June 21 to July 22, so that you will find a similar interpretation for this transit in both June and July’s horoscope. This is normal and expected. While new months can hold new energy, transits don’t abruptly change because the calendar month changes.
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The Highlights section reveals lunar cycle dates. Lunar cycles repeat themselves approximately every 28 days, so it is normal to see the same lunar peaks, such as “Your Personal New Moon” and “Monthly career peak” repeat themselves from month to month, but with different dates. They serve as a helpful guide to cycle peaks in different areas of life, such as financial, career, romance, and partnership.
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