Your Queer Weekly Horoscope: July 15-21

This week, your sign ruler Venus creates a trine with the North Node, which represents the future. At the same time, Venus forms a sextile with the South Node. This reflects the way you’re experiencing progress this year: slowly moving forward while simultaneously dragging the past around. You can’t push on without accounting for your history; you must take stock of events that have affected you while you trek onward. Fortunately, lucky Jupiter deigns to give you a little bit of an advantage, clearing your path of obstacles and activating your powers of insight.

What the stars are up to:

• Your sign ruler Pluto is retrograde in Aquarius.
• The waxing gibbous Moon in your sign creates trines with Saturn, the Sun, and Neptune; squares off against Mercury; and opposes Uranus and Mars.
• Mars creates a trine with Pluto.

What it means:

While the Moon moves through your sign, you focus inward to work on yourself. You’re not particularly interested in talking it out with anyone else, you don’t want to try anything new, and you’re certainly not in the mood to socialize. You just want to vibe with yourself for a day or so, and allow the solitude to soothe you. In the final moments of the week, just hours before Leo season begins, you catch a surge of energy to finish some tasks you’ve been avoiding.

What the stars are up to:

• Your sign ruler Jupiter is in Gemini.
• The waxing gibbous Moon in your sign forms a sextile with Pluto, creates trines with Venus and Mercury, opposes Jupiter, and squares off against Saturn and Neptune.
• Venus forms a sextile with Jupiter.

What it means:

You enjoy a productive Moon, though you ignore common sense and traditional wisdom to attain your results. You may or may not feel satisfied with your successes, especially if the methods you use to get them don’t really feel like you. Near the end of the week, attractive Venus casts eyes at your sign ruler Jupiter. Don’t be surprised if you notice people checking you out in public!

What the stars are up to:

• Your sign ruler Saturn is retrograde in Pisces.
• The season’s second Full Moon in your sign forms sextiles with Saturn and Neptune, creates a trine with Uranus, and opposes the Sun.

What it means:

You get a bonus Full Moon this season! It gleams at maximum brightness opposite the Sun early in the morning on Sunday, then moves from your sign to Aquarius about an hour and a half later. You’re in for a nice weekend on the whole, with amplified capacity for organization, innovation, and intuition. You’ll enter Leo Season from a strong position.

What the stars are up to:

• Pluto is retrograde in your sign.
• Your sign ruler Uranus is in Taurus.
• Mars passes through conjunction with Uranus.
• The Sun forms a sextile with Uranus.
• Mercury squares off against Uranus.
• The waning gibbous Moon in your sign forms a trine with Mars and passes through conjunction with Pluto.
• Mars creates a trine with Pluto.

What it means:

You’re motivated and you feel comfortable in your own mind. Expressing your inner purpose to other people might be a struggle, but hey! At least you sort of know what you’re doing. On the last day of the season, you’re imbued with a powerful boost of energy to accomplish major change. Ride the wave while you can! You might lock in so completely that you work overnight into the first sunrise of Leo season.

What the stars are up to:

• Saturn and your ruler Neptune are both retrograde in your sign.
• Mars forms a sextile with Neptune.
• The Sun creates a trine with Neptune.

What it means:

You and your retrograde sign ruler Neptune sail through the final watery week of Cancer Season in good cheer. You’re slightly less tapped into your instincts than usual, what with Neptune orbiting perspectively backwards, but that’s not always a bad thing. It gives you a bit of a break from the overwhelming enthusiasm of idealism and allows you to adopt a more practical mindset. Mars and the Sun both approve of your measured thoughtfulness, providing you with increased productivity and a breakthrough in self-insight.

What the stars are up to:

• Chiron and the North Node are in your sign.
• The Sun squares off against Chiron.
• Mercury creates a trine with Chiron.
• Venus creates a trine with the North Node.
• Your sign ruler Mars begins the week in Taurus, where it passes through conjunction with Uranus and forms a sextile with Neptune. Then, Mars moves to Gemini, where it creates a trine with Pluto.

What it means:

Something deep inside you doesn’t want to accept the healing you’ve worked for, but you’re talking about it honestly anyway, at least. You’ve got to face facts in order to fulfill your yearning for the future. Your sign ruler Mars is making major moves this week. First, it sets you alight with creativity and fantasy. Then it moves from Taurus to Gemini and sets an enormous life change in motion. Keep moving forward! Some of your most coveted goals are almost within your grasp.

What the stars are up to:

• Mars and Uranus are in your sign.
• Your sign ruler Venus is in Leo.
• The Sun forms a sextile with Uranus.
• Mars passes through conjunction with Uranus and forms a sextile with Neptune. Then, Mars leaves your sign and moves to Gemini.
• Venus creates a trine with the North Node and forms a sextile with Jupiter.
• Mercury squares off against Uranus.

What it means:

After an immense surge of strangeness, Mars bids farewell to your sign and moves on to Gemini. You’re catching onto something important about your ultimate fate this week, and the weirder you get, the better you begin to know yourself. You’re expanding your boundaries internally, which conversely allows you to take up more space in social situations. When others ask how you’ve achieved the feat, however, you find it impossible to explain your process.

What the stars are up to:

• Jupiter is in your sign.
• Your sign ruler Mercury is in Leo.
• Mercury creates a trine with Chiron and squares off against Uranus.
• Venus forms a sextile with Jupiter.
• Mars leaves Taurus and moves to your sign, then creates a trine with Pluto.

What it means:

You’re in the mood to gab about healing, but you don’t want to feel vulnerable yourself. It’s probably a good time to seek the latest gossip from friends, giving you an opportunity to dole out advice regarding situations that don’t concern you whatsoever! You’re likely to enjoy a lucky opportunity to do so when whimsical Venus links up with accommodating Jupiter. But speak thoughtfully: Whatever you say could have major consequences. In the last moments of the week, Mars launches off an overwhelming wave of change, pushing the plot forward just hours before Leo Season begins.

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