Horoscope and Astrological Overview: July 19 - 25, 2021

Astrological Overview: July 19 - 25, 2021 Astrologer Pam Younghans writes this weekly astrological journal based on planetary influences, and offers perspectives and insights to assist you in making the best use of current energies. This column is not intended as prediction. Your own experience will be more specifically defined by transits to your personal chart. Aspects of Note this Week: All times listed are Pacific Daylight Time. (For Eastern Time, add 3 hours; For Greenwich Mean Time, add 7 hours.) MON: Mercury square Chiron TUE: Mercury sextile Uranus, Mercury sesquiquadrate Jupiter WED: Eris stations retrograde, Mars trine Eris, Venus enters Virgo THU: Venus opposite Jupiter, Mars quincunx Pluto, Sun enters Leo, Sun quincunx Jupiter FRI: Full Moon 7:36 p.m. PDT SAT: Mercury trine Neptune SUN: Mercury square Eris, Mercury opposite Pluto AS WE TRANSITION to a healthier physical state, our bodies often go through a process of detoxification. As such, we accept that certain symptoms may worsen before they get better. Although we would like to just simply remove the toxins from our bodies and be done with it, there is usually a course of healing that must be traversed. And, if we are working to release substances that our bodies have become addicted to, we may also go through withdrawal symptoms along the way. Likewise, when we are working with a therapist to transform long-held personality patterns, we don't expect that we'll be "cured" after only one visit. And, we realize once we dive into the therapy, en route to greater wholeness, that we will be going through an at-times uncomfortable emotional and mental detox process. THE PLANET PLUTO is an agent of deep transformation and could be called the "psychotherapist" or "detox" planet. While in Capricorn (2008-2024), it is dedicated to revealing the shadow side of social structures and governments, on its way to helping us purge the negative patterns and systems that have kept us in fear and have limited our full empowerment. Since 2019, Pluto has been... Continue Reading at InnerSelf.com (plus audio/mp3 version of article) Music By Caffeine Creek Band, Pixabay Narrated by the author. About the Author Pam Younghans is a professional astrologer, editor, and writer. She lives in a log home northeast of Seattle, Washington with her beloved animal companions. She has been interpreting charts professionally for over 25 years.