July 2023 Stars

July 2023 is a month to check in with your dreams and to see whether this matches up with your heart’s frequency. KEY TAKEAWAYS Neptune goes retrograde on 1st July, and this means we should look to what we are dreaming, and where we may have lost ourselves to bring about a realignment with the quantum field of opportunity. The Capricorn Full Moon that follows will enable us to put our dreams into action, with real attainable goals, far greater than we can imagine. The North Node destiny point moves into Aries and this represents a massive boost to bringing about any expression of your ego and ideals, starting up your business or making a move, even if it is risky.  We have 18 months of this ‘just do it’ energy. There is an intense t-square on 22nd where the Sun in Cancer, opposes Pluto in Capricorn and both square to the North Node newly in Aries at the 29’ point - which is where we had the solar eclipse earlier in the year.  As this is explosive energy, we could see the war in Ukraine or elsewhere go to new levels of antagonism. Venus goes retrograde in Leo on 23rd, bringing about an examination of our hearts, its pains, sorrows and desires.  Venus Retrograde has a high chance of bringing back exes into the frame, and these arrive for us to understand our part in what went wrong, and how we might behave differently next time - or simply to let go of this story (or re-ignite it of course). BEST MOMENTS‘Neptune rules the sea, which is completely unfathomable and unreachable by modern man. As the Titan submarine was taking those five guys down to the wreck of the Titanic, Neptune was stationing and was square to the Sun in Gemini. This square is full of trickery, lots of communication and ideas, and short journeys. This was really bad astrology for that submarine to go down.’‘The US Navy knew already on the Monday after they lost contact that the submersible had imploded, so why weren’t we told that straight away? Why weren’t we told until Thursday that this had happened? It's so Neptunian to put this façade out by the world’s media. Is there some bigger story going on here?’‘During the same week JP Morgan and Jeffery Epstein’s emails were released (47 million emails). They must have been having a lot of conversations. Then, JP Morgan “lost” them, they were “mistakenly deleted”. How can you mistakenly delete 47 million emails?! What are they hiding? This is even more Neptunian.’‘Getting away from the ocean, there’s also the idea that we could be getting lost in tech: Deep fakes, AI, the deception and illusion that we’re creating. Some of us need to realise this and during the retrograde understand why we’re losing half our day scrolling through the internet.’ ABOUT THE HOST Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/venusandvesta/?hl=en   Website - https://www.venusandvesta.com  Ann-Louise Holland is a shamanic homoeopath, herbalist and astrologer.  She teaches astrology along with Steiner based anthroposophy, both of which are concerned with cultural events that bring about humanity's evolution and awareness to the soul's journey.  Venus & Vesta is a podcast about astrology for astrologers, monthly updates on the movements of the planets and asteroids, weekly detailed discussions, aligning the stars with what is happening in the world. Interviews with astrologers and mystics who have book launches, interesting theories, special events such as eclipses, and celeb horoscopes.