Energies of the Week July 8-14 – Venus Visible Ingressing in Leo✨🌸💫
Is there enough room in your life for more passion, inspiration, creativity, and positive growth?
As the week begins unique opportunities arise to enhance our emotional and social lives, uplift our spirits, gain a broader perspective, and integrate harmony, through favorable planetary alignments and Venus being reborn and now visible as an evening star in the sky entering the sign of Leo on July 11th.
This transit will reignite the passion and fire in our hearts, allowing us to rekindle relationships and celebrate love, life’s joys, and creativity.
✨🌸💫On Monday, July 8th, the waxing Crescent Moon 🌒 in Leo ♌, just three days after the powerful New Moon in Cancer, which is now visible in the sky allows you to recognize and connect more consciously with your deepest desires, make your wishes, and stay aligned with your vision to begin the magical process of manifestation.
This moon cycle, like no other, came to connect you with your emotional world, prompting you to take responsibility and make decisions that honor your heart and sensitivities. It also shows you new ways to connect with what you love, bringing intuitive knowledge and emotional awareness to renew from within, multiply self-love, and move closer to what you truly need and deserve.
On the same day, Venus forms a sextile with Uranus at 26° Cancer-Taurus, a configuration that will liberate you emotionally, encouraging you to find new ways to express yourself, share, renew, and enrich your relationships and social life.
This is the perfect time to break away from the ordinary, try new things, say yes to new experiences, go on dates, accept invitations, and utilize new tools to help you evolve. This is a great moment not only for love and creativity but also for enhancing material security by seizing sudden opportunities, implementing a new strategy, managing finances differently, or making a unique and pioneering investment that can elevate your financial status.
Meanwhile Mercury’s sextile with Jupiter at 10° Leo-Gemini is expected to increase social contacts and promote learning, teaching, communication, writing, negotiations, and travel for those affected.
If you belong to the beginning of the second decan of fire and air signs, this aspect allows your voice to be heard and gives you the opportunity to share your message and ideas successfully, showcase your talents, and think optimistically and expansively. It also encourages you to collect ideas, expand your social networks, envision, and plan for the future, as Mercury simultaneously forms a trine with the North Node at 10° Aries, connecting you with your destiny’s path.
✨🌸💫On Wednesday, July 10th, Jupiter’s sextile with the North Node at 10° Gemini-Aries brings you in touch with new knowledge or groups of people who can inspire you and offer opportunities to broaden your horizons, change your philosophy, and come closer to your purpose. Pay special attention to ideas, messages, places, and people you encounter, as they may show you signs aligning you with what is meant for you. You may understand many of these better during the upcoming eclipses in October and March in Libra and Aries, which will re-activate the 10° where the Lunar Nodes are currently located.
Use this time to take initiative, strengthen family bonds, invest in groups and collective projects with prospects for success, and gain knowledge supporting your long-term growth and personal development.
✨🌸💫On Thursday, July 11th, the Sun forms a trine with retrograde Saturn at 19° Cancer-Pisces, ensuring security and stability in every pursuit and teaching us the value of boundaries, discipline, organization, and patience.
This cosmic alignment allows you to re-evaluate long-term plans, reconsider the support you can receive from older or authoritative figures, and take a few steps back before moving fully forward. This energy is particularly beneficial if you belong to the end of the second and the beginning of the third decan of water and earth signs.
On the same day, Venus, just before entering Leo, forms a trine with mystical Neptune at 29° Cancer-Pisces, infusing a touch of magic and helping you see yourself, others, and reality differently.
This harmonious alignment of romance, inspiration, daydreaming, healing, heightened emotional sensitivity, and spiritual awareness will help you understand and empathize with others better, forgive, support, and connect on a deeper spiritual level. With this aspect bringing more magic into your relationships or making you dream of the ideal relationship while enhancing imagination and inspiration derived from intuition and emotions, it is a perfect time to devote yourself to your precious relationships and whatever beautiful, artistic, or spiritual pursuits you desire.
Venus ingressing in Leo
Following this, Venus, the planet of beauty and love, enters fiery Leo, where it will remain until August 4th. As it becomes visible in the sky as the Evening Star, we begin to experience more harmony, peace, and unity in our lives and the world around us.
The celestial position of Venus promises to enhance feminine energies and receptivity over the next nine months, allowing us to magnetize the experiences and love we desire rather than seeking and striving for them, as was the case with Venus as the morning star.
The enchanting presence of Venus, glowing brilliantly in the night sky post-sunset, will uplift our aesthetic standards and make us appreciate art and beauty in every moment while finding opportunities for rejuvenation, relaxation, and a renewed creative drive. This phase invites us to manage our finances with greater care, aligning changes with our true values, needs, and long-term goals.
Collectively, this position can promote artistic endeavors, social collaboration, diplomacy, and conflict resolution, fostering societal peace and harmony.
For those under fire and air signs, Venus in Leo promises more reasons to rejoice, laugh, and connect wholeheartedly. It encourages flirting, taking risks for love, and igniting existing relationships with confidence, generosity, and open expression.
Leo, known for its performative nature, artistic flair, and creativity, combined with Mercury also transiting through the sign, enables engagement in the realms of spectacle, entertainment, and art. This alignment facilitates sharing talents and creations with the world, radiating your inner spark.
✨🌸💫On Friday, July 12th, the opposition between Venus and Pluto at 1° Leo-Aquarius will profoundly influence relationships, resurfacing hidden unresolved issues and tensions. Courage and honesty will be required to navigate these challenges.
During this aspect, you may confront uncontrollable passions, possessiveness, manipulative behaviors, or power games stemming from personal insecurities, pride, or a lack of commitment and reliability. While challenging, this condition offers an opportunity for deeper emotional understanding and strengthening of meaningful bonds.
This aspect often presages fateful and karmic love encounters, characterized by passion, emotional depth, and drama, catalyzing personal transformation. If directly influenced, especially those in the 0°-2° of Taurus, Scorpio, Leo, and Aquarius, chances are slim that you will settle for superficial relationships, opting instead for what holds value for you, thereby experiencing a challenging yet transformative journey toward greater authenticity and strength.
The weekend finds us already under the influence of the explosive and destabilizing Mars-Uranus conjunction at 26° Taurus, that will take place on July 15, with immediate impact on the final degrees of the Fixed signs. This volatile alignment has the potential to surprise and unsettle us both individually and collectively. However, it also carries a profound liberating and awakening force that will give us a new direction in the new synodic cycle.
Something in our lives needs to be approached differently, possibly beyond our will and control. Nevertheless, it is within our power to manage how we handle this and the meaning we ultimately attribute to it. This alignment serves as a call to adapt, awaken, and free ourselves from patterns that may no longer serve our highest good.
On Saturday,July 13th the First Quarter Moon 🌓at 22° Libra ♎ marks the midpoint of the New Moon and the Full Moon, testing the intentions set at the beginning of this lunar cycle and providing the impetus to start manifesting these intentions into reality.
Expect ideas, messages, and synchronicities during this phase to set things in motion. The universe calls for action: seize opportunities, overcome potential obstacles, defy others’ opinions and expectations, and restore both internal and external harmony.
Under the First Quarter Libra Moon, harmony, justice, and beauty in relationships and your environment are crucial. This lunar phase urges reassessment, weighing pros and cons, and making necessary compromises in your relationships to restore balance, adding beautiful touches where needed.
Embrace the transformative energies and opportunities of this week to enrich your life with love, beauty, and harmony and to gain a deeper understanding of yourself and your loved ones. A new version of you emerges these days, encouraging you to lead from your heart, guided by your emotions and truth, being authentically and unapologetically You!
Wishing everyone a blessed and fulfilling week!✨🌸🕊☮
With love💓💓💓
Sofia Semeli