The Sun is the Invincible Spirit. So great is this universal wonder that it must come in small doses, distributed as it travels around the Zodiac over the course of a year.  The Sun's position symbolizes the active presence of the Divine.  The Sun entered the sign of Cancer on June  21,  marking the Summer Solstice, and the point of highest North declination.  Joining with the personal planets and North Node , and ushering in the Total Solar Eclipse at 10 + Cancer on the 2nd, in opposition to Saturn (moving into its conjunction with Pluto) makes this a dynamic  period of deep emotion related to family, home, emotions, nourishment, nostalgia, and legacy. The routines of summer take on a deeper meaning, with everything standing as a metaphor. 

The Moon is the Receiver.  As the Sun energizes her, she receives and moves through her angular relationship with him over the course of the month.  She delights in shape-shifting.  She delights in the repetitive ebb and flow from night to day,  from New to Full in predictable sequence.  She delights in being able to portray the Sun's invincible spirit through her silver light.  We see this dance every month, beginning at the New Moon, timed for the Moon's alignment with the Sun.  July's first New Moon occurs on  Tuesday July 2, 2019, at 3:16 PM EDT,  aligning in a Total Solar Eclipse (visible in South America)  at 10 + Cancer.  The energies will resonate in late October of this year, as the holiday season begins.   The Sabian Symbol for this position reads as follows:  A clown caricatures merrily all kinds of human traits. Emotions abound  this month, particularly as the  Moon waxes to its full phase, balancing out the Solar Eclipse with a partial Lunar  Eclipse at 24 + Capricorn on July 16, at 5:38 PM EDT. Light will be shed on areas where restructuring is necessary;  this may be loud  or more subtle from the watery realms.   There is a second New Moon in July:  late in the evening on the 31st  at 8 + Leo.

 Mercury has 3-4 Retrograde (Rx) cycles every year, each lasting approximately 3 weeks, and each offering a period of reflection, recalibration, revision, and resolution, as Mercury and the Sun exchange the message of a particular degree of the Zodiac.   Mercury will change direction Rx at 4+ Leo on July 7, and will turn Direct (D) again on July 31, 2019 at 23 + Cancer. 

The Venus cycle is complex and mysterious, beginning while Retrograde as an Evening Star, moving through conjunctions with the Sun, and shifting from Evening Star to Morning Star, and back. It allows Venus to recalibrate her relationship to the Sun.  When an Evening Star--calm, mature, settled, and knowing her brilliance, as Venus is best seen outside the clutch of the Sun--she begins her new cycle.  We are currently in the Venus cycle that began at the retrograde October 5, 2018 at 10 Scorpio 50.  Here Venus is at her detriment, not particularly social, but diving deep to weigh out the work of Jupiter's journey over the last year.   Having had her Interior Conjunction with the Sun on October 26, and her aggressive  Heliacal Rising shift from Evening to Morning Star on October 31, she  changed direction on November 16, is now calm and confidently rushing forward into love and life for 9 months through August 14, 2019.  In this phase, she epitomizes the feminine as the container of gestation.  On August 14, 2019, she will join the Sun at Exterior Conjunction at 20 + Leo, then disappear for a two month period of rest and relaxation.   Venus has moved into  the sign of Cancer and will meet up with the North Node to oppose Saturn on July 17.  She will move into Leo at the end of July.  

Mars moved into the sign of Leo on July 1, 2019.  Mars will square Uranus on July 11, 2019, providing an opportunity running from impulsive aggression or determined, confident action that seems to come in as a flash of insight.  Good time to move off the dime on pending projects and put this driving force to positive, creative, innovate use. 

With Jupiter in its own sign of Sagittarius until December 3, all sights are on the quest for truth and freedom.  Jupiter turned Rx on April 11, just before reaching the  Galactic Center position. For reflection during this Rx period, the 12 year cycle of Jupiter is telling--spiraling back to 2007.  Also, difficult work done during the 2014-2017 Saturn transit through Sagittarius can be expanded through 2019. Jupiter will turn D on August 11, and will  be back at the Galactic Center  (27 + Sagittarius) November 19-24.   As it applies, October and early November will be potent periods.   Jupiter is now at 16 degrees Rx. 

Saturn is at home now, in the earthy, grounded  sign of Capricorn.   Saturn reveals that  practicalities are necessary,  and structures must  be built methodically through  time and karma. Saturn is the reality check,  and rewards authentic effort.   Saturn turned Rx  at the position of Pluto's Nodes (20 + Cancer-Capricorn) on April 29, 2019, and for the next five months will backtrack to 13 + Capricorn, and turn D on September 19.  With Jupiter and Saturn at home, look for some new issues,  trends or memes in the  travel or construction industries.  Saturn will be joining Pluto at 22 + degrees, near Saturn's own nodes (23 + Cancer-Capricorn)  on January 7, 2020. Saturn is currently at  17+Capricorn Rx, conjunct the South Node.