July 2010 forecast

Pick up the phone to your favourite travel agent, text your good buddy who has a spare couch in his or her cool beach shack, or check out the holiday deals from your favourite club or association on 1, 9 and 10 July when you’ll get the travel bug badly with the Sun in your solar ninth house of travel until 22 July, joined by Mercury until 9 July! From the New Moon of 11 July it’s likely that travel planning will be underway. You are in the mood to escape...

At the same time, ironically, you can make a wonderful impression on your boss, important clients and industry VIPs on 9, 11, 22 and 23 July with Venus in your solar tenth house of career until 11 July, with Mercury joining the team from 9 July, and the Sun from 22 July.

You’re ambitious to get somewhere – fast – but you may have to deal with home- or family-related confusion on 8 and 20 July. On the Full Moon of 26 July, you’ll see that the current status quo at home has to change – do you need to move? – but you may not a clear answer from your family about how you can balance kids’n’career which is infuriating. Added to that, a wonderful job opportunity that comes up on 26 July may get “undone” or the role gets put on ice.

Venus gets into your solar eleventh house of friends and group activities on 11 July, joining Saturn there until 21 July, Mars until 30 July, and Mercury from 27 July. Take time out to see your favourite friends on 13 and 30 July. They could tell you some news about certain people or companies which could prove very useful in the future. Those who are particularly talented at social media could help you with facebook, Twitter, resourceful websites or even inspire you to write your own blog about being a parent, while single Scorpio parents could even meet someone online then. And if you want to keep an eye on your kids on the computer, these are also great days to install “nanny software”.

Once Saturn enters your solar twelfth house of secrets on 21 July, joined by Mars on 30 July, you could feel depressed, exhausted or weighed down by private feelings to do with your workplace. You may be very upset about the erratic behaviour of one or more of your colleagues, to the point you feel sick on 26, 30 and 31 July.

With Uranus and Jupiter both going retrograde in your solar sixth house of work and health from 5 and 23 July respectively, one of them could over-promise or talk up their ability to deliver a project and then dump you with it, or you could be upset with gossip that suggests a promotion is not coming your way on 25 July.