July 2010 forecast

If you’ve been staying at home too much, your friends could urge you to come out and play on 1, 9 and 10 July with the Sun in your solar eleventh house of friends and group activities until 22 July, joined by Mercury until 9 July.

From the New Moon of 11 July you may make a new pal, join a new group, club or association, or expand your social circle. On these dates, anyone you meet will have to be “useful” in helping you to achieve your goals for you to befriend them.

Venus will hide out in your solar twelfth house of secrets until 11 July, with Mercury joining the party from 9 July, and the Sun from 22 July It’s time to take the phone off the hook and go under the radar – and the doona on 9, 11, 22, and 23 July. This is just delicious for curling up luxuriously and happily with someone (hopefully it’s your partner if you’re attached!) who makes you laugh and keeps you inspired. If you can get someone to take the kids then to give the time and space to engineer some romance and intimacy, all the better. Keen to keep a new romance quiet? There’s no better time...

You may want to throw a sickie on 8 and 20 July, and again on 26 July when a Full Moon at work creates tensions with colleagues who are not pulling their weight – and again, stay curled up in bed with your lover.

Venus beams into your solar first house of personality on 11 July, joining Saturn there until 21 July, Mars until 30 July, and Mercury from 27 July. Your sex appeal is obviously blossoming because you may want to lash out on 13 and 30 July and indulge yourself with a beautiful new haircut, tint, facial, mani-pedi, tan, massage and/or clothes shopping. This is money well-spent as it will pay um, dividends with your lover.

Once Saturn enters your solar second house of income on 21 July, joined by Mars on 30 July, you’ll have to try not to go too wild spending (I know I can trust you not to, Virgo!) as long-standing debts will demand to be paid before you can spend money willy-nilly on 26, 30 and 31 July.

With Uranus and Jupiter both going retrograde in your solar eighth house of shared resources from 5 and 23 July respectively, all that pent-up passion may make your partner sexually demanding on 25 July.