July 2022 horoscope: the stars foresee a political revolution this month

When the North Node aligns with Uranus in Taurus on the 31st it promises decentralisation of global power and greater freedom

4July 2022

TextGrace McGradeIllustrationGabrielle Rosenstein

Grace McGrade is an intuitive astrologer and priestess based in Los Angeles. She is the host of the podcast, “Bitchcraft: Spirituality for Bad People.” Her sessions include birth chart readings, tarot, energetic clearings and psychic consultations.

We start off July already transiting through Cancer season, and we are tender and sensitive, looking for safety and emotional nourishment in a state of global transition. Cancer, ruled by the Moon, is associated with women, mothers, early childhood experiences, emotional reciprocity, safety and nurturing. Like a Crab takes its home with it, we are encouraged to find a semblance of security we can carry at all times. We are pulled back into our bodies, our hearts and needs, eager to retreat into our own sacred spaces. Cancer teaches us to nurture our internal world and how to manage our emotions. It’s the perfect time to seek out comfort, and direct self care towards your inner landscape. Topics around womanhood, femininity and reparenting core wounds take center stage. We are looking for nourishment and reprieve, called to cosy up with loved ones and retreat to our home spheres. Compassionate and a little weepy, it’s time to take care of ourselves.

Mercury moves into Cancer on the 5th of the month, continuing the conversation around women’s rights and highlighting matters of emotional reciprocity. We are leading conversations with our sensitivity. War-God Mars also enters Taurus on the 5th of the month, so we can expect a slower, more grounded approach to fulfilling tasks. A Capricorn Full Moon on the 13th has us confronting our relationship to leadership and worldly duties, particularly in times of global and personal adversity. This push and pull between our responsibilities and our increasing sensitivity may require us to push for more rest and downtime.

On the 17th, Venus moves into Cancer, making us nostalgic homebodies, eager to curl up with an old movie, and gravitate towards familiar faces. Think Lana Del Rey, Betty Crocker, but geared for revolution. Mercury moves into fiery Leo on the 19th, and we are quick to vocalize our needs and declare personal needs. Our focus turns to what makes us special. Leo season begins on the 22nd and we are bold, grandiose and ready to roar. We have abandoned the seclusion of Cancer season and we are hungry for theatrics. Our eagerness for validation can be tiresome, but we are playful and creatively expressive. Leo, the sign of the Divine Child, draws our attention to feeling appreciated and seen. Themes of self love are accentuated, particularly on the New Moon in Leo on the 28th. Use this date to set intentions around your own loveability.

The Lion’s appetite for theatrics is satiated when the North Node aligns with Uranus in Taurus on the 31st. This celestial event promises global revolution, as Uranus is the planet of shock, sudden events and drastic change. All signs will take on an attitude of personal rebellion, as we unhook from old patterns and charge into unmarked territory collectively. Weather anomalies or financial crashes may be in the cards. Ultimately, we are moving towards greater independence and a decentralization of global power, and all of these events are gearing us up for greater freedom.

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ARIES//ARIES RISING

Your ruler, Mars enters Taurus on the 5th, drawing your attention to your sense of self worth. You are inspecting your talents, self esteem, and even your pocketbook. It might be time to start becoming more self-sufficient, practicing self ownership on a whole new level. Last month you may have experienced physical burn out and this month you have the chance to slow down. Easy does it.

With Jupiter still in your sign, you are attuned to the energy of unlimited potential – but so much of what you attract towards yourself is a reflection of your sense of self worth. Your ability to achieve success, even financially, is intrinsically linked to how you perceive yourself. With the Sun radiating through Cancer, examine how you nurture yourself. Try and imagine you are reparenting your inner child. What would you feed yourself, how would you speak to yourself? Opt for the kinder, more loving options – and watch your path open up.

Aries Beauty Product Recommendation: Pattern Jojoba Oil Serum

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TAURUS//TAURUS RISING

Cancer season has got you in your feelings and imbues a mood of romantic nostalgia. It feels as though you are retracing old abandoned projects, relationships, inspecting the aftermath of old experiences and are ready to pick things back up again.

With Mars entering your sign on the 6th, you are enlivened and energised, eager to accomplish what you didn’t have the energy for before. The month culminates with a bang, when Uranus and the North Node of destiny line up in your sign. This amplifies your appetite for freedom, tearing you away from the codependent patterning of the past. You are more than equipped to commit to a path of greater autonomy, freedom and independence.

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GEMINI//GEMINI RISING

June may have been a tad too social and I don’t blame you – there were places to go and people to see. Cancer season is a welcome change of pace and you are called to be more introspective, soft and cautious. With Mercury in Cancer until the 19th, you will be feeling all the feels. You may find yourself waning through memories and turning them over like strange, forgotten jewels. Remember to identify the difference between emotional processing and regressing.

The last week of the month will have you bustling with creative ideas, as the personal planets transit into Leo. Here, you are encouraged to return to your social modality, proudly displaying the newest identity you are wearing so chicly.

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CANCER//CANCER RISING

Happy Birthday, late Cancerians! The first half of the month is all about you! You have a natural proclivity to be a homemaker, opting for cosy evenings curled up, geared for emotional processing.

However, birthday season means it's time for you to shine and let yourself feel seen. Let yourself be appreciated and dare I say it, adored. You are the matriarch of the zodiac, catering to others needs before your own. Luckily, Leo season ushers in some self-confidence, and encourages you to set intentions around your finances. Where can you refine spending, while remaining optimistic about future points of earning?

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LEO//LEO RISING

Happy Birthday, early Leos! We begin July in Cancer season and you are reflective, introspective, looking for rest and reprieve away from a world in a perpetual state of flux. You may find yourself more inward than normal, as the sector of isolation in your chart is illuminated. Keeping a dream journal, meditating and relying on your subconscious is encouraged. Offer yourself a time-out in early July, and give yourself room and space to reconnect with your own energetic field.

Mercury moves into your sign on the 19th, amplifying your voice and encouraging you to express your divinely appointed outlook. Your season begins July 22nd and back to the regular scheduled program of absolute excellence. You are the talk of the town! Enjoy it! Radiating in regality, public displays of grandiosity, self confidence, and happily busy!

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VIRGO//VIRGO RISING

July encourages you to inspect your friendships, as Cancer season makes you increasingly attuned to reciprocity in your social sphere. You are encouraged to follow feelings as if they are flags, and honor dynamics where you get back as much as you give. Old friendships may resurface, or perhaps you are reflecting on how you wish to be interpreted by your fellows.

As the Sun and Mercury move into Leo around the 22nd, you are pulled into a less social, more introspective modality of being, as your intuitive faculties open up. You may find that you are more sensitive than usual and this is a fabulous time to expand on psychic gifts. Venus moving through your career sector promises that visualisation practices will be rewarded.

Virgo Beauty Product Recommendation: Rose Inc Skin Enhance Luminous Tinted Serum

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LIBRA//LIBRA RISING

After a very social June, July brings bottled emotions to the surface, so bring your attention to your homesphere, channel your Betty Crocker and curate a safe space to feel and heal. Mid July, Venus – your ruler – moves into sensitive Cancer. This is a call to gravitate towards your nearest and dearest confidants, familiar faces and family.

You are in line for receiving professional attention, as the personal planets move through your 10th house of career. Remain clear of your intentions: you are looking for a vocation that sparks your creativity and doesn’t just pay the bills. Making choices that honor your need for security whilst offering you emotional fulfillment as you explore career options is a must. We culminate the month in bold Leo season, encouraging all signs to embrace what makes them loveable, and calling you out of your home base into your social circle. Prepare the looks.

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SCORPIO//SCORPIO RISING

After a heavy June, July asks you to practice nurturing and self care. Cancer season wants you to take a deep look at what you need to feel safe and secure in your relationships with others, so don’t be afraid to call in greater bouts of nourishment. With Mars entering your sector of relationships, you may find yourself more activated than usual by partners. This means you have bouts of eros, but in the same vein, reactivity.

With the North Node and Uranus lining up in your sector of partnerships, drastic and life-changing events are transpiring in terms of how you relate to others. You are a mysterious being, dear Scorpio, in need of long bouts of alone time and simultaneously have the desire to learn everything about another. It may be that you are looking for an enlivening, magnetic connection that supports your need for freedom, and shying away from the codependent toxicity of the past. Pay attention to who enters your life this month, destined connections are in the cards.

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SAGITTARIUS//SAGITTARIUS RISING

The idea of staying put in one place is irritating, dear Sagittarius. You like the idea of boundless horizons, sudden adventures and limitless possibility. The collective vibe shift into a homebodied one may have you eager for accompaniment in the bedroom. Your sector of intimacy is highlighted, as you look for a partner as daring as you are to delve into unexplored territory of emotional intimacy.

Jupiter, your ruler, has been in Aries for a few months now, helping you get to know yourself more and reclaim factions of identity ordinarily out of sight. As you learn more about your own needs, you are in a better position to look for a partner that can tolerate your insatiable appetite for adventure, while remaining loyal. Jupiter stations retrograde on the 28th, pulling you into a state of reflection as you examine the parts of your identity you no longer identify with. How have you changed?

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CAPRICORN/CAPRICORN RISING

Cancer season shines its light on your partnerships, as the Sun radiates through the emotional waters of the Crab. You are learning how to be softer and balance your own needs with the needs of others. You are infamous for your ability to be adult, wise, discerning – but even the resident adult of the zodiac needs nurturing. Let yourself surrender your guard and accept help when needed. Remember the people closest to you are mirrors, and even in their neediest moments they could be reflecting bits of yourself you can’t fully see.

A Full Moon in your sign on the 13th may bring solutions to a pressing relationship issue. Remember to communicate repressed feelings. Things should liven up on the 22nd, when the Sun moves into Leo, and you are called to explore your more sensual desires.

Capricorn Beauty Product Recommendation: Hermes Hermesistible Infused Care Oil

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AQUARIUS//AQUARIUS RISING

Early July calls you to restore and replenish your energy system by focusing on health matters. How you treat your body and what you put into it directly affects your ability to attract things towards you. It’s time to build a daily routine that honours your need for wellness. You are never one to shy away from an experimental health kick and Venus in Cancer may bring new methods for bodily care into your awareness.

All signs are eager for some emotional nourishment and this is the ample time to pamper yourself and try to stick to a routine. The energy shifts when Leo season begins on the 22nd, your opposing sign, bringing your focus for needs for validation from counterparts.

Aquarius Beauty Product Recommendation: MUTHA Body Butter

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PISCES//PISCES RISING

A strong current of creative ideas is headed your way this Cancer season, as your desire for artistic play is accentuated. You are bestowed a playful romantic temperament, finding inspiration in the mundane. With Neptune retrograde in your sign, you may find yourself dilly-dallying in dreamland, lost in some subatomic stratosphere of the imagination. Remember to stay grounded.

Luckily, Leo season brings your attention back to your body but until then, you are perfectly safe exploring fantasies of romantic grandeur. Your imagination is your greatest tool and weapon so try and curtail your appetite for daydreaming on doom and gloom, and instead, allow your mind to ponder the potential for success, love and greatness.

Pisces Beauty Product Recommendation: Maude Burn Massage Candle

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