Neil Spencer

Your Stars 25 July 2010

Posted on 24 July 2010

Leo

Bang your drum proudly – the birthday of a prince or princess (that’s you) deserves no less. Bear in mind, however, that for the next two days you are opposed by the full Moon, so a degree of modesty is in order, especially around your other (just possibly better) half.
Be a talkative, open, witty breed of Lion for the best results. This is something of a peak moment, so measure your pronouncements, make sure you get the number of any encounters, maintain a broad smile and a flinty eye.
For the remainder of the week a snooze in the Sun looks tempting, but with the Moon in a kindred fire sign next weekend, you have social business to attend to – the more uproar and mayhem involved, the better. Might that be another Leo birthday party? Any chance of an invite?

Virgo

Pivotal times these, when you polish off old work, wave sayonara to folks you loved but have lost (or they lost you), and prepare yourself for the next cycle that begins in earnest in around a month’s time. People and experiences that can’t be digested, metaphorically speaking, don’t deserve any more of your energy. As for shedding a tear…don’t get soft!
The end of one cycle means the start of another, and in the immediate term (three weeks) you have the power to attract people to your cause and tie them into your personal world, should you wish to spin a spider’s web.
Furthermore, Mercury – your ever-so-busy ruling planet – arrives in your skies late on Wednesday for a prolonged nine week stay, including the dreaded (well, jolly frustrating) three week retrograde cycle. This week is highly favoured for despatching all your paperwork, business, purchases, travel arrangements and so forth. You have until 20 August before Mercury turns backwards, but the next seven days repay your efforts in triplicate.

Libra

The full Moon prevailing over the next couple of days (until Tuesday midnight) is in your favour. Keep your grumpiness and resentments in the closet, and turn yourself to a profitable blend of business and pleasure. Good week for deals.
The arrival of Mars in Libran skies next Saturday (again, around midnight) changes the atmosphere somewhat. You don’t have to become Mr Hyde as the chimes sound, but August is a different, more purposeful month.
In terms of men/women who entice you, this is a phase when it’s hard to be a reticent wallflower. If you’re in the game of romance, bare your teeth, preferably with a rose clenched between them, though a wolfish grin will do nicely.

Scorpio

Where you have to march to the drummer’s beat at work, do so. Where you can knock off for food and drink with your comrades, do so. Though broadly favourable, this is not the most decisive phase of your year. Be efficient, take care of business, get the chores out of the way. Keep in mind that come September, you will be overloaded. Right now, you are in between times.
Nice week for the romantically inclined, however; if love is your poison, anytime before Friday midnight is super sweet.

Sagittarius

Whatever steps you need to take to get people in your workplace out of your personal space …go right ahead and move them aside. For example: throw a wobbly to ensure that you don’t share a desk with a stinky colleague. This patch of your year is about wheedling, whining and charming your way through the job, and the sooner it’s done the better – the coming weekend makes a good deadline. August 20th – start of Mercury retrograde – is a fall back deadline.
If you have in mind a personal, creative project, or a an incipient or raging love affair, then go for it. Tomorrow’s full Moon, operative until midweek, makes you the one with the Big Passion. Ever heard Elvis sing ‘It’s Now or Never’? That’s the spirit!

Capricorn

Tomorrow’s full Moon shines an illuminating light on your financial arrangements, and how you might make them even more watertight. Are you really down to your last million and the second home on a Mediterranean isle? Don’t expect others to bleed over your plight, just get on and fix what’s wrong. Mercury’s retrograde cycle – the three weeks starting August 20th – makes a handy deadline for all practical affairs.
As for complicated love affairs or marriages with strings attached you’re at a point of illumination. No need to jump before due consideration – as if – but you can make a resolution or two. Long distance love affairs? Embrace them!

Aquarius

Full Moon alert! You are under Luna’s spell from this evening through to dawn on Wednesday , a time when emotions run high and defeat cool, rational analysis. Whether that is a good thing or bad thing depends on how much you trust your feelings, but it’s certainly not the time to start chucking china at your other half. Good moment to be onstage, displaying your quirky talents to the world (and they are extra quirky right now).
The necessity to conform to the world’s strictures – not exactly an obsession for most Aquarians (though it’s a complex subject!) – is at a point of release. Your incoming path might be revealed as soon as next weekend, when the current lunation makes important contacts for you. Latch on to fellow members of the awkward squad!

Pisces

Contrary to the view pedalled by cynical politicians and warmongers, ‘peace’ is not a passive thing. Peace means arguments, trade-offs, and shaking hands (maybe grudgingly) on deals you have to do if the alternative – open warfare – is not to be embraced.
From an astrological perspective, this is the place you now inhabit. Whether it’s your unachieving/overbearing lover, or their equivalent in the big bad world, you must contest, haggle and take the lesser of evils. Will there ever be a time when you get things your own way without a scrap? In your dreams maybe, though from mid-September onwards it’s a much more favourable picture.
This week, the Moon in Pisces, from dawn on Wednesday to midnight on Friday is when you have your best hunches and see keenly insights into both enemies and lovers (they’re jumbled together at present). Be forthright with both.

Aries

A full Moon in your favour makes this a week for maximum profile, whether you’re posing on beach and boulevard, or with head down creating your masterpiece. Extravagant gestures (that you probably can’t afford) look so appealing that you probably can’t resist, and if it’s in pursuit of a life-long ambition or crazy love affair (both very much in tune with your ‘scope), then what the heck. Live now and pay later as the saying goes.
As long as you keep in mind that you are moving into more difficult terrain this autumn (see last week’s forecast), go with your gut feelings. Saturday night , when the Moon is in your sign, looks memorable…but keep the peace as you show the world what you got.

Taurus

The glittering professional prizes that dangle just out of reach are sttill there dangling, and the full Moon shining tomorrow and Tuesday is there to guide you onwards in hope. The elusive quality of glamour -sure it’s an illusion but it ensnares the world – is a big part of this month’s professional story. A creative, dashing image (and as we know it’s no mere image in your case) serves you well. For those in pursuit of a certain someone, the same applies in the private realm. Dress up.
Mercury’s arrival in Virgo, a fellow earth sign, later this week, is good new for getting across your message, but witha retrograde cycle imminent, all meeetings and deals are better done sooner rather than later.

Gemini

Last gasp of the old order. You have only to be patient as the new one uinfolds, patient and inmsightul – even positive planets require your active collaboration. Your planet, Mercury, makes brilliant contacts this week, and asks you to pull out the stops to get affairs in order wherever possible. Auigust is way slower.
As for such matters as the grinding home life, the never ending renovation of the family pile, or removing the flatmate from hell…you have endured enough. Take short cuts to get them out of your way. You need space to explore matters of the heart. For those, next weekend is promisingly starred.

Cancer

The solution to financial problems is always two fold – go leaner and meaner or earn more. Tomorrow’s full; Mooin illuminates how you might do the latter. You have been getting slimpses of your professional future this summer, even if acual offers of employment have not been forthcoming. This autumn’s somewhat brutal message is that if no-one is going to help you out with a job, you will have to make your own fortune.
That said, joint financial arrengments are also in the spotliight this week, and if they are plain unjust, stamp your foot until you get an equitable outcome. Funny word that, equitable, but it’s very much the mood of the moment…let’s hope it applies in your favour.