horoscope-2024-07-08

Five days after Mercury returned to begin the first planetary activity on the romantic front this year, the Moon has joined him in your romantic sector and the timing couldn’t be better. With the Moon forming a friendly aspect to the North Node in Aries today and Mercury at the same aspect by tomorrow, four days before Venus, the planet of love is due to return this is giving your heart a sense of direction.

With both the Moon and Mercury separating from a clash with Pluto that saw them both put your work/life balance to the test, there is a chance to reflect on and process the insight without having to repeat the experience. With the Moon two days away from your romantic sector but due to return in the heart of the working week, this gives you time to prepare.

With Mercury usually rushing through your communication sector in 14 to 15 days and the Moon only returning every four weeks, that they align here today in itself makes this something that needs to be seized. Instead, this is the first of two alignments before Mercury eventually leaves in September, but with your relationships benefiting from how much easier it will be to give your emotional responses and relationships a voice.

As well as leaving you emotionally and intuitively engaged, the Moon’s departure from Cancer yesterday is a chance to move into Venus, the planet of love’s final days here with confidence. While their alignment just before the Moon left has given you a better read on what your heart is telling you, this has also left you with a better understanding of what you want from your relationships and what they need from you.

With the Moon still in Leo but separating from a clash with Pluto in your relationship sector yesterday and Mercury from the same clash a few days earlier, as they align today there is a chance to give anything this flushed out a voice. Mercury, the planet of communication is still in the early days of mission to get the communication lines open, with the Moon making it easier to give your emotional responses a voice at the right time.

While there is still some tension between Saturn in your relationship sector and the asteroid Juno in Virgo this is not only waning but is already turning into an opportunity for something more authentic. With the Moon having formed a friendly aspect to both planets in your relationship sector yesterday and the Sun and Venus, the planet of love set to do the same over the coming days it comes with built in support.

It is just as the dwarf planet Eris moves into her final two weeks in direct motion in your relationship sector and with Chiron, the planet of healing also slowing down ahead of a retrograde turn, the urgency is dialling back while the support is increasing. Today it is the Moon who is making this a good day for friendship and relationship building but Mercury, the planet of communication is warming up to do the same.

The Moon may have left an adventurous part of your chart yesterday and its friendly aspect to dreamy Neptune in your romantic sector before leaving was always going to leave a mix of romance, adventure and nostalgia in its wake, rather than wane this is likely to deepen. In her final days in an adventurous part of your chart and drawing closer to her own friendly aspect to Neptune, what the Moon hinted at Venus, the planet of love will come into full bloom.

While both planets in your romantic sector are slowing down ahead of retrograde turns later in the month as the Moon, moving through an adventurous part of your chart forms a friendly aspect to the North Node there it is linking to something that will remain focused on the future. With Venus, the planet of love just four days away from returning to begin her mission to bring the spirit of romance and adventure together, this is giving things a head start.

Thanks to the Moon’s departure from your relationship sector yesterday and the New Moon the day before, there is a chance to move into the Sun’s final two weeks and Venus, the planet of love’s final four days with confidence. As the Moon moved through, a friendly aspect to both planets in your communication sector and with the Sun and Venus having done the same over the last few days, this has also helped to get the communication lines open.

What makes the timing of the Moon’s alignment with Mercury, the planet of communication in your communication sector significant is that it comes just as they are both separating from a clash with Pluto in Aquarius. With the Moon forming a friendly aspect to the North Node in your communication sector and Mercury tomorrow, a very real chance to get the communication lines open on the relationship front is a chance to give anything flushed out a voice.

While the Moon left your romantic sector yesterday, with the Sun moving into his final two weeks and Venus, the planet of love into her final four days here there is a chance to move forward with confidence. These romantically charged lunar vibes and the New Moon they created have left you with the confidence to follow your heart while at the same time giving it a better sense of direction.