Your main focus in July will be on money, for both the new moon and full moon will draw your attention to your finances. September will be very important for your career status, but for now, money will take priority over all. Still, even though financial considerations will rule, you will have several opportunities in July to make a name for yourself. Let's start by looking at the new, July 4, in Capricorn 13 degrees.

This July 4 new moon will light your eighth house of other people's money covering large funds to make a dream possible, so you may be applying for a mortgage, student loan, venture capital, sponsorship, bank loan, or a business line of credit. This area of your chart also rules large sums, usually delivered in one chunk, such as money from a court settlement, an inheritance, division of property in a divorce, a bonus, commission, prize winning, royalty, licensing fee, or a valuable gift. The house covers financial obligations such as to credit cards, child support, alimony, taxes, and also tax refunds if you are due one. You seem not to be finishing up a financial obligation this month but rather seeking a new source of funding.

This is the area of a major opportunity, so you would have the perfect moment to open talks for any of these matters, and also to do estate planning and/or the creation or change of your will. Additionally, you may want to meet with your financial advisor to see how your retirement portfolio is performing to see if adjustments are indicated. Think about your insurance needs too, to see if you need more or less coverage. It might also be a good time to see your accountant to do tax planning now that you are at mid-year.

This new moon will open opportunity to increase your cash flow, especially through the creative arts, for Neptune will be in an outstanding position to support that elegant new moon. If you are an artist, director, producer, musician, poet, screenplay writer, costume designer, painter, illustrator, dancer, costume designer, stylist, makeup artist, architect, designer of interiors - you name your profession - if you are creative, you will do exceptionally well. Additionally, Jupiter, in Sagittarius, rules the professions related to the media, law, medicine, and professorships at the college level. All those areas will do well for you too.

Even if you are not in a creative field or one of the professions, it doesn't matter - you should be looking at ways to bring in more money, whether earned (such as commission), won (contests), owed to you (such as child support), or loaned (such as a bank loan or mortgage). Those are just examples - you can think of others. Jupiter, the financial planet that expands profit in everything it touches, will be beautifully angled to this new moon, so there is a strong indication that your efforts will pay off. Sagittarius' ruling planet is Jupiter, so Jupiter's activities mean more to you than to most other signs. This is all good news.

There is one difficult planet in the mix. Pluto is positioned across the skies in your second house of earned income, at 180 degrees from the sweet little planets in your eighth house of other people's money. This tells me that if you are in a dispute about money, the other person or entity will push you very hard. If you are negotiating the compensation package for a new position, you may find that the other side will be intransigent about certain points, and in some cases the lack of compromise will seem unfair to you. Pluto is the 800-lb. gorilla who sits anywhere he pleases. Pluto is known to take no prisoners, so you will need to have your ducks in a row with your legal team.

There is one other way Pluto may work in your chart in that you may have problems instead with a ruthless competitor. No matter who it might be, this person seems to be determined to win. Your chart is complex, and you have support from Mars, so while this phase may be stressful - especially coming at time that is so celebratory for your career and money - you can find ways to protect yourself if you keep your wits about you.

You will be very prescient this month, so heed all that your intuition tells you to do. At times you may wonder why you are getting the hunches that you feel, but you must follow them, as they will be given to you for a reason.

Start working to enlarge your income in these areas quickly after the new moon arrives, July 4 and in the ten days that follow it. You won't get another new moon in this house again for a year, so your time to act is now. Remember, you have Jupiter and Neptune on your side. The actions you take now, if they take root, will have the power to positively affect your finances for a full year, until the next new moon in comes by - June 23, 2017 - to refresh the energy of this new moon.

New moons begin actions, and full moons bring things to an end or culmination. You won't have a full moon in this part of your chart until January 12, 2017. The results you will see in January 2017 will be related to the actions you take now.

You might want to do something as simple as list all your bank and brokerage accounts on a piece of stationery, with the name and phone number of your broker or banker, and file it in your safe deposit box along with another copy for your files at home. You may have all the financial people you deal with in your smart phone, but it's wise to keep them all in one place, too.

I want to tell you about some glittering days due this month that you can use to your full advantage! July 6 will be very special for having talks about money behind closed doors. You seem to be on the same page with the other person, and Venus and Mars will work brilliantly together to bring harmony.

A five-star day for you will be July 8, when Mercury (talks, news, contracts, and agreements) will work closely with Jupiter, giver of good fortune. What a gorgeous day to sign a contract or to shake hands on a deal. (In astrology, giving your word is just about the same as signing papers.) On this day, your career will be on fire. Use it to work out a compensation package, including benefits, like health insurance and vacation days. Over the weekend of July 9-10, you have another dazzler of a day, when the Sun and Jupiter will be aligned - again, money and status should flow to you. This is a Sunday, but you may feel the effects Friday, July 8, or Monday July 11.

Next, let's look at the full moon, July 19, in Capricorn 28 degrees, set to fill your second house of earned income, savings, and possessions. It is a house that reveals how you earn, save, spend, and appropriate your income. You may be paying a large bill at this time, or hearing back about a raise that you had asked for earlier. Again, Jupiter, giver of gifts and good fortune, will be active and in fine angle to this full moon. Jupiter is a little far away in his perch in Virgo 20 degrees, but within the eight-degree tolerance of influence (the full moon is 28 degrees Cancer). That's a good sign of things to work out to your benefit.

Mars will be in perfect angle to this new moon and Sun, too, which is excellent - you will have help from people behind the scenes at this time, and they will be individuals that you won't necessarily know, but who will be on your side, supporting you. Your actions will have weight and promise.

In any good story there always has to be a villain, and at the full moon July 19, it's Uranus, planet of out-of-the-blue happenings. He just can't help himself. Leave Uranus alone for five minutes and he is stirring the pot - a real Dennis the Menace. Uranus is in your sector of love and children, so this is where you may experience an out-of-the-blue expense within four days of the full moon, July 19. You may decide at the last minute to send your child to a pricey camp in August (or for my readers south of the equator, to have an expensive tutor for your child.) These are just two examples.

Or, it may be that a creative project you may be working on has overruns at the full moon July 19, and suddenly the client won't pay them, so you may have to eat those expenses because your name on the project to keep its integrity intact. Things like this happen but it's hard to tell where this expense will come from, because unpredictable Uranus is involved.

Let's talk about Mars now. Mars is currently in Scorpio filling your twelfth house. This is a house that rules many things, including work done behind closed doors, in solitude. You may be working on a manuscript to be shown to the world soon, or a conducting research that requires your full concentration. You can be very productive this month, for Mars will not leave this part of your chart until August 2 when Mars enters Sagittarius. From August 2 to September 27, you will have center stage and full control. Keep looking at your project to root out inaccuracies or misguided assumptions and prepare to unveil it in August, a spectacular month for you. September brings Mercury retrograde, August 30-September 21, so August is your month to act.

Mars in the twelfth house, as you have in July, may also bring you in contact with medical personnel, for you or for someone dear to you. This might be that you will having your annual physical, check your eyeglass prescription and/or do dental work (it could be as simple as having a professional cleaning). Or, it may be that this month you will go in for surgery you need done. The planets stacking in your eight house can indicate physical or dental surgery because the ancient astrologers reasoned the eighth house is the house of transformation. The surgeon removes the part of you that you don't need anymore and that is causing you problems so he can affect a total recovery or move to greater comfort for you.

I was born with a birth defect that affected my entire childhood. The doctors found what was wrong when they went in for an exploratory. I was in the hospital eleven months that year, but instead of seeing it as the hardest year of my life (I was 14 years old), I feel it was my best. I had to have nearly three years of daily physical therapy afterward - it worked. The doctors ended my exceedingly rare condition, and I never had to be troubled by it again. I am the poster child of traditional medicine, for I believe in surgery when there are no other options. Choose your doctor well, doing your thorough research, and when (or if) you go in for your procedure, you will be transformed.

Your timing would be good to take care of any medical condition now because Mars is now moving in direct orbit. Since April 17, Mars has been retrograde, and all of life seems to have been creeping along at a snail's pace. It was hard to get things moving, for with every step forward, we all had to take two steps back. There were a lot of things that needed to be re-done, with the month of May the worst time - five planets including Mars and Mercury were out of phase.

When big outer planets go retrograde (Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto), we don't feel them as directly, not like we would Mars, Mercury, and Venus, Those three planets orbit close to earth so we DO feel them strongly. Both Mercury AND Mars were going backward in May. Now, this period is over and you are entering into the best part of the year, the second half. Mars rules your love life, so you may have felt that the past few months were confusing for your love life, and if you are dating, you may have even wondered if you wanted to stay with the person you are with. It was a confusing time, but things should be clearer from now on.

Uranus will retrograde from July 29 to December 29, suggesting that by the end of July, you should concentrate on your present relationship and not look elsewhere. If you are dating seriously, but are still confused, give your relationship until October to decide what to do, for in October you will get many clues of the direction to take.

Venus will move through fellow fire sign Leo from July 11 to August 5, your time to shine romantically. Use that time to refresh your appearance, to buy new things for your wardrobe, and to experiment with the way you wear your hair. Looking great will give you confidence, always a plus when socializing.

On July 26, Mercury and Uranus will be beautifully aligned, and you may hear news about how well you did with a recent creative endeavor. Certainly ideas will pour out of you at a rapid rate, and everyone, including VIPs, will be impressed - you'll be deemed a rock star.

This month will emphasize money, but unlike some months, July seems to bring good news about your growing status from a hidden source and arrive just after the new moon, July 4. Four heavenly bodies will be energizing your eighth house of commissions, royalties, licensing fees, court settlements, bank loans, and other large one-time payments of cash. If you need venture capital, you will get it, for your reputation now precedes you. Jupiter will be in perfect angle to the four heavenly bodies in your eighth house, and those bodies include the new moon July 4, the Sun, Mercury, and Venus. Jupiter and Pluto will be within one degree of a perfect "trine" - the most harmonious aspect possible, so it appears you are about to reel in one big, prestigious, and profitable fish.

The Sun will be in ideal angle to Jupiter, your ruler, on Sunday, July 10, and you may feel this aspect on Monday, July 11. Talks you conduct in the days surrounding this gold-star day should go your way, even against all odds.

By now you've learned nothing is exactly easy, so while Pluto and Jupiter are in rare and special communication, Pluto will be precisely opposed to the new moon. This suggests someone near you will sense you are about to come into money, and pounce, demanding a sizable amount of it. It's unclear if this person is someone you are disputing in court, or is the tax man, or someone else who feels that you owe him (even if you feel he is delusional). This person will not be someone behind the scenes - you will clearly be able to see this person. This may, alternatively be an out-of-control competitor who has decided to zero in on your market share. He has to be stopped, and you will know how if you just give this a bit of thinking.

The full moon, July 19, will also focus you on money, too, but this time the funds you will be thinking about will be your own earnings and savings. This full moon could possibly bring the financial matter to a final stage. Mars will be very helpful now, and because it's tucked behind closed doors, you may not realize that you will have help from an anonymous, powerful person. (If you find out the identity of this person, you will need to keep his or her name confidential.)

If you work in a creative field, get very detailed instructions of what your client wants you to do, in writing. When Uranus goes retrograde July 29, you may find you will have to go over previous work and change it. Uranus won't turn direct for five months, so you will have to set up procedures to deal with the alternating current of this planet. If you are the client, again, you will have to be clear - write down all instructions. Things may change as you go along; tell the team that, so that they won't be surprised.

In matters of health, if you need an operation, procedure, or dental work done, this would be the time to schedule it. Your eighth house is lit up, and is considered the house of transformations - that is the reason this area of the chart rules surgery. The doctor removes the part of you that you do not need so that you can get well, transformed to health again. If you are scheduling surgery, your timing is good, as Mercury and Mars are no longer retrograde, giving you the open road to take action.

Your love life will be back on track, now that Mars, the planet that rules your fifth house of true love, is no longer retrograde, a condition that may have frustrated you from mid-April through end of June. No matter how you tried, events surrounding your relationship kept bring up all sorts of up and downs. This aspects point to someone you are dating, but not committed to yet.

Uranus, a planet of surprise and excitement, currently based in this same fifth house, will retrograde until the end of December, starting July 29. After that date, you may be again confused about what to do about your present relationship. Some days you feel you both are "on" and other days, "off."

Take your time to decide. Eventually you will know what to do, whether to stay, commit, or leave. This seems to be an important relationship to you, so don't rush for a final answer, assuming your partner is available and not married. (A married partner to you as a single person would bring in a bushel of problems, and in that case, you can end it for good now.) October will bring insight.

If you and your partner are already married, or in a very strong established relationship, you will not notice this aspect, for your committed relationship is covered by another part of the chart, seventh house. Things should remain happily calm.