Your Personal Horoscope 2018. Joseph Polansky

at the beginning of the month.

      The urge to travel is very strong these days, but if it isn’t necessary avoid it. Jupiter, who rules travel for you, is receiving good aspects, but he is retrograde. If you must travel during this period, allow more time to get to and from your destination. Insure your tickets, and do what you can to protect yourself against delays and glitches.

      July

      Best Days Overall: 5, 6, 14, 15, 22, 23, 24

      Most Stressful Days Overall: 12, 13, 18, 19, 25, 26

      Best Days for Love: 5, 6, 16, 18, 19, 25, 26

      Best Days for Money: 1, 5, 6, 7, 8, 12, 13, 16, 20, 21, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29

      Best Days for Career: 7, 8, 16, 25, 26

      Mars, the ruler of your Horoscope, spends almost the whole month ‘out of bounds’. This indicates that you’re outside your normal sphere, from the 9th onwards. You’re in an adventurous period, meeting new friends and perhaps getting involved with groups and group activities that are outside the norm for you. Adding to the adventure and the sense of ‘being ready for anything’ are two eclipses this month.

      The Solar Eclipse of July 13 occurs in your 4th house of the home and family. All of you will feel this, but those of you born later in the sign of Aries (April 8 to April 15) will feel it strongest. You should be taking things easier anyway until the 22nd, but especially around the period of the eclipse. It looks like it will have a strong effect and will bring family dramas and shakeups. Family members are more temperamental at this time, and are experiencing life-changing events. Often, as our regular readers know, repairs are needed in the home. Hidden flaws tend to come to light under an eclipse’s influence. Parents or parent figures are having their marriages tested. Children or children figures are making life-changing kinds of decisions (some can be quite normal, but for them it is life changing). They too should take a more relaxed schedule. The family finances – especially those of a parent or parent figure – need a course correction. Pluto is affected by this eclipse, so you could be involved in near-death kinds of experiences. Death (usually on a psychological level) touches you in some way.

      The Lunar Eclipse of the 27th also impacts on the home and family – as every Lunar Eclipse does. So there is more of the same with the family as we’ve written above. This eclipse occurs in your 11th house of friends, so there are dramas – and perhaps crises – in the lives of friends. Friendships get tested, as do computers and high-tech equipment (often these need repair or replacement). This eclipse affects you strongly as Mars is impacted here. So reduce your schedule and avoid dangerous or stressful situations. Spend more quiet time at home. The impact on Mars shows a need to redefine yourself – how you think of yourself and how you want others to think about you. This will be a six-month process. This redefinition is basically a healthy thing: since we are always changing we should always be redefining ourselves. But here it is rather forced on you. The events caused by the eclipse force you into this process.

      August

      Best Days Overall: 1, 2, 3, 10, 11, 19, 20, 29, 30

      Most Stressful Days Overall: 8, 9, 14, 15, 21, 22

      Best Days for Love: 5, 14, 15, 24, 25

      Best Days for Money: 4, 5, 8, 9, 14, 15, 16, 17, 24, 25, 26, 27, 31

      Best Days for Career: 4, 12, 21, 22, 31

      Just when you thought the disturbances of last month’s eclipses were over, there is another one – the third Solar Eclipse of the year – to keep you on your toes. It is helpful to understand that eclipses are not ‘punitive’ (though it can feel that way). Their cosmic job is to clear the obstructions to your path in life, the obstructions to your good. And, they generally do a good job of it. It is also helpful to know that this is the last one for the current year.

      Mars is still ‘out of bounds’ this month – for the entire month. So you are still outside your normal haunts, in unknown territory. So the adventure continues.

      This Solar Eclipse of the 11th occurs in your 5th house and impacts more on the children or children figures in your life. Whatever changes were not made last month will be made now (and over the next six months). This eclipse has less of an effect on you than the previous ones. Your overall health and energy are much better this month, and no other major planets are affected by it. But it won’t hurt to take it easier over this period – and that goes double for the children or children figures in your life. As we mentioned, many of the changes in their lives are normal – part of growing up. Sometimes they have their sexual awakenings; sometimes they go off to school or university. But for them these are life-changing events. Whatever the actual event – and there are many, many scenarios – it will cause them to redefine themselves, to change their image and their self-concept, to change (over the next six months) their wardrobe and how they present themselves to others. And those of you in the creative and artistic spheres re changing your creativity – you are making course corrections here.

      Venus has her solstice this month – from the 5th to the 9th. She pauses in her latitudinal motion and then changes direction. This shows a pause in your love and financial life and then a change of direction. This is nothing to be feared. The direction you’re to take will become very clear.

      On the 22nd the Sun enters your 6th house of health and work. This indicates a nice financial period for your children (or children figures in your life). For you, it shows a focus on health and work. It is a favourable time for job seekers.

      September

      Best Days Overall: 7, 15, 16, 25, 26

      Most Stressful Days Overall: 4, 5, 11, 12, 17, 18, 19

      Best Days for Love: 2, 3, 11, 12, 13, 22, 23

      Best Days for Money: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 13, 14, 22, 23, 24, 27, 28

      Best Days for Career: 1, 8, 9, 17, 18, 19, 27

      The planetary power is now at its maximum Western position for the year. Thus, the planetary energies (the short-term planets) are moving away from you and towards others. You still have plenty of personal independence – the Western, social sector is not dominant – but less so than usual. So, this is a time to be more adaptive to the conditions around you. It’s not an especially good time to make changes – that will come later in the year. Rather, it is a time to cultivate your social skills. Your likeability will get you further than your personal efforts.

      Your 6th house is still strong this month, until the 22nd. So this is a good time to do all those detail-oriented, boring tasks that need to be done. You have more energy for them. It is still a good financial period for the children or children figures in your life, and it is still good for hiring others or for finding a job – whatever the need happens to be.

      On the 22nd, the Sun enters your 7th house of love and you begin a yearly love and social peak. The love and social life becomes more active. Singles are dating more and are more in the mood for love. (This is 90 per cent of romance: being in the mood, being interested.) Those already in relationships are more romantic within that relationship.

      Finances are good this month (and will get even better next month). On the 9th Venus enters your 8th house of regeneration, and stays there for the rest of the month. She is moving ever closer to Jupiter, so earnings are expanding. Opportunities are coming. Your financial planet in the 8th house shows a need to prosper others – to put the financial interest of others ahead of your own. This, by the karmic law, will bring your own abundance to you. Venus in your 8th house (and in Scorpio) is good for paying off debt or for taking on loans – according to your need. It is good for getting financially healthier, eliminating unnecessary expenses. Good to go through your belongings and get rid of things that you don’t use. Clear the decks to allow the greater good to come in. This planetary position also indicates good financial cooperation with your spouse, partner or current love interest. Financial intuition is excellent this month. Take heed of your dreams, and be alert to nature’s signals in everyday life.