Leo

The first three weeks are the wind-up. The Sun sits in Cancer — your solar twelfth house of rest and the backstage, reading your Sun sign as the first house the way monthly horoscopes do — until July 22, and Mercury is retrograde there until July 23. The new moon on July 14 lands in that same quiet territory: use it to close the old year on purpose. Cancel what you kept out of politeness, sleep unreasonable amounts, let the drafts stay drafts. Your season is coming; arrive rested.

Your friends will not be resting. Mars and Uranus meet in Gemini, your eleventh house, on July 4 — the invitation that materializes an hour before it happens, the plan that reroutes twice and improves both times. Say yes to the holiday-weekend chaos; that corner of your chart is where the month is loudest until yours begins.

Jupiter has been in Leo since June 30, and on July 20 it opposes Pluto in your seventh house of partnership: as your momentum becomes visible, someone close may respond by gripping tighter. The Sun repeats the opposition on July 27. Neither day calls for a showdown — just say where you are going, and mean the invitation to come along.

Then the sky clears its throat. The Sun enters your sign on July 22 and meets Jupiter at 6° Leo on July 29 — the brightest day of your year, not just your month. Launch the thing, throw the party, make the ask that felt too big in March. And because the same day’s full moon at 6° Aquarius falls in your partnership house, the answer arrives in person: a relationship reaches full clarity right as you reach full volume. The 29th is the whole point of your July. Build toward it.