Scorpio

Distance suits you this month. The July 14 new moon at 22° Cancer lands in your solar ninth house — travel, study, and what you actually believe, reading your Sun sign as the first house the way monthly horoscopes do. That’s the fresh start: the course you enroll in, the trip you finally plan, the conviction you say out loud. One asterisk: Mercury is retrograde in the same territory until it stations direct on July 23, so sketch the itinerary early but buy the nonrefundable parts after that date. The Sun’s square to Saturn on July 6 names the obstacle in advance — your workload, arguing that you can’t possibly leave. It’s arguing; it isn’t right.

Mars spends July in Gemini, your eighth house of shared money and private arrangements, and the opening weekend is loud: Mars meets Uranus on July 4 — the surprise statement, the joint-account jolt, the renegotiation nobody scheduled. The next day is better than it looks. Mars trines Pluto on July 5, your two rulers cooperating, which favors the deliberate money conversation over the reactive one. If something needs signing, the Mars sextile to Saturn on July 19 is the steady day for it.

Career is the big story late. Jupiter is newly settled in Leo, your tenth house, and the Sun joins it — entering Leo on July 22, then conjunct Jupiter at 6° Leo on July 29, the month’s brightest professional day. Put the visible thing on it: the pitch, the review, the launch. Notice what pulls the other way, though. Jupiter opposes Pluto on July 20, the Sun repeats it on July 27, both dragging the same axis toward your fourth house of home — and the July 29 full moon lands at 6° Aquarius in that very house. On the day work applauds, something domestic comes to a head. Go home for dinner anyway.

The stations are quieter weather: Neptune turns retrograde on July 7 and Saturn on July 26, both in your sixth house of routines and health. The regimen you built this spring goes under review through year’s end. Keep the parts you actually do.