Astrology of the Week Ahead with Chani Nicholas - The Week of July 8th, 2024: Building stability and resolve with the Venus–Pluto opposition

Episode Date: July 8, 2024

Episode 186 In this podcast, New York Times best-selling author and astrologer Chani Nicholas discusses the astrology of the week and what it might mean for us all. The astrology of the week of July 8th, 2024, blends wake-up calls with moments of secure abundance. On Monday, Venus (the planet of beauty) sextiles Uranus (the planet of innovation), inviting us to experiment with new modes of connection and pleasure-seeking. Later, Mercury (the messenger planet) sextiles Jupiter (the planet of bounty), inspiring us to communicate sentiments of optimism and expansiveness. On Wednesday, the Sun trines Saturn (the planet of structure), urging us to ground into the ways we lead and create stability in our lives. On Thursday, Venus trines Neptune (the planet of illusion), beckoning us to escape into what is romantic or delightful. Then, Venus enters Leo, where justice, beauty, and matters of the heart will come under a more dramatic spotlight. Finally, on Friday, Venus opposes Pluto (the planet of underworld journeys), plunging us deep into the relationships that require us to be honest with ourselves and clearing space for a necessary transformation. All in all, this week is an opportunity to confront reality and enjoy the ease that finds us. This episode was recorded on 05/27/2024. For more, check out your free daily horoscope on the homepage of the CHANI app — now on iOS and Android. The music featured in the podcast was created by Latashá.

Hello and welcome. This is the Astrology of the Week Ahead podcast. I'm your host, Chani, Nicholas. This week's episode, we're talking about the astrology of the week of July 8th. In this podcast, we look at the astrology of the upcoming week and how it will be landing for all of us collectively. For a more personalized reading that dives into the ways that this week's astrology will play out for you, download the Chani app. I got to say, this week has a lot of relationship stuff in it. It's like ending with a little bit of a bang, I would say. But it's not like massive life-defining astrology or even defining for 2024 or even this season. However, on Monday, July 15th, there is a piece of astrology that is quite, disruptive, lively. It's a little bit of a red flag. I'm lying. It's a red flag piece of astrology. So I just want to say that we're going to be feeling that now. It's like feeling the ripples of something coming. It's feeling the disturbance of something coming. There's something on its way. And I don't mean that

that's going to be bad for you individually. I don't mean it's even going to be bad. It's just loud. And I don't know what way it's going to be loud. It's going to be disruptive. I don't know what it's going to disrupt. There's a lot that needs to be disrupted in our world right now. So this could be some signature. This could be a moment of time that has a quality within it that is really good for disrupting something that isn't really good. So I want us to think about it. in a stretchy kind of way. I don't know us. I don't want us to be so focused on what we fear. I say that all the time every time I bring up something that looks like a loud, challenging, disruptive, whatever moment. But I think it's worth saying because what gets attention in the

algorithms that we're all very connected to is anything that is controversial and also anything that's upsetting. And when there's a signature, astrologically speaking, of something that does look upsetting, then there's ways in which we might take that and run with it. But I want us to think about what it is that's good to upset. It's good to flip a table if everything that's happening at that table is about injustice and is about harm and is about everything that we know needs to change. So on July 15th, I'm way ahead now. I haven't even talked about the astrology this week, but just bear this in mind because I want it to be the backdrop of everything right now. On July 15th, Mars, the planet of aggression and sometimes war and also of courage and valor and energy and, you know, breaking through whatever barrier comes up against, that planet is making a conjunction that's sitting in the same spot as the planet Uranus. And Uranus is a planet of change. It's a planet of surprises. It's the planet of things being unconventional out of the blue and there can be a feeling of like an earthquake or a disruption.

Uranus and Mars, I would say, but depending on the sign, Uranus is very loud. It is chaotic because it is about a breakthrough. You don't usually break through something without some part of that being loud, right? there's not usually a big change without something breaking. And so break downs, breakthroughs, breaking open, breaking away from, breaking with tradition is all about what Uranus does. Or Uranus is all about it. And when you mix Mars with it, a planet that is harsh sometimes and a planet that does its own kind of disruption because it's like a sword, right?

so it slices through something. It breaks the fabric of something. So these two, you know, do a lot together. They get loud together. They are not polite or respectful of status quo, which again can be good or boundaries, which obviously could be bad, and of anything that is overly traditional. Okay, so again, that's happening on the world stage. It might happen in your personal life.

It might be something that you're feeling like, oh, there's a change, there's a need for something. But again, it might just be something that happens outside here. And of course, the outside impacts us, but it's different than when it happens personally. So we're looking at, you know, disruptive things happening out in the world around July 15th, which, you know, falls on this weekend or that energy will be felt this weekend, I think. we'll see. Okay, sticking to just this week now, however. On Monday the 8th, we have Venus making a sex style to Uranus, which is about finding delights and pleasures in a whole new way. Let's get experimental about how we connect with others, about how we enjoy ourselves, about how we do things that are fun. Also on that day, Mercury makes a sex style to Jupiter. I love Monday. Monday has a just a lot of positive signals and signs and energy to it. And it's a really good day to communicate, to send out your emails, to have the conversation, to have the meeting, right? We want to think

about what's good for our relationships and how we can get across sentiments of optimism and expansion and choice and abundance even. And then Wednesday, the sun makes a trine to Saturn, which is a really good signature for our own leadership. The Sun is a planet that talks about how we shine and it talks about how we lead and it talks about how we, you know, demonstrate or how we are able to pronounce ourselves in some way, shape, or form. And Saturn is about what gives us stability and what can also act like a ground underneath us. So Wednesday is a really nice moment for kind of grounding into our own leadership in our lives. On Thursday, Venus makes a trine with Neptune, which is very romantic, very lovey-dovey,

very good for escaping into whatever it is that is pleasurable and delightful for us. it's a really good like moment for our own creativity as well. And then it moves into Leo. And things are changing now. We're hitting a different area of July. So Mercury is already in Leo and now Venus is going to enter Leo. And while Leo's not a major hotspot for the summer, it is sitting in a square. It's a sign that. that sits in a square with Taurus. And right now, Mars and Uranus are in Taurus. They're about to make that conjunction. And Venus rules that whole situation, right? Venus rules Taurus. So Venus is in charge of Mars and Uranus right now, as soon as it, you know, all the time. But as soon as it moves into Leo, it also makes an opposition with Pluto. So follow this. The two planets that are super

disruptive and that are sitting together in Taurus are governed by Venus. And up until it enters Leo, it's better. It's like, okay, this is, this is working. Things are still working in some way. And then as soon as Venus enters Leo, it makes an opposition with Pluto, which evokes something deeply held, emotionally speaking. It brings. brings up a lot of relationship issues. It asks us to go really deep and to hold space for something that is also quite cathartic or transformative or alchemical, if you will, which is great. And because the planet that's ruling this difficult combo is all of a sudden in a difficult situation, it does feel like the weekend is going to be a little extra complicated. Again, that might not

be for you personally. So don't sweat it. And if this is falling in your personal life, it's going to feel like you need to make a change. It's going to feel like you need to get real. It's going to feel like you don't want small talk right now. You want to go deep into the lessons of love and connection that you know you need to get into. It's going to feel like my relationship dynamics are going through some kind of major transformation and that transformation is going to lead to a breakthrough or at least I hope that that's how it feels. And if stuff feels like it's breaking or falling apart or kind of molting in a way like there's something happening that you're like what is going on with everyone or with this situation in my life, know that we're in a bumpy

corner, right? And we're going to feel it all week, but especially, I think, as soon as Thursday, as soon as Venus moves in to Leo. And the thing about Venus and Leo is that anything in Leo is going to be really performative. It's going to be obvious. It's going to be dramatic. And so Venus is about matters of the heart and about justice and about beauty. And so all of those things get louder when Venus is in Leo. And as it makes an opposition to Pluto, it's not going to do it quietly. So it's not going to go into the underworld and do this subterranean digging up how I really feel about the situation quietly. It's going to be obvious in our life.

And when things are obvious in our life, we get to make choices about it. it. When things are not obvious, when they're hidden from view, when we aren't sure about them, it's harder to know what to do. So the loudness of both Venus and Leo and the loudness of Mars and Uranus hanging out together and Venus and Leo ruling the Mars and Uranus means that we're going to get the info. We're going to experience something in our face if we're going to experience it. Again, you got to remember, some of this stuff is not going to, like, land in your life very intensely. If you're Torres Rising or Leo Rising or Scorpio Rising or Aquarius Rising, you're more than likely to feel it a little bit more because the fixed signs, the signs I just

mentioned, these situations are going to be happening in what we call angular houses in your chart. And so those rising signs are going to have this astrology more prominently featured, more active, we could say, in your life. So those rising signs might notice it. They might notice this desire for change. They might notice a desire for a deepening in the relationship or something that gets revealed within relationship dynamics that is very, very important. I do think that a Venus opposing Pluto has the power to show you what you've refused to see about a relationship thus far. It's a peeling back of a layer. And, you know, Venus goes through this really like lovey-dovey romantic thing as it trines Neptune on Thursday. And then all of a sudden, everything changes. And it's a. opposing Pluto, and the delusions are cleared, the illusions are swept away, the cobwebs are released from our eyes, or the soft lighting disappears, and like the lights get turned on,

and it's a little bit of a harsh lighting situation, but it's, again, good to know the reality of a sitch. So this could be in any area of your life. It doesn't mean that it's about even another person. Go listen to your reading. In the Chani app, we go into great detail. about it. And also, I want you to know Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, some of Thursday, really lovely little pockets of astrology to work with. Very helpful, very bountiful even, and quite stabilizing, which we need, because whatever's going to happen over the course of this weekend and into next Monday, Tuesday, and into the rest of next week, is, important. Mars making a conjunction with Uranus, it happens every couple years, ish. And it's not

like, you know, decade-defining astrology. But when it happens within a year, you want to circle it. We circle it on the calendar. We're like, okay, that's a thing to look out for. And again, it's not always just on that day, or it's not only only on that day, or it's not only just that day. It's what happens before it and after it. as well. So this is just that little corner of July that you're like, okay, let's plan for the unexpected. And also let's plan to make our own breakthroughs happen. I do think that this might comment on divestment in some way, shape, or form, because it's happening in Taurus. So I'll also be looking to the world stage about, you know, issues with the economy, money, but like how we're

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And it's the second full moon that's happening in Capricorn in a row. and it's also conjunct cludo. So these themes of change and alchemy run pretty deep this week and next. I'm sending you lots of love. Many, many, many, many blessings. Bye for you.