Weekly Astrology Forecast for July 23–29, 2023* — Halt and Catch Fire!

Hey star-gazers! The week ahead grants us a celestial reprieve; fewer aspects are on deck to shake up our current trajectory, but by the close of the next month, all the major planets, with Mars and Jupiter excepted, will be retrograde, inviting us to put our lives under the microscope and reset the central processing unit of our lives.

Headline news this week remains both Venus and Chrion’s retrograde turn. Venus has kicked off its all-important synodic precursor, winding down the waning phase of its current hemicycle to start a new Venus-in-Leo cycle. To manage this celestial direction-shift best, stay the course in any relationship and money matters. Now is not the time to make big changes. Instead, be a seasoned galactic hitchiker and strive to put the “re” in “retrograde”: REconsider before you REdo anything.

On July 23, Chiron’s direction shift slides us into an important juncture. Between now and its return to forward movement in January 2024, healing potential abounds with the asteroid of wounding inviting us to scrutinize what may have injured our personal identity. In Aries, the baby of the zodiac, Chiron may call on us to attend to our inner child, or ask us to explore how our own individuality may have been stifled by obstructionist naysayers. How we stand out from the crowd and act in…