Joseph Polansky - Your Personal Horoscope 2018

Your financial planet, Mercury, is retrograde until the 19th, so avoid major purchases and investments during this time. After the 19th there will be more clarity and it is safer to act. Mercury spends the month in your 4th house. So (no surprise), you’re spending more on the home and family. Perhaps you’re earning from there as well. Some of you will be earning money at home. Family and family connections are playing a huge role in the financial life this month.

Mars, your spiritual planet, is ‘out of bounds’ all month (an aspect that began last month). So in your spiritual life you’re outside your normal sphere. This is the kind of aspect of someone who travels to some distant land on a spiritual pilgrimage. But it can also indicate exploring new and different types of spirituality from where you are.

Best Days Overall: 1, 9, 17, 18, 19, 27, 28

Most Stressful Days Overall: 7, 13, 14, 20, 21

Best Days for Love: 1, 2, 3, 9, 10, 13, 14, 18, 19, 22, 23, 27, 28

Best Days for Money: 2, 3, 4, 5, 9, 13, 14, 18, 19, 22, 23, 24, 29, 30

Best Days for Career: 1, 8, 9, 17, 20, 21, 27

Now that the excitement of the eclipses is over you can enjoy your life more. Your 5th house of creativity and fun is still very strong until the 22nd, so you’re in another one of your personal pleasure peaks for the year. A good time to schedule more leisure and fun activities into your life.

Health and energy are much improved over last month. If there have been health problems you should hear good news about them this month. Continue to pay particular attention to the kidneys and hips until the 9th. After the 9th give more focus to the colon, bladder and sexual organs. Detox regimes are powerful after this date, and a herbal colon cleanse might be a good idea if you feel under the weather.

Finances are also good this month. Mercury is moving fast and financial progress happens quickly. You cover a lot of territory. The period between the 6th and the 22nd is particularly good. Mercury will be in your 5th house, showing that money is earned in happy ways. The act of making money is enjoyable (and we can’t always say that). There is luck in speculations. Most importantly you’re enjoying the wealth that you have. You’re spending your money on fun activities. Children and children figures in your life seem important financially. Sometimes, especially if they are young, they motivate you to earn more. Sometimes they have ideas or insights that are profitable. If the children are older, they can be financially supportive in a more tangible way.

Your 6th house of health and work becomes strong from the 22nd onwards. This signals a good work ethic – something you need right now with Mars moving back into your 10th house of career. The demands of career are very strong, but you seem up to it. Those of you looking for work should have success during this period (and next month too).

On July 22 the planetary power started to shift from the East to the West, from the sector of the self to the sector of others. Now, it is approaching its maximum Western position. This means that the planetary power is more focused on others, flowing towards others, away from yourself. And, this is how you should be. Venus, the ruler of your Horoscope, moves into your 7th house on the 9th and stays there for the rest of the month ahead. You’re taking a vacation from yourself (a much-needed one), and you’re more concerned for others now. You put the interests of others ahead of your own. You feel good when you can do things for others. This tends to popularity, so love is going well too.

Best Days Overall: 6, 7, 15, 16, 25, 26

Most Stressful Days Overall: 4, 5, 10, 11, 17, 18, 19, 31

Best Days for Love: 2, 3, 6, 7, 10, 11, 15, 16, 20, 21, 25, 26, 29, 30

Best Days for Money: 1, 2, 3, 9, 10, 11, 20, 21, 27, 28, 29, 30

Best Days for Career: 6, 15, 17, 18, 24, 25

Love is the main headline in the coming month, but it is still a bit complicated. On the one hand, Pluto, your love planet, is finally moving forward again after many months of retrograde motion (this happens on the 20th). Jupiter in your 7th house is also moving forward, and on the 23rd the Sun will enter your 7th house, initiating a yearly love and social peak. So love is in the air for singles these days. There is only one problem. Venus, the planet of love and the ruler of your Horoscope, starts to go backwards on the 5th. So, love is happening, but you seem to be backing away from it. Perhaps you’re taking a wait-and-see attitude. Perhaps you’re being more cautious. But the love opportunities are there, and the social judgement is getting better.

Health is good this month and you’re on the case – your 6th house of health is still very strong until the 23rd. After then, however, your health will need more attention being paid. We don’t see any major disasters, just energy not up to its usual standards. So make sure, as always, to get enough rest. Enhance the health in the ways mentioned in the yearly report, and in the ways mentioned last month. Detox regimes are excellent. A herbal colon cleanse might be a good idea. Safe sex and sexual moderation are important.

The career has been important all year, but now, from the 23rd onwards, it becomes even more of a focus. After the 23rd 90 per cent of the planets will be above the horizon. Mars is still in your career house, however, and the career is frenetic. You need to be more aggressive here.

Finances looks good this month, but stronger after the 10th than before. The month will wind up being prosperous. Until the 10th money comes through your work – the old-fashioned way. On the 10th your money planet Mercury moves into Scorpio, your 7th house, and travels with the Sun. This signals good support from family and friends. Mercury will travel with Jupiter from the 28th to the 30th – indicating a nice payday. It also shows good financial cooperation with the spouse, partner or current love. Debts are easily paid. This is a good period to contact outside investors if you have good ideas for projects. A business partnership or joint venture could happen – the opportunity will come. Social connections are important all month.

Best Days Overall: 2, 3, 11, 12, 21, 22, 29, 30

Most Stressful Days Overall: 1, 6, 7, 8, 14, 15, 27, 28

Best Days for Love: 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 11, 12, 14, 15, 21, 22, 23, 24, 29, 30

Best Days for Money: 1, 8, 9, 10, 19, 20, 23, 24, 27, 28

Best Days for Career: 2, 10, 14, 15, 20, 28

The spouse, partner or current love has had a good financial year, but this month it gets even better. On the 8th Jupiter will move into their money house, a classic signal of prosperity, and on the 22nd the Sun also moves into this house and they enter a yearly financial peak. You seem personally very involved with this.

Jupiter’s move into your 8th house of regeneration shows the importance of tax efficiency. Good tax planning will play an important role in your bottom line. It is also excellent for paying debts, refinancing debt on more favourable terms, or for taking out loans – all depending on your need. Often this transit indicates inheritance, but hopefully no one has to die. You can profit from estates or be appointed to some administrative position in an estate.

You’re still very much in the midst of a yearly love and social peak until the 22nd. However, Venus is still retrograde until the 16th, so while the love opportunities are still there you seem hesitant. This will start to change after the 16th. The New Moon of the 7th is going to clarify love issues as the month progresses. All the information you need will come to you effortlessly as the month progresses. You’ll have all the information you need to make a correct decision.