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As Neptune begins its annual retrograde this week, you’re encouraged to ground your creative pursuits in the present moment in practical ways. Meanwhile, Mercury enters Leo and opposes Pluto, bringing attention to unconscious patterns, beliefs, and stories about self-expression in your weekly horoscope. To end the week, a New Moon helps you get started again in the emotional seas of Cancer.
Weekly Horoscope for June 30th – July 6th
June 30 | The Moon enters Taurus
July 2 | Neptune retrograde, Mercury in Leo, Moon in Gemini
July 3 | Mercury vs Pluto
July 4th | The Moon enters Cancer
July 5 | New Moon in Cancer
Neptune Retrograde
Welcome to Neptune retrograde, which starts on July 2, 2024 and lasts until December 7, 2024. Neptune is the planet of mystery and inspiration. By clouding our vision, we can remember that there is more to us than this concrete reality. It is a whole world that we can enter through imagination, poetry, and art. It is the landscape of our dreams.
But when Neptune retrogrades in Pisces, it makes us less likely to enter the world of dreams and guides us instead to attend to the material world — the here and now of our existence. Neptune retrograde reminds us that we must attend to both worlds. It allows us to see what was previously obscured, to ground our dreams in reality, and organize ourselves so that we can bring our imaginations into life.
Mercury enters Leo
Mercury is our mind. It’s our communication, our thinking, and our learning. It’s the lens through which we perceive the world and take in information. As Mercury moves into a new sign, the energy of our mind and thoughts shifts with it.
When the planet enters Leo on July 2, 2024, it is an invitation to self-expression. It is a space of creativity, of sharing passions through voice and communicating the longings of the heart. In this space and in the weekly horoscope, there is an invitation to see the world in a way that brings us more to life, brings joy to our experiences, and supports the vitality of the heart. This transit, which lasts until July 25, 2024, prepares us for Leo season, which begins on July 22, 2024.
Mercury and Pluto opposition
The day after Mercury moves into Leo, it opposes Pluto. Mercury represents our conscious mind, and Pluto represents our underworld and unconscious mind. As Mercury transits Leo, emphasizing our area of self-expression and vitality, Pluto creates a thread of communication between the underworld and our conscious mind.
This opposition is an attempt to help us bridge the polarities within ourselves – light and dark, self-expression and self-repression – and find the space where they can start to function together. We all have parts of us that are shadowed and avoided by the world for fear of being rejected… but we reject ourselves because of that fear.
Consider where this division comes from. Is it our own framework of what is good and acceptable, or a framework we have learned? What is it here that is ready to be rewritten? This conflict highlights the polarity within us all and invites questioning, presence, and healing.
New Moon in Cancer
We are making a fresh start with the New Moon in Cancer on July 5, 2024. Cancer is pure emotion. A New Moon that invites us to listen. A New Moon that invites us to feel. A New Moon that invites us to receive.
The moon is in a constant dance between the visible and the invisible. During the new moon, we cannot see it. It is empty, naked, and exists only invisibly. And yet it speaks to us through our intuition, our emotions, and our perceptions. When we close our eyes, our attention is directed inwards instead of outwards.
This New Moon begins a new chapter from a space of intuition, mystery, emotion, and deep listening. This is an opportunity to receive the inspiration, vision, desire, and clarity that comes when we surrender for a moment. What we receive here will be the building blocks for our new chapter.
Weekly horoscope for June 30th to July 6th
There is change this week. There is depth, creativity, play, and self-expression. And there is questioning, restructuring, and rewriting. As the New Moon begins in Cancer, make time for yourself so you can surrender and receive. Healing is available not just for this phase of the moon, but all this week.
As the planets move in the universe, they simultaneously move in your astrological chart, emphasizing different areas of your human experience. Look at your rising sign in your weekly horoscope and begin to identify any related changes or invitations.
Aries Rising
How do you connect with the unseen? How do you get in touch with the sacred? This week, your own sense of safety and belonging in this world invites your presence and healing, and your relationship and understanding with the spiritual aspects of life begin to shift.
Taurus Rising
The mind has access to vast spaces. This week your mind moves through its emotional storehouse of memories and patterns, opening you up to intuition and inspiration, revealing previously unseen truths related to your aspirations.
Gemini Rising
What do you want for yourself? What is your long-term vision when you imagine it and allow inspiration to flow through you? This week is an invitation to explore the practical side of those very things and to begin to witness what is out of place both within and around you as you make these dreams a reality.
Cancer on the rise
There is so much more of yourself waiting to fill your being in your weekly horoscope. There is so much more of your energy waiting to enter your consciousness. There is so much more of yourself waiting to become accessible. This shift can begin to happen by attending to your sense of safety, belonging, and a broader perspective on life.
Leo Rising
What awaits you is a cracking openness so that you can reach deeper into yourself, so that more of the unconscious within you can become conscious, and so that more life can begin to support you on your journey, if only you will surrender to it.
Virgo Rising
Clarity comes into your life. It is as if the lens through which you have engaged with the world is shifting, revealing things that were previously invisible. As the Moon starts to move again, inspiration and insight await, guiding you through your emotions and intuition.
Libra Rising
Your daily routine, habits, and health are beginning to change. If you’ve been looking for clear guidance regarding your health, work, or creativity, this is the week to welcome them into your consciousness. As you take care of yourself in the way that you deserve, changes will occur that will bring you closer to your long-term desires.
Scorpio Rising
How do you show yourself? How do you express all that lives within yourself? There is a restructuring happening in this space that can support your bigger dreams and your understanding of and belonging to this vast world.
Sagittarius Rising
This is a week of inner journey and discovery – of rewriting patterns, reframing memories, and revisiting past experiences. Mercury and Pluto bring about change in your mind, while the New Moon creates an opportunity for integration and wholeness in your psyche.
Capricorn Rising
A restructuring is taking place within your mind, your perspective becoming clearer and your vision becoming sharper. Find safety within your body. The more you allow yourself to be anchored in your own presence as a result of your weekly horoscope, the more open you will be to all that is revealed.
Aquarius Rising
Information is coming in that is shifting your sense of identity, releasing it and creating more space for transformation. Neptune begins to change the way you relate to concrete security and money, and the Moon this week speaks through your body. The more grounded you are in yourself, the more you will hear.
Pisces Rising
With both Saturn and Neptune retrograde in your sign for the remainder of the year, your sense of self, identity, and understanding of the world begin to shift with them. Boundaries, practical steps, and a commitment to your aspirations and creative self-expression are calling to you.
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Learn more about the influence of astrology in your life from Jordane Maree of Girl and her Moon, including astrological events, lunar cycles, the sun and moon, rising signs, and how journaling can help you connect with current influences.
About the contributor
Jordan Marie is the founder of Girl and Her Moon, a platform and community for soul-exploring through the lenses of astrology, tarot and energy healing. She is an author, intuitive astrologer, energy and soul guide, and host of the podcast Girl and Her Moon. She is inspired every day to be a mirror to see all that you truly have – your limitless capacity, your full expansion, and all the limitless opportunity and love you have.
