Starcodes July 16, 2021 Heather Roan Robbins

Look for layered emotions woven into this week of high summer, and thoughtfully choose where to focus. The mood will be lazy and energized, flirtatious and friendly on one level, bighearted if with less automatic empathy, But along with these pleasantries we may also need to confront the big issues of our time or in our life.

Venus conjuncts Mars in Leo and feeds both our flirtatious and affectionate energy and energizes social events and the performing arts. Some experiences could feel truly operatic. This conjunction also feeds the emotional drama and stubbornness underneath any situation, we need to choose to speak honestly rather than oversimplify, exaggerate, hit our campaign speech or otherwise distance ourselves from our simple truth. Instead we can let Leo give us the bravery to be honest and heartfelt.

The weekend begins under a friendly Libra Moon, but this pleasant buzz may hover over some deeper concerns as the Sun opposes Pluto on Saturday while the Moon enters focused Scorpio, haunting our thoughts with our inadequacies or about systemic injustice, safety, or a new covid variant. We may need to come to terms with some difficult truth. The Sun- Pluto opposition doesn’t want us to just be depressed or to get pushy because we feel inadequate (though those feelings can raise their heads), but it does nudge us to deal with the cause of these feelings.