July Tarotscopes

The theme for July is Inside Out, Outside In.
You’re doing it! You’re on your way. Even if it feels like there’s no outward momentum, it’s happening on the micro level. Subtle energetics create ripples across your world. This month, to honor your progress, you must be discerning with your emotions.

Yvonne Rainer famously shared that “feelings are facts,” and sometimes, they are.
But this month, discernment is needed around emotions, the grip that certain memories have over your current time, and the residue of some childhood wounds. You are not your thoughts, and even the best emotions are temporary.

How Our Emotions Sabotage Us could not only be a book title, but also something to consider carefully in July. Speak carefully: to yourself, to loved ones, and to those you don’t know.

Even if you can sense that there’s more going on underneath other people’s surface, do not jump to conclusions. Be mindful of the fine line between paranoia and mature caution. Respond how you would like to be, not from past triggers and traumas. You are a sensitive ball of energy: be careful about what you let in, and what influences and informs you.

—This is an excerpt from the July overview in Many Moons, and our month's playlist is here.

Cancer 
2 of Cups 

Cancer is saltwater dried upon the skin. A 3 old genius shyly holding up a refrigerator masterpiece. It’s the brine of oyster juice sloshing down your throat as you turn towards the technicolor sweetness of a setting sun. It’s the depths of care; the compassionate, divine feminine gaze that beholds you in your hardest moments with nothing but pure love. Cancers see and feel beyond the beyond.  

Sometimes, you forget your innate powers. Your birthday season can bring up a lot for you; nostalgia can bleed into tidal waves of grief. It can be hard to discern how all the accumulated disappointments end up coloring your interpretation of reality. Lately, it’s been hard for you to access the love and care you can so easily bestow on others. Falling back in love with yourself is essential right now.

New cycles of momentum begin with deep self-love and self-regard, coupled with patience. Start where you are, start small: with well-spent minutes, not weeks. Go back to the basics: good sleep, good food, good music, good movement, good thoughts, right actions. Consciously move towards your strengths with a solid self-love practice in order to reap an autumn renewal. 

Suggested spell ingredients: Oysters, sunsets without cell phones, a new fulfilling creative project, and unconditional self-love. 

Leo 
Ace of Wands 

Leo is a baby’s first laugh. Leo, you are the feeling of receiving a surprise gift that is exactly what one needs. You are the rainbow after the storm. You can light up the most desolate room. If everybody isn’t getting free, then no one is. You fight to make everyone feel like they belong.

In July, it looks like some new sparks of belonging are lighting up your spirit. The Ace of Wands symbolizes a fresh start into a renewed passion. Fan those flames into emotional fulfillment.

There’s a newfound sense of safety in self you have recently found, which has allowed new forms of desires and expressions to bubble up. The more you are in your body, the more capacity you will have to trust this new chapter. All summer long you will be even more magnetic than you usually are. Remember that as you make what you want happen with refreshed energy. Remember that as you use your irresistibility for good. Make your life a work of art, and a work of art is what your life will become. 

Suggested spell ingredients: A new sex toy, honey orange iced tea, an orange candle, and fresh ripe mangoes with plenty of juice.

Virgo
Knight of Pentacles  

Virgo, you are the consummate caretaker. Your touch is holistic; no one, more than you, understands how the details reflect the whole, and how this creates a vibratory signature that ripples out into the world. Simple beauty is so impactful, yet difficult to achieve. But yet you are able to do this, again and again, in numerous arenas, as if by magic. 

When you move with awareness, nothing can stop you. But if you are reacting from the shadows, you can get easily overwhelmed and spend too much time on things that will not matter, in the long-term. July is a month that asks you to take a serious look at your resources, and how you spend them.

Time, love, money, effort, energy, talents, relationships, and focus must all be considered. Start with the one that feels most urgent and doable. There is some imbalance, some coping mechanism that has become a habit. It’s time to quit certain compulsions and replace them with more supportive uses of your energy. Scrolling can become cleaning. Spending mindlessly can become a daily meditation and somatics practice. Because everything is connected, this focus on something healthier and life-affirming will also flow out into other aspects of your life. Deal with the messes so the equilibrium will return. 

Suggested spell ingredients: Cyanite, time/energy/money/worry budgets, exercise, and a new investment of energy. 

Libra 
3 of Swords 

Libra is effortless beauty. Grace, style, and blood-red cherries for breakfast. You behold everyone as their very best self—sometimes a self they can’t quite understand. You, Libra, don’t always get recognized for how patient and forgiving they are, but this gift you naturally possess is incredibly precious. In July, lean on your grace and style. Continue to see the good in people, but do not get sidetracked by the past or others’ bullshit booby traps. 

Bite your tongue. Smile instead. Don’t bring up the past, don’t get hooked in the same old traps. For just this month, stop ruminating on the ruins and focus on all that’s right and good, safe and sound, in the present moment. July is for catching up on rest, recovery, and work that will move the needle forward in tangible ways. That’s the litmus test for decision-making: tangibility, forward momentum, and more peace. If conflicts arise—which they will—refuse to be the sacrificial lamb. Deal with what is yours to deal with: no more, no less. Then keep moving and keep it moving.

If you do expend energy in the realms of sorrow, make it generative. Sob out the 20-year-old hurts until they feel loved. Start a fundraiser to get children out of war zones. Join a local organizing group. Make art out of your broken heart. Let July be the healing blessing it wants to be for you.

Suggested spell ingredients: Pearl jewelry, pedicures, journaling instead of talking, and tears. 

Scorpio  
Judgment 

Scorpio is an underwater cave brimming with fireflies. The inside of a ripe fig exploding against your tongue. Scorpio is flames and phoenixes and a will made of steel. Your ability to regenerate is legendary, and so is your ability to read: the room, people’s deepest motivations, and in between the lines of just about any scenario. 

You feel more centered when you have more control, and the last great while has been a marathon in uncertainty. It has tested you, again and again. In turn, you have tested some limits. You know what you are capable of and where you need to grow. It’s time to get back to work with this newfound knowledge. Keep a growth mindset in your back pocket: adopting a student’s stance will help keep you curious, not dejected. 

What has this last period shown you about what you most need and want? What are some small ways you can move towards those things, each day? Recenter around what is most valuable to you. Pick a few things to focus on, and do them well. Replace the tighter grip of control with the loose expanse of agency, and see what clicks into place. 

Suggested spell ingredients: Star gazing, meditation, Tarot cards, obsidian, and ripe figs.

Sagittarius
4 of Pentacles 

Sagittarius, you’re a grape-laden banquet of charm and jovial vibes. You’re also the whistling arrow on the wind, about to hit its target. (You’re versatile like that.) You’re most charming when you aren’t trying too hard. Your casual observations about human nature and the laws of the universe are often deeper than what any graduate student can muster in a researched thesis. Your secret weapon is generosity, and you wield it well. 

July is a turning point that could feel uncomfortable. There’s an emphasis on conservation, on pulling back, on taking care of some key details. If you do not stop to address certain aches now, they might become serious pains later. While it could feel a bit like one step forward, two steps backward making appointments, or spending some weekend nights researching diets and investments. Don’t let pride, or a fear of boredom, stop you from creating something more secure. Let your future Self will thank your present Self. 

This is a month to interrogate how to best use your personal power. Where does your power come from? It comes from the combination of generosity, humor, and wit. It comes from actually applying your wisdom in a way that will create long-lasting stability for you and your loved ones. 

Suggested spell ingredients: Self-massage with medicinal oil, rosemary, archery, and boundaries. 

Capricorn 
2 of Pentacles 

Capricorn, you are smooth ivory bone, cool to the touch. Capricorn is a forest-green grotto found nestled high on a mountain. Capricorn is new shapes born out of ancient wisdom. The depths you can dive into are only matched by the heights you can scale. The truths you can access are gifts to the collective. 

This is a time of juggling: roles, projects, care, and competing needs. There’s something you want to begin, some opportunity beckoning, but you have a full plate of obligations. It isn’t impossible to start something new: use your time-bending skills to figure it out. Turn towards your natural gifts of organization, and work backward from the final goal.

This is a time of stretching your capacity without careening into overwhelm. You’re retraining yourself to stop equating work with burnout. Part of this is proactively investing in activities that make you feel great. Part of this is identifying how much of an energetic load worry and doubt have on your sensitive body. The 2 of Pentacles suggests you will be successful: not only with your bright new interest, but with creating a lifestyle that is sustainable.

Suggested spell ingredients: Hollow bone meditations, somatics, a time management app that you actually use, and imagination. 

Aquarius 
10 of Pentacles 

Aquarius, you are the stars and the one who translates that star energy into tangible moments. You are navy satin sheets after a long soak. You bring a unique frequency to the planet that everyone needs; the more you show up, the more you encourage others to do the same. This month, consciously cultivate the most positive qualities in your possession. It’s time to be the light. 

Saturn retrograde in your 12th house of isolation, self-sabotage, and behind-the-scenes work may be amplifying your inner critic. You could be feeling more lonely than usual. The best way to solve that issue is through prioritizing embodiment practices and the material world. Turn the mental loops into needlepoint or foraging excursions. Make your home as comfortable a haven as possible. Turn towards your favorite companions, whether that be plants, animals, humans, or art. 

You’re about to embark on a phase of long-term planning, bolstered by your ancestors and your chosen kin. But first, take the time to reorient towards what makes life worth living. Give yourself a huge dose of connection and sweetness daily. Give yourself the gift of returning home. 

Suggested spell ingredients: A chart reading done by a professional astrologer (not an app), our July playlist, a beach bonfire, and one practice of your ancestors done each day or weekly.

Pisces 
6 of Swords 

Pisces is freshwater streams that soothe tired feet. Pisces is otherworldly options so innovative they create seismic paradigms. Pisces is that unexpected umami concoction that tweaks the senses and the aura: roasted eels soaked in cherry juice, denim and lace, deep philosophical theory delivered through a meme. Your creativity is unparalleled because it is etheric. Flexibility and adaptability are fundamental to your being because these are the ingredients fundamental to evolution. 

July will feel like a sweet relief of some sort because you’re remembering, over and over, the essence of you—it is all of the above and more. It will also feel like a turning point in the year because you’ve made a choice. A subtle mindset shift through a mindfulness practice. A concrete escape plan of some sort. Reminding yourself of what is in your control and what it isn’t lightens the energetic load. If you don’t feel this relief, this pivot, this turning, gentle Pisces, make a decision. Then another, then another. 

Saturn’s recent retrograde in your first house could heighten your resolve about what you are capable of. Clarify what it is you came here to grow. You’ve decided to strengthen your backbone, but keep your heart open. You’ve decided to move towards what you want, not away from what you don’t, and that shift alone is a profound reset.

Suggested spell ingredients: A clear plan, clear thoughts, clear quartz, and a clear heart. 

Aries
7 of Wands 

Aries is an ochre beeswax candle glowing in the dark. You’re the seed unfurling into a new bloom, both tender and full of force. Your enthusiasm is natural, that’s why it’s so contagious. You can bring ideas to life at lightning-fast speeds. 

Your life has been set on hard mode for a while: that’s why it’s never been more important to remember who you are at your core. Conserve energy and figure out how to make things easier. Some of this will feel counterintuitive; move towards the hard conversations and the bigger life decisions you’ve been avoiding. Relief will be found once you know where certain things stand. July is a month to reconnect to an older confidence you once had. Remember what it feels like to try and to win. Only this time, winning won’t be achieved through overriding your body’s intuition. This is about redefining success so that it not only looks good on the outside, but it feels good on the inside. 

You can't go back to the beginning and change it, but you still can change the ending based on who you’d ultimately like to be. A lot of the greater why of all this is about grace: unfolding to it, learning to give it to yourself, and seeing how it can support you through rough patches.

Suggested spell ingredients: Beeswax candles, new seeds, enthusiasm, and grace. 

Gemini 
8 of Pentacles 

Gemini is the pollen-dusted bee napping with other bees inside of a rose. Gemini is the shooting star flash, so quick you might mistake it for a figment of imagination. Gemini is gentle breezes and hazy summer mixtapes you want to play on repeat. You do best in an energy of whispers and glimmers, that zigs and zags in alluring ways. When you get overwhelmed, you can forget the top-secret gifts you have that help you get it all done. These gifts are channeling and flow, abilities to make unexpected connections, and your vast web of contacts. 

July may be a month of work overwhelm, hence the reminder of all your great traits and all the skills you already have to juggle tasks. More than that, this month is an opportunity to refine certain systems and processes so that your everyday life feels more smooth. It might feel frustrating to slow down and reconfigure, but whatever gets addressed in the reorganizing process will help make the work faster and better, which then will help you find more time. Time to work on more exciting projects, time to connect with others, and time to just simply be. 

Do not forget to tend to your body so that it may be a reliable vessel of your inspiration. Nourish it with proper nutrition, lots of water, and gentle care. 

Suggested spell ingredients: Stretches, an upgraded organization approach, new journals, and stimulating dialogues.

Taurus
Chariot 

Taurus is verdant fields of vibrant flowers. Taurus is that dollop of honey on the plate you didn't know you needed. You have the ability to access unwavering safety and through that, abundance. Never take your gifts of sensation and sensuality for granted. Never forget how magnetic you can be.  
That magnetism requires a feeling of security. July is about dusting it off and trying it again. This time, with confidence. This time, with focus. This time, with dancing, singing, and goofiness. This time, with the awareness that taking your goals seriously, but not yourself, is a major life hack. If you haven’t already started planning your next moves, particularly around career goals and finances, July is the month to get real. Jupiter in your house of resources wants you to start laying down bricks, strengthening networks, and most importantly, honing your natural skills and talents. 

What would be the coolest use of your gifts? What would be the coolest outcomes of taking your skills and gifts to the next level? Write them all down. Understand that there will be tests, fears, self-doubt and even shame that wells up as a result of being so vulnerable. Taurus, remember you are the honey and the vibrant flowers. Shore up those reserves of inner safety and abundance as you move towards different destinations. 

Suggested spell ingredients: Honey, flowers, frolicking in fields, rose quartz, and laser focus.