July 2021: Horoscopes for Moderns

A month of shocks! Britney Spears remains imprisoned while Bill Cosby roams about looking for Quaaludes.

MARS IGNITES THE ONGOING Saturn Uranus square this month. This is akin to agitating two corralled bulls that already have their horns locked.

Fixed sign squares are the ugliest. I’d much rather deal with an astrological opposition in the fixed signs than a square. Oppositions offer the opportunity to see the parts of a puzzle and what’s required to alchemize—by sheer necessity—the opposites.

Our brains are acclimated to polarity, but not to right angles. Squares are like going along the road when suddenly a car (or UFO) comes out of leftfield (or your blind spot) and ‘baby goes boom’.

The essence of a square is the cosmos telling us that we aren’t in control and yet we still have to make an effort to resolve a seemingly immovable dilemma. To “Act as if…”—as Gurdjieff used to advise.