Taurus Horoscope for July 2015

This is an amazing month for you, Taurus, full of internal progress opening mystical pathways forward into a more profound future self, which has, paradoxically, a decidedly practical component for you as well. Recent financial ups and downs have served to grant you a vital process of learning and also of unlearning. Something about family — and your inner core knowing — is completing a major shift; so that over the course of this rather exciting monthly cycle you are coming home, in a metaphorical and perhaps even a literal sense. You experience an unexpected perceptual click, a figure-and-ground reversal, and the puzzle pieces spring into place. Everything that was needed to be understood is suddenly conveyed, in instant epiphany, as though, through the many months and even years of preparation, your vision had only now decided to dream itself into realistic activation.

As the month begins, you are in an expansive place, still working through the deep thoughts engendered by the recent Mercury Retrograde that involved taking a closer look at your resources, and your values, while also including important relationships in your life, or potential partners, more fully into the matrix of your spiritual and philosophical evolution. It has been an interesting two weeks of the late-Gemini New Moon from the middle of last month, as you have in some ways perhaps come full circle with how you look at the material world in general and your finances in particular. You are with some part of your psyche trying for a big picture viewpoint that takes your psycho-spiritual development more fully into account with less emphasis on the details of the here-and-now approach that you are so good at, and without however abandoning this earthly life and your appreciation of the material world entirely. It is therefore an interesting intellectual tightrope that you walk these days, made more poignant by the presence of a powerful Full Moon, on the evening of the very first day of the month, that stimulates the higher mind sector of your solar chart.

Your ruler, Venus, is also in conjunction with Jupiter at the very beginning of the month, in the timing of this powerful Full Moon — and you might have noticed the special spectacle in the night sky, as these two planets come so close to one another in our visual plane. Your quest for truth and knowing what you stand for is coalescing in a powerful revelation, as will be further unfolding throughout the month. Over these intense times you have been cultivating unique and powerful ways to know yourself in the deepest sense; ways that are nearly impossible to comprehend without the willing heart of a warrior and the wiliness of a coyote. Through these specialized methods you have been navigating your own subconscious mind, and might thus be granted access to new ways of perceiving yourself and the "blind spots" or unconscious patternings that are repeating themselves in your life. While this is not entirely pleasant on an emotional front, incredible solace is to be found in discovering what truly makes you tick.

With Chiron, the Wounded Healer, also a strong influence for you this month, an underlying context of healing accompanies this process. As mentioned earlier, your ruler, Venus, is in conjunction with Jupiter at the very beginning of the month and these are in close trine as well with Chiron. The joining of these archetypes symbolizes heightened love connection, for yourself and others, and alignment with your highest values that you hold inside. The first two weeks of this month could represent a process of coming to peace with yourself in a new way, perhaps even settling issues you might have with early childhood wounding; certain aspects of your formative experiences from the past that have been painful. In finding a new orientation to your roots, your place or family of origin, so also do you find an opening in your heart and greater ease in connecting with those you most cherish.

The changes that you are in the midst of could eventually create a more solid feeling of security and safety, once you are able to fully integrate them. Your entire connection with physical reality is settling into beautiful new patterns, so that you are able to carry a sense of being at home in this world wherever you go, making it a beneficial time to travel and adventure out with grace and ease. As you proclaim greater clarity in identifying the patterns that no longer serve you, you may also find there is an opening for feeling a greater sense of belonging to the whole. As the spiritual mandate of these times continually remind you, there is a way that you might come to think of yourself not as separate, but rather a crucial and integral part of a greater whole that includes you and all earthly creatures in its loving embrace.