Scorpio
Compared to the major planetary shifts over recent months, the shifts this month are of the more ordinary kind, but they are getting things into position to bring this year home. This is also a month when a call to know when to keep your work hat on and when to take it off will be policed, but this will work to your advantage personally and professionally. Policing this is Mars, the warrior planet of the cosmos, who will return to a nostalgic and reflective part of your chart to begin the six and a half week wind down of your current Mars cycle, ahead of his return to Scorpio on 22nd September.
While it is a given that with the dwarf planet Eris, the warrior princess of the cosmos in your busy work sector for over nine decades that at some point they would clash, when Mars returns it will bird's eye view to not only find five planets there, but spread out to the degree that during the early, middle and final days of his time here, this is when the pressure to know when to keep your work hat on and when to take it off will be at its greatest. However, you not only begin the month with four of the planets in your work sector in retrograde motion, but with the fifth turning retrograde on 12th August, a day after Mercury turns direct in your career sector.
While the Sun will keep an eye on the future until leaving on 23rd August, with Mercury here for the rest of the month and Venus not returning until 26th August, you can afford to take your foot off the gas. Turning Mars' push to know when to keep your work hat on and when to take it off into an advantage, is that you not only have Venus in your sector of adventure, travel, learning and discovery until 26th August, but where she has teamed up with lucky Jupiter for the first time in over a decade. They are part of a team powering up the playful, creative and adventurous side of life's fence.