There is change in the air on both the romantic and relationship fronts and after months of no significant change, this is something to get excited about. Because the Sun will always spend the first three weeks of July in your relationship sector, the solar spotlight is always on matters of the heart and all things romantic at this time each year. However, by the time the Sun returned on the June solstice Venus, the planet of love had already moved through, Mercury was here but slowing ahead of a retrograde turn on 30th June that will keep him here until August. This was the same day that having returned in June 2025 to begin what he was working to make a lucky year for love but also to cement a lasting legacy, Jupiter left. By the time you move into the new month, Jupiter has been gone for less and 24 hours, Mercury is settling into his first full day in direct motion and the Sun will be keeping matters of the heart on track and an eye on the future. Mercury will still be in retrograde motion and holding the doors open to the past and second chances, when the Moon not only returns to your romantic sector from 13th July to 15th July, but as a New Moon. It is not until 24th July, the day after the Sun leaves that Mercury will turn direct, while staying on and keeping the romantic flame burning until Mars and the dwarf planet Ceres can return next month to take over. Meanwhile, to start with, it is business as usual on the relationship front, with no planets in your relationship sector, but until they leave on 27th July, with the lunar nodes continuing to monitor a balance between your own and your relationship needs. That will change when on 10th July, Venus will become the first planet to return to your relationship sector this year and the last to take advantage of the sense that the lunar nodes are giving you from the start when it comes to a balance between your own and your relationship needs. A week later, the Moon will bring a chance from 17th July to 19th July to check in and become more emotionally engaged and aware during what will be some pivotal days on the relationship front.