First Quarter and Gibbous Moon

July 23 Monday
The first quarter Scorpio Moon brings undaunting courage to explore unfamiliar behaviors without expectations, except for the humorous. Anticipating some laughable situations can ease us through the day. Let your feelings select the day’s tasks. Resist the demands of others unless they are compatible with those of your heart. Find ways to develop a pattern that has emerged over the past week. Attune yourself to whatever brings greater clarity to it. Focus in on fuzzy areas in a spirit of playing around for a multitude of possibilities.

July 24 Tuesday
The Scorpio Moon is void of course since early this morning, spewing out inner tensions that keep us from progressing on our life journeys. This is a very open, often disorienting, spiritual time for pondering the mysteries of life, like where does consciousness go after death, or how does one transmute decaying energy or behavior into viable, fresh activity? At 2:29 pm, MDT, the Moon enters the open space of Sagittarius, arousing the need to express optimism for establishing a connectivity that brings more to one’s life.

July 25 Wednesday
Wednesday’s Sagittarius Moon provides overwhelming evidence that it’s best to just jump into activity that supports change as if on an adventure. No doubt about it. Give yourself permission to fly off at a moment’s notice. You might discover a world in which the whole matrix of assumptions is entirely different than what you’ve grown accustomed to. Such a place can open windows of creative unfolding. Give your all to such an encounter in the most up front complete way possible.

July 26 Thursday
The Sagittarius Moon entered her gibbous phase very early this morning. She is swollen yet not quite full. It’s time to find the missing pieces or ingredients that will provide a wide opened view of an emerging paradigm in your life. Find the material that is needed for change with an adventurous, playful spirit. The Moon goes void of course at 6:13 pm, MDT. Passion may become freewheeling or opportunistic as the Moon dampens the flames of Sagittarius before she enters sure-footed Capricorn late tonight.

July 27 Friday
The Capricorn Moon attracts what one most wants to be involved with. Capricorn knows what needs to happen, and the Moon’s connection to Venus going retrograde this morning sensitizes us to ideals strongly rooted within us. This can emotionally psych us, deepening our hearts resolve to accomplish something with bold, dramatic tasks of putting on the finishing touches. Listen to MoonWise tomorrow on the worldwide web at ksfr.org from 1:00 to 1:30 pm, MDT, for the weekend Moon Minute.

July 28 Saturday
Saturday’s Capricorn Moon provides the dedication, the drive, and the raw energy to achieve certain experiences, to implement ideas, to impose order on chaos, and to understand complicated matters. The Moon goes void of course at 8:23 pm, MDT throughout the night. Withdraw into the symbolic complexity of dreams for integrating all that has been happening. The Aquarius Moon on Sunday is full at 6:48 pm, showing us new openings for self-knowledge and ways of being whole.