Libra Weekly Horoscope

Monday kicks off with a rather complicated alignment, Libra, as the Sun in Cancer and your 10th House of Career will reach out across the sky to form a jarring square with icy Saturn, currently in Aries and your 7th House of Relationships. Saturn is the karmic master of the zodiac, and during this roughly three-year cycle, you are learning a lot of lessons regarding the people in your life. Today, however, those lessons might come at the expense of your career, or perhaps it happens the other way around; perhaps your work obligations are sucking up all your time and making it impossible for you to spend any of it with your special plus-one, or perhaps all that hard work is simply to distract from the lack of a special plus-one in the first place. Either way, these issues will likely present themselves right now, but they don’t have to throw your whole week out of whack; use your judgment and you should be able to come out of this time with a stronger sense of self.

Your most important connections regain a sense of balance and clarity on the 7th, when mysterious Neptune turns retrograde in Aries for nearly the rest of the year. This will help rid your partnerships of confusions and misunderstandings, as well as expectations, but it will also be very helpful for meeting new people who will be reliable when you need them to be. When direct, Neptune can cause you to look through rose-colored glasses (and thus miss red flags!), so now it is time to see people for who they are, so don’t think this is the sort of retrograde cycle you need to lose sleep over.

Next, come the 9th, your ruler Venus will be slipping into Virgo and your sleepy 12th House of the Subconscious for the next four weeks. Use this time to clear your decks of any old romantic baggage or toxic behavior that might be getting in the way of your relationship status. By the time Venus enters your sign, you’ll be in perfect shape to receive her beautiful bounty. That being said, Venus can surprise you when she is operating in this fantastical sector, so don’t be entirely shocked if a few last-minute opportunities for romance come from out of the blue; likewise, this sector is quite creative, so if Venus inspires you then so be it!

An important career matter might come into focus on the 12th when the Sun and Mercury conjoin in Cancer and your 10th House of Career and Professional Ambitions, blending their energies and stirring up conversations about your goals. This would be a great time to discuss your trajectory with a VIP or make major progress with a project, but remember that with Mercury still retrograde until July 23rd, you’d be wise to only discuss issues that have already been in existence for some time. Save any new debuts for down the line, and stick to what you know.