A deep dive into the astrology forecast for July 2026, with astrologers Chris Brennan and Austin Coppock.
The month opens on highly unstable ground, dominated by a volatile Mars-Uranus conjunction that threatens sudden, unpredictable shifts and explosive turns. This erratic energy is ruled by a newly stationary retrograde Mercury, which has just backed away from a conjunction with Jupiter. This combination sets the stage for logistical snafus, technological difficulties, and widespread delays right out of the gate.
Jupiter, having just entered Leo at the end of June, begins to form a tense opposition with Pluto that goes exact around the middle of the month. This highlights major power struggles and the tension between truth and control. This opposition is part of a much larger, momentous pattern of simultaneous outer planet alignments peaking this month. As Uranus completes its first exact trine with Pluto, these planets lock into a complex basket configuration alongside Jupiter and Neptune. This heavy planetary geometry indicates that significant precursor events are unfolding in the background, particularly surrounding rapid technological or military innovations.
We finally see a more positive shift in the astrological weather during the second half of the month. Mars applies to a stabilizing, constructive sextile with Saturn, helping to ground the earlier chaos. Mercury stations direct, clearing up miscommunications, and the Sun makes its triumphant ingress into Leo to form an auspicious conjunction with Jupiter. This cazimi brings a much needed wave of radiant, showy warmth and outward confidence, despite an opposition with Pluto. However, a lingering Venus-Mars square operating in the background introduces an unwelcome element of creative friction and tension in partnerships, pitting the forces of unification against the drive to sever and divide.
This late July window ultimately serves as a temporary lull, and a calm before the storm. By early August, we swiftly transition into eclipse season, bringing weighty major endings and beginnings to the forefront, just as Venus enters the shadow sign of its upcoming retrograde phase.
This is episode 541 of The Astrology Podcast.
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Timestamps
00:00:00 Introduction
00:00:53 July Astrology Quick Overview
00:03:57 News Segment Begins
00:04:51 Venus-Jupiter Conjunction Stories
00:05:13 First Trillionaire
00:08:49 Spielberg Disclosure Day
00:13:45 Marriages
00:16:25 Iran-US peace deal
00:20:31 Zelda Remake
00:22:07 Beer Shortage
00:24:04 Venus-Pluto Opposition
00:26:50 Mars-Uranus Stories
00:27:06 Venezuela Earthquakes
00:29:47 AI Companies Authorized
00:35:03 Lebanon agreement
00:36:17 Nuclear news on Mars ingress
00:38:36 Wrapping up news segment
00:41:43 United Astrology Conference
00:46:04 July Forecast Begins
00:47:06 Mars-Uranus Conjunction
00:59:34 Mercury Retrograde
01:02:11 Outer planet alignments
01:09:07 Jupiter-Pluto opposition
01:25:23 Sequential breakdown of the month
01:25:46 July 1: Mars-Uranus Overview & Sun-Saturn Square
01:26:55 July 7: Neptune Stations Retrograde in Aries
01:29:45 July 9: Venus Enters Virgo
01:31:33 July 12: Mercury Retrograde Cazimi
01:33:08 July 14: New Moon in Cancer
01:35:58 July 15-18: Uranus Sextile Neptune & Trine Pluto
01:39:35 July 19: Mars Sextile Saturn
01:41:21 July 20-21: Jupiter-Pluto Opposition & Outer Planet Aspects
01:50:54 July 22-23: Sun Enters Leo & Mercury Stations Direct
01:51:52 July 24: Venus Sextile Mercury
01:54:44 July 25: Neptune-Pluto Sextile
01:55:04 July 26: Saturn Stations Retrograde & Lunar Nodes Shift Signs
01:57:33 July 27: Sun Opposes Pluto
01:58:55 July 28: Venus Square Mars
02:02:29 July 29: Sun-Jupiter Cazimi & Full Moon in Aquarius
02:04:31 Electional Chart for July
02:07:42 Wrapping Up
02:17:39 Credits
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