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Sagittarius
Fire·Mutable·Ruled by Jupiter
July 31, 2026
Your ruler is arm-in-arm with the Sun in Leo and staring down Pluto across the sky — this is not a day for small ambitions or convenient amnesia.
You are made for the horizon, and today the sky hands you a megaphone. Sun conjunct Jupiter in Leo is, frankly, your cosmic home turf — fire meeting fire, the archer's arrow already in flight. But a conjunction this bright casts an equally sharp shadow, and Pluto in retrograde Aquarius is sitting directly across the table, arms crossed. What it's asking isn't cruel: it's asking you to name what you've been expanding *away from* rather than toward. Optimism as avoidance is still avoidance, even when it looks gorgeous.
The Full Moon at the last gasp of Aquarius is finishing something in the realm of your community, your ideas about belonging, who you think your people are. You may have outgrown a circle, or a theory, or a version of yourself that needed an audience to feel real. This lunation doesn't rip that away — it just holds it up to the light so you can see it clearly for what it is before you decide what to carry forward.
Jupiter's sextile to Uranus in Gemini keeps the door cracked for something genuinely unexpected — a conversation, a connection, a piece of information that rewires a belief you'd thought was load-bearing. Saturn retrograde in Aries is trine the Sun with a wider orb, which means the discipline you've already built is quietly backing you up. You don't have to be reckless to be brave today. The fire is already lit.
““Jupiter, when well-placed and angular, enlarges the native's sphere and draws fortune toward them as a lodestone draws iron — but only if the will is directed outward.””
— William Lilly, Christian Astrology (paraphrase)
TranslationYour lodestone is fully charged today — Jupiter conjunct the Sun is as 'well-placed' as it gets. The only question Lilly would ask is whether your will is actually pointed at something real, or just orbiting the idea of something real.
Cosmic Assignment
Write down one belief about yourself that's been feeling too big to say aloud, then say it aloud anyway — to a mirror, a trusted friend, or an empty room.