Scorpio, with your planetary ruler Mars currently in Gemini for the next month, everything is changing quite rapidly in your life. Your mission as July morphs into August is to be more specific about the type of changes you’re welcoming in, that way you can create a game plan for this next dimension of your evolutionary journey. While it’s important to go with the flow during Mars in Gemini, with our second ruler Pluto getting ready to retrograde its way back into Capricorn on September 1st (for the final time during our lifetime), the Universe also wants us to ensure that we have a stable foundation from which to soar. Simply put: this is the week to roll up your sleeves and do the things you told yourself you’d be doing weeks, months, or even years, ago. Now is the time to invest in yourself and your future well-being, one step and one breath at a time.

The week begins with the Moon rounding out its final hours in Taurus before entering Gemini on Monday afternoon. The Moon’s conjunction with Mars in Gemini will encourage Scorpios to be bolder and more daring when it comes to collaborating with people or shooting our shot and pitching ourselves to jobs, organizations or communities. The combination of the Sun and Venus in Leo in our sector of career and reputation, and the Moon and Mars in Gemini in our sector of merging and outside resources, indicates that we’ll be the catch of the town this week, and all we have to do is consistently put ourselves out there and unapologetically let our light shine. People are seeking what you have to offer, so don’t be afraid of showing them what you got! You’ll be glad you did when that acceptance email or letter arrives in your mailbox.

This Sunday the Leo New Moon strikes at 7:13am EST, and then at 10:23pm Venus enters Virgo for four weeks. This occurs just one day before Mercury begins its retrograde (which will begin on Monday the 5th). This weekend is likely to be quite eventful as you deal with the dark-of-the-moon emotions that may emerge ahead of the Leo New Moon. If you find yourself being too critical or tough on yourself due to where you think you “should” be professionally by now, you’re invited to relax, and spend more time celebrating all the times you’ve overcome some of the most toughest and most challenging moments that most of the world never sees you deal with. Instead of pressuring yourself to constantly be improving, highlight the ways your warrior self has risen from its ashes time and time again.

This Sunday’s Leo New Moon is a vibrant new beginning for you — within the next six months your career will exponentially grow, in a sustainable and scalable way. But this will only happen if you take time to set your new moon intentions and actually take bold actions toward those intentions within 4 days of the Leo New Moon. Ask and you shall receive!

Read Scorpio’s Summer ’24 Love Forecast (now 22% off since there are 2 months left of summer) to find out what’s in store for you romantically this week as July comes to an end and we prepare to experience Mercury Retrograde in August, and eclipse season in September. This digital love guide will help you heal from past wounds and let love in.