Daily Cosmic Calendar for July 19

Believe it or not, compared to the last few days, this one appears to be pretty much a winner. Nevertheless, Mars is still being obnoxious and extremely selfish in its planetary behavior patterns as the red planet upsets Chiron by making an off-kilter, 150-degree link (8:10PM PDT) to the comet-like body that has so much to do with healing and alternative medicine.  Fortunately, this Mars-Chiron tussle is going to be somewhat neutralized by the Moon leaving void status in Cancer at 3:14AM PDT when the lunar orb enters fiery, heart-centered Leo. Be more child-like, playful and artistic under the creative vibrations of the Moon being active in the fifth sign of the zodiac.  The reason the Mars-Chiron awkward connection can be neutralized is that the Moon forms a supportive, 60-degree tie to Jupiter (6:23PM PDT), a flowing trine to Uranus (7:09PM PDT), another supportive, 60-degree link to Mars (8:14PM PDT), and a parallel with Mercury (9:23PM PDT). With the Moon forming four favorable alliances – to providential Jupiter, intuition-enhancing Uranus, Mars itself, and communicative Mercury – the shadow side of the red planet can play dead for a while, allowing independent thinking, leadership skills and all-around courage to come out for a change of pace.