Your Queer Weekly Horoscope: July 29-August 4

Welcome to your Queer Weekly Horoscope, a bite-sized look at the coming days broken down by your zodiac sign.

The second week of Leo Season might seem deceptively quiet. Life is excellent for many signs at the moment, especially Virgo and Aries! (Sorry, Aquarius; things will get better soon.) But there are still dramas playing out all across the zodiac. Desire-ruling Venus begins the week in Leo, where it promotes healing and spurns weirdness. At the very end of the week, Venus leaves Leo and moves to Virgo. Mercury is currently at home in Virgo, boosting communication for one last powerful week before it turns retrograde next Monday. The Sun and Mars are both focused on the future in collaboration with the North Node of the Moon’s orbit, and the New Moon in Leo offers an opportunity for subtle but profound beginnings.

We’ll start this weekly horoscope with Leo, then move through each sign until everyone’s fate is foretold. If you know more of your placements than your Sun Sign alone (Moon, Rising, Mars, etc.), check their entries as well to get a full picture of your astrological forecast.

What the stars are up to:

• Venus and your sign ruler the Sun are in your sign.
• Venus creates a trine with Chiron and squares off against Uranus.
• The Sun creates a trine with the North Node.
• The New Moon in your sign opposes Pluto, forms sextiles with Mars and Jupiter, and passes through conjunction with the Sun.
• In the final hours of the week, Venus leaves your sign and moves to Virgo.

What it means:

Venus in Leo can urge you to indulge in some major drama. That’s not a bad thing, necessarily; it’s just that your needs right now are extremely large and compelling. Your heart craves healing, but you don’t wish to do anything out of the ordinary in order to attain it. You might actually manage to achieve some recovery through avoidance… or you might end up stacking more injury in the process. Regardless, you’re barreling toward the next significant step of your destiny. The New Moon offers opportunity for a fresh beginning with a boost of energy and good luck, but it also comes packaged with resistance to change. In the last hours of the week, Venus moves to Virgo and leaves you alone with the Sun.

What the stars are up to:

• Your sign ruler Mercury is in your sign.
• In the final hours of the week, Venus moves from Leo to your sign.

What it means:

Your sign ruler Mercury is at home in your sign, powering up your signature Virgo abilities. Your wit is skyrocketing, and your intellect is sharp. You’re never short of a word, you’re easily able to adapt amid changing circumstances, and you exude an aura of irresistibly magnetic charm. Life is good. Enjoy it to the utmost while you still can because Mercury turns retrograde early next week.

What the stars are up to:

• Lilith and the South Node are in your sign.
• Your sign ruler Venus begins the week in Leo. Venus creates a trine with Chiron and squares off against Uranus.
• The Sun forms a sextile with the South Node.
• Mars creates a trine with the South Node.
• In the final hours of the week, Venus moves from Leo to Virgo.

What it means:

The South Node, representative of your past, can be a heavy burden to haul around in…