The full moon in Capricorn on July 21, 2024, aligns with Pluto. So, the full moon in July 2024 astrology relates to themes of power, control, intensity, conflict and crisis.

However, the July 2024 full moon is well-aspected to Mars and Neptune to bring ample healing energy. The symmetrical pattern they create brings security, protection and harmony. It allows for the peaceful resolution of conflicts and eases the crisis of extreme polarization.

Full Moon July 2024 Horoscope

The full moon on Sunday, July 21, 2024, is at 29°08′ Capricorn. The moon’s conjunction with Pluto is the most significant influence in the full moon astrology. However, as the horoscope below shows, there are also tight aspects to Mars and Neptune.

The harmonious blue aspects transform the challenging red opposition into a positive polarity. The symmetrical pattern they form is called a Cradle aspect pattern.

Full Moon July 2024 Astrology

Sun opposite Moon brings your home, family, and intimate relationships into sharper focus for the following two weeks of this moon phase. Opposing forces, such as work versus home or what you need versus what you want, create inner tension and external pressures. This can lead to conflict and crises that drain your energy.

The lunar qualities of emotions and instincts climax with the July 2024 full moon. So, use your increased emotional strength and intuition to overcome any relationship challenges. Subconscious awareness allows for an honest and balanced look at your relationships. You will see any relationship dynamics or negative feelings causing disharmony.

Pluto Power

Moon conjunct Pluto brings such deep feelings that they can be overwhelmed. Personal interactions become intense and revealing. They help you access your true feelings and discover someone else’s feelings about you. Memories, emotions and compulsions buried deeply in your subconscious may be exposed. You can even become obsessed with your feelings and have trouble focusing on anything else.

Dreams, visions, psychic impressions, and intuitive insights may intensify and profoundly affect your mood. Take care not to react too strongly to overpowering feelings. In relationships, you may encounter power struggles and controlling and manipulative behaviors like jealousy, guilt-tripping, threats and intimidation. However, you can transform, transcend or eliminate destructive influences, feelings, behaviors and habits.

Sun opposite Pluto makes people more intense, extreme, assertive and egotistic. It increases the risk of power struggles, conflicts and crises. Compulsive and destructive character traits become harder to control. This may include addiction, spying, stubbornness, manipulation, jealousy, or domination.

Powerful hidden forces and fated events are out of your control. However, they help you realize that you don’t need power over others or your environment. There is great potential for positive transformation and the evolution of your soul.

Mars Passion

Moon trine Mars positively influences the full moon in July 2024 astrology. It gives courage and initiative and makes you more daring, charismatic and passionate. You can trust your instincts and intuitively know what you want and how to get it.

You can be direct and assertive without looking bossy or rude and will be admired for your honesty and sincerity. If you are shy, this full moon helps you connect with your sexuality and share your passionate desires. You can feel comfortable sharing your strong, sad, or happy feelings without restraint.

Mars trine Pluto brings fearlessness, penetrating insights and psychic power. You will feel things more powerfully and be transformed by your intense emotional reactions. Profound emotional experiences will enrich intimate relationships. A karmic encounter with an intense emotional connection may result in a new, life-changing relationship.

You can rely on a strong inner sense of balance, plus enjoy a greater sense of belonging with your partner, family, friends, and the wider community. This aspect also helps you eliminate destructive habits, obsessions, and compulsions.

Neptune Spirituality

Moon sextile Neptune makes you more sensitive, compassionate and sympathetic. You will be more in touch with other people’s feelings and can connect more deeply with loved ones. Intimate relationships become more tender and spiritual. Your imagination and creative talents will be heightened.

This aspect further enhances your intuition and psychic perception. Your imagination and creative talents will be heightened. This July 2024 full moon is ideal for meditation, lucid dreaming, and other spiritual or occult activities because you will enjoy spiritual or psychic protection.

Mars sextile Neptune sharpens your senses and intuition. You can assert your spiritual energy decisively to defend the mistreated or fight for a just cause. Your morals and ethics will guide you in your actions. You will be more sensitive to the desires of others and enjoy being of service to them.

An increase in sensual desire and magnetic attraction is ideal for passionate romance. You will attract people more in tune with your level of spiritual development, and you may even find your soul mate. Soothing and healing energy can also benefit relationships. This full moon is ideal for following your creative passions.

Neptune sextile Pluto gives a pioneering spirit, making you unafraid to challenge the accepted way of thinking and doing things. You can deconstruct any system, belief or procedure, remove political, religious, cultural, and gender bias, and then reconstruct it in a more advanced and unadulterated state. Obsessions are possible, but your higher thought processes seek order in chaos and simplicity in complexity.

You can tap into the mass subconscious and gauge the prevailing thoughts of humanity. Your input to the mass consciousness transforms how we communicate and live with each other through political, religious, and cultural renewal. Old systems and beliefs based on empire and superiority are disintegrating. In their place, you are dreaming up, or imagineering, a more humanitarian approach and shared responsibility for the welfare of everyone and everything, the collective dream.

The Cradle

The Cradle aspect pattern has five blue aspects, compared to only one red aspect, giving a desire for pleasure and harmony. Yet the opposition promotes focus and self-discipline to avoid excessive sensual pleasure-seeking.

The opposition also divides the July 2024 full moon horoscope into two halves, like an energy barrier. The other half remains unexplored, unknown territory. If something unpleasant approaches, you can switch over and suddenly be protected by an invisible wall from criticism or attack. It reflects others’ opinions or intentions like a mirror and appears untouched by them.

The symmetry of the Cradle suggests a desire for security and protection in a stable life situation. It makes you anxiously concerned about protecting what you have achieved against intruders. However, the opposition represents the development task of leaving the security of the Cradle and going out into the world, or going into the empty space of the horoscope, to become independent.

The opposition of the full moon also acts like an interface between life and death or a mirror reflecting what lies in the soul. So, the Cradle gives an interest in sleep, dreams and death in order to learn about the transition from one dimension to another.

Two Minor Grand Trines bridge the polarity of the opposition. They give two possible middle paths or ways out of conflicts to bring new meaning and opportunities. A feeling of invulnerability comes from always having an escape route open into your creativity, where no more conflicts exist.

The Cradle also encourages receptiveness, devotion, perfectionism, sympathy, an open heart and optimism. It helps you live in harmony with the environment, adapt yourself and deal with its demands. ^[1]

The Constellations

The full moon in July 2024 is in the Sign of Capricorn. However, as the star map below shows, it is located in the Constellation of Sagittarius. The Signs and the Constellations do not match up. Over the last 2000 years, the Constellations have moved nearly 30° out of alignment with the Signs because of the precession of the equinoxes.

The Zodiac was invented only as a measuring device. The ecliptic line in the image below matches the degrees in the full moon horoscope above. Like the original astrologers, I use the Constellations and fixed stars for interpretation, not the Signs.

The July 21 full moon most closely aligns with stars in the constellation Indus, the Indian.

• 28♑08 – Beta Indi
• 29♑01 – Eta Indi
• 29♑08 – Full Moon July 2024
• 29♑27 – Alpha Indi
• 00â™’54 – Pluto

The Indian gives a quick penetrating mind, deep insight, and interest in orientalism, mysticism and sport.^[2]

Full Moon July 2024 Meaning

The July 21 full moon, aligned with Pluto, brings powerful feelings and intense relationships. The Sun opposite Moon-Pluto has the potential for conflict, crises and more extreme polarization. However, the harmonious Mars and Neptune aspects create positive, creative, passionate and healing energy.

The Cradle aspect pattern provides security and protection that allow the pursuit of pleasure and harmony. It also resolves the conflicts and extreme polarities of the opposition, bringing new meaning and opportunities.

The influence of the July 21 Full Moon lasts two weeks until the August 4 New Moon. Astrologically, a Full Moon is influenced by the preceding New Moon. The July 5 New Moon aligned with fixed star Sirius to bring immense energy and power, faithfulness, devotion and passion. It also brings the courage, determination and self-discipline to resolve relationship imbalances, especially regarding the role of nurturing.

If the Full Moon July 2024 astrology directly impacts your horoscope, you can read about it in your monthly horoscope. For more detail about how it affects your natal chart, see full moon transits.

• Previous Moon Phase: New Moon July 5, 2024
• Next Moon Phase: New Moon August 4, 2024
• 2024 Moon Phases Calendar

Full Moon July 2024 Times and Dates

• Los Angeles – July 21, 3:17 am
• New York – July 21, 6:17 am
• London – July 21, 11:17 am
• Delhi – July 21, 3:47 pm
• Sydney – July 21, 8:17 pm

References

1. Aspect Pattern Astrology, Bruno and Louise Huber, 2005, p.233.
2. Fixed Stars and Constellations in Astrology, Vivian E. Robson, 1923, p.48.