The month of July 2018 is a time when matters of the previous months reach their conclusion.
Events and situations may culminate or end at this time.

By mid month, there may be a reviewing of all that has happened in the recent past and perhaps a revision or revising in order to bring matters back into balance.

This time would also focus on widening and deepening one’s connection with the world.

Humanitarian efforts and creative endeavors would ideally be the calling of the day.

Broadening one’s horizons through journeys would bring eye opening and heartening experiences.

The journeys and experiences at this time are geared towards encompassing and embracing all fellow beings, seeing All as one big family and as one Being.

In addition, this period may perhaps bring about situations where deeply buried emotions of the past may come to the fore. This would perhaps relate to past family issues of pain and guilt and deeply held fears, that may have arisen from feelings of abandonment and isolation.
Therefore, at this time, introspection, spending time by oneself and meditative exercises, would greatly aid in releasing these deeply held emotions…slowly but surely…gradually allowing the inherent natural feelings of kindness and compassion to flow freely once again.

Hence, the lesson that July brings would be the training of the mind towards restraint and purification through meditation, introspection, understanding.

It would be beneficial to meditate daily… if just beginning, allow forty days, at the least… the benefits will arise.

A verse from the Buddhist text, the ‘Dhammapada’ states:-

(“Manopubbaṅgamā dhammā, manoseṭṭhā manomayā,)

Mind precedes thoughts, mind is their chief, (their quality is) made by mind,

(manasā ce pasannena bhāsati vā karoti vā,)

if with pure mind one speaks or acts,

(tato naṁ sukham-anveti chāyā va anapāyinī. [2])

through that, happiness follows him like a shadow which does not depart.”

(ancient buddhist texts)