The Outer Planets Dance begins a Hero's Journey

"We must let go of the life we have planned, so as to accept the one that is waiting for us."

Joseph Campbell 

This is a big week.  This is a week that will bring in a lot of power.  You can use this power to make changes toward the kind of life that will be more rewarding and interesting.  This is the hero's turf. Don't let it scare you, use it.
This Cardinal Grand Cross is there to transform the world, as it does that it will transform each individual life.  You don't have to do it all at once, you couldn't.  But the process is started and this week really adds to it in several intense waves.  Surf those waves, ride them toward your goals.  If you try to stay safe, you will end up in the muck and that will slow you down and muddy you up.  You want to use this energy.  This time is your hero's journey. 
Monday, July 26 is quite a day in the sky!  Lots of goings on here, Most of them under the influence of the Cardinal grand Cross.  And then there is Neptune getting into the middle making it more of a muddle.  But the big one is a final passage that has been affecting us for a couple of years now, Saturn's last opposition with Uranus.
This one is a little different.  All of the previous passes of these two have been in Virgo and Pisces, mutable, water and earth signs.  This one in Libra and Aries is in Cardinal Fire and Air.  It is a much more active energy.  This could culminate in something more significant, a new beginning whose way has been prepared with a lot of nudges.  These two are powerful energies and quite opposite in nature.
Saturn is structure, security.  Uranus likes to move quickly to challenge and change. As an outer planet, it is always transformational.  Outer planet energy usually prevails and it is prevailing in a fiery energy that doesn't mind breaking some eggs.  While Saturn is all stability in a sign of balance that prefers the process to getting to the point.
If we weren't having enough fun yet, Mars is applying to Saturn just two degrees away, close enough to influence, certainly.  And Mars likes action!   By the 29th, they are all in the same degree.  Things could get pretty explosive on a wider, cultural level.  
In personal charts any planet at 0 degrees will be influenced most.  And with the power of this one, I would be pretty comfortable taking it out five degrees in either direction.  25 degrees to 5 degrees, that would include a lot of us in our charts.
This alone would make it a big day, but we are not done yet.
Today Neptune is opposing Mercury. This makes quite am opposition between the planet of thinking and logic and the planet of instinct and intuitions.  It will be hard to sort out what you are thinking. It will still be in effect on the 26th, when all the Saturn, Mars, Uranus energy is with us.  It will be hard to figure out what to think, and to make it more interesting Mars is quincunxing  Neptune tomorrow.
The quincunx is tricky because it puts it in two signs and energies that don't really understand each other.  And these two planet's energies don't get along either.  They won't know what to do.  Mars is direct energy, Neptune is anything but, it is mist.
That should be enough major transits for one day....but no.  Jupiter, Which is only three degrees from the Uranus, Saturn, Mars, energy is trining the Sun.  Now that one is cheery.  These two get along.  And they are positive, strong energies.They could color all of this much more positively.
Then the final planet in this mix finds Pluto quincunxing the Sun and squaring Jupiter.  Pluto transforms.  It is what it does, it does it deeply, and it does it with a lot of power.  
Anyone with a lot of planets 25 degrees to 5 degrees is going to have all this energy coming at them this week.It is a good time to concentrate on what changes you are looking for in your life in a positive way.  Neptune's energy can be very positive if you meditate, that can help clear out the Neppie energy.
Uranus requires going with the flow.  But watch out for the kind of accidents that come from moving too fast without thinking about it.  Steady your board.
Pluto will take you to new levels, it requires that you release some of the things you are holding on to so that it can give you space to create your new life.   But do not call out your devils by saying "I will not give ---------  up, because---------- is exactly what it will go for.
The force will be strong this week.  It has already begun and the end is not in sight.  The journey is ahead.
This kind of energy is the space for heroes.  It requires a lot of you, but the adventure is what makes life interesting and exciting.  It can take you to wonderful places.  It will require challenges.  But if you can imagine the kind of life you would most like to create and hold that vision, this extreme time can move you there faster than you can imagine.