New Delhi, July 31 -- July does not end quietly. It ends in water.

At some point on Friday, the Moon leaves the cool, analytical air of Aquarius, where it has sat since Tuesday, and moves into Pisces. It is a waning gibbous Moon, still bright, still carrying the residue of Wednesday's Full Moon in Aquarius at 6 degrees, and it arrives in the most porous sign of the zodiac at the exact moment the rest of the sky is asking for hard decisions. That contradiction is the whole story of the day.

The hard decisions are Saturn's. On 26 July, Saturn stationed retrograde at 14 degrees and 45 minutes of Aries, and it will not turn direct again until 10 December. This is the first full working week of that reversal, and Saturn retrograde in Aries d...