Shakeups, Revelations & Revelry
While the first few days of July begin quietly, don’t let the stillness fool you, this month builds into a crescendo of powerful alignments, planetary shifts, and emotional turning points. From final conjunctions and volatile retrogrades to destiny-driven lunation’s, July marks a pivot in the collective and personal storylines we’ve all been navigating.
Let’s break it down by major themes.
🔁 Retrogrades
Neptune Retrograde – July 4
Neptune stations retrograde in Pisces while making harmonious aspects to Venus, Saturn, Uranus, and Pluto. This marks the beginning of a subtle yet powerful unraveling, where illusions fade and the veil thins. Intuition heightens, boundaries blur, and creativity deepens. Expect dreams, visions, and psychic hits to feel extra potent leading up to and just after early July.
Saturn Retrograde – July 13
Saturn stations retrograde in Aries while sextiling Uranus and Pluto, and remaining conjunct Neptune. This marks a turning point in our relationship with boundaries, authority, and responsibility. Aries energy here is forceful and raw, expect tension with systems or leaders, and notice how “hard truths” about what isn’t working may force reevaluation.
Mercury Retrograde – July 18
Mercury stations retrograde at 15° Leo in sextile with Venus. While Mercury retrogrades can stir confusion and miscommunication, this one begins with charm and creativity. Conversations from the past may resurface. Lean into expressive outlets like writing, performance, or play to channel the retrograde tension into insight.
🌕 Full & New Moons
Full Moon in Capricorn – July 10
18° Capricorn
This full moon stands almost alone, its only significant connections are a sextile and trine to the lunar nodes. It creates a “destiny vortex,” a moment of karmic release or choice. Rooted in structure and long-term goals, this lunation helps us confront what responsibilities we must either recommit to or walk away from entirely. The energy is sobering, but illuminating. Full Moon’s are about re-evaluation, reconciliation, realization and fulfillment. Once we realize where we’re going, the rest is history.
New Moon in Leo – July 24
2° Leo
This new moon is tightly aspecting several outer planets:
- Trine Saturn (structure, discipline)
- Sextile Uranus (freedom, innovation)
- Trine Neptune (vision, creativity)
- Opposition Pluto (power struggles, transformation)
This lunation invites us to reclaim joy, expression, and identity, but it doesn’t come without cost. You may find yourself standing opposite an authority figure, a personal shadow, or a deeply entrenched fear. Still, trines to Neptune and Saturn suggest that wisdom, creativity, and maturity are within reach, if we rise to meet the moment.
🚀 Planetary Ingresses & Major Aspects
July 4: Venus Conjunct Uranus (29° Taurus) + Venus Enters Gemini
Expect relationship shakeups, financial surprises, and unexpected desires. This is the final Venus-Uranus conjunction in Taurus, bringing a liberating end to a cycle that’s been disrupting comfort zones. Later that same day, Venus enters Gemini, bringing flirtation, and mental stimulation. However, she will square the nodes later in the month, suggesting key crossroads in love and money.
July 6–7: Venus Aspects Saturn, Neptune & Pluto
A creative and communicative few days:
- Venus sextile Saturn helps you express healthy boundaries.
- Venus sextile Neptune supports artistry and romantic daydreams.
- Venus trine Pluto opens the door for deep, transformative conversations.
July 7: Uranus Enters Gemini
This major ingress marks the start of a long, revolutionary transit. Uranus in Gemini brings volatility, brilliance, and potential chaos to communication, education, and technology. Think: AI, solar flares, internet systems, and collective nervous system overload. Historically, this transit has brought both innovation and disruption, stay curious, but grounded.
July 11: Sun Trine North Node
Follow your instincts. This harmonious trine lights up clarity on where you’re heading. There’s an ease to recognizing your purpose—especially as it relates to Cancerian themes of home, safety, nurturing, and emotional truth mixed with Piscean romanticism, optimism and spirituality.
July 18: Venus Sextile Mercury (Rx)
A beautiful aspect for reflecting on the past through writing, art, and heartfelt conversations. Old love notes, long-forgotten ideas, or creative seeds from earlier in the year may reemerge.
July 20: Mars Conjunct South Node (Virgo)
Mars meeting the South Node in Virgo signals a purging. You may need to release a behavior, relationship, health pattern, or even a routine that no longer aligns. This is a detox of precision, surgical in its clarity. It could also relate to cutting out a person, task, or routine that’s been draining your energy.
July 21: Venus Square the Nodes
Crossroads in love, finance, and self-worth. What relationships or ideals must you release in order to move forward? Venus in Gemini may stir flirtations, curious exchanges, or ideas about love, but this square demands we choose with intention.
July 22: Sun Enters Leo
The Sun returns home, ushering in Leo season with vitality and drama. Expect creativity, boldness, and a renewed sense of play, but maybe with a darker twist. Happy solar returns to all the Leos out there.
July 23: Sun Sextile Uranus (0° Leo–Gemini)
Bright ideas, tech developments, or shocking truths could surface. There’s a sense of electricity in the air, a flash of genius or a plot twist that changes your perspective.
July 24: Sun Trine Neptune & Saturn + New Moon
This threefold energy is spiritually aligned, creative, and wise, offering maturity and dreams in equal measure. Be mindful of the Pluto opposition to the New Moon though, which may expose power struggles or hidden agendas.
July 25: Sun Opposite Pluto
This is the peak of solar power versus hidden, subversive control. Whether internal or external, power dynamics rise to the surface. Be mindful of ego clashes and manipulation. Truths may be revealed.
July 30: Venus Enters Cancer
With Jupiter already in Cancer, Venus brings warmth, care, and emotional nourishment to the forefront. Love becomes more protective, sentimental, and deeply rooted in belonging.
July 31: Mercury Kazimi at 9° Leo
The heart of the retrograde. Expect clarity, insight, and brilliant downloads. Speak your truth, play with your ideas, and let the inner child express itself.
🌟 Final Thoughts
July 2025 is not subtle, it asks us to choose with clarity, to release with courage, and to express with truth. There is so much liberation energy available, but it will require discernment, maturity, and the willingness to confront what’s no longer working.
Stay open. Stay grounded. Stay sovereign.
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