Venus Sparks, Mercury Shadows · A Week of Subtle Shifts & Soul Whispers
Moon Day Newsletter · June 30–July 6, 2025
Weekly Astrology Highlights
This week begins quietly—but don’t be fooled. The energy builds beneath the surface, rippling toward Friday's wave of awakening.
On Monday, Mercury enters his pre-retrograde shadow at 4º Leo. The themes of this retrograde (July 18–Aug 11) are already stirring: your voice, your heart, your radiance. What are you here to say—and what’s been left unsaid?
It would be a fairly quiet week until Friday, when the Moon slips into Scorpio, her sign of fall, pulling us deeper into emotional undercurrents. And then— Venus at 29º Taurus meets Uranus.
Electric. Unsettling. Liberating.
Then shortly after Venus enters Gemini, bringing curiosity, conversation, and a desire to make meaning of what was just felt. Neptune stations retrograde the same day, casting a fog and inviting a soul-check. Sometimes confusion is the invitation to trust a deeper compass.
If you’ve felt something quietly shake loose—like an old pattern cracking or a dream whispering louder—it’s not just you. Something has been stirred. Now it wants a voice.
Mercury Retrograde in Leo · A Soul Recalibration
Mercury’s retrograde in Leo isn’t just a logistical hiccup—it’s an invitation to reweave the story of your radiance.
This is the part of the sky where your voice meets your visibility, where your message becomes a mirror of your heart. Leo is the sign of sovereignty, play, and creative self-expression. So when Mercury retraces his steps here, he’s not just rethinking—he’s remembering.
What truth are you ready to live, not just speak? And check your natal chart, where your Leo house fall in.
Here’s the full cycle to keep in mind:
June 30 – Enters shadow at 4º Leo
(Themes begin to emerge. Pay attention to what feels sticky, unresolved, or ready to be reworded.)
July 18 – Stations retrograde at 15º Leo
(The unraveling begins. This is not about going backward—it’s about circling deeper.)
July 31 – Inferior conjunction (Cazimi) with the Sun at 9º Leo
(Mercury passes between Earth and Sun, entering the heart of the fire. This is the moment of clarity—the divine download—the turning point in the mythic underworld journey.)
August 11 – Stations direct at 4º Leo
(Emerging with a new perspective. Still tender, but clearer now. Integration begins.)
August 25 – Exits shadow at 15º Leo
(You’ve walked the spiral. The lesson has settled. Now, you embody the new message.)
This cycle isn’t just about tech glitches or scheduling chaos.
It’s about heart-alignment.
The courage to change your mind.
The power of naming your truth—out loud, on purpose.
This is a time to reclaim your voice, review your visibility, and restore your relationship with creative confidence.
Retrogrades are not setbacks—they’re sacred resets.
Mercury, the divine messenger, isn’t erasing your path—he’s helping you revise it with more soul.
Let this retrograde be a rewriting of the script, a re-anchoring of what joy means to you, a deep inquiry into:
“What am I really here to say—and am I ready to say it as me?”
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Really love "Retrogrades are not setbacks—they’re sacred resets." A different and beautiful way to look at them.