It’s a week of inward movement – where time slows and the mind softens. Where memories rise, old identities unravel, and healing becomes a quiet doorway we’re gently invited to walk through. This is not a time of linear progress, but of pause. Not of seeking answers, but of listening for the ones that already live inside.
With both Saturn and Mercury entering retrograde, and the Sun squaring Chiron, the cosmos opens an inner temple. A space to tend to the roots of our desires, our direction, and our self-perception. A space to meet ourselves anew.
Let this week be a breath between chapters. Let it be a return to your own voice.
July 13, 2025: Saturn Retrograde in Aries
Beginning July 12/13 (depending on your timezone) Saturn begins its annual retrograde journey – this time in the sign of Aries. Here, Saturn turns his gaze inward, inviting us to reflect, rest, and reorient. He does not ask us to build this week, but to pause before we do. To return to the foundations, the blueprints, the deeper reasons why we build in the first place.
In Aries, this retrograde is particularly personal. Aries is direction. It is instinct, initiation, and the fire of self-leadership. Saturn here asks us: Is the path I’ve chosen truly mine? Are my goals born from the truth of my being, or shaped by expectation, comparison, or fear?
This is a retrograde of authority. Of reclaiming your own. Of discerning where you’ve given your power away in the pursuit of success, and choosing instead to lead from within.
It’s a time to slow down and clear the inner noise. Let rest be the rebellion. Let reflection be the foundation.
Read more about Saturn Retrograde here.
July 17, 2025: Mercury Retrograde in Leo
Just a few days later, on July 17, Mercury joins Saturn in retrograde, beginning its journey through Leo. Mercury rules the mind, the stories we tell ourselves, and the narratives that shape our world. In Leo, those stories become personal. They touch our identity, our creativity, and the way we express who we are.
This retrograde invites us to listen closely to the inner voice that narrates our life. Whose voice is it? What scripts have we internalized about who we are, what we’re worth, or what we must prove?
Leo teaches that authentic expression is sacred. That joy is a compass. That creativity is medicine. And so this retrograde is not about silencing the self, but about clearing the distortions that have clouded it. It’s a return to heart-centered communication – not just with others, but with yourself.
What would it feel like to speak to yourself with love? What truth is waiting to be expressed through you, once the old stories dissolve?
Read more about Mercury Retrograde here.
July 19, 2025: Sun Square Chiron
Closing the week, on July 19, the Sun in Cancer forms a square with Chiron in Aries, a meeting of self and wound, of illumination and integration. This is a transit that stirs the tender places. That brings to light the parts of us that still feel unseen, unworthy, or unsafe to exist in their fullness.
The Sun in Cancer brings attention to our inner world, our past, our emotional memory. Chiron in Aries brings attention to our sovereignty, our identity, our right to be here just as we are. Their square is a healing tension. A friction that calls forth growth.
You may notice emotional layers rising – old hurts, vulnerable memories, or internalized fears. Not to overwhelm, but to be witnessed. To be reclaimed. To be integrated back into wholeness.
This is a beautiful time for inner child work, for re-parenting yourself with compassion, and for choosing – again and again – to see your sensitivity as strength.
Weekly Forecast: July 13 – 19 2025
This week isn’t here to rush us forward. It’s here to invite us home. To return us to the quieter spaces where truth speaks softly, and healing happens slowly, through presence, through breath, through choice.
With Saturn and Mercury both retrograde, the outer world may feel slower, delayed, or less clear. But the inner world – the realm of soul, heart, and memory – is active. Awake. Alive.
This is a time to ask:
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What am I building, and why?
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Who am I beneath the stories I’ve been told?
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Where does my joy live now, in this version of me?
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What am I ready to meet with tenderness, so it can transform?
Allow space. In your schedule. In your thoughts. In your emotional body. Let this week soften you so it can show you who you’re becoming. Let it quiet the noise so your truth can rise.
Because in this stillness, you remember. You remember your direction. You remember your voice. You remember the beauty of being exactly where you are.
Weekly Astrology Horoscopes for Your Zodiac Sign
As the planets shift in our cosmos, they simultaneously shift through our astrological chart, highlighting different areas of our human experience. By looking to your zodiac sign – in particular your rising sign for your horoscope forecast, we can begin to discern those shifts and invitations.
Read on for your horoscope for the week, forecast for 13 – 19 July, 2025. For a greater in depth reading based on your astrology chart, explore our Transits Astrology Reading.
Aries Rising
This week asks for stillness within movement, pause within action. As Saturn turns inward, your identity and sense of self-leadership undergo deep reflection. What roles are you playing, and which were inherited rather than chosen? You are clearing the noise so you can hear your own voice again. As Mercury Retrograde begins, your joy, creativity, and self-expression ask to be reimagined. What’s keeping your heart guarded? What parts of you are waiting to be played with? As the Sun squares Chiron, tender themes of belonging and emotional safety rise to the surface. Let yourself be seen, just as you are.
Taurus Rising
The unseen calls you home this week. As Saturn turns retrograde, you’re invited into deep inner reflection. There is wisdom in solitude, medicine in quiet. Something sacred wants to be heard. Mercury begins its retrograde soon after, asking you to reimagine your foundations, your sense of comfort, and where you go to feel safe. Let this be a return inward, a tending of the hearth. The Sun square Chiron brings insight through stillness. A memory, a dream, a whisper from your inner world may rise to be held. Trust the inner shifts unfolding now. They are creating space for you to feel again.
Gemini Rising
This week, your vision of the future is in flux. Saturn Retrograde invites you to pause and reflect on your dreams, your circles, and the collective spaces you inhabit. What needs to be cleared? What no longer reflects your truth? Mercury Retrograde begins soon after, bringing a soft revision to your mind, words, and inner dialogue. Are your thoughts supportive? Are they truly yours? You are remembering your voice. As the Sun and Chiron square, stories of worth and visibility may rise. You are being asked to soften your guard and choose to be seen in your truth. Let it be healing.
Cancer Rising
The invitation this week is to pause in the pursuit. As Saturn begins its retrograde, you are invited to reflect on your path, your contribution, and the structure of your life. Where are you heading, and is it aligned with your soul? Mercury Retrograde follows, inviting reflection around worth, value, and self-resource. You are learning to anchor into your inner ground. As the Sun in your sign squares Chiron, emotions surface to be witnessed. Past wounds around visibility or success may arise. Let them speak. Let them soften. This is healing through remembrance, through courage, and through love.
Leo Rising
Let yourself pause. Let yourself feel. Saturn Retrograde asks you to reorient your beliefs and philosophies, to examine what truths you’ve outgrown. This is a soft unwinding of narratives, of inherited meaning, of the roles you’ve performed. As Mercury begins its retrograde in your sign, the mind turns inward. You may feel less clear – but the clarity you’re looking for is being built beneath the surface. The Sun Chiron square lights up quiet vulnerabilities. Grief, confusion, and old wounds around identity and direction may rise. Let yourself unravel. Let your truth, your voice, and your light be rewritten from within.
Virgo Rising
You are entering sacred terrain. Saturn Retrograde brings awareness to the deeper layers of your psyche – old fears, inherited conditioning, energetic entanglements. There is strength in turning inward. Mercury Retrograde follows, moving through the quiet corners of your mind. Rest, solitude, and soft rituals are your guides now. Let your mind unravel what is no longer needed. The Sun square Chiron brings awareness to your deep longing to be seen, held, and known—beyond your roles and responsibilities. This week offers healing in the unseen, the unspoken, the stillness. Let what arises move through you. Let your becoming unfold.
Libra Rising
Relationships become the mirror this week. Saturn Retrograde invites reflection on how you show up in connection, in commitment, in shared responsibility. What have you been carrying that isn’t yours? Where are you being asked to step more fully into your own authority? As Mercury turns retrograde, your dreams, goals, and social spaces may feel fluid, offering the opportunity to realign your vision with your heart. The Sun Chiron square brings tender themes of worth, love, and reciprocity into focus. Let yourself receive what you’ve been giving. Let others meet you in your truth.
Scorpio Rising
This week asks for softness in how you move through the world. Saturn begins its retrograde through your rhythm, your responsibilities, your relationship to work and wellness. What are you doing out of duty, and what is truly aligned? Mercury Retrograde turns the focus toward your role in the world, your expression of purpose and leadership. There is something to reimagine here. The Sun and Chiron illuminate your quiet longing for more – more meaning, more truth, more alignment. Be gentle with what arises. It’s not about fixing, but listening.
Sagittarius Rising
There’s a remembering unfolding within you. Saturn Retrograde invites you to return to your inner flame – your joy, your creativity, your sacred play. What have you postponed in the name of being productive? Mercury Retrograde opens space for your beliefs and philosophies to shift. You’re being asked to think differently about your path forward. Let your thoughts stretch wider. The Sun square Chiron stirs emotion around vulnerability, intimacy, and safety. Let this be a week of softening, of reimagining how you hold yourself. Let joy become your practice again.
Capricorn Rising
You are reorienting from the root. Saturn Retrograde brings awareness to what lies beneath the surface – your foundations, your lineage, your relationship with safety and belonging. Let the pace slow. Let the unraveling begin. As Mercury Retrograde moves through the territory of depth and intimacy, your inner world is stirred. What stories have you been carrying that are not yours to keep? Let them go. As the Sun squares Chiron, relationship dynamics may reflect old wounds. But healing lives here, too. The kind of healing that brings you home to yourself.
Aquarius Rising
Words carry weight this week. Saturn Retrograde turns your attention toward the frameworks that shape your mind. How have your thoughts been conditioned? Which beliefs are you ready to release? As Mercury Retrograde begins, your relationships enter a space of review and re-alignment. Let this be a time of listening, of communicating from the heart. The Sun Chiron square activates quiet sensitivities – wounds around being heard, understood, and valued for your voice. You are not here to perform your truth. You are here to live it.
Pisces Rising
You are reclaiming the ground beneath your feet. Saturn Retrograde brings reflection into your relationship with worth, value, and stability. What have you been anchoring your identity into? Mercury Retrograde begins soon after, moving through your daily rhythm. Let your days become softer. Let your tasks make space for what matters. The Sun and Chiron highlight inner stories that may have once tied your worth to output or performance. This is your invitation to untangle. To rewrite the way you care for yourself. To remember that you are already whole.
