We bring July to a close and begin August wrapped in gentle, reflective, and healing invitations. This is a week of inward movement. A week of softened hearts, luminous insights, and quiet reckonings. A week to return to the parts of ourselves still waiting to be seen, still longing to be held.
There is something sacred stirring beneath the surface: something tender, something wise. The astrology of this week invites us to meet it.
On July 30, Chiron begins its retrograde in Aries. That same day, Venus shifts into the nurturing waters of Cancer. And just after, on July 31, Mercury retrograde meets the Sun in Leo, forming a Cazimi, in the heart of the Sun.
Together, these movements weave a week that is less about doing and more about listening. Less about becoming and more about remembering. They remind us that the medicine we seek outside of us so often lives within.
Let’s step into each of these doorways.
July 30, 2025: Chiron Retrograde in Aries
Chiron, the archetype of the Wounded Healer, begins its annual retrograde on July 30, 2025. Moving backward from our perspective, it guides us into inner terrain – spaces that may still carry ache, still carry old stories, still wait for the light of our love.
In Aries, Chiron’s retrograde is deeply personal. Aries governs identity, direction, and our instinct to act. With Chiron retracing its steps through this fire sign, we’re invited to reflect on the wounds wrapped around selfhood – around being seen, around having permission to lead, to begin, to exist boldly as we are.
This is not about fixing ourselves. It’s about sitting with ourselves. About seeing our pain not as a flaw, but as a doorway. About meeting the parts of us that feel disconnected and remembering that we are, and have always been, whole.
This retrograde extends through early January 2026. And while it may not be loud, it is powerful. It asks us: Where am I ready to be my own healer? What truths live within my tenderness? What wisdom lives beneath the hurt?
Read more about Chiron Retrograde here.
July 30, 2025: Venus enters Cancer
Also on July 30, 2025, Venus moves into Cancer, where she will remain until August 25, 2025. This is a return to heart. To care. To the nourishing waters of presence, softness, and emotional intimacy.
Venus in Cancer is love with arms wide open. Love that cooks for you, checks in on you, offers a safe place to cry. It is the love that says, “You don’t have to do anything to deserve this: I just want to hold you.”
While in Cancer, Venus invites us to tend to our inner world, our relationships, our bodies, and our pasts with the warmth of nurturance. This is not performative love. It is slow, quiet, and deeply healing.
We may find ourselves more sensitive over the coming weeks, more attuned to what feels safe and what does not. Let this sensitivity be a guide. Let it show you what needs holding. Let it lead you home.
July 31, 2025: Mercury Retrograde Cazimi in Leo
On July 31, Mercury, currently retrograde, joins the Sun in an exact conjunction in Leo. This is called a Cazimi, when a planet sits in the “heart of the Sun,” and is purified, illuminated, renewed.
This Cazimi is an inferior conjunction, meaning it happens while Mercury is retrograde. It’s a moment of clarity in the middle of confusion. A lantern lighting up a hidden path. A new lens gifted to the mind and to the heart.
In Leo, this insight is personal. It is connected to identity, creativity, and expression. We may suddenly understand why we’ve held ourselves back, why joy felt distant, why our voice felt dimmed. And we may feel a soft flicker of what it would mean to reclaim it.
This is a beautiful day for journaling, intuitive writing, inner dialogue, or simply noticing what arises. The messages may not come through logic – they may come through image, memory, or sensation. Trust what you receive. It is a piece of your truth being returned to you.
Weekly Forecast: July 27 to August 2, 2025
This week ahead is not for pushing forward. It is a week for returning inward. For tuning in rather than broadcasting out. For loving yourself enough to listen.
With Chiron beginning its retrograde, you are invited to sit with the parts of you still healing, and to offer them presence, not pressure.
With Venus entering Cancer, you are reminded that love is not a reward. It is a right. It is a way of being.
And with Mercury Cazimi in Leo, you are gifted a moment of radiant insight, a moment to remember the light of who you are, and the story you want to live.
Let this week be sacred in its slowness. Let your tenderness be a teacher. Let the love you offer yourself become the medicine that carries you forward.
Weekly 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 July 27 to August 2, 2025. For a greater in depth reading based on your astrology chart, explore our Transits Astrology Reading.
Aries Rising
This week brings a sacred pause, inviting you to come back into yourself gently. There is healing stirring in the quiet, and your body is speaking with subtle language. Let your inner child show you where it still feels unseen, where it craves your presence. Venus calls you home, into safety, nourishment, and memory. And Mercury Cazimi brings a moment of sweet clarity, a golden insight into how joy and expression want to return to your life. Let yourself be softened, seen, and slowly reawakened from within.
Taurus Rising
Let this be a week of listening, Taurus Rising. To the soft voice within. To the whispers in your dreams. To the memories rising for healing. You’re being asked to reflect on what belonging truly means – to you, to your body, and to your place in the world. Venus invites gentle connection and honest intimacy. Mercury Cazimi offers a spark of insight, perhaps a shift in perspective or a new way of seeing your story. Your voice is your magic this week. Speak with love. Speak with truth.
Gemini Rising
This is a week of embodiment, Gemini Rising. Of returning to the moment, to the breath, to the sensation of being here. You are invited to remember that healing does not have to be loud, it can be gentle, loving, and felt in the smallest rituals. Venus brings comfort into your self-worth, into the ways you hold yourself. Mercury Cazimi is a gift for your mind, a renewal in perception, a re-anchoring of your truth. Let your thoughts reflect your heart. Let your ideas bloom from joy.
Cancer Rising
This week brings medicine through self-remembrance, Cancer Rising. A deep inner knowing is rising, whispers of your truth, your beauty, and your inherent worth. Chiron invites you to be with the tender spaces that ask for your attention. Venus returns to your sign, softening the edges, inviting deep self-love and sweetness in your movements. And Mercury Cazimi brings a radiant insight into what you truly value. Let this be a week of cherishing your being. You are sacred. You are whole. You are ready to receive yourself.
Leo Rising
Let this be a week of sacred listening, Leo Rising. You are in an inner cocoon, where great insight is being formed. Chiron’s retrograde invites you to examine the beliefs that have shaped you, and Venus brings healing through quiet nourishment and tenderness. The Mercury Cazimi in your sign is a bright spark of remembering, of seeing yourself more clearly, and loving what you find. It’s a beautiful time to write, to reflect, to reconnect with your voice. Let your inner flame be your guide.
Virgo Rising
This week invites you to soften the space between your thoughts, Virgo Rising. To pause. To breathe. To feel. There is deep integration unfolding beneath the surface, and your presence is the medicine. Chiron’s retrograde asks for honesty around your emotional patterns and inner trust. Venus calls you into sacred connection, into community, and into the love that surrounds you. Mercury Cazimi lights up your dreams, offering glimpses of wisdom from behind the veil. Let your rest be sacred. Let your dreams speak.
Libra Rising
It’s a week of heart-centered reflection, Libra Rising. Your inner world is asking for love, your body asking for presence, your path asking for truth. Chiron’s retrograde stirs wounds around connection and vulnerability, while Venus invites softness into your visibility and leadership. It’s time to nourish the version of you that’s growing. Mercury Cazimi offers a soul-sent insight, perhaps a moment of clarity around your future or your joy. Allow your radiance to rise gently. You are becoming.
Scorpio Rising
This week asks you to tend your truth, Scorpio Rising. To revisit the beliefs and inner frameworks you’ve lived by, and to let love guide you through what is shifting. Chiron offers healing through honesty. Venus calls you to reconnect with what is sacred, meaningful, and heart-led. And Mercury Cazimi gifts you with perspective, clarity on how you want to lead, create, and show up in the world. Let your intuition shape your vision. Let love be the foundation of your path.
Sagittarius Rising
It’s a softly potent week, Sagittarius Rising, one that invites you to sit with what’s been left unspoken. Chiron turns your gaze inward, illuminating old stories of creativity, intimacy, and emotional exposure. Venus brings tenderness to your inner world, encouraging you to feel deeply and love freely. Mercury Cazimi opens a portal of insight and expansion, a luminous truth that shifts everything you thought you knew. Let life speak to you through signs, synchronicities, and sensation. It knows how to find you.
Capricorn Rising
You are invited to return to your foundations, Capricorn Rising, not the ones built through striving, but those rooted in softness, care, and heart. Chiron retrograde asks for presence with the parts of you that still ache for love. Venus moves into your space of connection, bringing healing through vulnerability and honesty. And Mercury Cazimi casts light on something you’re ready to release, a power dynamic, an emotional entanglement, or a false sense of control. Let this week be about intimacy, with others, and most of all, with yourself.
Aquarius Rising
This week is a call into communion, with your body, your breath, and your most sacred relationships. Chiron retrograde asks you to reflect on how you speak, how you listen, and how your thoughts shape your life. Venus brings beauty and softness into your daily world, reminding you that devotion is love in motion. And Mercury Cazimi shines its light on partnership, offering insight, clarity, and the opportunity to see yourself more clearly through the eyes of another. Let connection become your mirror.
Pisces Rising
This week brings quiet healing, Pisces Rising, rooted in presence, rhythm, and the sacred simplicity of now. Chiron retrograde invites you to reconnect with your worth, reminding you that you are enough without proving anything. Venus brings joy and inspiration into your rituals, creativity, and self-expression. Mercury Cazimi offers insight into your well-being, inviting you to listen to what your body and mind truly need. Let love be the thread that weaves through your day. Let joy return through your devotion to yourself.
