July Energetic & Astrological Forecast

Hello July

Half way through the year with July being a month of transformative significance for us as individuals and for the collective, especially in a timeline of ascension, embodiment, and multidimensional recalibration. July is one of the most transformative months of the year, marked by emotional breakthroughs, structural shifts, and soul-deep awakening, especially under the influence of Cancer season, Pluto retrograde, and a powerful Full Moon in Capricorn, as we are being called to let go of outdated patterns and reclaim our inner power. 

We are also riding the wave with Jupiter, the planet of growth, blessings, higher wisdom, and abundance, entering Cancer, the sign of the Great Mother, emotional intelligence, roots, and soul-family from June 9th. Cancer is Jupiter's sign of exaltation, meaning Jupiter expresses himself here with radiant potency. Some collective themes include, healing the home, family karma resolution, emotional intelligence, womb and ancestral work, Divine Feminine expansion (regardless of gender as we all have both Divine Masculine and Divine Feminine). This is a gateway for soul embodiment through nurturing, intuitive creation, and emotional reclamation, you may feel called to create or tend to a home, a sanctuary, or a sacred emotional space. Spirit invites you to expand by softening, by choosing belonging over performing, and by reconnecting with your emotional truth as your compass. Those with Cancer placements (like Cancer Rising) will experience this as a deep expansion of identity, healing, and visibility. 

Abundance through emotional security! What are you doing for yourself to work with this energy?

The first three weeks of July pull us inward as Cancer season awakens our need for emotional safety, connection, and healing. The possibility of old wounds or family dynamics resurface that have not been healed, not to cause harm, but to be cleared and alchemized. Focus on: deep rest and self-nourishment, reconnecting with what truly matters and emotional reset and reconnection to roots. This month you’re drawn inward, craving home, emotional security, and deeper reflection. Nostalgia may surface as you revisit the past to realign your future. Connecting with nature and ancestral wisdom,  can offer profound healing now.

A month of major soul realignment, featuring healing love patterns (Venus), releasing control (Capricorn Full Moon), surrendering perfection (Pisces North Node relevant from January 11th), reclaiming bold expression (Mercury Retrograde + Leo New Moon) and rooting into inner truth (Saturn Rx, Mercury Cazimi)

July 4

Venus conjunct Uranus in Taurus
Sudden shifts in love, money, or creative desires and freedom is the theme. Expect surprises or awakenings in relationships, possibly unconventional or liberating in nature as this cracks open your heart chakra to rewire your patterns around self-worth and emotional freedom. Expect plot twists in relationships or desires. Neptune retrogrades in Aries, dissolving illusions and revealing hidden motivations. Love, freedom & emotional reset with this transit. You may feel a shake-up in relationships, love, and finances expect sudden changes, surprise breakups, chance meetings, or spontaneous love connections. 

And later that day, when Venus enters Gemini, shifting your love language to a more mental and playful tone, craves witty connection, curiosity, and stimulating conversation. People may be more elusive, don’t take last-minute changes personally or take anything for that matter. Remember, everyone is going through unseen changes and doing the best they can according to who they are in each moment, compassion, patience and trust are key. This energy challenges you to upgrade your self-worth, adaptability, and ability to stay anchored through change and how you respond reveals your level of self-love and inner security. You’re being asked to let go of rigid expectations in love and money, embrace the freedom to evolve, be one step ahead, not to impress, but to authentically express yourself from the higher version of who you have become in each moment. 

Neptune stations retrograde in Aries
The veil things, Illusions tied to identity, ego, or spiritual purpose begin dissolving. You're asked to revisit your soul-led identity, who are you without the masks?

Neptune retrogrades yearly for about 160 days, making it a regular but significant inward shift. Unlike inner planet retrogrades, its effects are subtle yet deeply spiritual.

Illusions dissolve, you may confront harsh truths around love, finances, or life direction. Emotional pain, past life wounds, or self-deception may surface or escapism (e.g., addiction, fantasy, denial) becomes harder to maintain. Take time to turn inward for clarity and healing, ideal for meditation, dreamwork, spiritual study, and self-reflection, you may uncover the root of emotional suffering or patterns of victimhood during this time.

There is a possibility of an increased risk of self-pity, anxiety, or paranoia. It's important to make sure to learn to distinguish between intuitive insight and fear-based thinking, seek clarity in health matters, and get support if needed. Neptune retrograde is less disruptive than others but powerfully illuminates your inner truth. It’s a time to release delusions and reconnect with your higher guidance.

Venus conjunct Uranus in Taurus sparks sudden changes in love, finances, or aesthetics. Venus, the planet of love, beauty, and value, enters her home sign of Taurus, inviting us to slow down, reconnect with our bodies, and savor life’s simple pleasures. This transit especially impacts those with placements in Taurus, Leo, Scorpio, Aquarius, and Libra. Venus has just completed a bold journey through Aries, where we were urged to pursue desires and assert self-worth. Now in Taurus, Venus asks us to receive, root into the Earth, and realign with our natural rhythms. Cultivate self-love through touch, rest, nourishment, and beauty, slow down and enjoy life with intentional presence, focus on stability, abundance, and body wisdom

July 6

July 6–7, presents a rare and deeply supportive series of Venus aspects that blend love, creativity, discipline, higher purpose, and soul transformation. These transits, though subtle, are spiritually profound and offer a powerful window to realign your values and relationships with your higher path.

Venus Sextile Saturn (Gemini – Aries)

A stabilizing and grounding influence in love, money, and creative endeavors. Venus (value, love, beauty) in curious Gemini finds a helpful ally in Saturn (structure, responsibility, maturity) in Aries. This sextile supports clear boundaries, long-term commitments, and disciplined creativity. This is an invitation to bring wisdom and maturity into how you give and receive love. You may feel called to commit to a project, relationship, or truth that reflects your soul’s integrity. It also asks you to value yourself enough to say no to what drains you.

Affirmation:
"I anchor my heart in truth, and build with patience what is meant to last."

Venus Sextile Neptune (Gemini – Aries)

This dreamy, soft energy opens the door to inspired romance, artistic flow, spiritual love, and compassion. It enhances creativity, imagination, and intuitive sensitivity in relationships. This transit blends the higher heart with higher vision. It supports soul unions, forgiveness, unconditional love, and creation from divine inspiration. It’s a beautiful time to journal, channel, meditate, or engage in sacred creative work.

Affirmation:
"I open to beauty beyond form, and allow love to move through me like water."

July 7

Venus Trine Pluto (Gemini – Aquarius), this is a deeply magnetic, passionate, and transformational energy. Venus trine Pluto allows for profound breakthroughs in intimacy, money, creative power, and shadow healing. Since it’s a trine (easy flow), this transformation comes with grace. Pluto uncovers what’s hidden, this is a chance to heal love wounds, power struggles, and fears around vulnerability. It's also a portal for aligning your desires with your higher soul will. Manifestation is potent now, especially in relationships and purpose-led artistry.

Affirmation:
"I embrace the depths of my soul and rise with radiant truth and power."

This is a potent love-frequency window where Venus (heart, value, beauty) harmonizes with Saturn (commitment), Neptune (divine love), North Node (destiny), and Pluto (soul transformation). Together, they create a rare opening to deepen soul-aligned relationships, commit to long-term creative or spiritual paths, heal old love wounds, receive intuitive downloads about your next step

Venus Quintile the True Node

A quintile is a minor but magical aspect, a creative spark. Here, Venus forms this sacred geometric link with the True Node (your karmic path and future destiny). This is a moment of divine alignment between what you value and the path your soul is meant to walk. Subtle synchronicities may nudge you toward connections, creations, or decisions that support your growth. You may feel an intuitive call to follow what truly inspires you.

Affirmation:
"My heart knows the way forward—I follow the golden thread of joy."

Venus aligns with retrograde Saturn and Neptune, what was hidden becomes clear. A good time to revise commitments with long-term clarity. One of the year's most spiritually significant alignments is Venus forming harmonious aspects with retrograde Saturn and Neptune in Aries. This alignment merges Love and responsibility (Venus–Saturn), desire and divine vision (Venus–Neptune), together, these transits ask us to reevaluate our values, relationships, and creative pursuits. Ground our dreams in practical devotion, heal disillusionment in love by committing to truth and spiritual maturity. Some of the key themes surrounds us to help redefine self-worth, romantic desires, and emotional authenticity. Neptune in Aries activates visionary courage, spiritual ideals seek tangible expression. Saturn in Aries, reshapes how we define commitment, purpose, and ambition.

When Venus aligns with retrograde Saturn and Neptune, we’re reminded that true beauty and love are built through soul-aligned discipline, compassion, and clarity inviting us to mature emotionally, dissolve illusion, and choose love that endures and evolves.

July 7 (until 2033)

Uranus enters Gemini for the first time since the 1940s, radically shifting how we think, speak, learn, and connect. This marks a major collective shift as Uranus leaves Taurus, a sign of fixed earth poorly suited to its taste for change, and enters Gemini, an air sign much more in tune with its mobile and stimulating nature. A collective mental reboot begins! July is a turning point and it offers you the opportunity to let go and surrender outdated identities (people, relationships, connections you've outgrown etc), heal deeply buried emotional patterns, reclaim your truth and redefine your path if you’re willing to lean into the unknown, the your higher self will meet you there with clarity, freedom, and a more aligned future. 

From Sept 6, 2025 to April 26, 2026, Uranus briefly returns to Taurus before settling fully into Gemini until 2033. This marks a transformative era of innovation in learning, mobility, media, and social connection, dynamic, fast-paced, and sometimes destabilizing. Alternative learning, self-guided study, playful digital tools, breaking away from rigid academic systems, fragmented credentials replacing traditional diplomas, flexible family models and communal living, temporary, affinity-based communities, evolving ideas of connection and belonging, truth becomes plural; discernment is essential, overall Uranus in Gemini revolutionizes how we think, learn, connect, and move. It challenges tradition, invites mental freedom, and propels us into an era of fast-evolving knowledge, mobility, and media.

Key Astrological Aspects for Uranus:

• Uranus–Neptune Sextile (Aug 2025–June 2027): Spiritual awakening, intuitive intelligence, creative tech advances.
  
  

• Uranus–Pluto Trine (2026–2028): Regenerative social and intellectual revolutions.
  
  

• Uranus–Saturn Conjunction (June 28, 2032 in Gemini): A powerful reset in systems of thought, education, and governance.
  
  

Are you ready to flow with change or choosing to cling to the past?

July 7

Mars sesquiquadrate Chiron, wounding meets willpower, healing becomes action. This transit challenges you to reconcile your drive (Mars) with your deep inner wounds (Chiron). Tension may arise between your desire to act boldly and the emotional pain or self-doubt that holds you back. You may feel frustrated, overly sensitive to criticism, or uncertain about your right to assert yourself. Your wounds are not weaknesses, they are wisdom. This supports and encourages you to transform past pain into personal power. When anger, defensiveness, or insecurity surfaces, it’s a cue to look within and ask yourself: What are you really protecting? What old hurt still lingers?

Mars sesquiquadrate Chiron urges healing through conscious action. As you’re pushed to learn to assert yourself without aggression or avoidance, lead with vulnerability and strength, turn emotional sensitivity into compassionate courage, Integrate wounds into your identity (you are not broken, you are becoming whole), refine your approach to conflict (instead of reacting from pain, respond with insight and wisdom), balance independence with connection (true strength honors emotional needs, be fluid and transparent as you feel what is asking for love and healing).

Affirmation:

"I turn my pain into purpose. I act with courage, guided by compassion."

July 10

Venus in Gemini Semi-Sextile Jupiter in Cancer, which is a subtle but supportive aspect between Venus (love, values, money) in curious, social Gemini, and Jupiter (growth, abundance, belief) in emotionally nurturing Cancer. Though semi-sextiles can be awkward, this pairing invites a gentle blending of mind and heart, curiosity and comfort, flirtation and emotional depth. You're learning to balance light-hearted joy and deeper emotional expansion. It's a call to harmonize what you want with what truly nourishes your soul. Communication in relationships may be infused with playfulness but also seeks sincerity.

Affirmation: "I open to authentic connections that feed both my joy and my heart."

July 10th 

Full Moon in Capricorn brings a culmination of efforts around career, structure, responsibility, and legacy. With the Sun in Cancer opposing the Moon in Capricorn, you’re asked to balance emotional needs with practical goals. It’s a karmic checkpoint: Are you living in alignment with your soul’s integrity? Are you building structures that honor your emotional truth? This is a moment to release outdated ambitions and control patterns in favor of grounded, heart-centered leadership.

July 13th 

Saturn Stations Retrograde in Aries. Saturn (discipline, karma, structure) turns inward in fiery Aries. This begins a reflection phase around your independence, leadership, boundaries, and how you initiate change. You’re being asked: Are you taking responsibility for your path or rebelling from it? This is a potent time to rewire limiting beliefs around authority, especially self-authority. Explore where fear of failure or self-doubt is blocking your boldness and where you are holding yourself back.

July 18th 

Mercury Retrograde begins in Leo. Mercury begins his second retrograde of the year in expressive Leo. This retrograde rewinds your self-expression, creativity, leadership voice, and confidence. A time to revise how you speak your truth, reclaim your inner child’s joy, and reconnect to authentic self-expression. Watch for drama (don't get pulled into what is not yours), misunderstandings, or ego-driven communication and pause before reacting and instead be mindful before responding. Journal Prompt: What parts of your creative voice have you hidden out of fear of being "too much"?

July 24th

New Moon in Leo a fresh cycle in Leo, this New Moon is about creative rebirth, courageous dreaming, and heart-centered intentions. You’re planting seeds in alignment with your purpose, your joy, your boldest self. The Leo New Moon invites you to stand fully in your radiance, not from ego, but from authenticity. Align your vision with love, passion, and divine inspiration. Set intentions through dance, art, or a bold written declaration of your desires.

July 30th 

Venus moves into tender, nurturing Cancer, shifting love and money matters toward emotional security, home, family, and safety. This is a time to honor your emotional landscape in relationships and finances. Ask: What makes me feel safe to receive love? How can I nurture my connection with self and others? Take time to embrace sacred self-care, nourishing meals, and ancestral healing.

July 31st 

A Mercury Cazimi occurs when Mercury is exactly aligned with the Sun, this time during Mercury retrograde in Leo. It marks a powerful moment of clarity, insight, and mental breakthrough. Even though Mercury is retrograde, this “sun-kissed” moment brings illumination. It’s the eye of the storm where your inner voice becomes crystal clear. Messages, dreams, or intuitive hits may guide you back to your core truth. Take time to meditate, journal, or speak your truth aloud. You'll likely gain profound clarity on something you’ve been reflecting on all month, stay open and trust! 

JULY 2025 SOUL ALIGNMENT TOOLS

Affirmations

Speak these aloud or write them during the Full Moon, New Moon, or Mercury Cazimi portals:

“I release control and trust the flow of divine timing.”
“My heart is safe, my soul is seen, and my voice is powerful.”
“I honor my past as a teacher and embrace the future with courage.”
“I am the co-creator of a life that reflects my soul’s radiance.”
“I nourish my body, nurture my dreams, and root into love.”

Journal Prompts

Use these with candlelight, breathwork, or after a meditation to tap deeper into the astrology of the moment:

Full Moon in Capricorn (July 10)
What outdated roles, responsibilities, or definitions of success am I ready to release?
Where am I being called to lead with emotional maturity and integrity?

New Moon in Leo (July 24)
What does it mean for me to fully embody my joy and confidence?
What bold, heart-centered creation or intention am I ready to birth?

Saturn Retrograde (July 13)
Where do I still seek external validation rather than trusting my inner authority?
What self-limiting beliefs around leadership, timing, or responsibility am I ready to rewrite?

Venus in Cancer (begins July 30)
What does sacred nourishment look and feel like for me?
How can I make space for gentleness, beauty, and deeper emotional safety in my relationships?

Mercury Cazimi (July 31)
What clarity or truth is ready to rise through me?
What message have I been avoiding that I now feel ready to speak or receive?

Crystals for July

These support the themes of emotional healing, self-expression, spiritual grounding, and bold new beginnings:

Moonstone – Emotional healing, divine feminine wisdom, trust in intuition.
Carnelian – Courage, creativity, Leo fire, and life-force energy.
Rose Quartz – Heart healing, self-love, and nurturing compassion.
Black Tourmaline – Grounding and protection during emotional release.
Blue Lace Agate – Peaceful communication and clarity during Mercury Rx.
Labradorite – Inner magic, dream recall, and transformation.
Aquamarine – Soothing the nervous system and embracing change with grace.

Herbs & Botanical Allies

Support your nervous system, intuition, and inner rhythms with these:

Lemon Balm – Calming, heart-centering, gentle emotional uplift.
Mugwort – Dreamwork, inner vision, and psychic activation (great for Full Moon work).
Chamomile – Softens stress, especially during Mercury Rx and emotional surges.
Rose – Softens the heart and helps you stay receptive to divine love.
Holy Basil (Tulsi) – Balances energy, harmonizes emotions, supports Saturn work.
Calendula – Healing the solar plexus and creative fire (great for Leo season).
Marshmallow Root – Soothing to emotional and physical inflammation; aligns with Venus in Cancer.

Create a tea with rose, lemon balm, and chamomile for Full Moon gentleness. Use calendula + mugwort in a Leo New Moon bath for boldness and visioning.