A Week of Heart Dreams
Vincent van Gogh, Starry Night, Irises, Almond Blossoms, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
July 28 - August 3, 2025
Lunar Rejuvination & Spark | Surrender Your Ego and Find A Truer Heart
The Moon is sleepy as we enter the week. Reflecting Leo’s energy, it’s asking us to surrender to the growing energy of the night. What is your ego—your performance, your craving for adoration—telling you is no longer working? Acknowledge the cracks. Notice when things feel too big to carry alone. Let go, and discover a current of energy that begins to move life through you, guiding you into a dreamlike realm where new connections to your heart and light begin to plug in. Let this be a glimpse into new futures—visions that surprise your heart with joy and renewed understanding.
As the Moon enters Scorpio on Thursday and squares the Sun on Friday, we move into the first quarter phase of Leo Season. This is a week for transforming your heart’s authenticity by purging the clutter of power struggles around your light. What’s blocking you from taking action on your most authentic creative path? You may be called to integrate deeper layers of your psyche, to uproot unspoken contracts still shaping your behavior. These psychological barriers are what we’re being asked to clear—impulsively, energetically. What remains is your embodied presence. That’s your real power.
Sunday offers a chance to lean into the pleasure of your light’s essence—through exploration, vision mapping, or exposing yourself to wisdom that shifts your perception of happiness. By week’s end, you may feel your creative essence reborn.
Highlighted Transits
Venus Enters Cancer
Wednesday, July 30th - August 25th (9:35 pm MT)
Venus in Cancer is sweet and soothing. This is the lover luxuriating in cozy things—familiar surroundings, nurturing people, and simple pleasures.
Spend time exploring the value of women in your life, and the grounding power of your roots and home base. Beautify your space: fresh flowers in the kitchen, a new piece of art for your bedroom—small touches that elevate your everyday life.
On the 31st, Venus enters a new phase of her Heroine’s Journey. This current journey is about cultivating voice and worth when it comes to independence and assertiveness. In the past month or two, we’ve been seeking access and guidance to experiences that will test us in this.
Come the 31st, we may find ourselves stepping into more masculine terrain—perhaps rejecting aspects of femininity in order to prove our worth in the outer world.
Yet with Cancer being a deeply feminine sign, this could also manifest as a desire to contribute more as breadwinners for our homes and security, to take an active role in caregiving work (food, fashion, social work), or to use our imaginations in public-facing, aspirational ways. Whatever form it takes, this shift is part of a journey that ultimately helps us claim the value of our authenticity from within.
Sun Conjunct Mercury in Leo
Thursday, July 31st (5:41 pm MT)
As Mercury moves directly between Earth and the Sun, a pressure point is reached—like a mental new moon. We may feel extra responsibility, especially in the realm of mind, communication, social affairs, meetings, technology, or short trips.
This moment seeds a new ~115-day cycle with the Trickster and Messenger archetype. In Leo, expect paradoxes around creativity, leadership, and love to surface. Cracks, dualities, and curiosities may draw your mind down new rabbit holes and divergent storylines.
This is also the halfway point of the current Mercury retrograde cycle. What’s been bottlenecked by revisions or reroutes will begin to move forward—but expect traffic jams as stalled energy tries to surge ahead. Be patient.
Venus in Cancer Square Saturn in Aries
Friday, August 1st (7:33 am MT)
Venus represents values, beauty, and love. Saturn, the strict taskmaster, governs authority and structure. When they square off, we’re asked to align our values with enduring commitment.
This is a call to act with integrity. Voice your authority boldly, but infuse your goals with more empathy, elegance, and love.
Ask yourself: Do I love the steep goals I’ve set for myself? If not, this is a ripe time to clear out what feels burdensome in how you approach purpose, status, or work. Infuse your worldly ambitions with more genuine adoration.
Venus in Cancer Square Neptune in Aries
Friday, August 1st (2:48 pm MT)
Neptune rules dreams, illusion, spirituality, and art. Venus governs love, beauty, and aesthetic perception. When these two planets clash, there’s potential for great inspiration—and great illusion.
This separating square can signal a clearing: a moment to let go of fantasies or confusion around love, worth, and artistic vision. See through the fog. Ground your creativity. Initiate a design, music, or art project. Say yes to what inspires and lights you up—but do so with clarity, not delusion.
Links for Mystically in Season members
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Hello to all of my Mystically in Season members! As always, thank you all for your support. Below are links to exclusive content that you might want to tap into in the coming week, that you’ll only find through your membership:
Leo Season Horoscopes will be live early Monday afternoon! See what part of your chart the Sun will newly highlight, what archetype within you this will pull forward, how the Earth in Aquarius is stabilizing you, what your chart ruler and personal archetype is up to, and where your yearly new moon seeds are in their yearly growth process.
Mercury is now in Rx, it’s a great time to jump into Summertime With the Personal Planets, an overview of Mercury’s archetypal story playing out as we enter a phase of heartfelt revisions.