ENERGIES OF THE WEEK July 28 – August 3, 2025
VENUS IN CANCER, CHIRON RETROGRADE, MERCURY CAZIMI
This week, July comes to a close and August rises—like a ripened sun illuminating all that we have nurtured, endured, and are now ready to see bloom.
We welcome the month of ultimate summer repose, of fruitfulness and manifestation, inviting us to align with the abundance around us. The kind of abundance not measured in numbers, but in how deeply present we are in our own lives.
This week calls us to tune into the parts of us that have matured, like summer’s harvest, and to listen to what within us needs care, reconciliation, and renewal.
The aspects of Venus, Chiron, and Mercury this week serve as portals, leading us into a deeper understanding and realignment with what holds value for the heart and our path forward.
✨🎇On Monday, July 28, as the Moon begins to wax in Virgo, we are guided back to detail, planning, and caring for body, mind, and soul. It’s a time for discernment and clear intention, particularly in matters of work, healing, and well-being.
On the same day, just before Venus moves into Cancer, she reaches out to Chiron to offer a helping hand. Their sextile at 27° Gemini–Aries is an exceptionally healing aspect, especially supportive for the late degrees of Air and Fire signs. Healing can now occur not only on a physical level, but also emotionally, through humor, flirting, and heartfelt conversation.
An honest dialogue can bring closure to a misunderstanding, offering the forgiveness and understanding you’ve been longing for. A spontaneous connection with someone who sees you without judgment might show you that you don’t need to try so hard to be worthy of love and acceptance.
✨🎇On Wednesday, July 30, Chiron stations at 27° Aries to begin its retrograde journey, lasting until January 3, reaching back to 22° Aries.
This five-month retrograde leads us into the core of an old wound, around identity, courage, self-worth, and the right to exist fully as we are.
If this energy personally touches you, you may confront pain stemming from rejection, fear, or growing up in environments that failed to reward authenticity.
You’ll be prompted to seek healing within and ask yourself:
What parts of your identity have you buried to be accepted?
Where do you feel you are not enough?
What stops you from standing in your authority and light?
This is a powerful time for reflection, therapy, inner work, a period that allows you to reconcile with the past and recognize the strength that comes through your wounds.
Chiron doesn’t offer quick fixes. But as the retrograde unfolds, you may discover that your mission isn’t to “overcome” the wound, but to embrace it as a sacred mark of your soul, that makes you a radiant human light.
✨🎇On Thursday, July 31, Venus enters the nurturing waters of Cancer, and with her, love and desire return to our foundations. To the places where emotion carries memory, and intimacy becomes a sacred refuge.
Love here feels like an old song, you know every word by heart, and yet it stirs you anew each time.
Until August 25, Venus in Cancer brings gifts particularly to Water and Earth signs, but touches everyone who seeks warmth, emotional depth, and genuine love.
She invites us to become our safe harbor, for ourselves and for those we love. To give and receive tenderness, care, and the sense of safety we need.
Under this influence, relationships based solely on excitement or fleeting sparks may struggle to thrive. Instead, what has roots, depth, longevity, and authenticity is likely to blossom.
✨🎇On Friday, August 1, retrograde Mercury joins the Sun at 9° Leo, forming a powerful Cazimi,🎇♌a moment when the mind enters the heart of the Sun and becomes illuminated from within.
This is the midpoint of Mercury’s retrograde cycle, marking a subtle rebirth in thought, clarity, and self-expression.
In Leo, this clarity is personal. The question becomes:
What am I ready to express from the depth of my truth, not to impress, but to reveal?
This inferior conjunction favors inner downloads, artistic flow, and breakthroughs around confidence and purpose. It especially blesses those with placements in the middle degrees of Leo, Aquarius, Taurus, and Scorpio. It serves as a sacred gateway to self-awareness, allowing you to get to the heart of the matter and discern what is of true value.
Also on this day, the Moon enters its First Quarter 🌓 at 9°31’ Scorpio ♏.
This lunar phase often brings the first inner and outer challenges after the seed of the New Moon is planted and asks us to choose our direction.
In Scorpio, the Moon is in its fall, bringing intense emotions and the need for truth, purification, and emotional regeneration.
It’s a time to confront shadows, and face fears, so healing and empowerment can occur.
The Moon squares both the Sun and Mercury in Leo, urging us to remain authentic without betraying our most tender, private parts.
It asks us to trust our intuition and release the need for absolute control to reach where we truly want to go.
Additionally, on August 1, Venus squares both retrograde Saturn and Neptune at 1° Cancer- 1° Aries.
This double aspect brings tension in love, finances, and self-worth.
Saturn demands responsibility, discipline, and realism, calling us to reassess how we express love, manage resources, and shoulder our duties.
Neptune, on the other hand, blurs clarity, introduces illusions, and can lead to disappointment or confusion around personal value.
It’s time to re-evaluate where you invest your love, energy, and money,and whether it’s truly worth it.
You’re invited to set boundaries, make wise investments, and remember that self-worth is your foundation.
If you feel something’s missing, something’s delayed, or that what you desire doesn’t come back the way you hoped, know that this is not punishment. It’s awakening.
Maybe it’s time to reconnect with your true needs, the ones that don’t fit into roles or fantasies.
✨🎇On Saturday, August 2, Venus forms a quincunx with retrograde Pluto at 2° Cancer–Aquarius, bringing us face-to-face with something deeper.
This isn’t just emotional or financial tension. It’s the unseen conflict between the need to feel safe and the desire to liberate ourselves from what keeps us bound.
Old fears or controlling dynamics may resurface, to be seen clearly and released.
Instead of entering power struggles, choose authentic communication, set boundaries, or take a step back for introspection.
This is a powerful moment to redefine what love and safety mean to you, and how you can have both without betraying yourself.
Also on this day, Mars forms a quincunx with retrograde Chiron at at 27° Virgo-Aries.
This aspect can trigger an inner conflict: the urge to fix, to help, to do “the right thing”, versus the voice of fear, guilt, or an old wound around self-worth.
You may feel drained or frustrated, asking yourself:
If I’m not useful, do I still have value? If I’m not giving, do I have the right to ask?
The answer is: Yes.
You are allowed to act without guilt, criticism, or a guaranteed result.
You are allowed to choose authenticity over perfection, and to honor your truth instead of pleasing expectations.
The planetary alignments this week make it clear:
What needs care, what needs boundaries, what needs release?
Now is the time to take responsibility for your heart, your relationships, and the direction of your life.
To listen to your voice and choose what helps you evolve, not what merely comforts you.
Your path is sacred. And now is the moment to walk it with awareness, courage, and authenticity.
Have a blessed week and a wonderful month ahead!✨🎇🕊☮
With love💓💓💓
Sofia Semeli