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As July draws to a close, the final week brings the onset of Chiron retrograde in Aries, the movement of Venus into Cancer, and the coming together of the Sun and Mercury in Leo. It is an inward time. An illuminating time. A self-focused time. Your weekly horoscope for July 27-August 3, 2025, explains how to take advantage of the insights being offered.
Weekly Horoscope for July 27-August 2, 2025 Preview
July 29 | Moon enters Libra
July 30 | Chiron Retrograde in Aries; Venus enters Cancer
July 31 | Mercury Cazimi; Moon enters Scorpio
Chiron Retrograde
In astronomical terms, Chiron is considered a minor planet, a comet, and a centaur, or a small orbiting object orbiting among the outer planets. In astrological terms, Chiron is the archetype of the healer, medicine keeper, and wisdom keeper. Its planetary symbol, shaped like a key, reminds us that we possess what we require within us, and that it is our own love, presence, and wisdom that is our most medicinal and healing component. All we need to do is unlock the door and look within.
Retrograding annually for approximately five months at a time, Chiron appears from our vantage to turn around and begin spinning backward this week, becoming a mirror and invitation for us to take a sacred pause and turn our gaze inward. Chiron will retrograde in Aries from July 30, 2025, until January 2, 2026.
Retrograding alongside Mercury, Saturn, Neptune, and Pluto, Chiron in its backward spin is a sacred offering. It asks us to turn down the distractions of the world for a moment and return to the self as a sanctuary. To journey within and remember we are both the wounded and the healer. Each hurt within us also has a medicine. Each fear within us also has an antidote.
As Chiron retrograde invites us to meet these aspects of self that call out for our presence, we ask, how am I already exactly what these parts of me are yearning for?
Venus Enters Cancer
Supporting Chiron’s quest for transformation is the movement of Venus into Cancer on July 30. Venus reminds us there is medicine found within love. Not love based on attraction but love as a way of being.
Venus in Cancer desires warmth, togetherness, and a connection that feels real and safe, affectionate and protected. She expresses her love by caring, listening, and holding space for those around her.
Throughout these coming weeks, we may also desire this kind of love—within ourselves and with our chosen people. It is a space for experiencing tenderness, sensitivity, and healing within relationships. It is a sacred time to enhance the feeling of belonging within our bodies, safety within our beings, and connection within our emotions.
Mercury Cazimi in Leo
The final day of July brings Mercury retrograde conjunct the Sun within one degree. Whenever a planet comes into cazimi, or such close proximity with the Sun, it is offered something. And, therefore, so are we.
The cosmos offers us two kinds of cazimis. The first, known as a superior cazimi, takes place when the planet is in its usual forward movement. The second, an inferior cazimi, is when a planet in retrograde meets the Sun. The names don’t denote value but rather the placement of the Sun, Earth and planet.
In fact, the retrograde motion of a planet brings something profoundly medicinal—a more internal experience of the cazimi, an intimate offering of perspective, inspiration, and self-realization. It’s like peering inward through an entirely different lens.
The inferior Mercury cazimi in Leo brings insights, intuition, and self-illumination. It’s a time of being mindful, meditating, journaling, reviewing, and being willing to observe more of ourselves than we were previously able to see.
Weekly Horoscope for July 27-August 3, 2025
As Chiron joins the current line-up of planetary bodies in retrograde, it reminds us there is more waiting to be seen, heard, reviewed, loved, and reviewed within us. Meanwhile, Venus in Cancer connects us to the medicine of love, emotions, and inner safety, and Mercury cazimi affords us the ability to perceive ourselves through an alternate lens.
This week asks for presence with yourself. Your weekly horoscope is a reminder that you are sacred, worthy, and the very definition of love itself. Read for your rising sign.
Aries Rising
Allow your identity to begin expressing itself. As your true self shares where it desires your presence, the week brings inner child tending, reconnecting with your spark, and rewriting your self-perception.
Taurus Rising
Be kind to yourself and remember both your inner and outer voice as vehicles for healing and love if you direct them in such a way. It is a week to consider your connection with belonging and sacred.
Gemini Rising
Your medicine this week is embodiment. What does it feel like to have your energy within the physical bounds of your body rather than your limitless potential for thought? Chiron retrograde prompts you to consider your dreams for the future—and to place into perspective any fears or doubts that arise alongside them.
Cancer Rising
This week arrives with the reminder that you are love. Every particle of your being is comprised of love. You are invited to become a vessel for this love by sharing it with yourself, with others, and with each moment of life. Be patient with your visions for the future, as much is being rearranged.
Leo Rising
It’s an inward-focused week. One that reminds you to converse with yourself, the sacred, and life itself. It asks you to recall your sense of belonging in your life. Let your identity, perspectives, and thoughts shift with this remembering.
Virgo Rising
It’s an internal week, one that supports you in holding yourself with both tenderness and courage. Remember there is medicine within you and there is healing in your love and presence. Consider reflecting on your feelings of empowerment, your relationship with the Ssacred, and your hopes for the future.
Libra Rising
It’s a week of emotional healing, love-based leadership, and intuition. As you tend to any fears and past hurts relating to love and relationship, you begin to take up space as your own authority, guided by love and truth. You’re encouraged to peer ahead into your hopes for the future.
Scorpio Rising
This week’s medicine is found in tending to your body, mind, and everyday rhythms—the habits and rituals, the movements and thinking patterns. It is a week offering insights and expanding your perspectives surrounding purpose, leadership, and your way ahead when you show some love to yourself each day. How will you do that?
Sagittarius Rising
How do you converse with life? Sitting in silence? Asking questions of what’s beyond the clouds? This week invites you to come into conversation with life—with your depths, emotions, inner spark, creativity, and life force. Ask the questions and responses will stream through in abundance.
Capricorn Rising
It’s a week calling for realness. To strip away the layers and the noise and to sit in intimacy with yourself. Journal on what truly matters, reflect on the way you desire to move through this world, and observe how you want to show up with your loved ones.
Aquarius Rising
Your mind is rearranging and untangling itself. As this rearranging takes place, the week invites you to ground yourself in an everyday rhythm that supports and nurtures you through your habits and routines.
Pisces Rising
Your weekly horoscope encourages you to take up more space within your body and to remember yourself as sacred. Rearrange the way you move through each day with this love. Then feel more of the spark, beauty, and magic inherent in you and how it wants to express itself.
