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Mercury Retrograde in Leo Overview

When Mercury, the magician, and the messenger turns retrograde, it's not something to be afraid of. It's an opportunity to go into high fidelity with synchronicity, to get your super broadband hookup to the divine spirit of what is trying to happen in your life and to tune in. And Mercury retrogrades are powerful. And we're coming up to that Leo retrograde position of Mercury on July 17th and 18th as he heads backwards in the sign of the lion. We haven't seen this kind of long stay in Leo since last summer. But before that, back in 2017 and 18 for every seven/8 years, Mercury spends a whole lot of time in fire signs for his retrograde. and we're finishing up one of those longer cycles. So, we're going to talk today about your sign, what you can do as Mercury heads backwards in Leo and how that might impact you. Excitingly, he's also quot joined the asteroid panacea, the cure all, the remedy for everything. It can mean the get fix, the get quick fix that doesn't really work. But underneath it is a yearning to find a solution. So when we talk about your sign, we'll talk about where you might have a solution that you could do go for a quick fix, but the sky might ask you to go a lot deeper and find the real way to solve the in quotes problem. You know, Mercury is like the magician. He is the hermetic one. He allows for life to open up doors of magic. You know, I always notice in retrograde Mercury periods, and this is July 17th, 18th to August 11th. This is our new one coming up. 171 18 times are dependent to August 11th. I notice that every Mercury retrograde brings me closer to synchronicity. All those un unlikely coincidences, all those messages, those feathers I see knowing that spirits are watching over me, the birds, the repeating numbers, you know, 1111 444. You all have your own, right? Repeating digits. The amplitude, the energy gets intensified in the retrogradation. I'm going to give you some guidance on how to use that when we get to your sign. If you're listening for your sun sign today, and I pull, I suggest you listen for sun, moon, and rising. Sun sign is your career purpose related matters. The moon sign can connect you close to home, where you live, doicile, homebased matters. And then the rising sign is your simulation avatar character. It is the role you play in this game of life. And perhaps sometimes for some of you it can be more accurate than listening for your sun sign. Yeah. Some people find your sun sign more accurate. The sun sign is kind of moving into the real the the real you, right? The actor that plays the role, the game player that plays the character in the video simulation. So listen for bold cuz I I find that I get a lot of leverage from listening for my Aquarius rising and my Aries sun sign as well. Now if you're new here, welcome as well. If I didn't say hello, I am Lori Lotheian. I'm a western tropical zodiac astrologer using whole sign houses as the ancient world did. Fixed stars and minor asteroids and that's why we're talking about panacea today. That's a very beautiful tool. The 26,000 name minor asteroids that comes from modern astrology and is extremely accurate. The devil is in the details. It allowed me to predict the death of the pope a week before he passed away. The the bullet that clipped Trump's ear uh you know uh 10 days before that happened. Uh details are in the devil and the devil is in the details and those are often the minor asteroids. So in today's panacea story, we'll dive into a lot of detail for your sign. I'll briefly touch on the world events. I'll be starting a new weekly segment for world astrology events or mundane astrology, which is world astrology only. But for now, I'll just give you a light touch. At the end of almost every video, I have an outro where I talk about something going on in my life that's magical and mysterious. And today, we're going to talk about talking to the dead. If you're somebody for whom the words talking to the dead has any curious interest, I used to be a psychic medium. I did talk to the dead. I had a magical story happen recently and it's perfect for Mercury, the messenger of the gods, the psycho pump who goes into the underworld to give us that attention from those who have passed on. In fact, Mercury has been in his shadow on since June the 30th. So, you might have already felt, what the hell? Mercury retrogrades not until the 17th or 18th or July. It's already here. You're like, oh my god, it started already. Yeah, the pre-shadow period has been playing since the 30th of June. Take a screenshot of this before we get to your sign. I want you to have this handy to give you the lay of the land on this retrograde. It's a handy little graphic you can keep. I'm about to show it to you. Before I do, does anyone want to learn to time their best life and be their own astrologer? 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Uh June 30th, Mercury entered the retrograde zone called the pre-shadow retrograde, and that was at 4° uh and 15 minutes of Leo. That means he was tunnling along to four degrees of Leo and went, "Oopsy daisy, like uhoh, I'm going to end up coming back here eventually." Hm. Let's put a marker in this space, you know, let's put a pin here at Leo 4 degrees. Then he kept moving forward into Leo. And on July 17th, 18th, 17th in Los Angeles time. Um, you know, 18th in New York City time, it's like late at night in the Pacific coast. It's in the wee hours in uh New York City. In Europe, it's definitely the 18th, that kind of thing. In Hawaii, it's definitely the 17th. Mercury moves into stations and turns retrograde at 15 degrees of Leo. He made it to 15 and a half degrees, stopped and said, "Okay, I have a pin back at four Leo. I'm going to go back there and get something I forgot." Now, that's why we can feel often that a retrograde planet is taking us back to the past. We seem to time travel over themes in our lives. In this case, it emerged at, you know, June 30th through to July 18th. Leo whole sign house events and themes that were ongoing between June 30th and July 18th have to be revised, readressed. Re rethinking happens here. There's a turning your around. There may be a change of mind. Mercury rules the mind. There may be communications from people with your past connected to the Leo house. I'll delineate that for your sign, but also even people that you were communicating with June 30th to July 18 and they're going to be back in the picture again. Now, you'll notice that as he moves backwards on July 18th and continues to retrograde. By August 11th, he's gone all the way back to 4° of Leo. Again, that's exactly where he put that pin in the ground on July, June the 30th. Then he heads forward, turns direct, and by August 25th finally crosses 15 Leo. So in many ways you understand this perhaps as between June 30th and August 25th Mercury's busy doing stuff in one segment of Leo. If you have planets connected to four Leo, let's say between um 1 degree of Leo and 7° of Leo or planets near 12° of Leo to 18° of Leo, those are with the 3° of the turnaround points. You are finding yourself highly activated by this story, especially if it's your sun or moon or rising sign. So that's pay attention for those of you in those positions. Are you a Leo rising? If you are a Leo rising, it's obviously going to impact you more than the other signs. It's going to flow in a positive way to the Aries and Sagges. They don't mind it as much. It's going to square the signs that are fixed, which are Leo, Aquarius, I'm one of you, Taurus, and Scorpio. This is going to square us. So the angular houses, the fixed signs, Aquarius and Leo, Taurus and Scorpio, if you have placements close to that four degree mark or that 15 degree mark, like sun, moon, and rising, you're going to feel it. My ascendant in Aquarius is 18 Aquarius or 17 Aquarius, depends on the chart I'm using. And so I'm going to really be feeling this energy, right? I I'll really it'll you'll feel notable. it'll feel important to me. So pay attention to those degrees as well. Especially you fixed signs that are angular to the retrograde station direct at four degrees of so you know you have four anything near four degrees of Aquarius especially sun moon and rising four degrees of Leo obviously Scorpio or Taurus or similarly 15° for those four signs. Whoa. You're really having a lot of life move you through this retrograde story. I'm going to turn close my door. There's wind. It's a windy day and you can hear it banging, right? I'm in Vancouver in my new place. Let me turn off close the patio door so we're not hearing banging. Give me a sec. Wow, it is noisy here now. There's somebody I don't know. I don't know if they're sawing wood out there or vacuuming the whole neighborhood. I tend to have moved into a noisy place. I'm hoping this unilateral mic could hold, you know, my sound more clearly between us. Oh no. And now my door just swung open. You can't make this up. Okay, back to you guys. So, I want you to do this. I want you to also think about panacea. So, my software has a particular delineation. One of my favorite uh astrological experts on the minor asteroids is Alex uh asteroid astrology and here's what he has to say about it. Um I think he makes some really good points. Astrologically, Panacea is a granddaughter of Jupiter and the daughter of Chiron the healer. And so panacea he says represents pharmaceuticals and drugs both legal and illegal. He also mentions that it's in charge of recreational drugs. Interesting. Usually we think of recreational drugs as Piscian or Neptunian. And he says it's also panacea is the desire to easily fix a situation or problem in a simple and uncomplicated way. There can be a certain level of naivity in applying simplistic solutions. Panacea promotes a merely skindeep approach to the problems which do not address the root causes but seek to gloss over complex issues to achieve the appearance of success and solving it. So what I'm going to do is say you're looking for a all-purpose solution a remedy for what ails some situation in your life. Be careful not to gloss over it. Make sure you're going to the root cause of the problem. So, as we go through your sign, I will address what I think you might be paying attention to to support looking for the root cause of the problem. I'm going to show you the sky. This video should be no longer than an hour and 15 minutes. Uh, these days, Mercury retrograde videos tend to trend badly in SEO. I think everyone's kind of jaded on them, but I didn't want to not talk about it because this goes back to 2017 18. Same time of year, right? July, August. Similarly, last year as well, 2024, as Mercury is in the elemental fire year, a term coined by astrologer Gary Kaitton, a friend of mine, and he's been on my channel before, and he's written extensively about it. So, July the 18th, 2025 is our sky here. Mercury has just turned around approximately at 12:45 a.m. in, you know, new New York City, Montreal, Eastern Seaboard Time of of North America. You'll notice of course Panacea is right there beside him. That's what this little story is right here. Quite possibly with Panacea like exactly like literally Kazmi or perfectly meshed with him from the asteroid belt to his retrograde, you know, be you know near between Earth and Sun. If you were to line the two of them up, they will be like, you know, mashed up in in the same line basically. So there's just something about that that's pretty evocative of really going into this idea of a solution for what ails us. Now Mercury's retrograding into panacea and panace moving direct into Mercury. They're going to hit heads, clash with each other in a way and merge their forces. This could indicate the idea that they're racing toward a solution together or meeting in the middle. But it also means be careful for the solution not being deep and true. For example, Donald Trump, Leo ascendant. JD Vance, Leo ascendant. The nation Iran, Iran, Leo ascendant. Maybe Palestine by some people's takes on one of the Palestine charts connected to Yasra Arafat a Leo ascendant. Temporary non non deep non-lasting non-effective solutions for those situations, people and places in the world. And we can all agree to that. I'm sure over here is Boris and Aries. Aries is connected to uh Canada. We're an Aries rising nation. One of the Iran charts for a different kind of setup is a is a Aries rising borc is the lies we tell ourselves and so is Neptune by the way. It's kind of lies. It's fictional. It's it's the ideal, you know, fictionalized version of reality. The spin cycle, you know, Pam Bonnie, oh yeah, by the way, we're going to uh figure out the Epstein thing. And now, you know, Wired magazine comes out with yesterday, I'm recording this on July 14th for my Patreon community. Pam Bondi comes out with this story about yeah, the prisons delete a minute of tape every night before 11 to noon. Wired came out with a story that said um the whole tape of the Epstein prison tapes that are supposed to support a suicide were tampered with and they can see from the technological vantage point. They use Adobe, you know, editor and all of that. So this was never raw footage. So we all know there's no way Epstein committed suicide in his prison cell that he was obviously assassinated. So those are stories unalived I should say. There's a stories that you know nobody buys it right. Nobody believes it. Uh fictions are being construed in the Aries story to like confabulate or make stories up that no one no one believes. You'll notice that as Mercury is stationing to go retrograde, the Mars is headed for the conjunction to the south node on July the 20th or so. I'll be doing a separate video on that. That's a highly important story, but it's already building by the time we get to midweek. I have mentioned it in my Mercury through Virgo video already. That is a very intense and dastardly energy, and it usually connects to world events that are not at all positive. in the history of Lebanon, it's always been pretty bad. Uh Lebanon is a Virgo rising nation. We may see more Lebanon in the news cycle coming up this week ahead. Okay, so that's what I've got for you here. We're going to focus on your sign, the Leo whole sign house, what it might mean for you in the story of Mercury stationing retrograde on panacea. Interestingly, in a perfect sex tile to Venus, which brings us a bit more of the luck and the the goodness here because Venus is obviously what we call a bonific and she's in neutral dignity and she's in Mercury's house. So, he's going to try to co-opt her. She's a house guest in Mercury's house and she's going to try to get please the owner of the house and Mercury's in Leo saying, "I need you to pay attention to my plants. You know, water them, walk the dog, take out the garbage, whatever she can do to make sure that the homeowner is pleased by her house guest status." So, with Venus in the house of Mercury, the Gemini whole sign house of Mercury, Mercury is giving her directions or she's trying to support him in some way. That's the good news about this retrograde for your sign. There's nothing like Venus support structures to operate in your be favor and on your behalf during this retrograde. Now, you might say to me, and I completely understand this, a lot of you might say something like, "But wait a minute, Venus is moving and so is Mercury and so is Panacea. How does this pertain to the July 18th to August 11th time frame?" And that's a great question. It pertains to that long because when something begins, it stations, right? It begins to the retrograde story stations retrograde. It it bakes in the vibration or the initiatory energy of things that are in place like a pitch pipe for a choir, you know, and the the choir director wants everyone to get on a certain key or whatever. I can't sing, so I don't know what it really means, but you know, it's like, okay, this is the template. This is the energetic signature for the next three weeks. That's how you want to think about it because it's not just oh yes on the day of the station retrograde 17th 18th Venus sexiles Mercury you think about it in a longer way. Okay let's go ahead and do each sign and if you want me to progress the chart which I think is a good teaching tool uh don't forget to like subscribe and hit the notification bell if you're liking this content. I put out all science content up to 20 or 30 videos per month, believe it or not. And so if you're liking this content now and you haven't hit the like button or you watch me all the time and you haven't subscribed, I'm asking you politely what you think about it. Thank you. Okay. So on July 18th, 2025, you'll see Mercury heading backwards. I'll just move it ahead by days just for, you know, your own interests, right? Then Mercury is here still with 15 degree panacea. Venus is at 16. And then Venus goes to 17, Mercuryy's at 15, but Panacea has moved past him to 16. And on we go. So now by the time we get to approximately, I'd say approximately here, uh, July 21st, Venus sexelling Mercury is no longer a very strong energy. After the 21st, it kind of winds down. So yeah, sure. 18th to the 21st or 17th to the 21st, Venus and Mercury are having a very good conversation, a very powerful flow and ease helping you in Gemini whole sign house matters and in Leo whole sign house matters. But it bakes in an energetic desire for the two to cooperate energetically through till August 11th or at least until Venus leaves the sign of Gemini and stays in a sexile whole sign sexile to good old Mercury. She will leave Gemini on July 31st. So let's say then from around July 17th to the 31st to the end of the month, Venus is complicit and supportive of what Mercury is trying to achieve. For those achieve for those of you who are into world peace, who isn't um Venus is a goddess of trying to create the peace. Mercury is the negotiator of the contractual agreements, right? The barter, the the back and forth. So we may see some significant attempts to yet again juryrike peace. Jury rake jerryrike peace. I don't think it'll last. Right. the panacea solutions are like non-lasting for some reason. But let's see if these solutions that are concocted between July 18th and the end of the month could have any lasting impact. I'm suspecting they won't. Maybe Ukraine, Russia, but certainly not. Maybe Israel, Gaza. We shall see. I never thought I'd live through this, guys. I used to watch all the old Holocaust movies and go to those museums and go, "How could this have happened if I was alive? I would never stand for it. I would not let my how would my country support what happened to people in Germany, the geocide back then?" And FYI, that that that wasn't only people of Jewish faith that were impacted. There were many other people, gypsies, etc. There were also in that Holocaust story. But I mean I couldn't imagine how it happened and how you know that the world stood by and let it happen so to speak. And there was a war then. So countries were fighting back and forth you know maybe you know whatever. But here it is again in our lifetimes. How in in the world has this happened and it's been televised and it's been Instagrammed and we've seen it all before our very eyes. Like okay moving on. Moving on. We're doing Aries sun, moon and rising trying not to bring us all down. All right. Don't bring me down. Here we go. Aries first. Hello. Aries sun, moon, and rising. I have a sun and moon. So, I resonate with you guys. And here's what we have for you. Aries sun, moon, and rising. Your sky is thus. It is this story for you. And we always act like the moon is in Aries and the sun is in Aries in the first house when we talk about whole sign house approach to and also spinning or turning the wheel so that we account for the as if your sun is in the first house as if your moon is in the first house. That's how this kind of YouTube delination done by all YouTube astrologers. That's how you get your sun sign astrology is done. So it just happens to be that the moon really is in Aries on July 17th. So on July 17th, 18th, okay, I I'll move us ahead of day. So you'll see Mercury's retrograde symbol. Again, it's all time zone dependent. Mercury's retrograde. You're going to notice that you have a backtracking Mercury going through your sky and he will be telling you stories that you've already dealt with somehow some way, right? You were already kind of in the thick of this story since June the 30th. So what was happening June the 30th to July 18th with your children with your sex life your romantic partnerships with your creative and artistic projects with your use of your natural talents and gifts maybe in this sky also your entrepreneurial endeavors starting around June 30th you were going to go forward in some way you were moving in a direction that you thought you know hey yeah I got this and then Mercury goes backwards uhoh you put a pin there you know, pin at four degrees of Leo relative to what started in June on the 30th and now you're reconsidering, revising and rethinking it. Now, it could be something simple, you know, like a creative project and a date you had set to get it going or an entrepreneurial project that you or opportunity that you were thinking it was time to get going on it. Negotiate the deal, get the communications in place, you know, set up the sales page. Even Mercury rules the marketing, merchandising, selling, buying, marketing, that kind of stuff. And now you're going to revise, rethink, and renew. Now, I'm going to tell you my story because I can use me as an example. It was around June the 30th that I signed up for Thinkific, another platform. I signed up for that platform for the simple reason I wanted to use a more less complicated and simpler accounting tool at the end of my year. All right? So, I moved to that platform, but I haven't had a chance yet at all to build uh my Skyreader new platform website there. And so, I will be doing that retrograde, right? Go ahead, get the program now. Go ahead and get the darn thing started. That kind of thing. So, in essence, there is a story. Don't forget Mercury has been in Leo for a long time. It's a long story. He's there for a long while. It's the retrograde period, more or less. what was going on h June the 30th through to July 18th that you might mostly want to consider or reconsider. But conceivably you can also consider the time that he was all in the retrograde. I mean all in Leo. So let me give you those days. So Mercury entered Leo on June the 26 and he doesn't leave till September 2nd. So if you want to push back that date I gave you a June the 30th, maybe even going back to June the 26th. There definitely may have been something that you had initiated in the creative love projects, art, you know, whatever. Um, your children, your sexual romantic love stories, um, your entrepreneurial endeavors, and you're just having to go backwards and redo, revise, rethink, and that's all it is. However, the juicy part of the story, and it is juicy, is this is where the old romantic partners come out of the woodwork, and you're hearing back from people you dated years ago, ages ago. Now, if you started dating somebody after June 26, and it flopped, they may have changed their mind and be coming back. Emails, phone calls, text messages from former romantic partners, lovers, people you've dated, that's a story. Also, you might be perhaps not necessarily, but hearing from a sibling two younger than you in birth order. That's that house, the fifth house. So, they're coming, you know, all of a sudden emailing, phone calling, texting. So, there's that kind of thing for some of you Aries as well. Finally, you know, the fifth house is our enthusiasm, play, and joy. And Mercury retrograde is going to bring synchronicities here. You know, what are the messages? What are the signs for you to find more fun in life, more enthusiasm, more excitement, and more inspiration? And that's what he's asking you to look at most closely. This is a dharma house to be aligned with purpose and joyfully so. So many of you may be looking to align with joyful purpose and signs and synchronicities bring that to your attention. He is sexile Venus in the house of writing, teaching, learning, selling, marketing, social media sphere, things to do with your local neighbor and maybe socializing with your neighborhood and neighbors a lot more and having some more fun, pleasure in the neighborhood, pleasure with the neighbors. You may also hear from people from your past connected to your childhood be childhood friends with Venus in this position and you'll be really surprised. You thought they had passed away or something, you know, because you're honest. You could have a viral hit here, but it's from the past. You know what I mean? A sleeper. Uranus, Venus in the house of social media, Mercury retrograde in the house of creations. So, you know, a video you put out a dog's age ago suddenly gets a viral trend going and wakes up from the dead. Those are examples. Um, and women in particular uh can be very supportive of what is trying to happen in the retrograde cycle. Women who are going to support you like like this is a house of siblings. tech technically look to good things happening with your younger sibling in particular, one younger than you and two younger than you between July 18th and August the 11th. Mercury is kind of like the ballot box guy, but he also is the ticket you buy for a lottery. He's in the lottery warehouse. Venus is in the local neighborhood. Good time to go to the local lotteryies and play the local games and the local lotteryies. This could be a win. I have one local lottery in the hopper. It's a hospital lottery. I'll let you know if I win. So, that's another story. Play the local lotteryies for you. Aries sun, moon, and rising sign. Mercury retrograde is indicating you probably already have the ticket or that you've done this before. What is the cure all for everything? What is the panacea? The thing that you could create that's like a fix for what ails the situation, well, be careful you don't gloss over it. If you got a problem in your romantic relationships or with one of your children or they do and they're going to have a a quick fix solution that isn't going to be realistic, that's what you have to watch for. They have to watch for it if it's their problem. Like your child says, "No problem, mom. I've got or dad. I've got this. I'm going to do this." And you're like, "I don't think that's really a fix a good solution." I think you're being overly optimistic about it. Right? Ask yourself to look deeper for romantic solutions. Get your children to look deeper for solutions in their own life. When it comes to creativity, entrepreneurship, and all of that, look, don't try to do a slapstick job of a band-aid solution for something you know needs to go much much deeper in your muse and your creativity, in your writing, communicating, and your marketing and selling. And that's what I have for you. Um, Venus does rule your long-term commitment house and the romance house is the retrograde. So perhaps you might have phone calls, emails, and text messages or travel opportunities connected to former romantic and committed love partnerships coming to you courtesy of online communications or real life intersections. Let me know how it goes, guys. Well, I'm moving by days. That doesn't help. Ah, let's go by hours. We're doing Taurus next. Taurus sun, moon, and rising sign. Certainly, a retrogradation of Mercury in the 4th house can bring you back in touch July 18th to August 11th with people from your childhood, hometown, parents. Maybe matters connected to contracts, negotiations, and deals with real estate, land, and property. But retrograde means to return backwards to an area that maybe around June 30th or even going back to July 26th when he entered Leo that you were entertaining and you could be changing your mind or your a buyer could change their mind. There could be a pullback on a direction that you thought was where we were going here. So, oh, what do you mean you're going to I have a a Taurus friend who's got this offer for a friend to buy his home and they just rent it back to him. Well, that offer is in place. is June the 30th and it could be a reneging of that offer, a change in the direction to change one's mind or a deal that goes backwards instead of forwards or sometimes just has to be negotiated under different terms. So, those of you dealing with real estate, land and property issues during this retrograde, those are some themes to watch out for. Now, with panacea, the cure all, well, you're looking for a one-sizefits-all simple solution to a problem that has more depth than you imagine. You probably suspect that it's not a deep solution at the root cause. What is the root cause of the problem of the fourth house? Is it with real estate, property, land? Is it with home and people you live with? Is it to do with your childhood, your mom, your dad, people you knew in your home or hometown area? Those stories that are looking for simple and easy answers and fixes are not the panacea is not the way to go. Go to the root of the situation. Try to figure out underneath it what's deeper. You know, Mercury being the synchronicity maestra will bring you like signs, omens, portets, and dreams. He's a dream guy that can give you the guidance over these three weeks in which direction to go. Especially givingven that Neptune is in your 12th house, a dream planet in a house of dreaming. This is a time for you to literally please pay attention to your dreams during the retrograde of July 18th to August 11th. Support from Venus in the earnings house with some surprises. Venus tries to bring the good, the true, and the wonderful financially. Uranus brings the unexpected. Yet, Mercury is retrograde. Unexpected financial opportunities or solutions connected to solutions financially that were in play in the past. Okay? So, even if it was just solutions that you were entertaining June the 26th or after the 30th, now these are reemerging. So, you may have abandoned the solution. You may abandon a financial strategy to get money, negotiate money, barter, sell and trade to sell a possession, to buy a possession. Boom. Venus and Uranus bring you a positive surprise to turn it around. I might call this Venus infused positive surprises. Mercury retrograde because Venus will try your best with Uranus to surprise you in a good way. But even so, you know, look deeper than if you got a problem with home, property, land, and real estate matters or within your home life, domestic life, then look a lot deeper than finding a slapstick, you know, financial solution. Look at why the problem emerged in the first place. And the origin will be mom or dad and what you learned as a child and how those lessons were imprinted on you accidentally and you took them on. negative financial lessons most likely. And I think that's what I've got for you here. Don't forget this is an elemental fire year as was last year where Mercury spends a lot of time in Aries, Sagge, and Leo. So, it's really asking you to level up with your spiritual life, to let go of addictions and self undoing, to find a deeper meaning of life itself, and to move into an alignment with, you know, God or spiritual liberation. That's a deeper current that's ongoing for you in 24 and 25. You know, Jesus take the wheel, I surrender. Um I, you know, the St. Francis of Aisi prayer. Um these are kinds of things that you might be tuning more into in 2024 25. You know, Mercury elemental fire years. Keep that in mind. Gemini sun, moon, and rising sign. I have a progressed sun in Gemini and so sometimes I relate to you guys. progressions are not as accurate as your natal sky, but Geminis's it looks to me like there is a retrogradation of a communications planet Mercury in the third house of communications. This is going to be flooding you with those emails, phone calls, text messages, etc. connected to the past, connected to things that were, you know, going on or people with whom you were interacting with at least after June 26 or even more so June 30th for the shadow period. And you could also notice that Mercury being the marketer, seller, and speaker, communicator is in a social media house. You might go back and revise or redo or rethink social media projects or even writing projects for the third houses. Usually communication including more so writing. This is like a classic revision and revise a writing project or go back and do an unfinished writing project. So I'll finally get my book proposal done for my agent who's patiently waiting. And it's not even revision, it's a picking up a lost thread. And yes, she got in touch with me after the 26th of June during the pre-shadow and all of that. So yes, this is a story unfolding. You know, sometimes siblings, especially the one younger than you, but siblings in general belong to this third house and you'll be hearing from them as well or neighbors from your past. Well, obviously the cautionary tale is panacea. Don't kind of whip together a temporary fix uh nonsolution. You know, you're looking for a remedy, but one that is going to go to the root of the problem. You know what I mean? Like if you have chest pain, don't take an aspirin and see if you have, you know, your heart is is having a heart attack. Look deeper. So, Mercury will give you information and use to look beyond the remedy that's superficial and go much further. Look to therefore these ideas, new ideas coming to you or ideas from the past reemerging to be reused and you know they're really good. Mercury is in mind and this is an ideas house. Or maybe you want to rethink something, a project that you thought you were ready to go forward on, a writing project, a social media project, or a travel opportunity. When Mercury retrogrades in the third house of short distance travel, you often travel to places you've been before. Ironically, I will be doing that. July 18th, August 11th, I'm traveling pro back um to the interior of British Columbia and my quite quite and to the Yukon where I've been before. No, I'm traveling to the interior of British Columbia and I've been there before in 2017 during Mercury's elemental fire year. The last time I drove into the interior by myself and I'm doing another trip to into the interior through wine country, etc. Aiming for Nelson, British Columbia. And I'm doing it during Mercury retrograde in a house of travel. Mercury is also the protector of travelers on the road. And so when he's retrograde, he can be very useful. He's close to Earth. Look for signs and synchronicities and and port tense through travel, through reading, communicating, writing in social media landscape or just in your local neighborhood, you know, the feathers landing by your feet, you know, whatever your symbols are that people are watching out from you from the beyond, the afterlife, etc. Stay tuned for my outro about talking with the dead at the end. Um, that's what I've got. But Venus is also giving you luck. You know, she's making you more affection a try as Venus moves through Gemini, right? There's a feeling you'll have in your bones here. She's been there July 4th to July 30th. You feel like more on your agame, more attractive, more social, more likable. You like yourself more, more beautiful, new hair, new makeup, new new wardrobes, you know, that kind of thing. And so you might find yourself glamming up a bit. And potentially though with Uranus, you got some positive lucky surprises that you are engaging with during this retrograde cycle. She's touching base with your Mercury and she's overflowing with wanting good things to happen and Urana says, "I'll make it a good surprise." So happy positive surprises in the retrogradation. Certainly look for phone calls, emails, and text messages that may benefit you from neighbors, old friends from childhood, siblings, extended family, etc. And some trips that you take can help restore if you travel at all short distance travel in the retrograde cycle. Don't be afraid of that. July 18th, August 11th. You're going to a place you've been before, but it's going to help you feel more joyful and complete and happy and good and lucky in your own bones. She does rule your house of pleasure, leisure, travel, fifth house, and fun. And Mercur is trying to support that through third house matters, more social time in the neighborhood. It's just simply possible. But some of you may travel, and that may be a very, very positive influence in you on you during the journey. Um, a friend of mine years ago said that when we get away from our home base and we travel, synchronicities increase because we are not distracted. We are paying attention. You know how you you see your everyday environment, you don't see it anymore. You don't notice it because you're there all the time. We don't do that when we travel. We're very alert and we pay attention and that's why the synchronicities are easier to find. So, if you're traveling, look for that as well. And, you know, let's move on. All righty. Cancer sun, moon, and rising sign. You know, a retrograde Mercury in a money house can be very good for your finances. It's like literally money from the past or possessions from the past may be coming back to you. So, let's say you lost money, you find it. Let's say um you, you know, something that you really, you know, wanted in the past, you gave it away, someone returns it. But also, it's kind of the idea of marketing, selling, buying, and merchandising and the past. Now, if you go back to the 26th of June, you might have purchased something or not purchased something or thought about getting a possession and certainly after the 30th when the pre-shadow started and you were moving forward on that. I'm going to buy that house. I'm going to get that possession. I'm going to sign that deal for my contract for my work or something like that. I'm Yes. It's a yes. And then you're rethinking. It's rethinking itself. You're going back over transactions connected to career, money, employment, maybe uh connections. This is Artha house. It activates your material prosperity, work and money stories like it did in 2017 and 18. What were you doing then in this fire area and what were you doing 2425? Because Mercury retrograde in house 2 opens the Arthus stories. going deeper, going inward to find out where that money really needs to come from, where those wealth stories should lie. Mercury is synchronistic, so synchronistic financial narratives emerge July 18th to August 11th. The remedy, the cure all on a financial patchup job. If there's something that isn't quite right with your finances, then you're going to try to sort of patch it together quickly with panacea, and it's not going to the root of the problem. This includes the root of the problem to a dental work, facial matters, or even your dietary habits and styles. You don't want to slap a, you know, novacaane or clove oil on a throbbing gum tooth situation, right? You know, you want to go to the dentist and see what's really going on there. So, do not do panaceas around oral health, facial issues. What is that scab that won't heal? No. Go see a dermatologist. Don't put a band-aid on. And do not put a band-aid on dietary cures. You know, one sizefits-all. I'm just going to start eating watermelons all day every day and that'll cure me. Like look deeper for the solution is why you're hungry all the time. You know, go deep. Um and the same thing applies to your money. Don't look for a fast quick fix solution that isn't going to the root of the situation on your financial front as well. With Venus in the 12th house, money acrewed from foreign people, foreign shores and distant lands, foreign companies, digital income, borderless revenue can have a nice positive impact in July 18th to August 11th. Maybe you'll sign deals that allow for greater flow there. Maybe you'll have a sudden surge of financial increase you didn't expect. It's a bit of surprise. So, you could get more work in that way or more money that way. Um, you know, Venus and Mercury, Uranus are in a house to do with your inner life. So pay some time, pay some attention to your quiet solitude contemplation and see what emerges for you. And you know some positive surprises financially may emerge because you are more attentive to the solitude and the ideas that you have for financial gain. That's a way of coding that for sure. I mean Venus rules the house of great gains in your career and of course she also rules your house of property, land and real estate. So, because she's working with Mercury to help him, unexpected great gains in your career, greater financial gain through an elder sibling, ally, or benefactor, greater success regarding matters to do with money and your home, selling, marketing, renting, maybe things you need to purchase in and from your home. Leo sun, moon, and rising. If you want to go back in time, you know, you've had retrogrades here before. This is elemental fire year. You had this last July, August, Mercury, and Leo. And so, you're learning lessons. And you had the same vibe in 2017 18. Same time of year. This is this elemental fire year cycle. This is your dharma houses 1, 9, and five that keep getting activated during this retrograde. So you're being asked to lean into purpose, into meaning, into creative, you know, creative energies, into uh looking at your life from the perspective of being in alignment with your true purpose. Now that is a backdrop of Mercury through the elemental fire story. in your first house. He's in the house of your body if you're a Leo rising, the house of your career or the house of your home, Leo sun and and your deepest self and the house of your home if it's a Leo moon you're listening for. So, Mercury is going to indicate changes in this area where you might go backwards. So, you're going back to make a revision or revise something. You could be changing your mind as well, going back on an agreement. August 18th to the 11th. This backwards Mercury energy is relevant to the shadow that opened up, the pre-shadow around June the 30th. What verbal commitments did you maybe create or make or ideas did you think you were going to execute beginning around June 30th? And now you have to rethink it, especially if it pertains to allies, benefactors, career gains, and an elder sibling because of the Venus hookup to Mercury. Venus wants to honor Mercury and do good by him. So you have negotiating room in things to do with work and work and salary, work and gains, work and promotions. You have negotiating power. Uh the Venus placement favors you here. Uh and you may negotiate new opportunities that are also old in your work gains itself in your career and reputation and promotions. July 18th to August 11th, you know, old deals that were dead come back to life. You know, old opportunities that were neglected are revivified. Um, you might be doing communicating, a lot of communicating, but because it's retrograde, it's it's also connected to the past. Um, I don't know, digging up stuff from the past and talking about it with somebody, especially a spouse, by the way, with Pluto across the way. more intense conversations with the spouse during this retrograde, but unfinished business in conversations that were never finished between you and a significant other, particularly a spousal type relationship. There's always a problem with the body if you have a panacea. So, Leo risings especially, maybe moon secondarily, you got a health challenge and you're going to try to find a quick fix solution that doesn't get to the root. for all of the signs. You're the one most likely to make that mistake. So, be careful that you don't just slap on a band-aid over a gaping gang green wound, right? So, look a lot deeper and to what you need to do here. And I'm not even joking with the wounded healer trining it. We're almost talking about a wound of some kind that you need to attend to emotionally, psychologically, or even physically and not just get the solution fixed at the surface level. Ask yourself why this why is this here? Why is this here? All right. Leo rules cardiovascular, uh, heart, blood, those kinds of things. Those are areas to to pay attention to as well. Leo, [Music] Virgo sun, moon, and rising sign. First of all, anytime we see Mercury in the 12th house, I say get a dream journal, put it by your bedside. Same with Mercury in the 9inth house. These both can open up insights and downloads from the dream realms at night. And so you're looking at that possibility of July 18th, August 11th, Mercury's close to Earth, synchronicities are increasing, but getting some insights there from the inner life. It could also come through a trans state, meditations, imaginal states, you know, contemplative states and deep profound understanding, information or insights that are available to you. And you know panacea in the 12th house could say be just be careful that you don't find a quick fix solution to some kind of problem of the 12th addictions, bad habits, self undoing, self- sabotage and you think you can cobble together with this one pill. For example, if you drink too much alcohol and you take a pill that curbs your desire or craving and then it doesn't work if you stop taking the pill, that's not the solution. Why are you drinking so much? So, we're lot talking about going under the surface as well to find out the roots of a problem. And you might also consider that this is in a flow to Venus in your 12 10th house. So July 18th to August 11th, you got some support from women in places of power or authority. You got some support from unexpected financial success stories that may actually pull you out of a rut. And you say, "I can't do this successful career if I'm going to drink or smoke too much or whatever." And finally, Jupiter is giving you career luck and exalting you in the house of career gains. And Venus is giving you career luck. This is an ideal sky to open up to more career success in whatever way you want. you know, raises, promotions, advancements, um, job interviews that turn out well. You know, synchronicities that allow for those stories. Mercury owns Venus. She's in his house. She will try to get you a surprising job opportunity or career advancement that you weren't expecting. But in the meantime, Mercury does want you not to rush to quick solutions for your own hot mess of what you don't attend to in your psychological and spiritual life. Finally, don't think this is just a one one-stop shop, right? Mercury is in a place in the sky that opens up spiritual intuition, inner knowing, things to do with, you know, these are houses 12, 4, and 8 that he was hyperactive in all through 17 in 2018 and back again 24 and 25. There's a lot going on just like 17 and 18 that is repeating 24 and 25 that says who's your God? What's your deeper belief in life? What do you lean on? Is the universe a friendly place? Can you liberate yourself from the expectations of mom, dad, family of origin, your egoic structures? Can you become more enlightened? And Mercury the messenger will help you do that. Certainly really look really look to your dream life because your dream life is going to be very revealing or your inner insights from stillness and quietitude and solitude between July 18th to August 11th. Don't forget the shadow opened up on June 30th. So you might have been working on solutions to problems to do with self and doing July 30th to August July 18th and then you're like wait a minute this isn't working. What I've been trying to do basically for the first half of July is not the solution to something that you need to resolve including problems you've been experiencing with your work and career as well just because of the Venus Uranus part of the story also connected to this. Good luck with that. Virgo sun, moon, and rising. Now I'm going to take my midway chocolate break. It usually is Libra. If you like this kind of content, like and subscribe. I shall return briefly. Uh, and we'll continue with the last half of the zodiac and my outro about talking to the dead. I just had a great story where the a dead person came to me and it was a really lovely miracle story in terms of what it all turned out to be. Oh, I am back guys. Let's keep going with the story. Libra is next and let's pull up the Libra narrative. So, don't forget guys, retrogrades are magical. It's not just about, oh, my travel plans got nixed or stuff like that. Mercury is close to Earth and he is our diva of synchronicity or DVO or either because he's gender neutral. Let's go ahead and talk more about it. Here we have the sky showing us Libra and Libra July 18th to August 11th, Mercury goes backwards in the sky covering territory he's been over since June the 30th. So, a lot of this is going to feel like you're going back to the past in your 11th house of good spirit. Now the 11th house is a house to do with your friends and social networks. And so most classically when he's retrograding here, people from your past return, not just since June 30th, but in general. So old friends, old colleagues and co-workers, old social network groups and stuff like that. And you hear back from these people. And all of a sudden there's a new engagement, a new conversation. Something important wants to be readressed, revised, or rethought with those friendships, those social groups. And sometimes this is communication with a sibling, one older than you. and that sibling is now engaging in conversations with you and it connects the matters of the past. Mercury retrograding up here also connects to career matters especially the gains of your career and your long range goals and dreams. So the gains of the career and the long-range goals and dreams are being revised and rethought for yourself. You know if you belong like there were groups of friends that you had in the past but you haven't really connecting with them. For example, it's most classically you reconnect. You could even be more social with these people that were outside of the loop for a while. Mercury up here is in a house of good spirit where good things happen include windfalls and pennies from heaven. Having Venus in a conversation with him from the ninth house and it's a nice sex tile. She's trying to please him is in the house of things to do with legislation, governments, sometimes chair, you know, things like bodies, uh, bureaucratical bodies, bureaucratical institutions. Um, you could end up seeing yourself getting a chunky money, a chunky money, a chunk of money that feels like a windfall from a government stipend or subsidy or in the book publishing industry, an advanced payment on a book or early advances and things to do with money as well connected or positive financial developments connected to um academic and university environments like a grant or a scholarship. Those stories could happen for some Libras in the window of, you know, July 18th to August 11th. Or if you're traveling or plan to travel abroad and Mercury is the god of protector of travelers. Venus is in the international or travel abroad house. There might be some communications from social groups and friends revolving around travel and revising plans, rethinking plans or forming new plans but connected on past conversations July 18th to the 11th of August. There's a solution you're trying to cobble together or a friend is offering you. you know, here's the solution to what else you here's the quick fix. Here's the panacea. And that may not work because you got to go to the root. You can't slap a solution on a problem here. And usually because it's 11th house, maybe the solution is being offered to you in a financial matter connected to your work. Like, you know, here's a solution. We can't give you this much money for your job, but instead we'll give you, you know, longer lunch hours and cotton candy, you know, at the end of a day. and you're like, "Wait a minute, I actually need the money to pay my rent." You know, you need a real solution here. So, gains of the career and seeking for real solutions financially are as well probable during this time. If you go to June 30th when the retrograde shadow opened up doors, ask yourself what things you would thought you had all squared away regarding friends and travel and financial gain from your career and you had your a beat on it. Now you're having to revise, rethink, look for synchronicities, look for signs, look for phone calls, and emails from friends, benefactors, and allies to be supportive of this journey. July 18th to the 11th, Venus is such a good person in the 9inth house because it connects to the goddess Lakshmi. And so in essence, in a in a TR to your ascendant sun or moon in in air trine fashion, she's going to do her damnedest, okay, to bring you some kind of sweet nectar. Something good wants to happen here. something is trying to happen that is wonderful but this is a retrograde and so you don't get it right away things have to go back before they can spring forward so keep that in mind think of this as a pulling back the spring of a toy winding up the spring-loaded toy July 18th to August 11th so it can go forward after the August 11th turnaround date and I did give you guys a chart at the very beginning of this story you don't even get rid of Mercury in your 11th house until September 2nd. There's so much going on. It's a great time for you to network, socialize, schmoo, ask for favors from friends in high places. You know, really take your energy and put it into those networks. They can be really useful for you. Now, hey, Scorpio sun, moon, and rising elemental. I meant for to say to Libras, it was an elemental story. It was in your desire and relational chart for you. Okay, let's go to Scorpio. Scorpio sun, moon and rising. I backdrop reminder please everyone. You know Mercury and an elemental fire year 201718. Mercury and elemental fire year 24 20242. It simply means he lights up the fire signs by staying for 2 months on average in those signs because of retrogrades during those every seven eight year cycles. So for you this is always going to be about material prosperity, work and money. This is your artha 2, six and 10 house houses. So this is where there's a lot of shift, a lot of consideration, maybe particularly negotiation and change in these matters. This retrograde like last summer's retrograde is happening this time July 18th to August 11th. The preamble pre-shadow was June 30th. I want you to sort of consider what were you doing maybe June 26th more truly June 30th where you had a plan uh you were going to go forward you knew what your ideas were regarding work regarding career regarding reputation and ultimately you just had like I got this you know this is this is the idea I negotiated this deal this is what I want to say this is what I'm going to do this is my direction and then you got to go okay wait a minute uh I'm going to rethink that you're going to go back and you're not going to leave that backward motion till August 11th. There's a possibility that there's a very big revision of some plans or ideas you had about your career and your work. Especially with the chironic wound in the house of work and you now have to rethink and revise and revision. And with panacea, you can't slap a solution band-aid on it. You must find the root of the problem to solve the problem. It's not enough to say, "I'm going to put headphones on when my boss is yelling at me." Maybe you don't want to work there. Or maybe it the problem is you haven't had that most important conversation with the boss to clear the air so that there isn't this static. That's an example. So, you need to go to the root of the problem, not as a a temporary solution or a slapstick, you know, band-aid problem, a solution to a deeper problem. This is also a connection to Venus in the eighth house of chunky money and Uranus for surprises. chunky money owed you in the past connected to career matters or father father figure matters maybe returning to you as another way because commerce marketing merkantile mercury and Venus money there's about maybe money connected to fathers or father figures that was you know owed you do you belongs to you and certainly with Saturn Neptune retrograde in the house of debts money owed to you by some male figure could be returning to you or information news phone calls text that you're going to receive that money Now, some that could involve legacy wealth or inheritances because of the position of Venus and Uranus and even Jupiter. There's something good, surprising, and positive that wants to happen. Good, surprising, and positive that wants to happen regarding your finances with Venus and Mercury. Sorry, Venus and Uranus in the eighth house being directed by Mercury. There is maybe even a remedy for a real problem in your finances. Like you keep paying off the debt by doing revolving credit and you're going to solve the problem by just paying off the debt. So there's a solution to financial problems including debt problems and money problems that wants to occur July 18th to the 11th. Pay attention to the signs, the synchronicities, your phone calls, emails, text messages, and even conversations with others for the answer and the deep solutions to be revealed to you. Certainly with south node Mars getting ready to join in your 11th house. Some of you may be letting go of a source of income or earnings hopefully because you got a surprise chunk of money that you could do that but you're kind of having to look deeply at even why you have this career ambition. What is it truly about? Um your career ambition is ruled by the sun with Jupiter. You're looking for dharmic alignment and deep truth to move work into alignment with soul and purpose. Sagittarius sun, moon and rising sign. Mercury is retrograding in your 9inth house of God. Well, this is a very spiritual place, but it's also about being on purpose and dharma. It's education, colleges, campuses, book publishing. It's matters to do with therapists, guides, and advisors. Possibly with this Mercury retrograde on July 18th to August 11th, you have to go back over something that was not quite right. Something you tried to create June 30th to August July 18th and now you're wait a minute. I I think that I need to check on this idea. Is it a visa, passport, foreign travel opportunity, court and legal matter, academic settings, environments? You know, these are things of the nine. you kind of going to go back and it needs to be readressed, revised, rethought. But don't look for a solution that's temporary or not not to the root of the problem thanks to panacea. You're looking for a remedy, but you've got to go deeper than the surface. With Venus and Uranus in the seventh house, it could be about your marriage. Let me backtrack a bit. If I go to the houses 1, 5, and 9, those were all lit up for you in 2017 and 18 as well as last year 2024 and this year 25 because of the elemental retrogradation focus of Mercury in the fire signs during those cycles just like 2017 18. You know, go back and compare. No, it could be that this is it could introduce love from the past connected to distant wars and foreign lands. Maybe you go back to a place of travel that you've been before and a surprising new love story emerges. That's a possibility. But did anything like that happen in 17 and 18? Maybe, maybe not. It's a Venus Uranus that makes me most interested in your seventh house of committed love with Neptune and Saturn in the house of romantic love. There could be a romantic committed uh love story coming to you, but connected maybe to the past. How far back in the past? I don't know. Maybe just as far back as June 26 when Mercury first entered Leo, were you traveling? Were you going were you sailing the high seas abroad? Were you off on adventures? And Venus is like, "Surprise, there's love here." If you've been having any kind of difficulty feeling connected to God or higher willpower or divine energy, this Mercury retrograde is super good for that. He's in the house of, you know, the the utmost advisor in human resources, God, Goddess. So messages from the divine can reach you through this cycle of July 18th, the 11th. Look for the synchronicities, the messages, the importance, the omens, and the signs. Listen in, tune in. They're going to be strong for you at this time. any legal disputes with a a a a contractual agreement, a government, lawyers, governments, or even marriage partners will have surprising and positive results during the retrograde of July 18th to August 11th most likely. Anyway, three more signs to go. Capricorn sun, moon, and rising sign. So, Mercury is retrograding in your eighth house of God. This eighth house of God, eighth house of chunky money. This is your unearned income. This is money you share with other people, including things like book royalty income shared with a publisher. Google ads sends shared with Google. Money from inheritances, money from divorce and separations, money that comes in a chunk of some sort. No matter how it comes to you, doesn't earn as a paycheck. Um, Venus is here flowing to it from a debt's house and Uranus is there. So, if money comes to you at all, July 18th to the 11th, it's connected to the past. It was owed to you. It could involve a sibling three older than you in birth order. It will feel like a an exciting positive surprise because it allows you to eliminate or pay down some debt, karmic or financial. But looking for financial solutions that are not a permanent financial remedies that are not looking at the root of the problem was what panacea's risk is with Mercury. Are you looking for a financial remedy around, you know, your spousal of support, alimony, uh your investment monies in the markets, uh mortgages and payments to uh you know, service debts even? You're looking for a solution, but you got to look a lot deeper than the surface. Really go under the hood because panacea will give you a remedy that is unrealistic. and Saturn Neptune in the fourth house trining Mercury in a whole sign house trying you might be looking for a landing spot a home a place to live and you're connecting to return to the past to where you've been before I'm suspicious of panacea though because that solution also could be only temporary good news is Venus is trying to please Mercury and she's like how can I help she's in a very karmic debt serervicing energy she got some s positive surprises you could get an unexpected opportunity for a job she rules your 10th house of career. But the deeper story is you know houses 8, 4 and 12 which were activated by Mercury in 2017 and 2018 have been reactivated in 24 and 2025. This is spiritual enlightenment awakening unhooking from your ancestral family origins. Wounds of mother and father wounds family patterns past life karmas and scaras ending the energies that hold you back shackled from liberation spiritually. So using Mercury in this regard is go deeper than just the surface. If you're looking at money solutions, ask yourself deeply what money really means in your spiritual life. And also Mercury can be advisor. So if an accountant, an expert, an abacus mover, you know, someone who can deal with your money at the detailed level. Uh retrograde could be coming back to you from the past to help you sort of find a solution. Mercury rules the house of legal matters and courts. So you might be seeing a lawyer over something to do with money that you can resolve a situation connected to financial situations in the past. Again, look to like June the 30th or even June 26 until July 18th specifically. What were you thinking? I got a handle on this. I'm going forward on this and now you're going to have to revise, rethink, and redo and wait it out until August the 11th. You have an exalted moon in the house of of lottery wins. Venus is in the house of repaying or eliminating or debt elimination. And so in some regards, that chunk of money for some of you could end up being winning money. But you want to have that moon really kicking ass before it leaves the sign. So maybe it's true, maybe it's not. But I'd say between July 19th and 25th, you could win money. That's another option here. Or even till the end of the retrograde till August 11th. So that would be a real solution, wouldn't it? Not a panacea. If you win enough money, you've solved a financial dilemma. Aquarius sun, moon, and rising. I am one of you. And in I'm looking at my beautiful view here, and I consider this story for us. I'm a rising sign. Um quite a a deeper, it's not always about us. It's the seventh house. So, it could be something a partner in love or business is going through. I want you to keep that in mind. However, the retrograde in the house of significant others could also be about a significant relationship that you're in or want to be in. We'll get to that. And someone from the past wants to return to communication with you between July 18th to August 11th. An ex-spouse, an ex- long-term committed love partner. with Venus in the romance house and it's positive surprises. I would say that you're going to hear from a a love partner from the past that it's a positive feeling to hear from them that it's a surprise that they're showing up again in your life. You're surprised that they're even doing it. That kind of thing. Now, June the 30th, Mercury entered pre-shadow. And so, he put a pin on in the sky and said, "I have to go back to like June 30th to July 18th. what things were happening. You might even look to June 30th and go what was going on in my significant long-term love relationship. If you don't have one, then what did you go on a date or something? Because there's a possibility June 30th or so. A day or two on either side is really important to readress something that's happening here. Even June 26, you can go back that far. Yeah, you're looking for a solution, a panacea, a remedy for a problem that exists in the long-term committed house. is about legal contracts and deals as well. Venus is ruling the house of courts, visas, passports, and legal matters, the judges. She's sex tiling Mercury and trying to do his bidding. You know, what do you need me to create here? If you are somebody who is playing to win a lottery, a game of chance or something like that, Venus and Uranus could indicate a success here. All right. But with retrograde Mercury in the house of significant other or long-term, maybe it's something that you played before the retrograde started, July 18th, August 11th, and now you're winning. Like it was a ticket you had to hold because Mercury rules tickets. and all of that. Um, certainly with the north node increasing the amount of money you can possess, right? This is a possibility for Aquariuses. I also mentioned some possibility for Capricorns. Phone calls, text messages, and emails from someone you knew in the past who you didn't know was attracted to you. Venus is in your house of romantic infatuation with Uranus. is a surprise. And you could hear from someone from the past, you know, that they always crushed on you. You didn't know it, but you've known them before. It's not brand new. Emails, phone calls, texts, you know, messengers, things like that coming through your sky. Get ready for a surprise. Also, Aquarius, creative projects, entrepreneurial endeavors, the muse, inspiration. You got a stellium in the house of writing, marketing, and selling. So there could be something going on with another person that wants to collaborate with you like a business partnership to do with writing, communicating, marketing, selling, entrepreneurial uh endeavors, artistic endeavors, and that's great. Mercury represents agents. I do have an agent Eileene pestering me gently to get something out to her as a proposal. So, you know, that could simply be for me. the agent from the past is back in my in my life giving me positive energy to write a proposal. That could be all it is, but the surprise might be the success or the speed at which the proposal is written or the way the communication happens is effective. So those are kinds of some ideas here. Certainly eight out of 10 of you will find out that old romantic partners from the past are returning or the people who have an infatuation with you from your past are letting you know. There is this vibe in the air. Okay. Or finally your partner in love and romance communicating with you a change of mind. Something that they were you know leaning into June 30th until now and that was their mind that was their assessment. That was their direction. Then July 18th August 3rd they're kind of like hm maybe not. This could involve travel third house trury maybe uh changing their mind on taking a journey with you or traveling with you or you are traveling with them and on that trip there's a change of perspective they're having a change of mind you may be traveling or they may be traveling to a place you've been before. Now you know Mercury retrograde is famous for travel plans not working the way you expect it. If you have plans to travel with a significant person in your life, I wouldn't be surprised for some of you if there's a turnaround on that story. And maybe that travel doesn't go as planned or even happen at all. So, pay attention. Finally, is it your partner or you they're looking for remedies or solutions to some problem in love relationships. Don't do a quick fix. Find the deep root of the problem and fix it that way. Finally, Pisces sun, moon, and rising sign Mercury is moving retrograde in the house. Oh, wait a minute. Well, I'll keep going. Okay, I'm going to say something. Go back to Aries. No, to Aquarius. Look, go back to 2017 18 Aquarius and go back to 201 um 24 last year and 25 because with Mercury retrograding here, what was going on then? Did you hear from old like 2017 18 all the old love relationships came out of the woodwork. You know what was going on with that story? You're going to have similar thought themes going through the sky. Same with 202425 and 2017 18 for example. I don't think it was so much that there was old relationships returning but I was engaging in new attempts at new relationships with people I'd known for a long time. that was it like you know casually knowing them online and stuff like that and nothing really panned out 17 that didn't really work out 2017 18 but you can go back and try to compare notes I was single at the time Pisces sun moon and rising sign Mercury's retrograding in the house of pets debts rental properties work and health uh this is your sixth house it's one of the artha houses for material success and you you know prosperity and career and with a trine to your second house in Aries there's a lot going on ultimately if you want to go back to calendar year 2017 and 2018 Mercury spent almost a half a year in fire signs each year due to retrogradation that means it was an elemental fire year in houses to do with work money and career okay so similarly last year and this year the same energies here so you might compare those years as a theme to do with changes in career direction changes in Focus on your money and your ear earnings and your work. Mercury here is with panacea. Are you looking for a cure to what ails you physically? This is a kind of take a drug. You know, is a drug going to solve the problem? Maybe not. Is is a fin as a solution to your financial debt situation? A credit card is going to work. You going to do revolving credit? That doesn't really solve it. Especially with um Venus in the mix ruling your eighth house of banks and banking financial institutions. So, health challenges need a real solution. Money challenges need a real solution. Venus is in the fourth house. This is property, land, and real estate surprises to do with where you live. Surprising new rental opportunities, surprising new financial opportunities connected to your home, but and your work, but it's connected to the past. Now, ironically, this is also the house of pets. So, again, you always wanted a pet and you thought it would solve everything. Well, maybe, but not like a Great Dane in a 400 foot place, right? get yourself a little poodle or like a tiny little chihuahua. So, look for a solution that's going to really work. Mercury going backwards, hearing from colleagues, co-workers. July 18th to August 11th from the past, right? Medical issues from the past returning to be readressed. Rental situations and animals from the past returning to be focused on. You know, Venus wants to please Mercury. She's in the fourth house. She wants to bring positive surprises in and from your home base connected to work. Maybe you're going to get unexpected work opportunity connected to somebody from your past and maybe you can do it from home or it's close to home or it's in your homeland. The sun wants you to be lucky. Jupiter's in the house of good fortune. Sun is there as well ruling Mercury at the time of the conj uh the retrograde station. You can have some sign significant luck here. Could be financial luck even that allows for this story to be very financially positive for you. Jupiter could win money for you possibly in the fifth house like a lottery win, but he's more likely to give you the gains of the fourth renegotiate the mortgage. Uh get a good opportunity financially connected to a place to live. South node uh Mars in the house of your significant other. You're paying less attention to them or they're busy with some difficulties in their own life. And so I just want to bring that up because Mercury rules your seventh house where south node is and this is you know where you lean into another person, a partner or significant other [Music] squaring Venus. So there's tension there between you, your home life and another person or distance, separation physically, geographically. Now this is not just during the retrograde. So back to July 18th to August 11th, look to what you were up to June 30th when Mercury first entered the pre-shadow period on maybe June 30th or even June 26. You were like all up, all up in your yay me moment about I've got to rent this property, get this pet. I figured out how to eliminate my debt. That's something that may now be going the other direction or being rethought. July 18th to August 11th, you can make money or have a debt elimination if money is owed to you from the past or a situation where unclaimed money, you know, indebtedness can be returned to you. All right? And maybe from a brother two may count it three older than you, right? Mars is a brother in the seventh house with the south node the past. Three older than you, a sibling or maybe a brother three older than you returning a debt that was owed. Maybe maybe that could happen here. Lastly, I want to say one more thing. Saturn is giving you a three-year run of being serious and soberminded with your money in your Aries second house. Don't be afraid of it. It got me to incorporate and save a lot of money. Saturn is not your ally. Is not your enemy. He is your ally. Sicity on financial conservation will be a new story in the next three years for all Pisces. Now, let's talk about the outro. I got a great story for you guys and then we're done. You know, there's a former client of mine who wrote a book. I'm going to show you her book. Yeah. Should I? Yeah, I think it's a good story. Give me a sec. Her name is Suz Suzanne Maiden and her book is Spirit Untethered. Okay. She's a psychic medium when she was alive. She died in 2019. Client friend kind of thing. That's what she looks like. Okay. Big blonde hair. So, this book was in my in my sock drawer or something and I was cleaning up for the move and I didn't even remember where I put it and it kind of fell out of the drawer as I dumped a bunch of clothes on my bed. Oh my god, there's Suzanne's book. that happened about let's say six days ago and I'm like yay because I love this book. I only read it when it was in a manuscript form and uh she asked me for guidance on it and stuff and so I was rereading it in bed and really impressed by her writing and enjoying the narrative. It's a really fun book to read guys. She's a great writer and as I was reading this book and so loving it I think I did a I think I gave her what do you call it a blurb about how great the book was. I don't know if it's in this book or somewhere else. I thought I gave her a blurb like it's a great book. Everyone should read it. But anyway, the bigger story is and it's important is this. I had I had she got in touch me the girl from beyond. She's been in touch with me before and I passed on messages to others for her. So, I was in a foot massage like three days after her book came out of my shelf and I was in the end of a 90minute foot massage or whatever and all of a sudden she salt scrubbed up and she comes blasting in on the list this side of my head and I didn't know I have two dead friends who are blonde but she has the massive hair. So, right now I was looking to say okay and I saw the hair and I'm like that's Suzanne and she had a message for me. She had a few messages for me. Some are personal but but mostly for also somebody else her brother. So, she knows I can get a message to her brother, her younger brother. And so, she shows me an image of a present on her lap or in her hands, a box, like a present, like birthday present with a blue ribbon on top of it and a message of November the 5th to ask him about November the 5th. Is November the 5th a meaningful date? You know, I'm thinking to myself, she's suggesting that there's something about that that has a meaning for the brother perhaps. So, I've logged the date. I've got the image of the present in the hand. and she's also looking out for me. She's been in my dreams and stuff. She's like, you know, on the other side helping me. It's so funny. You're going to love this story. And I and the foot massage was that. And then she showed me the picture of an enk. I thought it was an enk necklace. I used to have one. And she's uh through another synchronicity. And um she's showing me a golden ank. I think, oh, she's I'm going to bump into an enk in a in a in a jewelry store. And she maybe I should wear it because it means eternal life or something. I I wasn't taking it that seriously. And so she said some other things to me, but I I'm trying to remember what they were. The punchline is great. So I asked this person after the massage. I I said, "Does the date November 5th mean anything to you?" And they said, "No, they couldn't think of anything." I'm thinking, "Maybe it's your father's birthday or it's important, this younger brother." And he didn't have a memory of the date. So I let that go and okay, I misfired on that. But then later than that day, he got back in touch right away and showed me a photo of her on taken by him in person and a video footage on November 5th, 201 18. She died in March of 2019. And in the picture, she's sitting there with a box on her lap with a blue ribbon on it. And the ribbon is the Amazon ribbon for a gift box. And it's literally like what I saw. And in she's opened she's going to open the box and in the box is her first order of the books that she wrote the books in the box from Amazon that she wrote and I believe her brother actually got the book for book box for her ahead of her getting the her own copies from Amazon and from the publisher I suppose which is a BBOa press of Hay House. She won second prize in a contest uh and her book won. And so it was really cool because all she wanted him to know that she's still watching out for him because he took that photo on November 5th and you know he wasn't like living with her. It's an important date. He was you know whatever. It's a long story. So there you go. That's my story. Hope that is inspiring to you. But then there's a final bit of the story. The enk, you know. So she she wrote that book. I admire her for getting her book done. And I'm terrible at not getting any damn book done ever. I mean, I've got manuscripts for books, but I've never finished a book completely and pushed it through into the world. Ultimately, I've got like three manuscripts never published. And basically the enk. Okay. So the guy that I'm talking about, the brother was in my apartment here and he looks over on my on my counter and I'm unpacking boxes and stuff and sitting there is Liz Green's uh the astrological Neptune book by Wiser Publishing. Did you know that on the binder of Wiser Publishing is her is their logo or their their symbol and it's an oh you can't make this up. This is the book. Hang on a sec. So then he'd said to me, "Oh my god, there's an enk on your counter." Now he knows about the dream and the enk necklace and his sister with the message. Look, there's the enk. So I thought the second part of the message was for me, Suzanne saying, "Get your freaking act together. Get the book proposal for the astrology book out there so your agent in New York City can get it shot for you." And that's what I got for you. I hope that is a inspiring story about communicating with the dead, which I did full-time in my 30s as a part of my psychic readings business. Don't do it on the regular anymore at all, but every now and then a spirit will come through and give me information. She's a gifted medium in real life. She's really good at pushing through messages for susceptible receptors like me, like a little antennas that I have here. Thanks guys for listening. Like, subscribe, come join me in Skyreader. I'd so love to have you there. It's going to be so much fun. I've even got a Discord group that we're opening up, including the Facebook group for people who are like, "Facebook, I'm not going over there." So, there'll be different groups to socialize with other students and long-term access, evergreen. Don't have to be there. Uh, you know, for all classes, there's replays and all of that. Come learn astrology, be your own astrology, time your best life. We're starting in September. Enrollment doesn't open till January, July 31st on Academia of Mercury. There is a discount code for those of you who got the early bird notice. 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