July 28- August 4, 2025

🌙 Moon Phase & Highlights

July 28–31: Waxing Crescent, growing from ~27% to ~55% illumination.

August 1: First Quarter Moon — great for lunar detail in binoculars and scopes.

August 4: Waxing Gibbous (~79%) — bright and bold in the evening sky.

🔭 Binocular/Telescope Highlights:

Monday July 28: Moon near Mars in Virgo — visible together in binoculars.

August 1–4: The Moon climbs higher each night, offering crisp views of craters and shadows along the terminator

🪐 Planetary Activity

🌟 Naked Eye:

Dusk: Mars sits low in the west after sunset (near the Moon on July 28)

Midnight: Saturn rises around midnight and is visible in the southeast through the night.

Dawn: Jupiter emerges in the east pre-dawn (paired with the Moon on August 4!). Venus is brilliant in the morning sky (near Jupiter and the Moon on August 4!)

🔭 Binocular/Telescope:

Saturn & Neptune: Still within ~1° of each other — rare pairing visible in low-power scopes.

Uranus: Near Venus in Taurus — binoculars or small scopes will reveal its pale blue disk.

Pluto: At opposition on July 25 — best chance to spot it with large scopes (mag 15.1)

🌠 Deep Sky & Meteor Showers

✨ Meteor Showers:

Piscis Austrinids: Peak July 28 — ~5 meteors/hour, best after midnight.

Southern Delta Aquariids: Peak July 30 — ~25 meteors/hour, radiant in Aquarius.

Alpha Capricornids: Also peaking July 30 — slower, brighter meteors.

🔭 Deep Sky Targets:

- Messier 22 (Sagittarius): Bright globular cluster, visible in binoculars.

- Messier 8 – Lagoon Nebula: Stunning in wide-field scopes.

- Messier 16 – Eagle Nebula: Home of the Pillars of Creation — best in astrophotography setups.

🧭 Celestial Pairings & Occultations

July 28: Moon and Mars close approach (~1° separation) — lovely in binoculars.

August 4: Moon, Venus, and Jupiter form a triangle in the morning sky — a visual treat.

✨Monday July 28✨

💗🩹The Venusian Cure

12:55pm ✨ Venus in Gemini forms a sextile to Chiron in Aries, opening a gentle portal for emotional healing and relational insight.

💞 Themes

• Healing through connection: This aspect softens defenses and invites vulnerability, especially in relationships. It’s a beautiful time to acknowledge emotional wounds without judgment.

• Self-worth recalibration: Venus governs value and beauty, and Chiron in Aries touches on identity wounds. Together, they support a more compassionate view of oneself.

• Creative and aesthetic therapy: Artistic expression—especially tactile or visual mediums—can be deeply therapeutic under this transit.

✨Tuesday July 29✨

✨ Luna’s Tuesday

🧘 Morning Shift — Goodbye Virgo, Hello Libra

Luna closes the chapter on critical routines and self-improvement. The to-do lists and gut cleanses are behind her now. She steps into Libra’s velvet workspace—where beauty breathes and dialogue matters.

⚡️ Midmorning Jolt — Uranus Trine

Her eccentric tech assistant bursts in with a triple shot of espresso. He recalibrates her emotional hard drive—and her actual one, too.
Suddenly, Luna snaps from foggy to fired up. Creative tabs start syncing like magic.
Her indecision now feels like innovation.

📋 Unexpected Drop-In — Saturn Opposition

Just as she finds her groove, her hard-nosed supervisor walks in. Clipboard full of deadlines, critiques, and expectations in hand.
Luna shrinks, second-guesses, and quietly wonders: Is beauty enough in this room?
She straightens her posture and tucks away her sparkle.

🌫️ Fog Rolls In — Neptune Opposition

The critique lingers, then blurs.
She replays it over and over. Was he right? Am I even good enough for this job?
The spiral begins. One moment she's questioning her work—then her worth.
Where does she end and the next person begin? Her identity, her value, her purpose—suddenly feel fluid, shapeless, suspended in mist.
She tries to focus, but everything feels submerged.

🎶 Clarity Breaks Through — Sextile Sun & Mercury

And then—music.
She wasn't listening, but one lyric cuts through the fog:
"You're not lost, just between chapters."
Sunlight warms her desk. Her inner narrator clicks into place.
Emotional software: updated.
Graceful. Clear. She’s back.
She didn’t chase truth. It found her—in melody.

🎉 The Grand Finale — Jupiter Square

Just before clock-out, the overzealous intern storms in with cupcakes, massive ideas, and zero awareness of emotional bandwidth.
It’s sweet. It’s overwhelming. It’s a lot.
She smiles, accepts a cupcake, and gently slides the vision board into tomorrow’s pile.

🕊️ Closing Vibe

Luna leaves her office clearer, slightly caffeinated, and just balanced enough.
She didn’t conquer the day.
She composed it—with pauses, crescendos, and grace between the noise.

✨Wednesday July 30✨

Invisible Wounds Need Tending, Too

10:42am ✨Chiron stations RX at 27 degrees Aries, asking us to turn inward and tend to old wounds around self-worth, confidence, and the right to be seen.

• We revisit stories we’ve outgrown — ones that told us we had to earn our place.

• Healing shifts from seeking outside validation to strengthening inner truth.

• Unresolved tension may surface — not to overwhelm, but to be released.

• Creative or somatic rituals help now — painting, movement, reflection.

• We're reminded: courage isn’t loud. Sometimes, it’s just choosing to show up.

This retrograde runs through January 2 — a long invitation to deepen, soften, and integrate.

11:57pm ✨ Venus enters Cancer, the sign she will be swimming through until August 25. That’s nearly four weeks of Venus in nostalgic, emotionally attuned, “I made you a playlist and folded your hoodie because I care”, archetypal mother mode- so expect the collective mood to shift toward comfort, care, and a craving for connection that feels like home. Venus in Cancer doesn’t flirt—it nurtures, remembers your coffee order, and texts “just checking in” with alarming sincerity. Don’t be surprised if…

- Love gets personal: We crave emotional safety over surface-level spark. Relationships deepen or dissolve based on how seen we feel.

- Aesthetic shifts: Cozy, nostalgic, and tactile vibes take over. Think velvet, handwritten notes, and vintage dishware.

- Values rewire: We start prioritizing kindness, care, and connection. Emotional reciprocity becomes non-negotiable.

- Collective mood swings: Everyone’s a little more sensitive, a little more sentimental, and a lot more likely to cry while making soup.

✨Thursday July 31✨

✨ Cazimi Moment ✨

7:41pm ✨ Mercury RX in Leo conjunct Sun

Today, Mercury is Cazimi—sitting in the very heart of the Sun—and it’s like Mercury finally catches a glimpse of some clarity.

🔮 Why It Matters

Mercury retrograde in Leo has probably been stirring up ideas you didn’t even realize were bubbling beneath the surface. Miscommunications, tech mishaps, lingering thoughts… all classic Mercury Rx fare. But today? The fog lifts.

🌞 Cazimi = Cosmic Clarity

When Mercury is Cazimi, it’s infused with solar insight. The static quiets. You can see what needs doing—and more importantly, feel what needs expression.

📝 Today’s the Day to...

• Send that bold message

• Start that passion project

• Make that decision that’s been dancing around your intuition

• Do the Mercury thing you didn’t know you needed to do until Mercury went RX

If Leo rules your chart's voice, creativity, or courage zones… amplify that. Speak with flair. Write with heart. Decide with confidence.

✨Friday August 1✨

🌾The Soft-Launch of Harvest Season

🌾 Lammas, also known as Lughnasadh (LOO-nuh-suh or LOO-na-sa), marks the first harvest and the moment the sun begins its slow descent toward autumn. (Think: wheat fields, blushing apples, and the magic of reaping what’s been sown).

Rooted in Pagan and Celtic traditions, Lammas lands around August 1st and joins Imbolc, Beltane, and Samhain as one of the year’s sacred cross-quarter days—seasonal thresholds where light shifts and myth deepens. At its heart, Lammas honors the cycle of life, death, and rebirth: the sun god Lugh giving his strength to the fields, even as the light begins to wane.

Know Thyself: Liminality

• When you are neither who you were nor who you will become… who speaks within you?

• Where in your life is something quietly dissolving to make room for something unnamed?

• What symbols, dreams, or memories tend to emerge when you're hovering between decisions?

• When you cross inner thresholds, what rituals (if any) help you feel witnessed?

💔🌊 Venus in the Crossfire: Saturn vs. Neptune
Love, beauty, art, and money—Venus is caught in a square-off between two titans. Saturn, the elder and karmic gatekeeper, demands structure, accountability, and earned worth. Neptune, the sea god of dreams and illusions, dissolves boundaries and whispers sweet delusions.

This transit feels like a cosmic reckoning: where our hearts, wallets, and ideals meet the hard edge of reality. What we’ve romanticized may fray. What we’ve avoided may surface. And what we truly value? That’s what’s being tested.

Before diving into Adam Elenbaas’s brilliant breakdown in Venus Feeling the Heat from Squares to Saturn and Neptune ..., take a breath. This one’s not just about astrology—it’s about emotional truth, aesthetic integrity, and the stories we tell ourselves to stay safe.

✨Saturday August 2✨

The Push

🌙🔥 Moon sextile Mars is like emotional instinct meeting courageous action—and they actually get along. This transit brings a subtle but powerful boost to confidence, motivation, and emotional clarity. You might feel more willing to act on what you feel, rather than second-guessing or suppressing it.

Here’s what’s in play:

• Emotional courage: You’re more likely to speak up, take initiative, or defend what matters to you—without feeling reckless.

• Productive passion: Great for channeling energy into creative projects, physical movement, or heartfelt conversations.

• Smooth assertiveness: Mars gives you backbone, but the Moon softens the delivery. You can be bold and kind.

• Relationship spark: This can stir desire and deepen emotional bonds, especially if you’re working toward something together.

It’s a great time to act on instinct, especially if you’ve been sitting on a decision or craving momentum.

✨Sunday August 3✨

☀️ Luna’s Sunday

🌅 Chasing Vibes 🌙 Moon in Sagittarius

Luna’s up early with wanderlust in her heart—craving truth, freedom, and a little mischief. Her emotions stretch wide, hungry for movement and meaning.

🌙 Morning: Moon opposite Uranus

Luna’s just stepped out with her journal and iced oat latte when a streak of chaos-on-wheels skates past.

Enter Juno Blitz—aka The Curvebreaker.
She’s got earbuds in, but somehow hears Luna’s indecisive sigh.

“You dreaming or delaying, babe? Is that dream even yours?”

She flips Luna’s journal open mid-roll, tears out a page, and hands her a sticker that says EXPAND NOW.
Then she’s gone.

Luna blinks. Her thoughts are loud now. Directionless, but awake.

🌿 Midday: Trine Saturn & Neptune

Luna ducks into the community garden, still reeling from Juno’s blitz. Her thoughts feel loud—half-formed, looping. The scent of rosemary and wet clay slows her step.

Two figures stand among the trellised beans and sunflower stalks.

Solomon Reed is pruning the lower vines of a tomato plant with quiet precision. His boots are dusty. His hands move like he’s listening to the soil.

Lyra Wyn is kneeling by a patch of moonflowers, sketching their petals into a notebook that looks older than the stars.

They don’t speak at first. It’s the garden that greets her—roots beneath, bloom above.

Solomon finally looks up, offering her a sage sprig and a truth:

“You can’t force a plant to bloom. You give it soil, shade, and time—and let it choose its moment.”

Lyra smiles without looking up.

“Some days are for blooming. Some are for rooting deeper.”

Luna tucks the sprig behind her ear. Her shoulders soften. She doesn’t need a five-step plan. She needs compost and patience.

She watches a beetle navigate a leaf. Breathes. And for the first time that day, her thoughts don’t demand answers. They stretch. They root.

🔥 Late Afternoon: Sextile Pluto

Wandering into a bookshop, Luna sees a man shelving a volume titled What You’ve Been Avoiding.

He doesn’t look up, just murmurs:

“Some truths don’t shout. They wait.”

Luna lingers by the biography section. Leaves with a title she hadn’t dared touch before.

🗣️ Evening: Sextile Mercury

Luna’s typing now. Flow state.

Sentences glide. The post she was avoiding writes itself.
A message she wasn’t ready to send becomes a poem.
She hums as she edits.

Flow found her—and she’s letting it speak.