#321-"Think in Ways You Never Thought Before"-Week of July 14, 2025
Mercury (Storyteller) turns retrograde in Leo (for 3 weeks):
🔮 Alchemical Opportunities:
- This retrograde in heart-centered, expressive Leo asks for a rewiring of self-expression—especially around how you speak from ego versus soul.
- It’s an invitation to revisit your inner scriptwriter: Are you performing or revealing? Are you leading from performance or presence?
- Mercury’s journey back through Leo is a mythic call to recover your original creative fire—the gold of authenticity buried under personas built for approval.
🌟 Invitations:
- Revisit past projects, creative dreams, or bold communications that still hold vitality.
- Track where your voice has been dimmed—by shame, fear of rejection, or performative pressures.
- Reflection: “Where am I being asked to re-ignite my courage to speak and create from truth rather than approval?”
Sun in Cancer Squares Chiron in Aries
🔮 Alchemical Opportunities:
- The Cancer Sun illuminates the wound of over-defensiveness or isolation (Chiron in Aries). There’s a tension between the tender need to belong and the armored stance of fierce independence.
- This is ancestral and inner-child territory: wounds around not feeling safe to need others, or feeling unseen in your vulnerability.
- A sacred clash between the protective shell and the initiatory fire of healing.
🌟 Invitations:
- Notice where you’re either retreating too far into protective patterns or pushing too hard to “go it alone.”
- This is a ripe time for tending to younger parts of you that learned independence as a survival strategy.
- Reflections:
“What part of me longs to feel safe enough to let others in?”
“What am I protecting that is actually ready to be loved into wholeness?”
Mars in Virgo Conjunct the South Node
🔮 Alchemical Opportunities:
- Mars—the planet of will, drive, and instinct—merges with the karmic South Node in meticulous Virgo, illuminating outdated survival strategies of over-efforting, control, or hypercriticism.
- This transit may activate perfectionism as a wound-based response to feeling unworthy or unsafe.
- You're being asked to let go of the illusion that “if I just do it all right, I’ll be okay.”
🌟 Invitations:
- Notice where you are driven by anxiety-masked-as-productivity.
- Practice right action from wholeness, not from wounding.
- Reflections:
“Where am I still caught in the loop of fixing rather than transforming?”
“What old patterns of hyper-vigilance or over-responsibility am I ready to release?”
Podcast poem: "Things to Think" by Robert Bly
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