Mercury Retrograde in Leo: Rewrite Your Radiance (July 18 - August 11, 2025)
Your voice is magic. Your story is starlight. Tell it like you mean it.
☿🦁 Reclaiming the Royal Voice Within
On July 18, 2025, Mercury stations retrograde in the sign of Leo, inviting a cosmic pause on self-expression, storytelling, and bold communication. This isn’t just a mental slowdown - it’s a heart check.
Mercury in Leo is about speaking from the solar plexus, not just the throat.
But in retrograde?
You’re being asked:
Am I truly speaking my truth - or performing someone else’s?
Am I writing from the fire inside - or from fear of being seen?
This retrograde is a golden invitation to revise your voice, rework your message, and reclaim your creative sovereignty.
✧ Themes of This Retrograde
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Rewriting your self-story with heart
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Healing fears around visibility, performance, and confidence
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Reviewing creative projects, especially those involving speaking or writing
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Untangling ego from essence in communication
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Remembering how to play and express for you
Miscommunications may arise - especially around identity, pride, and passion. Instead of forcing clarity, let Mercury show you the deeper layers of what needs rewording… or releasing.
✧ Journaling Reflections
🖋️ Where have I silenced my truth to be liked or accepted?
🖋️ How has my confidence been shaped by past words (mine or others’)?
🖋️ What messages or ideas are ready to be rewritten from love, not ego?
🖋️ What is longing to be said - unapologetically?
✧ Creative Ritual Suggestions
Use this time to revise creative works, revisit old journals, or even re-record messages to yourself.
Try mirror affirmations, solar plexus meditations, or writing letters you'll never send.
✧ Crystals & Support
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Citrine – Radiant confidence & solar empowerment
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Blue Lace Agate – Calms and clears the throat chakra
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Pyrite – Strengthens inner fire and magnetic ideas
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Labradorite – Helps transmute old stories into new magic
✧ Closing Reflection
This Mercury Retrograde doesn’t just pull us backward - it lights the path home to our own voice.
Don’t be afraid to pause, reflect, and roar from within.
Because when your message returns after retrograde…
💫 It’ll be real.
💫 It’ll be radiant.
💫 And it’ll be yours.
✧ Ritual Guide for Mercury Retrograde in Leo
As Mercury stations retrograde in bold, expressive Leo, journeying backwards until August 11. This retrograde invites you to reexamine your communication, creative expression, and how you share your truth with the world.
Where Leo wants to roar confidently, Mercury Retrograde asks: “Is your message aligned with your heart’s authentic fire?”
To navigate this transit with intention, The Astra Sanctuary offers a Mercury Retrograde in Leo Ritual Guide, designed to support reflection, recalibration, and radiant self-expression rooted in truth.
🕯 Find the Mercury Retrograde in Leo Ritual Guide in our shop under Planetary Rituals to journey through this retrograde with clarity, purpose, and unapologetic brilliance.