July 2025 Horoscope: Travel Hiccups Might Change Your Plans for the Better
The other big news this month is Saturn and Neptune both stationing retrograde in your seventh house of relationships in the first half of July. So you're starting to see the writing on the wall about a significant other, or maybe the hard thing you're trying to do together is even harder than you anticipated. Maybe it's your current lack of partnership that's causing you to rethink some things about your life. This might be connected to your family or where you live, and the July 10 full moon in Capricorn will probably bring these issues into focus. Whether you're considering where to put down roots or where to visit, it seems like location can really make or break your experience right now.
Scorpio Rising
Things are pretty up in the air this month workwise, so your advice for July is to avoid committing to anything prematurely and to be patient with the process as you gather intel from your beta launch. Saturn and Neptune both station retrograde in your sixth house of work and health in the first half of July, and Mercury will go retrograde in your tenth house of career and status on July 18. There are some top-level logistical bugs to fix—some messaging that needs to be tweaked, or conversations to be revisited with your boss—as well as deeper issues to confront around your current capacity to handle everything that's on your plate. Certain aspects of your job have probably felt harder recently, and maybe your health isn't exactly running smoothly in the background, where you don't have to pay attention to it. Maybe you're struggling to manage more than your own workload because you're understaffed, or you're coming to terms with the fact that something about your project isn't going to work in its current form. Whatever the problem is, now is a really good time to be honest about what moving forward is going to require, to prioritize the needs of your body, and to take it all in stride if your deadlines are getting pushed back.
Your ruling planet, Mars, also spends much of the month approaching a conjunction to the South Node on July 20. This is another sign that you're probably feeling pretty burned out right now, or that you'll have to surrender your plans and your need to have it all micromanaged efficiently. Indeed, wherever you've been going with your team, it seems as though you'll have to spend halftime erasing the whiteboard in the locker room and doing a tactical adjustment. It's entirely possible people won't be in the most peaceful or cooperative mood. If grievances need to be aired, hopefully it'll help everyone let off steam and move forward, but look out for some tempers and general combativeness between July 20 and 23 in particular.
If all of this sounds exhausting, you're probably right! This is the kind of thing that could easily eat up time on your trip as you log on at the hotel room to answer urgent emails, or require that you ask for more help. Fortunately, Saturn's retrograde could be the perfect opportunity to take work off your plate, to have more flexibility around your job, and to walk back any commitments that may have been a bit premature in hindsight. Additionally, Venus and Uranus taking up co-residence in your eighth house could throw some unexpected support or funding your way in July. Take the help where you can get it, remain flexible, and don't mourn the plan that didn't come to pass too much.
Sagittarius Rising
In case no one told you lately, you're allowed to rethink everything. So much of what this current moment amounts to is that you're outgrowing the dream an older version of you had for your own life. You're also getting super honest with yourself about what it's going to take to bring your future into fruition. As Saturn and Neptune both station retrograde in the first half of July, happening in tandem with a Mars-South Node conjunction in your tenth house of career on July 20, you might put one of your more ambitious creative projects on ice for the time being as you run out of steam or reckon with how hard it's actually going to be to accomplish. If you're a parent (or thinking about becoming one), this could just as easily be about realizing that your kids need more attention from you right now, and that probably means something about how much energy you can afford to give to your work right now. The full moon in Capricorn on July 10 brings these things into sharp relief, and it might come with a price tag or a realization around how your financial reality might be affected if you change up the game plan.
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To be clear, 'putting things on ice' doesn't mean 'killing the project entirely.' Maybe you just need more time for things to bake. Mercury will also retrograde through your ninth house of travel, perspective, and knowledge beginning on July 18, so assuming you're not on a very literal journey of taking the scenic route, there's a lot of philosophical ferment happening for you through July and part of August — perhaps because you're rethinking what you believe and know about the world, or because you're literally going back through the notes you took in school. This could also be a meaningful time to go on a trip or visit places you've been before, but don't expect your travels to go entirely as planned. There's a higher-than-average chance of mysteriously vanished reservations, scrambled itineraries, and missed flight connections. But if you can embrace the chaos, there's a good chance you'll end up making meaningful connections along the way.
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