The second Mercury retrograde phase of 2025 lasts from July 18 to August 11 in the Sign of Leo.
Mercury retrograde often causes problems with thinking and communication, and negatively impacts relationships and travel. The astrology of this July 2025 Mercury retrograde phase is more harmonious and less problematic than usual. It promotes love, cooperation, intuition and creative inspiration.
Mercury Retrograde Meaning
Mercury retrograde is generally challenging, affecting your thinking and communication. The most common effects include confusion, anxiety, disagreement, technology breakdowns, bad news, travel delays and lost items.
Business negotiations may be in flux. Some crucial details may not be available yet, and others may be unreliable or inaccurate.
However, you may experience déjà vu, reminisce about happy times, unexpectedly meet up with an old friend or lover, or recover suppressed memories or skills from your childhood or past lives.
The most critical point in the Mercury retrograde cycle is when Mercury stations retrograde. The few days around the exact retrograde and direct stations are the riskiest for decision-making, negotiations, communication, and transport. For more information, see Mercury Retrograde Natal and Transit.
Mercury Retrograde July 2025
Mercury stations retrograde on July 18, 2025, at 15°34′ Leo. It makes the harmonious sextile aspect to Venus. The only other aspect it makes during the retrograde phase is a Sun conjunct Mercury at 09°00′ Leo on July 31. Mercury stations direct on August 11, 2025, at 04°14′ Leo, in sextile to Mars. [see chart]
Mercury Retrograde July 2025
Mercury sextile Venus is a friendly and harmonious influence that helps you relax and socialize. It significantly reduces the risk of challenging retrograde symptoms, such as anxiety, confusion, bad news, and disagreements. Enhanced communication skills, social tact, diplomacy, and charm enable you to negotiate, cooperate, and compromise to resolve conflicts, bring people together, and break down barriers to progress.
You can express love and affection more easily. Current relationship problems can be discussed with understanding and forgiveness as you recall what brought you together. You may encounter a former partner or romantic interest from a past life.
The positive influence of Venus reduces the risk of doing business during Mercury Retrograde in July 2025. It is also ideal for creative work, such as writing, drawing, painting, and reading, as well as composing music, playing musical instruments, writing poetry, and singing. You can remember and further develop childhood or past life creative talents.
Fixed Star Dubhe
Mercury Retrograde July 2025
Mercury retrograde at 15♌34 aligns with fixed star Dubhe at 15♌32. It’s Mars-Venus nature gives strong passions, artistic feelings, friendship, romance, and honor and preferment in martial affairs.
With a well-aspected Mercury, it gives confidence, ambition, determination, a sense of adventure, organizing ability, patience, idealism, preferment in legal and writing matters, and gain through intuition or psychic ability.
Mercury Retrograde 2025 Summary
Positive influences from the Venus aspect and the Mars-Venus star make this July 2025 Mercury retrograde phase more harmonious and less challenging than usual. It is ideal for finding love, reinvigorating current relationships and resolving disagreements and conflicts. It is especially good for rediscovering your intuitive gifts and unleashing your creative potential.
Mercury Retrograde July 2025 Times
- Los Angeles – July 17, 9:45 9m
- New York – July 18, 0:45 am
- London – July 18, 5:45 am
- Delhi – July 18, 10:15 am
- Sydney – July 18, 2:45 pm
Mercury Retrograde 2025 Dates
- March 15 to April 7, 2025 – 09♈35 to 26♓49
- July 18 to August 11, 2025 – 15♌34 to 04♌14
- November 9 to 29, 2025 – 06♐51 to 20♏42
Hello Professor Jamie, you are always the best.
If you don’t mind, I would like to ask you about the activation of the solar perihelion degree of Comet Tsuchinshan-Atlas, which reached its solar perihelion late last September at 16 degrees Virgo (tropical). I read your wonderful article about comets—it was very helpful.
Now, Mars is transiting over the perihelion point of Comet Tsuchinshan-Atlas. This comet was classified as a great comet and was first observed at the beginning of 2023.
Do you think the message of Comet Tsuchinshan-Atlas is still active? Or does it end with the arrival of the new comet Lemmon, which has a solar perihelion coming up in November? This is a retrograde comet, unlike other comets, starting at the closest point to Earth before reaching its solar perihelion, which is quite exceptional.
Do you believe we are still undergoing deep and significant global transformations?
Ugh, sounds like a bot.
Ho do you tell. Is is like AI?
Comet Tsuchinshan-Atlas did show up at astrologyking, but to find it, I don’t have the looting tools of the DOD or one of Musks’ companies. But you notice how Grok tribute mentioned at Sun-Mercury, after a post how my car battery died? And we have recent news DOD using Grok Chat AI, so why wouldn’t they honour where the inspiration occurred? Or I’m certified nuts now?
Elon Musk natal chart with 1 August 2025 transits
https://postimg.cc/0b3ZzLfp
Uranus transits his Saturn,
“This transit can signal game-changing opportunities. Pay attention to emerging technologies, shifting industries, or groundbreaking ideas that could transform your career or business. With rapid advancements in areas like AI, automation, or digital platforms, you might discover new ways to work, grow, or even reinvent your professional path.”
https://hniizato.com/uranus-transits-navigating-unexpected-changes/
It’s like the same-old, same-old. Stalwarts at astrologyking, like Musk, DOD, the Presidents administration, and many others, back to where they can see work get done, or at least started.
🤣🤣🤣. It happens. Ain’t quite right is it?
I do have to admit mid Virgo comet did stick in my brain. Mars is there now.?
Harold Innis ‘Staples Theory’ Mercury retrograde, natal 5 November 1894.
Synastry with July 31, Mercury inferior conjunction Sun https://postimg.cc/ftGkD0y6
I’ve mentioned this person a few times, and often bring Thorstein Veblen along, the two have similar Node placements, and their academia counterpoints the USA-Canada trade relationship.
During the next few months Saturn-Neptune retrograde these two peoples Nodes.
Incidentally, a few years ago, the American retailer ‘Staples’ made a deal with the Ontario provincial government to lease space, which one can reasonably conclude inspired by astrology of the day. The brand Staples thrown into question and resolved?
Thorstein Veblen ‘Conspicuous Consumption and Leisure’, natal 31 July 1857.
Synastry with 31 July 2025 Mercury inferior conjunction Sun, https://postimg.cc/Js9X9JGv
Solar Return for Veblen, and someone in the Presidents administration may have slipped in 1 August tariff deadline to try and say something?
Hi Jamie
Astute analysis as always. Thanks. But please could you amend the ingress times. They’re still showing March. Thanks.
Thank you Caroline. Foregtful or lazy, something to do with Mercury opposite Saturn.
Jerome Powell, Federal Reserve Bank chairman, first oath of office, 5 February 2018, his firing this week, or not, seems a bit contrived?
https://postimg.cc/648K1vXq
Next day Tesla Roadster and mannequin sent into space.
Around that time after WEF Davos in ugly, a publicity stunt or two to keep compromised politicians on the straight and narrow? And who didn’t want to be that mannequin? I know I was.
Elon has already Saturn and Neptune squaring
his sun with a wide orbit. He has also Saturn-Neptune Opposition in his birth chart. Dissolving boundaries, rules and regulations. Good for space travel. Sun square Uranus and Mars
in aquarius is same direction.
But one question: Is the human being made for that ?
Cuz it is not a life friendly environment there. The technological and financial demands are enormous.
But cuz of the expansive character of humanity it will go that way though if there wasn’t ww3 i would be more optimistic and willing to sustain a reasonable development for humanity in the so called age of aquarius, Paul.
In general i am not evil spirited and i am not against womans and lgbt rights, Vic.
But i don’t want masonic world government and also preserve the souvereignity of the different nations. I know that means saturnian seperation otherwise it is a protection for an uncontrollable orwellian world government ruled by banking and it oligarchs.
You always have to balance jupiter-uranus needs for unification, equalisation and challanging boundaries against saturnian caution.
Saturn is not only the enemy as it is popular with uranian people as musk but also a guardian and protector of life. To be careful bout what the consequences of our deeds and behaviour are and take responsibility. But that is not meant in a conventional moral sense of society. But as a protection for yrself and others. Taking too much risk can be devastating. Also possible karmic implications if we believe in…. We should not forget that !
Not a life friendly environment there cracked me up.
The creative inspiration is there. Now, if the drive to execute doesn’t kill me. Must execute. Must execute. It’s driving me. Completion seems the only relief.
Well, this whole thing rounded out nicely. Convo with artist friend about the joy of creating. So I need to chill and relax into the process. I guess I went into overdrive.
Tesla Diner opens 21 July, 4:20pm Hollywood, CA
https://postimg.cc/4mxs5Prc
Mercury rx transit Musk South Node
Denebola at Tesla Diner mid heaven, with Mars and Ketu.
https://astrologyking.com/denebola-star/
‘Meme’ comment Grok AI?
https://postimg.cc/gXwg5tLB
Synastry showing launch of Roadster/Starman vs launch of Tesla Diner.
Mars in prominent placements angular. Post Solar eclipse points on long period transits in North American. Jupiter in an a yod apex 12th house, maybe think twice or thrice running out without paying your bill, or putting in a bad review to blackmail a free meal. Would you try it in Greece? Maybe the managing staff comes from there.
The famous painting by Hopper, depicting a Diner scene, 21 January 1942, time set for 9pm, Manhatten, NY. Denebola rising.
https://postimg.cc/K17DJgjg
Perhaps what’s most interesting with this chart is Sun-Pluto inverted
Midnight 27 July Nighthawk-Tesla diner synastry, Sun-Pluto conjunct and opposition.
https://postimg.cc/WhqTrkjG
Will you be there to trade your art for meal and housing credits? Bring your portfolio, sing and dance? Recite your favourite poetry? Will Elon Musk begin another new business?
https://postimg.cc/R39L2cbB
caution, if you have a Street Roses disposition, and Saturn Return, the transit Sun looks good but maybe not the Moon (could over analyze). But for some it’s a risk worth taking, like your step-out weekend. MercuryRx opposite Roses Venus and Comet.