horoscope-2025-07-23

Just as Mercury is settling into his first week in retrograde motion in your romantic sector, the Sun returns. This is the point in each year when the solar spotlight will not only shift onto matters of the heart and all things romantic, but onto the road ahead. This time, the Sun not only returns to find the doors open to the past, but with a lot of history and anything but a cold start.

Just 63 minutes before the Sun leaves your communication sector, the Moon has returned to keep the momentum going. While their paths will barely cross, this is enough to ensure there is no drop off, but also to help with the transition to what is a more long term approach to keeping the communication lines open. At the same time, just days after potentially pushing some buttons on the relationship front over the weekend, the Moon returns to give anything this might have flushed out a voice.

Just as Mercury, the planet of communication is settling into his first week in retrograde motion in your communication sector, the Sun returns. This is the point in the year when the solar spotlight will always shift onto your communications, but while Mercury is focused on giving the past and unsaid words a voice, the Sun can ensure you don’t lose sight of where you are going. After the Moon’s alignment with Venus in Gemini yesterday, heart and gut are already on the same page.

As your birthday month comes to an end and as you look to the future, the outlook on the romantic and relationship fronts looks different from most years. For the first time in 16 years, there is no planetary activity or ongoing focus on your relationships and instead, this has been replaced by a focus on matters of the heart and all things romantic that is rare for this time of year but bodes well for the future.

As you move into your birthday month and new solar year, it will be clear from the start that this will be a big year on the relationship front. While the Sun returned to Leo last year to find Pluto in your relationship sector, he left shortly after but he is not only back, but here until 2044. You also have Mercury, the planet of communication in Leo from the start and with he and Pluto both in retrograde motion, with the job of giving your relationships, the past and unsaid words a voice already underway.

After the Moon’s clash with the asteroid Juno in your communication sector over the weekend and Mars’ passage across the lunar nodes having put some scrutiny on a balance between your own and your relationship needs since then, today’s shift will come as a welcome relief. Forces on the communication and relationship fronts that might have come under pressure instead now getting the kind of support that can kickstart the communication lines on the relationship front.

As the dwarf planet Eris settles into her first full day in retrograde motion in your relationship sector she is in good company. For over nine decades, the warrior princess of the cosmos has spent the second half of each year in retrograde motion, but this time to find the doors already open to the past. This also includes having Mercury, the planet of communication in retrograde motion and already working with the planets in your relationship sector to give the past and unsaid words a voice.

The Moon’s return to an adventurous part of your chart just as the Sun is about to leave will not only keep the spirit of adventure alive, but maintain a link to the North Node on the romantic front. With Venus, the planet of love returning next week, this will ensure that when she returns to begin her annual mission to bring the spirit of romance and adventure together, it will be anything but a cold start.

When the Moon leaves your relationship sector, this will always leave you more emotionally engaged and aware, but on the other side of its alignment with Venus, the planet of love here yesterday, with a clearer sense of what your heart is telling you. While the Moon will continue to return with a chance to check every four weeks, for the only time this year while Venus is here, giving your heart a voice.

Just before the Sun leaves your relationship sector today, something that at this time each year will always take the solar spotlight off your relationships, the Moon returns. While their paths will barely cross, this is in time to ensure you are emotionally engaged and aware as the focus shifts from the Sun’s short term reality checks to the journey ahead.

Mercury, the planet of communication is still settling into his first week in your relationship sector when the Sun returns. This is the point in each year when the solar spotlight will always shift onto your relationships, but while Mercury’s focus is on the past, with a chance to ensure you don’t lose sight of where you are going. Meanwhile, while the Moon has moved on from its alignment with Venus, the planet of love in your romantic sector, the impact from these romantically charged lunar vibes will linger.

Just before the Sun leaves your romantic sector, something that at this point each year will always take the solar spotlight off your relationships, the Moon returns to keep the momentum going. While with Jupiter still in the early weeks of a 12 month visit and Venus, the planet of love returning next week there is no danger of the spirit of romance going off the boil, these romantically charged lunar vibes are an additional guarantee.