Your Weekly Horoscope for July 20-26, 2025: Bringing Play Back Into Your Days

The week ahead ushers in a new season and a new Moon, inviting us to turn toward the self with vibrancy, creativity,  and devotion. The Sun, the new Moon, and Mercury retrograde all find themselves in the same sign, imbuing the very fabric of this week with the essence of fiery and self-centric Leo. Your weekly horoscope for July 20-26, 2025, explores what this might look and feel like for you.

Weekly Horoscope for July 20-26, 2025 Preview

July 20 | Moon enters Gemini
July 22 | Sun and Moon enter Cancer
July 24 | New Moon in Leo
July 26 | Moon enters Virgo

Sun Enters Leo

On July 22, 2025, the Sun enters the vibrant sign of Leo. In astrology, the Sun rules Leo. As the star transits into its home sign, it becomes more alive. It takes on the fire sign’s boldness, courage, love, and creative self-expression and imbues each of us with these characteristics.

The sign of Leo rules the self. Leo remembers itself as a work of creation unto itself. It is here to express its unique vibe to the world without inhibition and bring its outward expressiveness, sense of belonging, and right to take up space to anything it touches.

Everything that the Sun in Leo symbolizes becomes more readily available. We can receive, embody, and express all the sign’s traits with ease. Self confidence, vitality, creativity, self-authority, playfulness, warmth, generosity, and love are all on offer.

These traits are also influenced by Mercury retrograde, Mercury retrograde channels our outward expression into inner reflection. Whereas the Sun in Leo brings a reclamation of light, Mercury retrograde in Leo draws awareness to anything that holds us back from authentic self-expression, liberating play, and an openness to life and love.

When Mercury turns direct on August 11, 2025, we reclaim the courageous act of being defiantly and outwardly oneself. This time is our opportunity to play, create, love, express, and shine through the end of Leo season on August 22, 2025.

New Moon in Leo

The Moon, also in Leo, aligns with the Sun to start its cycle anew on July 24, 2025. The new Moon in Leo invites us to begin again in the name of self, in the name of authentic expression and the spark of creation moving through us, bringing us to life in the process. It is a new Moon of courage, empowerment, devotion to self, and commitment to our truth.

The new Moon similarly coincides with Mercury retrograde. This brings collaboration and connection with Pluto, ruler of Mercury and god of the underworld. It imbues depth, self-awareness, transformation, and an invitation to confront our own underworld.

As the Moon invites us inward, Pluto compels us to face any fears relating to all things Leo—our radiance, being seen, shining brightly, being accepted, creating authentically, loving and being loved. Yet with the bold courage of Leo, we are able to meet our fears so we can hold them, love them, and choose ourselves anyway.

Weekly Horoscope for July 20-26, 2025

Imbued within the fabric of each moment of this week is the essence of Leo and the chance to revisit the Leo within ourselves. This means turning toward the origins of our self-concept and self-expression and offering ourselves the kind of love and permission to be playful that ripples out into every corner of our lives. It means choosing life, choosing vibrancy, and choosing ourselves. Your weekly horoscope explains how.

Aries Rising

This week initiates a reconnection to your creativity. It invites you to return to your inner child. And it brings you back to play, fun, creativity in all forms, and moments that bring you back to life. Let these moments nourish, revitalize, and inspire you.

Taurus Rising

It’s a week of turning inward toward beauty, inspiration, and other pieces of yourself that are ready to be reclaimed. As you recognize fragments of your light and life force that await in the depths of your body, you rewrite your narrative around belonging and your safety to be yourself.

Gemini Rising

As you write, speak, meditate, and converse, you rely on the medicine and expression of your voice. Use it to speak affirmations out loud and journal about your fears, gratitude, and happinesses. You’re reclaiming your intention, happiness, and power in these spaces. As you do so, you’re healing your mind and your belief in hope and goodness.

Cancer Rising 

Both the Sun and Moon invite you further into yourself this week—into the fears, the hurts, the knowings, the love swirling within your body and your emotions. The medicine on offer is the medicine of self-worth, self-love, the reclaiming of your life force, and the embodiment of your own essence.

Leo Rising

This week is a mirror inviting you to look at the beauty of yourself as if seeing through the eyes of the sacred. How does it feel to truly witness yourself? To acknowledge your light? To bring presence to your hurts? To finally offer yourself the love waiting within your own heart?

Virgo Rising 

It’s a week inviting space from noise, busyness, distractions, escapes, and others. It’s in that space where you may reconnect with self, heart, sacredness, and feeling. Here you can come into communion with reverence, surrender, trust, and the beauty that imbues it all. This week is a breath out. A return to what is real.

Libra Rising

Your weekly horoscope invites a reconnection to self. A reconnection to the radiance, visions, inspirations, and desires within. Here is a release of all the ways the world has taught you to be, act, move, think, and create that were not true to you. A healing of hurts related to fitting in, being seen, and belonging. Who are you?

Scorpio Rising

What does self-authority feel like in your body? How would it feel to claim your space, leadership, and desires for your life? This week desires to take you there. It invites you to stand proud as who you are and where you are. You are the doorway to your visions and desires.

Sagittarius Rising

You are a spark of life, created by creation, imbued with aliveness, wisdom, belonging, and knowing. This week invites you to come home to this. It invites you to clear your mind and return to feeling. To erase all that you have been taught and instead return to your inner knowing.

Capricorn Rising

Your weekly horoscope invites you into your underworld, shadows, hurts, and fears. And it invites you to open your heart to all of it. Intimacy with all of your layers and each vulnerability within your shadows is your pathway to empowerment, self-reclamation, happiness, and the alive expression of your truth.

Aquarius Rising 

This week invites you to come into your heart. Observe the layers you’ve created around it, the experiences that closed it, the fears that cause it to remain hidden. Offer it all the very love that wants to flow through it so that it can begin to open, heal, and love once again.

Pisces Rising

This week invites more joy, play, and creativity in your days. How and where can you bring more light into your everyday rhythm? More inspiration into your routines? More life into your moment-to-moment experience of life? Imbue yourself with play and let your inner child redesign the structures of your days.

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