Retracing Your Steps: July 13-20 2025

Neptune, Saturn and Mercury all Retrograde

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“You’re really just an ongoing set of events: boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, one after the other. The awareness is keeping up with those events, seeing your life unfolding as it is, not your ideas of it, not your pictures of it.” Charlotte Joko

July 13-20 Time-Line

13 Saturn Rx 2 Aries

17 Saturn/Neptune Conjunction 2 Aries

18 Mercury RX 15 Leo

Going Back for a Closer Look

It’s time to take a pause, a deep inbreath. It’s time to stop running towards the next moment and engage with this one.

Like it or not, we are not meant to push forward now, but being driven to turn inward by the flux and churn of 5 planets (!) stationing Retrograde this month: first Neptune on July 4th, Saturn on the 13th, Mercury on the 18^th, Eris on the 22^nd and Chiron on the 30th.

This is not theoretical – if you push blindly ahead, concrete circumstances outside your control will conspire to make you put the brakes on.

The Turning/Returning starts this week with Neptune and Saturn retrograding on the Aries Point and ends in November/ December with both moving forward on the Master degrees of Pisces.

Neptune the Mystic dissolves things in Form and Saturn the Karmic Teacher binds you to practical reality. Wherever 2 Aries-29 degrees Pisces are in your chart, Neptune is collapsing aspects of your life while Saturn acts as your tracker and guide keeping you grounded.

If we are wise, ready or not, all of us will be arcing back over recent personal and collective terrain, re-visiting, releasing, re-storing and re-storying--body, mind and soul.

Be ready for:

a lot of ambiguity/fakery

a lot of Both/And instead of Either/Or

a lot of unanchored loss of illusions

a lot of crises of faith and beliefs

all mixed in with shocks, reversals, insights and epiphanies

Don’t even try to set any hard and fast goals or linear time-lines and re-frame all your agreements, arrangements and previously firm contracts as fluid and re-negotiable.

Practice the art of Wu Wei by dropping the struggle, aligning with the present and accepting the flow and course of nature, of life itself. When you stop making waves and learn to wait and watch, you see outside forces more clearly and make wiser moves. You live in accordance with Reality, with What Is. No Action Doesn’t Mean ‘Nothing’ Happens.

You are not failing - you are re-orienting

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Chandra Symbol Saturn RX ARIES 2: Old stone steps descending into darkness.
“Held back by barriers that are formidable. Up against yourself hard, you are shadowboxing with the lower self. You take a perverse thrill in adopting a stance that is rebellious, angry, and distinctive. Driven by impulse to constellate the archetype of the one in trouble, of the outlaw, of the dark stranger. In love with the idea of being self-consciously different, and running wild with it. Bursts and episodes. This is adolescence in its most naked terms, but very hard to outgrow. The one who will not apologize, who does not change. Convinced that being against is a strong position. A very easy character to project upon, for all of life is sensed as a continuous projection and reality is up for grabs and hard to find.” Inside Degrees Elias Lonsdale