How Leo’s Mercury Retrograde will affect each Rising Sign
😎 Mercury Retrograde in Leo—July 18 – August 11, 2025
Mercury retrograde in Leo—aka that three-week stretch where everyone treats conversation like an acceptance speech, and no amount of music will play them off the stage.
Everything sounds like it belongs on a T-shirt, until someone asks a lone follow-up question and the whole premise falls apart. Plus, thanks to Gemini’s influence, no one is content to let a miscommunication die quietly. You’ll explain it, re-explain it, and accidentally escalate it while trying to clarify. Now you’r defending a comment you don’t remember making, and somehow there’s a metaphor involved.
It’s three weeks of confident delivery, chaotic edits, and absolutely no consensus on what was actually said. Here’s how your rising sign gets dragged into the mess.
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Aries Rising
This retrograde rewrites the part of your life where you’re usually at your most unapologetic: flirting, performing, and making questionable art with too much confidence. What seemed like a brilliant idea last week now reads like a group project where everyone had a different prompt. Gemini’s influence adds a second-guess loop—you’re not just wondering if you came on too strong, you’re also drafting five alternate captions just in case. The point isn’t to stop sharing—it’s to get clearer on what’s worth performing in the first place.
Taurus Rising
Your inner monologue is getting cross-examined. What felt safe to say inside your head now feels vaguely threatening when repeated out loud. This retrograde’s digging through your 4th house, poking at emotional privacy and domestic theatrics, while Gemini whispers, “But what if we unpack that at 2am?” Expect memory leaks, misread tones, and a vague urge to monologue about your childhood to someone who only asked what you’re doing this weekend. The edits aren’t here to shame you. They’re here to remind you your origin story is not a fixed script—and you’re allowed to change your lines.
Gemini Rising
Normally you’re the one who knows how to pivot mid-sentence. But with Mercury retrograding in your 3rd house—and Gemini themes echoing through every conversation—you’re suddenly overexplaining simple things and under-communicating what matters. Your inbox has more re-drafts than replies, and your side comments are getting more attention than your main points. You’re not losing your voice. You’re just learning what happens when you speak before you’ve fully clocked your own motivation. Let the mess happen. The version of you who emerges post-retrograde will be sharper, quieter, and a lot less invested in being understood by everyone.
Cancer Rising
This one’s financial, but not just in a budget-tracking sense. It’s about your time, your effort, and whether you’re actually getting paid in the currency you value most (respect, attention, control of the aux). Mercury’s retrograde in your 2nd house has you circling your self-worth like a suspicious Venmo request, while the Gemini undercurrent adds a pinch of performance to your spending habits. Are you buying it because you want it—or because it looks like the kind of thing someone like you would want? This stretch is about sorting the genuine from the aesthetic, and deciding what’s truly worth your investment.
Leo Rising
This one’s in your house. Mercury is reversing through your 1st, and everything you say, wear, or gesture suddenly feels like it’s part of a campaign you didn’t authorize. The Leo retrograde brings identity drama. The Gemini angle brings 14 voice memos where one would’ve done. It’s less “Who am I?” and more “Why did I say that like I was trying to impress my ex’s therapist?” There’s nothing wrong with reintroducing yourself—but right now, you’re learning to pause between insight and broadcast. Some things don’t need to be announced. They just need to be lived, awkwardly at first.
Virgo Rising
Your 12th house is getting scrambled—so if you feel like your brain is on a 10-second delay while your mouth’s running live, you’re not wrong. Mercury retrograde here tends to fog up your intuition, and Gemini’s involvement means the fog talks back. You’re trying to rest, but your inner narrator keeps running a commentary like, “Interesting that you’d scroll for 45 minutes when you said you needed sleep.” This isn’t punishment. It’s recalibration. You’re not meant to be perfectly reflective. You’re meant to notice what comes up when you stop translating your instincts into other people’s language.
Libra Rising
Retrograding through your 11th, Mercury’s stirring the pot in your social ecosystem—and Gemini’s here to casually stir it twice as fast. You’re rethinking who you trust with your ideas, who actually shows up, and why certain friendships feel more like collaborations with bad project management. Everything you say right now might be read out of context, or reposted with the wrong tone, or just met with blank reactions from people who don’t really get you. It’s not exile. It’s a much-needed unfollow of performative connection. You’re not here to be liked by everyone. You’re here to be understood by the right ones.
Scorpio Rising
Retrograde in your 10th means career stuff gets glitchy—but Gemini’s energy means the glitch feels like a networking event where you suddenly forget what you do. You’re rethinking how you present yourself, what you’re known for, and why someone called you “that intense email person.” You might not be in the mood to sell yourself, and honestly? That’s fair. This retrograde is a chance to refine what you’re aiming for and stop agreeing to roles you’ve outgrown. Your ambition isn’t broken—it’s just smarter now. And maybe less obsessed with titles that never quite fit.
Sagittarius Rising
Your usual belief in bold opinions is undergoing a slight rebrand. Mercury’s in your 9th house, poking at your worldview—and Gemini’s making it fun by giving you five contradictory examples for everything you thought you stood for. It’s not a crisis of faith. It’s a quiet (but funny) reminder that your hot takes aren’t always the whole picture. You’re still allowed to stand for something. You just don’t have to yell it with zero nuance. This is the part of the arc where you learn how to teach without preaching, and edit without deleting.
Capricorn Rising
Mercury retrograde is in your 8th house, the zone of secrets, power exchanges, and shared everything. The Gemini spin? Suddenly you’re talking about something vulnerable, and halfway through you realize you sound like a TED Talk delivered by someone who’s never actually processed the subject. This is where old debts (emotional or literal) come due, and you’re not quite sure what you owe versus what’s just been projected onto you. You don’t have to fix it. You just have to be honest about which contracts you’ve actually agreed to—and which ones you’re done ghost-writing.
Aquarius Rising
Partnerships are weird, aren’t they? Mercury’s retrograding in your 7th, and Gemini is adding the delightful gift of over-analysis to every glance, emoji, and silence. You’re not being petty. You’re just finally noticing how often you fill in the blanks for people who never confirmed what page they were on. Whether it’s a romantic dynamic, a best friend, or a creative collaborator, something here needs revisiting—not to blow it up, but to rewrite the terms without pretending “vibes” are the same thing as communication. Clarity doesn’t kill connection. Confusion does.
Pisces Rising
Mercury is rearranging your routines in real time. The 6th house governs work, health, and what keeps the wheels turning—and Gemini’s energy means you’re taking detours on the way to every simple task. What should’ve been a three-minute errand becomes a 40-minute identity crisis in the vitamin aisle. You’re not disorganized. You’re just finally confronting how often your systems are based on vibes and hope. This retrograde isn’t judging you. It’s offering edits. You’re allowed to rebuild something that looks boring from the outside but quietly makes your life better. Even if no one claps.
