Weekly Reading for July 12 - 19, 2026: Mercury cazimi in Cancer
About this episode
This episode discusses the astrological influences of Mercury retrograde and a new moon in Cancer, encouraging listeners to embrace new beginnings in their emotional lives.
This week asks you to start something new while missing roughly a third of the information, and it is dead serious about both parts. Mercury is retrograde in Cancer, which means the old emotional stories, the ones you've told so many times they calcified into biography, are getting pulled back out of the drawer and re-read with fresh eyes. Some of the details were wrong. Some of the narration was somebody else's voice. And right into the middle of that revision process drops a new moon in the exact same sign, tapping its watch, saying it's time for a fresh start on the very material you're still fact-checking. That's the tension, and honestly, that's the assignment. You are being asked to make a new beginning in your emotional life, in what safety means to you, in how you nurture and get nurtured, without waiting for the fog to burn off first. Cancer would rather not. Cancer is a crab for a reason, hard shell, claws, deeply committed to the familiar. But everything else in the sky this week is conspiring to make the leap feel less like a leap and more like a door that's already open. Uranus spends the week in close conversation with Neptune and Pluto, which is a rare combination…
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