We have a New Moon in Cancer on July 14, 2026. Here is what to expect according to your rising sign! I am using whole sign. These are general messages. For a personal reading, you can book one here!
ARIES RISING
Family Conversations Revisited
With Mercury retrograde conjunct this New Moon in your 4th house, old family discussions are resurfacing. Maybe there’s a conversation you never finished with a parent or sibling, or maybe something was said years ago that still sits heavy in your chest! This lunation is creating space for those dialogues to reopen. You might hear from relatives you haven’t spoken to in a while. You might find yourself wanting to address dynamics that have always bothered you but felt too complicated to touch. The retrograde energy means this isn’t about charging forward with new declarations, it’s about revisiting what was left incomplete. Some of you may be reconsidering how you communicate within your family unit altogether. Do you actually say what you mean? Do you feel heard? These questions are up for examination now.
Reassessing Your Living Situation
Your physical home environment is under the spotlight! This could manifest in very literal ways. Maybe you’re thinking about moving but now reconsidering whether that’s the right call, or maybe you moved recently and you’re questioning if it was the best decision. Mercury retrograde in this house often brings delays or complications around housing matters, so if you’re in the middle of signing leases or closing on property, expect some bumps and be extra thorough with paperwork! On a deeper level, this is about whether your home actually feels like a sanctuary. Does your space support the person you’re becoming? Does it reflect your true self or some outdated version of who you used to be? This New Moon wants you to plant seeds for a living situation that genuinely nurtures you, even if actualizing that takes time.
Healing Your Relationship with Your Mother or Primary Caregiver
The 4th house is strongly associated with the mother or whoever played that nurturing role in your early life. For Aries rising especially, there can be complexity here because your natural energy is so independent and fiery, while the 4th house asks you to acknowledge your need for care and emotional support. Old wounds related to your mother or maternal figures may surface now. This isn’t about blame or rehashing drama. It’s about understanding how that primary relationship shaped your emotional patterns. How do you nurture yourself? How do you receive nurturing from others? The patterns often trace back to this original bond. Some of you may have actual conversations or reconnections with your mother during this time. Others will be doing this work internally, processing memories and updating old narratives.
Examining Your Emotional Security Needs
This New Moon is asking you to get honest about your emotional security needs. What do you actually require to feel safe and stable? Not what you think you should need. Not what looks independent enough. What genuinely grounds you?! Maybe you need more consistency than you’ve been admitting. Maybe you need physical touch or verbal reassurance more than your fiery exterior lets on. This lunation is an invitation to honor those needs without judgment!
Releasing Inherited Emotional Patterns
The deepest work available to you right now involves recognizing which emotional patterns aren’t originally yours! We inherit so much from our families. Ways of coping, ways of expressing or suppressing feelings, and beliefs about what’s safe and what’s dangerous. The 4th house holds this ancestral emotional material. Mercury retrograde here is like an archaeological dig into your psychological foundation! You might notice yourself reacting to something and suddenly realize you’re echoing your parent’s behavior. You might catch a belief about yourself or the world and trace it back to something you absorbed as a child. This awareness is the first step toward breaking cycles! You get to decide which inherited patterns serve you and which ones you’re ready to release. This New Moon supports planting intentions around becoming more conscious of your conditioning and choosing your responses rather than running on family autopilot.
TAURUS RISING
Revisiting Important Conversations
There are words that need to be spoken, perhaps respoken, or maybe finally spoken after being held back for too long! Mercury retrograde in your communication house is bringing old dialogues back around. You might reconnect with someone you lost touch with. You might finally say something you’ve been holding onto. You might receive a message that changes your perspective on a past situation. For some of you, this is about clearing up misunderstandings. Things that were miscommunicated before have a chance to be clarified now. For others, it’s about completing conversations that ended abruptly or without real resolution. Pay attention to who shows up and what topics resurface! There’s unfinished business here that wants closure or continuation.
Changing How You Process and Express Emotions
The 3rd house is about the mind, but this is a Cancer New Moon. Watery, emotional, intuitive Cancer. So we’re not just talking about logical thinking here. We’re talking about how you mentally process your feelings! How you talk about emotional matters. How you think about your inner life. This lunation is offering an upgrade to your emotional vocabulary. You might find new ways to articulate what’s in your heart. You might finally understand something about yourself that you couldn’t put into words before. Journaling is especially powerful for you right now! Write down what you’re feeling without editing. Let the words come messily. You’re building a bridge between your emotional body and your thinking mind.
Reconnecting with Siblings or Childhood Friends
If you have siblings, expect them to feature prominently during this time! Old dynamics may resurface. Conversations that need to happen might finally occur. For some of you, this could be healing and reconnective. For others, it might bring up unresolved tensions that need addressing. Mercury retrograde often brings people from the past back around, and in the 3rd house, that frequently means siblings or people you grew up around like childhood friends, neighbors from your old neighborhood, or people who knew you when you were young. These reconnections are offering you something. Maybe a new perspective on your shared history, maybe closure, or maybe just the sweetness of remembering who you were before adult life complicated everything!
Slowing Down Your Mental Pace
Taurus energy already prefers a slower pace, but Mercury retrograde is really emphasizing this in your mental processes right now! Your thoughts might feel sluggish or circular. You might struggle to make quick decisions or articulate things on the spot. This is your mind asking for rest. For marinating in ideas rather than rushing to conclusions. This is actually a gift! Some of your best insights will come through slow thinking right now. Don’t pressure yourself to have immediate answers. The retrograde period is for review and reflection, not launching new mental initiatives. Trust that the clarity will come in its own time!
Examining Your Daily Routines and Local Environment
The 3rd house also governs your immediate surroundings and daily routines. The short trips you take, the neighborhood you live in, and the everyday patterns of your life. This New Moon is asking whether these daily elements are emotionally nourishing. Does your commute drain you or do you find moments of peace in it? Do you feel connected to your local community? Are your daily routines supportive of your emotional wellbeing or are they running on outdated autopilot? Small changes to your everyday environment can have big impacts on your emotional state. Maybe you need a new route to work. Maybe you need to explore your neighborhood with fresh eyes! Maybe your morning routine needs an adjustment that honors your need for gentleness. The seeds you plant now around daily life will bloom into greater everyday contentment.
GEMINI RISING
Reevaluating Your Relationship with Money
Let’s start with the obvious. Money matters are getting a retrograde review! This might mean looking at your spending patterns with new eyes. Where has your money been going? Does your financial behavior align with what you actually value? You might be revisiting old financial decisions. Maybe an investment or purchase from the past is coming back into focus. Maybe you’re seeing the results of financial choices you made months ago. This isn’t necessarily the time to make major new financial commitments. Mercury retrograde in the 2nd house favors reviewing and revising your financial approach rather than launching bold new money moves. Budget reviews, reassessing subscriptions you forgot about, and checking in on savings goals is the energy. Make sure any financial paperwork is handled carefully because errors are more likely during retrogrades.
Questioning What You Truly Value
Beyond money, the 2nd house holds your values. What matters to you, what you prioritize, and what you’d protect if everything else was stripped away. This Cancer New Moon is making this deeply emotional! Does your life actually reflect what you say matters to you? Or have you been living according to values that aren’t really yours? Sometimes we inherit values from family or absorb them from culture without examining whether they fit. Mercury retrograde here is asking you to trace your values back to their source. Are they yours? Do they still serve you? The discomfort some of you may feel right now comes from a gap between your stated values and your actual behavior. This New Moon offers a chance to close that gap!
Healing Your Sense of Self-Worth
The 2nd house is also about self-worth. What you believe you deserve and how you value yourself. And for Gemini rising, with Mercury as your chart ruler retrograding through this house, your core sense of personal value is undergoing serious reflection. Old wounds around worthiness may surface, like times you felt undervalued. Moments when you accepted less than you deserved. Patterns of underselling yourself or settling for crumbs when you deserved the whole meal! This isn’t about wallowing in those memories. It’s about recognizing them so you can update your self-worth programming! You are allowed to value yourself highly. You are allowed to expect adequate compensation, whether in money, respect, or love. This New Moon supports planting seeds for a healthier relationship with your own worth.
Reassessing Your Personal Resources and Talents
What do you have? Not just materially, but in terms of skills, talents, and personal resources. The 2nd house governs your innate gifts, what you bring to the table, and what you have to offer. Mercury retrograde here might bring a past talent back into focus! Something you used to do that you set aside. A skill you forgot you had. A gift that’s been dormant. Some of you may be reconsidering how you use your resources. Are you investing your energy in things that provide return? Are you leveraging your natural talents?
Releasing Scarcity Mindset Inherited from Family
Cancer rules your 2nd house, which brings family and early conditioning into your relationship with money and self-worth. Many of your beliefs about resources, whether there’s enough, whether you deserve abundance, and whether security is possible, were formed in childhood based on your family’s relationship with these themes. This New Moon is illuminating those inherited beliefs so you can examine them consciously. Did your family operate from scarcity or abundance? Were you taught that money is hard to come by? That wanting nice things is greedy? That your worth depends on what you produce? These old programs run quietly in the background, influencing your financial behavior and self-valuation without you realizing it. Awareness is the first step! You get to choose which family beliefs about resources serve you and which ones you’re ready to release.
CANCER RISING
A Major Personal Reset
The 1st house is YOU. Your body. Your identity. Your personal style. How you move through the world! A New Moon here is like pressing a reset button on your entire self-concept. You’re being invited to begin again! To plant seeds for who you want to become. This isn’t about completely abandoning who you are though. It’s about conscious evolution. What aspects of your identity are ready to grow? What parts of how you present yourself no longer fit? You might feel called to change your appearance, your name, your style, or how you introduce yourself. Even subtle shifts in how you carry yourself can reflect the internal changes happening. Pay attention to what feels authentic and what feels like costume. This New Moon wants you to show up as genuinely yourself.
Revisiting Past Versions of Yourself
Mercury retrograde in your 1st house brings past selves back into focus! Who were you one year ago? Five years ago? Ten? The person you used to be is asking for acknowledgment right now. This might manifest as nostalgia, like old photos surfacing, memories of previous chapters of your life arising, or people from the past recognizing you and reminding you of who you were to them. Not all of this will be comfortable. Some past versions of yourself might be ones you’d rather forget, but they’re all part of your story! They all contributed to who you are now. Can you integrate them with compassion rather than shame? Can you honor your journey including the messy parts?
Clarifying How You Want to Be Perceived
There’s often a gap between how we see ourselves and how others see us. This New Moon is closing that gap by making you more conscious of both. How do people perceive you? Does that match your internal self-image? Does it match who you want to be? Mercury retrograde might bring feedback about how you come across. This could arrive directly through someone telling you how they see you, or indirectly through reflecting on past interactions with new understanding. Use this information without being destabilized by it. You get to decide who you are! But knowing how you’re perceived gives you something to work with. If there’s a mismatch between your intention and your impact, this is a chance to recalibrate!
Healing Body Image and Physical Self-Acceptance
The 1st house rules the physical body. Cancer rising often has a complicated relationship with the body because you’re so emotionally permeable! Your body holds feelings. Stress shows up physically for you faster than most. This New Moon is offering healing around how you relate to your physical form. Old wounds about appearance or body shame may surface. What would it feel like to be at home in your body? To appreciate it not for how it looks but for what it does? For how it carries you through life? Your body has kept you alive through every difficult moment. It deserves gratitude and gentleness! Consider how you might nurture your physical form during this lunation.
Reclaiming Your Right to Take Up Space
Cancer rising can struggle with visibility. Your instinct is often to nurture others, to recede into the background, and create safety for everyone but yourself. The 1st house asks you to claim space! To be seen and exist unapologetically. This New Moon is permission to put yourself first! Not in a selfish way but in a necessary way. You cannot keep pouring out if you never receive. You cannot keep making others comfortable at the expense of your own visibility. What would it look like to take up more space in your own life? To prioritize your needs? To let yourself be the main character in your story for once? This might feel uncomfortable if self-sacrifice is your default mode, but this lunation is asking you to try! Plant seeds for a version of you that doesn’t shrink to make others feel bigger.
LEO RISING
Increased Need for Solitude and Retreat
Right now, you need time alone! Time away from performance and time in the quiet. The seeds being planted in your 12th house grow in darkness. They need silence and solitude to germinate. If you can, carve out significant alone time during this New Moon period! Cancel plans if you need to. Retreat from social media. Create space for your inner world to speak without the noise of the outer world drowning it out. What needs to emerge can only do so in stillness.
Dreams and Subconscious Messages Intensifying
Pay close attention to your dreams right now! The 12th house is the domain of the subconscious, and with a New Moon plus Mercury retrograde here, your dreaming mind is working overtime. Keep a journal by your bed! Write down whatever you remember, even fragments. Don’t try to interpret immediately, just record. The meaning often becomes clear later. You might also notice synchronicities during waking life, like repeated symbols, songs that play at significant moments, or words that seem to follow you. Your subconscious is communicating through whatever channels it can! The veil between conscious and unconscious is thin right now. Messages are available if you’re willing to receive them in their often strange and symbolic language.
Processing and Releasing What’s Been Hidden
The 12th house also holds what we’ve suppressed, denied, or hidden away. It’s the skeletons in the closet, the feelings too uncomfortable to acknowledge, and the parts of ourselves we’d rather not see. This New Moon is bringing some of that hidden material to the surface for release. You might find old grief arising unexpectedly, old shame surfacing, or old fears presenting themselves. This is cleanup work! Your psyche is ready to process what it couldn’t handle before. Let it move through you. Cry if you need to, journal, or talk to a therapist or trusted friend.
Reflecting on Self-Sabotaging Patterns
Mercury retrograde in the 12th house offers a rare opportunity to see your own self-sabotage patterns clearly! The 12th house rules hidden enemies, and often the most significant hidden enemy is ourselves. How do you get in your own way? What patterns keep you stuck? Where do you unconsciously undermine your own success or happiness? Until you see the pattern, you can’t change it. Mercury retrograde is like a flashlight shining into the dark corners of your behavior. You might notice ways you self-sabotage that you’ve never consciously recognized before. That recognition is gold! It’s the first step toward choosing differently.
Connecting with Spirituality and the Transcendent
The 12th house is also your portal to the divine. Spirituality, mysticism, and connection to something larger than yourself. This New Moon is deepening that connection! You might feel called to meditation, prayer, or spiritual practices you’ve neglected. You might experience moments of transcendence or unity consciousness. You might simply feel a yearning for meaning that goes beyond the material world. Honor this yearning! This is your soul asking for nourishment. The 12th house reminds us that we are more than our egos, more than our achievements, more than what the world sees. Connect with that larger truth right now. Let it hold you.
VIRGO RISING
Revisiting Friendships and Social Connections
Old friends are circling back! People you’ve lost touch with, members of groups you used to belong to, and social connections from the past are reactivating during this time. Mercury retrograde in the 11th house often brings reunion energy. Some of these reconnections will be welcome and sweet. Others might be more complicated, bringing up unresolved dynamics or reminding you why you drifted apart. Pay attention to who shows up and what feelings arise! These reconnections are offering information. Maybe there are friendships worth reviving. Maybe there are connections you need closure with. Maybe you’re being shown how much you’ve changed by seeing yourself reflected in people who knew an older version of you.
Questioning Your Current Social Circle
Beyond the past, this lunation is asking you to examine your current community situation. Are you actually fulfilled by your social life? Do the groups you belong to nourish you? Do your friends really see and understand you? Virgo rising can sometimes maintain friendships out of duty or habit rather than genuine connection. You might stay in groups because you’re useful there, even if you’re not actually fed by them. This New Moon is permission to be more discerning about where you invest your social energy. Quality over quantity! You don’t need a huge network. You need people who actually get you!
Reconsidering Your Role in Group Dynamics
What role do you play in groups? Are you always the helper? The organizer? The one who keeps things running smoothly? Virgo rising often defaults to service roles in community settings, but that can become depleting if it’s never reciprocated. Mercury retrograde is helping you see these patterns more clearly. Maybe you’ve been giving more than you receive in your social world. Maybe you’ve been so focused on being useful that you’ve forgotten to receive. This New Moon invites you to plant seeds for more balanced group dynamics! What would it look like to show up in community as a full participant rather than just a helper? To be nurtured by your people rather than only nurturing them?
Reflecting on Your Future Hopes and Dreams
The 11th house also governs your hopes, wishes, and vision for the future. This is the house of what you’re building toward, not alone but collectively! Mercury retrograde here is asking you to revisit those future dreams. Are they still accurate? Do they still excite you? Sometimes we carry goals that we set years ago without checking if they still fit who we’ve become. Your vision for the future might need updating. What did you want five years ago? Is that still what you want now? It’s okay if your dreams have changed. It’s actually healthy! This New Moon is a moment to consciously recommit to updated hopes and release the ones that no longer resonate.
Healing Social Anxiety or Feelings of Not Belonging
Cancer in the 11th house can indicate emotional sensitivity around social acceptance. Wanting to belong but fearing rejection, or caring deeply about community while also feeling like an outsider. If you’ve struggled with social anxiety or feeling like you don’t quite fit anywhere, this New Moon is touching that wound. But the intention is healing, not harm! What would it feel like to belong? To have a community that feels like family? Those longings are valid and they’re possible to fulfill, but it might require releasing old beliefs about your unworthiness for connection. You are allowed to belong. You are allowed to have people! Plant seeds for the community you actually want, and trust that it can come to you.
LIBRA RISING
Career Reflection and Professional Reassessment
This is prime time for career reflection! Where are you professionally? Is this where you want to be? Mercury retrograde in the 10th house creates a pause in forward career momentum so you can look back and assess. You might be thinking about past jobs, old career paths you didn’t take, or professional decisions that shaped where you are now. Some of you may hear from former colleagues or employers. Opportunities that seem like callbacks to previous work might appear. This isn’t necessarily the moment to make major career moves. It’s the moment to review and reflect so that when you do move forward, you’re clear about what you actually want professionally.
Examining Your Relationship with Authority
The 10th house represents authority figures and your relationship with authority in general. This includes bosses, institutions, government, parents as authority figures, your father, and your own authority. How do you relate to power? Do you respect it? Resist it? Seek it? Avoid it? Cancer in the 10th house can indicate emotional patterns around authority, perhaps inherited from how you related to a parent, often the father or more public-facing parent. Mercury retrograde is illuminating these patterns. You might notice emotional reactions to bosses or authority figures that feel disproportionate to the situation. That’s old material surfacing. The more you understand your authority patterns, the more consciously you can navigate professional hierarchies.
Clarifying Your Professional Reputation
How do you want to be known professionally? What do you want people to think when they hear your name in a work context? This New Moon is asking you to get intentional about your public image. Mercury retrograde might bring feedback about your professional reputation. How do people actually perceive you at work? Does it match how you want to be seen? There might be a gap between your intention and your impact professionally. Maybe you want to be seen as capable and instead you’re seen as cold. Maybe you want to be seen as warm and instead you’re seen as pushover. You can adjust course once you know where you actually stand!
Revisiting Career Goals and Ambitions
What do you want to achieve? What mountain are you climbing professionally? Mercury retrograde invites you to revisit these big career goals. Are they still relevant? Are they still exciting? Or are you pursuing achievements that no longer match who you’re becoming? Some of you may realize that goals you set years ago no longer fit. That the career success you were chasing isn’t actually what you want anymore. It’s okay to change your ambitions! This New Moon supports planting seeds for professional goals that actually align with your current values and desires.
Healing Wounds Around Public Visibility and Success
Cancer in the 10th house can indicate emotional vulnerability around success and public visibility. Maybe you fear success as much as you desire it. Maybe being seen publicly triggers anxiety! Maybe there are family wounds around achievement, whether from pressure to succeed or being undermined when you did. This New Moon is touching those tender places. The goal is to bring it into awareness so healing can begin. What would it feel like to be successful and safe? Visible and secure? Ambitious and emotionally grounded? Those things can coexist, but you might need to release old stories that say otherwise.
SCORPIO RISING
Revisiting Educational Pursuits or Abandoned Studies
Have you been thinking about going back to school? Or remembering a degree you didn’t finish? An area of study that fascinated you but life got in the way? Mercury retrograde in the 9th house brings past educational matters back around. This might manifest as literal opportunities to resume studies you put on hold. OR it might be more internal, a renewed interest in subjects you haven’t thought about in years. Books you meant to read, topics you wanted to explore, or teachers who influenced you. This New Moon supports planting seeds for educational expansion! Not necessarily formal schooling, though that’s possible, but any form of learning that stretches your mind and broadens your understanding!
Reconsidering Your Belief System
What do you believe? About life, about meaning, about spirituality, about truth? The 9th house holds our philosophical and religious frameworks. Mercury retrograde here is prompting a deep review of those frameworks! Some beliefs you’ve held might be ready to evolve. Some might be ready to be released entirely. This isn’t about having a crisis of faith, though for some that might occur. It’s about conscious examination! Are your beliefs actually yours? Or did you inherit them without questioning? Do they still serve your understanding of reality? Or have you outgrown them? You’re allowed to change your mind about big things. Your worldview is meant to evolve as you do!
Travel Plans Under Review
The 9th house also rules long-distance travel. With Mercury retrograde here, travel plans might be shifting. Delays, changes, or unexpected complications with trips could arise. If you’re planning international travel or long journeys during this period, build in extra buffer time and be flexible! But this retrograde can also bring back travel desires from the past. A place you always wanted to visit, a trip you had to cancel, or a journey that changed you and you’ve been wanting to revisit. Even if physical travel isn’t possible right now, you might find yourself mentally traveling back to meaningful places and experiences.
Reconnecting with Teachers, Mentors, or Foreign Connections
Mercury retrograde often brings people from the past back around, and in the 9th house, these might be teachers, mentors, professors, or people from foreign countries or cultures. Someone who taught you something important might reenter your awareness. You might reconnect with someone you met while traveling. You might find yourself thinking about a mentor’s words and finally understanding what they meant! These connections hold wisdom for your current situation. Pay attention to who shows up and what memories arise. There might be guidance available from these past teachers that you’re ready to receive now.
Examining How You Share Your Truth
The 9th house isn’t just about what you believe, it’s also about how you share those beliefs with others… like teaching, publishing, broadcasting, or spreading your message. What truth are you carrying that others might benefit from hearing? What have you learned that deserves to be shared? Mercury retrograde here favors revisiting rather than launching, so this might not be the moment to publish, but it’s a powerful time to reflect on what you want to say to the world and how you want to say it! The seeds you plant now around sharing your truth can blossom into meaningful expression when the retrograde clears.
SAGITTARIUS RISING
Deep Psychological Processing and Shadow Work
The 8th house is where you meet your shadow. The parts of yourself you’ve hidden, denied, or rejected. With Mercury retrograde and a New Moon here, shadow material is surfacing for review! This might feel intense. Old psychological patterns are emerging, old wounds are asking for attention, and parts of yourself you’d rather not look at are demanding acknowledgment. This is an opportunity. The shadow only has power when it’s unconscious. Once you see it, you can integrate it! Consider therapy, journaling, or deep conversation with trusted people during this time. The processing available now can be genuinely transformative.
Revisiting Intimate and Sexual Patterns
The 8th house governs intimate bonds, including sexual connection. How you merge with others, and how you let people into your inner world. Mercury retrograde here might bring past intimate partners into your thoughts or even back into your life. You might find yourself reflecting on past relationships and what they taught you about vulnerability and trust. For some, this could involve revisiting sexual experiences, desires, or wounds that need processing. For others, it’s about examining how you’ve historically shown up in intimate dynamics. What patterns keep repeating? What are you ready to release?
Shared Resources and Financial Entanglements
The 8th house also rules shared resources like joint accounts, debts, inheritances, other people’s money, taxes, and insurance. Mercury retrograde here calls for careful review of these matters. Check your joint financial situations! Review debts and payment plans. Be extra careful with tax-related paperwork, as errors are more likely. Some of you might be dealing with inheritance matters or sorting out financial entanglements from past relationships. Old financial obligations might resurface. Handle them carefully and don’t sign major joint financial agreements without thorough review.
Processing Grief and Loss
Death and endings fall under the 8th house. This doesn’t necessarily mean literal death, though for some it might relate to processing past losses. More broadly, this is about endings of all kinds. What have you lost that you haven’t fully grieved? What has ended that still holds energy for you? Mercury retrograde in this house creates space for that grief to surface. Let it! Cancer energy knows how to hold sorrow. The tears that need to fall have been waiting. This New Moon gives them permission. Grieving properly allows for genuine new beginnings. You can’t truly rebirth without honoring what has died.
Examining Trust and Control Issues
The 8th house often reveals where we have trust issues and where we try to maintain control because vulnerability feels too dangerous. Sagittarius rising generally appears confident and freedom-loving, but the 8th house is where you’re not so breezy! It’s where you’re actually guarded and where you fear being betrayed or consumed. This New Moon is illuminating your trust patterns! Who do you actually trust and why? Where do you hold back from full intimacy because it feels too risky? How does fear of loss cause you to control or avoid? These patterns often trace back to early experiences. Understanding their origin gives you power to work with them consciously rather than being run by them.
CAPRICORN RISING
Reflecting on Your Relationship History
Mercury retrograde in the 7th house brings past partners into focus. Exes might reach out. If they don’t reach out literally, they’ll likely be on your mind. You’re being asked to review your relationship history. What have your partnerships taught you? What patterns keep repeating? Who have you been in your significant relationships? This reflection isn’t about getting back together with anyone (though for some that might be relevant). It’s about understanding what you’ve been doing in partnerships so you can do it more consciously going forward! Learn from the past rather than repeating it.
Reassessing Your Current Partnership
If you’re in a committed relationship, this New Moon is prompting a thorough check-in. How is this partnership actually going? Are your needs being met? Are you meeting your partner’s needs? Mercury retrograde can bring communication issues to the surface in relationships. Old unresolved conversations might demand attention. Misunderstandings might occur more easily. Use this as an opportunity for deeper dialogue rather than getting frustrated! Talk about what hasn’t been said. Revisit agreements that need updating. The relationship that emerges from this review can be stronger than before.
Reconsidering What You Want in Partnership
What do you actually want in a partner? What do you need from a committed relationship? Mercury retrograde is asking you to get clear on this! Your answers might have changed since the last time you considered it. Maybe you’ve grown, maybe your values have shifted, or maybe what you thought you wanted isn’t actually what fulfills you. This New Moon supports planting seeds for partnership that truly works for who you are now! Not who you were five years ago. Not who you think you should be. The actual you of today! What would that version of you need in partnership?
Examining How You Show Up in One-on-One Dynamics
The 7th house isn’t just about what you want from partners. It’s about who you become in partnership and how you behave in close one-on-one relationships. Capricorn rising can sometimes bring a serious, controlling, or emotionally reserved energy to partnerships. Is that serving you? Or is there room for more softness, more vulnerability, more emotional presence? Mercury retrograde offers a mirror. How do your partners experience you? How have you historically shown up in these dynamics? Is that the partner you want to be?
Healing Patterns Around Commitment and Dependence
Cancer in your 7th house can indicate emotional intensity around partnerships, deep needs for security in relationships, and possibly fear of dependency or alternatively fear of being abandoned. These patterns often trace back to early observations of your parents’ partnership or other significant couples in your early environment. What did you learn about committed relationship as a child? What conclusions did you draw about dependence, need, and partnership? This New Moon is illuminating those early lessons so you can examine them consciously. Some might need to be released. Some might need to be updated. Awareness is the first step!
AQUARIUS RISING
Reassessing Your Daily Routines and Habits
What does your average day actually look like? Mercury retrograde in the 6th house wants you to examine your daily patterns with fresh eyes! Your morning routine, your work habits, how you structure your time, and what you do on autopilot without thinking! Some of these routines serve you. Some of them are just default settings that could be optimized. This New Moon is a powerful time to plant seeds for better daily habits. Where could small changes make your everyday life work better?
Health Review and Returning to Past Wellness Practices
The 6th house rules health, and Mercury retrograde here favors returning to health practices you’ve abandoned rather than starting entirely new regimens. What used to work for your body that you stopped doing? What wellness routines served you before life got busy? Maybe it’s an exercise practice you dropped, maybe it’s a way of eating that helped you feel good, or maybe it’s a sleep routine that regulated your system. The past holds information about what your body needs! Revisit what worked rather than chasing new health trends right now.
Reflecting on Your Relationship with Work
This house rules daily work, not necessarily your big career, but the actual work you do day to day. It’s the tasks, the colleagues, and the environment. Mercury retrograde is asking how that’s all going. Is your work life sustainable? Does your job support or drain your health? Are you in service in a way that fulfills you or depletes you? Some of you might be reconsidering your work situation. Thinking about past jobs and considering whether your current work rhythm is actually working. This isn’t necessarily about quitting or making dramatic changes, but about conscious assessment!
Examining Your Relationship with Being of Service
The 6th house represents service to others, like being helpful and being useful. For some people this is fulfilling. For others it becomes a trap where their own needs get lost. How do you relate to service? Do you give too much and neglect yourself? Do you resist being of service and miss out on the fulfillment it can bring? Cancer energy brings emotional awareness to these questions. Are you serving from a genuine desire to help or from a need to be needed? Are you receiving as much as you give or is the exchange imbalanced?
Addressing Minor Health Issues That Have Been Lingering
Mercury retrograde in the 6th house often brings health matters that were swept under the rug back to attention, like that thing you’ve been ignoring that you really should get checked out. Or perhaps that symptom you’ve been dismissing? Consider scheduling health appointments you’ve been putting off. Follow up on tests or treatments that stalled. Address the small health matters before they become big ones. Prevention and maintenance are favored under this energy!
PISCES RISING
Reconnecting with Past Creative Projects
Do you have unfinished creative work? Art projects you abandoned? Writing you never completed? Creative pursuits you set aside when life got serious? Mercury retrograde in the 5th house is bringing those past creative endeavors back into focus. Something you made before might be ready for completion or revival. A creative idea you had years ago might suddenly feel relevant again! There might be genuine treasure in your unfinished work. Something that’s been waiting for you to be ready to complete it!
Revisiting Past Romantic Connections
The 5th house rules romance, the fun, flirty, and exciting kind of romantic energy. Mercury retrograde here might bring past romantic interests back around, like an old flame sliding into your DMs, or memories of past romances surfacing with unexpected emotion. This energy asks you to reflect on your romantic history. What patterns do you see? What have you been attracted to and why? What has romance taught you about yourself? For some, there might be actual reconnection with past love interests. For others, the revisiting is internal, processing old romantic experiences with new understanding.
Reflecting on Your Relationship with Joy and Pleasure
When did you last feel truly joyful? Not just okay or fine, but actually delighted to be alive?! The 5th house is about pleasure and enjoyment, and Mercury retrograde here is asking if you’ve been experiencing enough of it. This New Moon wants you to remember how to play, to prioritize pleasure without justification, and to do things purely because they’re fun! What brought you joy as a child? What activities make you lose track of time? Reconnect with those sources of delight.
Matters Related to Children Resurfacing
If you have children, the 5th house retrograde might bring up past matters related to them. Old parenting decisions to reconsider, previous concerns resurfacing, conversations with kids about their history or your history with them. If you don’t have children, this might relate to your own inner child, or to decisions about whether children are in your future. Mercury retrograde could prompt reflection on past choices or circumstances related to having or not having kids. For some, this might relate to children they’ve lost or pregnancies that didn’t continue.
Reclaiming Your Authentic Self-Expression
The 5th house represents how you express your unique creative essence, how you put yourself out there, and how you share your inner world with the outer world. Mercury retrograde is asking whether your current forms of self-expression are authentic to who you are now, or if they’re outdated versions of how you used to express yourself. Your voice might be ready to change, your creative style might be ready to evolve, and old forms of self-expression might feel stale while you search for what wants to emerge next! This New Moon supports planting seeds for more authentic creative self-expression. Not what you think you should make or say, but what actually wants to flow through you!