Your Weekly Horoscopes: July 12-18, 2026

Your home is your history and your foundation, and your relationship to it changes throughout your life. Where you call home has been a big topic for the last year, and this Mercury retrograde invites you to integrate all you have learned. This week, take time to be in your space, tend the hearth, and reflect on how to build a foundation that serves as a soft place for you to return to in your adventurous life. 

This week’s mantra: “center”

You've been figuring out who you can trust in your community (professional or familial) over the retrograde. Your calendar has also likely experienced a contraction and prioritized peace above overexerting yourself. Enjoy the break and set your new moon intention around how to bring more of it into daily life.   

This week’s mantra: “contentment”

Your resources are a deeply personal thing, Gemini. Whether they provide a sense of safety or are used to care for others, how you get them and how you use them has been the center of this Mercury retrograde. Stepping into an empowered stance requires soul searching as to how the use of your resources aligns with your personal values. Their true values lie in how you use them.  

This week’s mantra: “budget as ritual”

Your relationship with your own body—not the one you wish you had or the one you had ten years ago—has been a major focus of Mercury’s time in your sign. Stress, tension or any kind of neglect may have brought up issues that demand to be addressed. This week brings the insight, the softness and the plan for how to take care of your primary instrument and honor all it does for you.    

This week’s mantra: “embody”

Leo, there have been some unexpected turns of events over the last couple of weeks. Some likely came out of your blind spot and hit you with emotions. This retrograde and this week's new moon happen in the astrological house of your most private thoughts and feelings, so solitude has a gravitational pull on you. Wherever you can, withdraw. Your season comes soon and loudly.   

This week’s mantra: “cocoon”

Virgo, your ruling planet in retrograde always has a profound effect. This time Mercury has been exploring your experiences of belonging, and who you find that feeling with. You have the highest standards for worthiness, so being around people who feel safe enough for you to find your chill is gold. If you're feeling at a loss, use the new moon to set the intention of creating spaces of belonging.  

This week’s mantra: “tribe”

There's been so much change in all the things that you thought mattered over the last year. Mercury has been surveying it all and changing the context of your ‘life purpose’ sector. After the new moon on the 14th, you get to decide what it all means, and set a new intention aligned with your deepest calling. Your ruling planet Venus disturbs the peace and offers forgotten gems.

This week’s mantra: “ambitions realized”

This Mercury retrograde has been about recalibrating your internal compass. Where you thought you were headed a year ago likely bears very little resemblance to the horizon you gaze at now. The beauty of the story lies in the path of coming home to yourself and exploring the world from a place of deep connection, instead of misguided loyalties to forces outside of you. Reflect on the direction you feel called to, and take a step toward it—or at least map out the route.

This week’s mantra: “align”

Sagittarius, the retrograde has been about your karmic debts and how much you feel obligated to others. When Mercury and the moon renew themselves through contact with the sun, both your psychological and emotional expectations get reset. Let go of old hurts and set new intentions for deep emotional bonds free of guilt. 

This week’s mantra: “forgive”

Your primary relationships have been the focus of the current Mercury retrograde. Whether it's reconnecting with an old friend, returning to the conversation with a lover or renegotiating the terms of a contract, how you show up and communicate has been quite the focus. The new moon resets your playbook, integrating everything new you’ve learned.

This week’s mantra: “reconnect”

Mercury has been negotiating a new relationship with what your days look and feel like, how you treat your body and maintain health and how much labor you take on. You know when you’re staying in your window of tolerance because you can make it through the day without crashing out, emotionally or physically. This week is about taking it easy and letting whatever you can do peacefully be enough.

This week’s mantra: “calm”

Your own creativity and children have been the focus of the current Mercury retrograde. You need emotional safety to fully express yourself, and there’s no way around it. If your voice has been stunted by other’s dismissals or forcefulness, it’s time you reclaim it. Not by show of force, but by speaking your whole hearted emotional truth. 

This week’s mantra: “courage”