In the Heart of the Fire: Mercury Retrograde Cazimi in Leo.

There’s a brief and golden moment, hidden within the tangle of Mercury retrograde, when the mind steps into the heart of the Sun. This will happen on July 31st 2025.

This is called a Cazimi, an old Arabic term that means “in the heart” of the Sun. It describes the exact moment when Mercury, though in retrograde motion, aligns so closely with the Sun that it’s said to be sitting on the Sun’s throne. Not burned. Not lost. But illuminated from within.

That special moment takes place in Leo, the sign ruled by the Sun itself. This isn’t just any Cazimi. It happens in the Sun’s own kingdom, where light is sovereign and expression is sacred.

In the heart of Leo, where the lion's spirit roars, Mercury Cazimi's the Sun, unlocking cosmic doors. A fiery tale of courage, daring and bold.

Leo is the place of radiant truth, the kind that rises not from performance but from devotion to what burns at the center of you. And Mercury, the planet of thought, memory, and message, is moving backward through this territory. It may feel like you're revisiting old stories. Rehearsing lines you thought you'd forgotten. Searching for something worth saying, something that feels like yours.

In the days around this Cazimi, the noise may quiet just enough to hear yourself again. Not the surface voice, but the deeper one. The one that speaks in symbols and echoes. The one that remembers your name when you forget how to shine.

This particular Mercury RX Cazimi carries added weight in the landscape of 2025. With the year already marked by deep transitions and shifting narratives, this Leo moment arrives like a pulse of self-recognition. It asks not what the world wants from you, but what still feels alive inside you. What expression still calls for light. What needs to be said, not for validation, but for wholeness.

In the heart of this Cazimi, something old may burn away. And something new may begin to stir.

Mercury, in its retrograde path, meets the Sun not as an end but as a turning point, a symbolic rebirth. This is the moment when the messenger is cleansed by fire, stepping out of the underworld of confusion and into a renewed cycle of clarity.

Though Mercury remains retrograde a little longer, there’s a shift. A quiet turning. The retrograde journey will complete on August 11th, and only then will the forward motion begin. Not all at once. Not with certainty. But perhaps with a softer kind of knowing. A thread picked back up. A voice reclaimed.

This is not a moment of clarity in the usual sense. It may be more like warmth than certainty. A flicker of insight. A phrase or image that lingers. Something that reminds you your voice matters, and your story is not lost.

Let this be a soft pause in the middle of a noisy transit. A return to the fire that lives inside.

Much love to all, Valentina.