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Holographic Astrology for July 12 - 18, 2026
This week begins with a Mercury Cazimi, when Mercury and the Sun are conjunct in Cancer. This marks the halfway point of the retrograde cycle, offering a moment of clouds-parting clarity in the otherwise uncertain and unclear time. Insights gained at this time are still subject to review over the next ten days as the messenger planet continues to spelunk in the underworld of emotional Cancer, before emerging onto a clearer pathway by July 23.
The Cancer New Moon occurs on Tuesday July 14 at 3:44 pm MST. This moon is nearly conjunct Mercury Rx, so the stories and unearthings of the retrograde are emphasized. The Cancerian emotional quality of this moment is almost all-encompassing, at least for a few days. It’s like a respite, a pulling back and inward. A quiet, a calm. The pull is so strong, like a current, you can’t really fight it. But similarly you don’t want to drown in it. Feel the feelings but recognize them as just that — feelings. There may be such paradoxical ones — love and hate, a wish to stay and a wish to go, fear and courage, sadness and joy. The most space you can give them all to exist, the better they will settle. Action can come later.
The moon is in its domicile in Cancer. The New Moon is mooning hard. At a certain point you might become tired of emotions, at which point wring it all out and go do something physical or mental like some accounting or digging in a garden!
It’s a beautiful time to start something, especially something that requires commitment and dedication — because of Saturn squaring the new moon. For myself I’m following in the footsteps of many a 1990s third-wave feminist and picking up the Artist’s Way. I’m gonna do it — I swear. Along with one push-up a day, which is about all I actually can do.
There’s a whole thing going on in the background of all of this. I wasn’t aware until July rolled around and astrologers starting saying “Ohhhh July! The most important month of the year 2026!” A bit ominous if you ask me. But it’s not an ominous warning. It’s just that there’s a big dance going on between the outer planets — specifically Pluto, Jupiter, Neptune and Uranus. They are forming a variety of interconnecting sextiles and trines (really too many for me to fully keep track of) and it’s ending up in something called a Basket Formation, a Cat’s Cradle, a Dragon’s Nest… depending who you’re talking to. It’s supposedly rare, but I’m tired of saying how the astrology this year is all so rare. It’s a little tedious being so unprecedented all the time.
The outer planets are felt on a more societal level than the personal planets (i.e. the Sun, Moon, Venus, Mars, Mercury and a little bit Saturn). They have ripple effects that reach across generations, eras, epochs. Not to say we won’t feel things personally. But it’s too big to nail down to one piece of life, one thread, one day, one event. It’s kind of everything.
These outer planet machinations are happening in Fire and Air signs. The overall vibe is wildfire. Catching fire. Quick sparks. Taking flight. A palpable sense of momentum, getting out of control. Riding the knife’s edge. It’s like: is this going to be a good trip or a bad trip? It could go either way. There’s so much energy piled up, flowing along the wires, it’s a little haywire. Haywire wildfire. Okay. Just like electricity has the capability to light our way or set us on fire — this astrology is like ignition, potential, raw material. We don’t know how it’s going to play out, where it’s going to end up. It’s a little dicey, a little exciting. Also sextiles and trines are notorious for just drifting along in the given direction if left alone. Do we want to keep going in the direction we’re going? If not, we have to wake up out of a narcotic lull and decide to act differently, and it might take a lot of effort. Livewire times. Here we go.