Mercury Retrograde June-July 2026

Psst...Mercury Retrograde isn't worried about your car or computer!

Heres what the signs are doing this month and heres what you actually need to know.

Yes it's true Mercury is in Retrograde June 29-July 23. And we all hear it, expect amiss travel plans, car breaking down and technology troubles. While Mercury is known for causing a little chaos from it's Gemini Ruler. This time around thats not what it's bringing to you. 

This Mercury Retrograde is deeper. It's not causing your life to stop but instead it's asking you to slow down and notice the messages you've been too busy to hear.

Mercury retrograde in Cancer. Cancer brings up emotions, memories, family and the heart. This is about the way you learned to love, the way you learned safety, the way you protected youself, the moments you feel like your not enough. Mercury sees this and asks "where have you been abandoning yourself?" Mercury shines light on these memories not to keep you stuck there but to ask you to understand them so you can take care of your heart and nurture yourself once again.

Your nervous system has a pattern. Thoughts that resurface, loved ones causing tension, past childhood memories, an old relationship crosses your mind. These memories and emotions may cause panic, because your body will remember faster then your mind. The jaw clenches, the body tenses, you feel the lump in your throat, tha anxiety. And where you usually would supress, over explain and keep yourself small, Mercury whispers "Hey, what is this teaching me? Can I change this pattern?"

Here is what's beautiful, Mercury Retrograde is sitting alongside Jupiter. Jupiter expands everythig it touches, to wants to grow, offering wisdom, understanding, and new perspectives. Jupiter will magnify whatever Mercury is thinking about. If you feed the fears they will feel enormous right now, But if you feed it hope, that hope will become a new path. 

The beliefs you formed as a child about love, safety, worthiness, or belonging may be asking to be rewritten....mercury notices those stories. and Jupiter says, "Are these stories still true?" and Cancer reminds you that your heart is capable of nurturing a new one.

Your greatest expansion during this retrograde isn't becoming someone else. It's remembering who you were before fear convinced you otherwise.

This month your words are medicine. How are you speaking to yourself? Your partner. Your children. Because every conversation is either reinforcing an old story...Or creating a new one.

Practices for this Retrograde

✨ Journal before making big decisions.

✨ Have the conversation you've been avoiding.

✨ Rest without guilt.

✨ Call the people you love if it feels aligned.

✨ Let yourself cry if you need to.

✨ Take a candlelit bath.

✨ Begin your mornings with meditation before reaching for your phone.

Sometimes the greatest transformation doesn't happen because life falls apart. Sometimes it happens because, for the first time, you become quiet enough to hear yourself.

Here's a Mantra to carry with you...

I trust what is being revealed. I welcome what is unfolding. I release old stories. I  speak to myself with the love I've always deserved. 

Ananda Hum, Brittany!