Full Moon Collective Energy for July 2025
The moon's phases in July are:
🌓 First Quarter: July 2.
🌕 Full Moon: July 10.
🌗 Last Quarter: July 18.
🌑 New Moon: July 24.
The annual Buck Moon in Capricorn arrives this month, appearing full between July 9 and July 11, depending on your location.
According to NASA, throughout July several other planets will be visible in the sky along side the Full Buck Moon.
These other planets include:
- Venus: Shines brightly in the east each morning during the couple of hours before sunrise, with the Pleiades and bright stars Aldebaran and Capella.
- Mars: Sits in the west, about 20 degrees above the horizon as twilight fades. Sets a couple of hours after dark.
- Jupiter: Starts to become visible low in the east in the hour before sunrise after mid-July.
- Mercury: Visible very low in the west the first week or so in July. Find it for a short time before it sets, beginning 30-45 minutes after sunset.
- Saturn: Rises around midnight and climbs to a point high in the south as dawn approaches.
Significance & Influences of the 2025 Buck Moon
Just as antlers begin to crown the heads of young male deer, the Full Buck Moon in Capricorn arrives as a marker of seasonal growth and the renewal of vitality.
Along with the lunation of the Buck Moon, we will encounter the energetics of several retrogrades and planetary shifts throughout July.
Behind the Moon's Name:
The Full Moon in July is commonly known as the Buck Moon since young male deer (bucks) begin to grow new antlers around early summer.
The July Full Moon is also known to Native Tribes across the Americas by the following names...
- Halfway Summer Moon, Abitaa-niibini-giizis — Anishinaabemowin (Ojibwe)
- Blueberry Moon, Miini-giizis — Anishinaabemowin (Ojibwe)
- Raspberry Moon, Miskomini-giizis — Anishinaabemowin (Ojibwe)
- Flying Moon, Baashkawe’o-giizis — Anishinaabemowin (Ojibwe)
- Thunderstorm Moon, Hiyeswa Tiriri Nuti (hihyay-swong tihrihrih noong-tee) — Catawba Language, Catawba Indian Nation, South Carolina
- Corn in Tassel Month, guyegwoni— Cherokee, Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians, North Carolina
- Moon of Birthing, Ignivik — Inupiat Language, North Slope, Alaska
- Honey Bee Moon, Ãamowaawe Neepãʔuk — Mahican Dialect, Stockbridge-Munsee Band of Wisconsin
- String Bean Moon, Ohyotsheli — Oneida
- Little Sister of the Summer Moon, Tihikatahch’a Tehekuma— Tunica, Tunica-Biloxi Tribe of Louisiana
- Sáísgekneh— Seneca
Leading up to the Full Moon, there will be an alignment between our Sun and Sirius, a star often revered by many ancient cultures as the spiritual counterpart of the Sun.
Known as the July Sirius Gateway, this alignment, occurring between July 2 and 7, helps us enhance our intuition and creative projects by offering a burst of inspiration.
The influence of the Sirius Gateway may aid us as we explore the emotional openings that Cancerian season brings each year.
With the Sun in Cancer and Moon in Capricorn, themes arise this early summer around traditions of the past, family or tribal values, honor, and intergenerational connections.
In fact, since the Summer Solstice, there has been an emphasis on tapping into our personal and ancestral memories. As we continue into the summer, several planetary influences will guide how and what we may access when we delve into the stories of our lives and those of our relatives.
On July 4th, Neptune enters a retrograde, urging us to examine any exposed untruths and illusions until the planet stations direct again on December 10, 2025.
Since Neptune is in the sign of fiery Aries from this year 2025 until 2039, it can bring a level of proactiveness when it comes to pursuing the goals and wishes that align with our truth.
Two planets enter Gemini this month, which helps to shake up things up due to the mutable air energy that the sign brings.
Venus enters Gemini on July 4th, offering an ideal energy to improve our social lives by filling up our calendars and engaging in creative communication.
When Uranus enters Gemini on July 7th, it marks a significant cosmic shift since the last time it entered Taurus back in 2018.
With Uranus being a wild-card planet associated with upheaval, good trouble, and awakening, be prepared to nurture the seeds of change that are to gradually unfold over this next seven-year cycle.
In particular, the innovative and social energy of Gemini will help us engage in a personal renaissance as we explore and shift the creative endeavors, romantic affairs, and pleasure pursuits in our lives.
On July 13th, Saturn will retrograde for the first time since it move into Aries earlier this year on May 24, 2025.
When Saturn enters a retrograde, it allows us the space to reevaluate the boundaries and direction of our lives. The influence of Aries on Saturn encourages us to be responsible, active participants in our lives so we can achieve our dreams and desires.
On July 18th, Mercury enters a retrograde in the sign of Leo until August 11, urging us to listen to our inner world and to clear the noises and opinions of others as it relates to our self-image.
During this cycle, a level of excitement and assertiveness from the fire sign can leave us feeling mentally scattered or as if we are receiving mixed messages from others.
Fortunately, by July 31, this energy will fade as the Sun aligns with Mercury Retrograde.
Known as Mercury Cazimi, this alignment can bring in clarity around communication during the retrograde cycle, especially as it relates to self-expression, relationships, and issues from the past.
In addition, Chiron will enter a retrograde cycle in the sign of Aries on July 30th, inviting us pause and practice total acceptance in our healing journey.
Reweaving Reality
The sign of Capricorn is known for its association with traditions, dogma, and respecting the past. Acknowledging these connections, it makes sense that this lunar cycle asks us to question the "shoulds" that circle within our minds about our life path.
This full moon offers its light to illuminate the ways that assimilation and colonization have morphed our desires, perceptions, and behaviors.
- What are some actions or behaviors you engage in without thinking that might be linked to your cultural background?
- Have there been instances where you felt like you had to choose between different cultural expectations?
- What aspects of your cultural background do you find comforting or challenging?
- How do social norms and community support shape your beliefs about what is desirable and achievable?
- Is there a balance or imbalance between your personal interests and any expectations or obligations to others?
The Full Moon in Capricorn this Cancerian season reminds us to avoid suppressing our emotions, needs, and desires to align with the realities dictated by the backgrounds we come from, as doing so only leads to a restless Spirit.
There is a lightness that comes from exploring who we are, separate from the identities and realities that society has given us.
In this process of unpacking what you seek and who you want to be, self-love can help breach any barriers of abuse, shame, guilt, denial, and forced assimilation that keep trauma bound to the body.
Unearthing What is Ours to Carry
During this lunation, we are offered the opportunity to gain deeper insight into how the physical world and metaphysical world are connected through our body.
Our body is the solid matter that connects us to our ancestors and other beings in the Spirit realm.
Epigenetics provides a scientific perspective on how trauma gets transmitted across generations in the form of heightened sensitivities to certain experiences, environments, or conditions.
When we become activated by a traumatic exposure that we cannot respond to, that activation becomes locked up or frozen in our system (hopefully to be processed later when we're more equipped to do so).
While the concept of epigenetics is useful to describe the intergenerational aspect of trauma, we can also apply the same logic to the inheritance of wellness and resilience in our life force.
Passed along through us and to us are modalities for healing, both individually and communally, that can support us on the path of restoring harmony where trauma lives in the body.
If desired, we can connect and channel information integral to our healing journey through our dreamtime, meditations, and the memory held within our body.
Accessing the interwoven nature of the past, present, and future is a skill that requires attentiveness while setting clear intentions and boundaries.
The heavy yet sacred responsibility of transmuting and clearing ancestral pain does not have to be ours alone to carry, especially for those of us dealing with multiple forms of suffering.
Oftentimes, our relatives in their Earthly form cannot help us in healing the trauma we carry from across generations. Yet, in their Spirit form, our ancestors can help take on what we do not need to carry.
Connecting to Our Ancestral Line
For those whose lineage holds a deep history of suffering, dedicating time to do ancestral work is a profound act of generosity that allows healing to reach those we know and don't know.
Calling upon ancestors of our lineage who are healed and well actually invites those to step up if there is still deep healing work they need to engage in beyond this earthly realm.
Making this distinction when asking ancestors for guidance in navigating inherited wounds helps us maintain balance, as it protects against taking on pain that is unexpected or burdensome.
In their journey to the Spirit realm, our ancestors may find it easier to offer guidance from a healed place. Ease often comes because the earthly reminders of their trauma no longer block access to their inner wisdom or ability to express transformational love.
Storytelling
The weight of untold stories from our lineage can be the source of unhealed trauma, as pain remains unwitnessed or healing has yet to be shared.
If possible, find time to sit with Elders or family members who can share stories about your lineage. Take time afterwards to reflect on what you felt or learned while listening and offer a thanks to those whose story was told and those who shared it with you.
Even if you do not have someone to share stories or teachings with you, the Earth always remembers. Instead, try visiting a place with ancestral resonance (whether in-person or through meditation) and be open to witnessing whatever may come up in that space.
Spirit Plates
Whether practiced daily or during culturally significant times of the year, offering a spirit plate to your ancestors and guides is a way to engage in reciprocity and good relations with those in the Spirit realm. Often offered as a thanks, this act of generosity serves as a way to balance out the energetic exchange that occurs when you pray for help and healing.
While any food or beverage is a blessing, offering traditional options from your cultural background makes the practice that much more potent.
As the Full Buck Moon illuminates the need for ancestral connection, may we all have the strength and discernment to navigate the thicket of trauma, untangling what truly drives us and defines us. May we all find our way back to the wisdom of our healed and well ancestors. Through our efforts to transmute pain, may we, our descendants, and all our living and past relations experience ease and lightness.
With love,
mgmc
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