Mercury/Leo retrograde, Moon/Aries & Mars/Virgo ... the style over substance period.

Mercury slows on Thursday 17th and is retrograde in Leo until the 10th August ..  Twists and turns and reversals. 

Reconsidering bids for prominence, prestige and reprising heart matters. 

Doubts or downturns in confidence, exhuberance and generosity! 

Jostling for power might be done with panache and flair, or even good humour in some places, but is nonetheless profoundly intentional, with Saturn-Neptune conjunct but resting in Aries. 

Stages are set as some are rapidly dismantled. 

Moon Aries on the 16th and 17th adding to the need for revelation and competative personally driven rivalry as it squares Jupiter/Cancer. 

The popularity wars may be over-the-top and lavish … even with practical and modest Mars/Virgo transiting. 

We await the presence of Moon/Virgo on the 29th - and the sympathetic Venus into Cancer two days later -  to extract the substance from the ever seductive style.