[Bonus] Navigating the Dramatic Leo Mercury Retrograde: A Spiritual Survival Guide

The cosmos has a message for us all as Mercury spins backward through the fiery territory of Leo from July 17th to August 11th. Unlike the standard Mercury retrograde panic, this episode brings a fresh perspective on embracing this cosmic drama queen energy with grace and spiritual awareness.

Mercury retrograde in Leo carries a unique flavor. The sun-ruled sign amplifies our self-expression, creativity, and yes—our ego. This celestial pause button asks us to examine how we communicate, where our pride might be getting in the way, and how authentically we're shining our light. Those telenovela-level misunderstandings? They're not random—they're cosmic invitations to check ourselves before we wreck our vibe.

I break down exactly what to avoid (dramatic haircuts and impulsive "I quit" moments), what to embrace (revisiting creative projects and inner child healing), and how this retrograde uniquely affects each house in your birth chart. Whether Leo falls in your first house of identity, your fifth house of creativity and romance, or your twelfth house of spirituality, I offer practical guidance for navigating these energies with self-awareness rather than resistance. 

Your retrograde experience doesn't have to be a disaster. By approaching this transit as an opportunity for reflection, healing, and realignment, you can harness its transformative potential. Mercury isn't spinning backward to complicate your life—it's offering a divine pause to reconnect with your authentic essence. Are you ready to shine bright, but with wisdom? Share your Mercury retrograde experiences with me on Instagram and remember: embrace your raíces, reclaim your esencia.

Get the Free Guide: The Raiz Ritual to check where Leo is located in your birth chart.

Chapters

• 0:00 Welcome to Mercury Retrograde in Leo
• 2:33 Understanding Leo Energy in Retrograde
• 3:42 Survival Guide: What to Avoid
• 4:24 Positive Actions During Retrograde
• 5:40 How Retrograde Affects Each House
• 10:30 Personal Reflections and Closing Thoughts

Transcript

Dora: 1:00

Hola, hola, mi gente, bienvenidos a este bonus episode de Ay Mijita. Soy Dora Alicia Praxedis, your guide en este camino de healing y espiritualidad para que abracemos nuestras raíces y reclaim our esencia. Hoy, Ay Mijita, we got to talk about something cosmic that's coming up for all of us Mercury retrograde and Leo baby. It's happening, and it started happening July 17th at 11:45 pm Central Standard Time, and it's going to happen hasta August 11th, and you know the drama va a estar real, pero don't panic. Hoy te voy a contar qué significa que sea en Leo, qué hacer, qué no hacer y cómo te impacta, depending on the house that it falls in your birth chart. Así que agarra tu cafecito, your sage, and let's dive in.

Dora: 2:04

I love to track the moon cycles and the planetary movements, alignments, transits, all the things, and so I consider myself an astrology enthusiast, and I know Mercury retrograde does impact some of the things that I do when it happens, and so that's where I decided to put out this bonus episode for you, para entender un poco más right what's going on, and I'm curious to see if you notice any of these things in the upcoming weeks. So let's talk about Leo energy, porque eso changes the flavor of this retrograde Leo is ruled by el sol, the sun. It's bold, creative, dramatic, super expressive. Leo loves attention. Loves shining bright Como tu sunshine. Love's shining bright Como tu sunshine.

Dora: 2:55

Pero during retrograde esa energía can get, let's just say, messy. People might be extra dramatic, more reactive, más sensitive about pride and ego. Miscommunications become telenovela level. Mercury retrograde en Leo is like saying girl, check your ego before you wreck your vibe. It's the perfect time to review and reflect how you express yourself, your creative projects, romantic relationships, your confidence and self-worth, but also watch out for the pride. Leo can be stubborn. Try not to get stuck in. I'm right and you're wrong.

Dora: 3:36

Energy Okay Aquí's your survival guide of what not to do. So things you might want to avoid during this Leo retrograde. Don't start drama Just to prove a point. Leo retrograde triggers pride wounds. Avoid making major hair changes or dramatic makeovers. Trust me, mercury retrograde loves to humble us with bad bangs. Don't buy big electronics or sign huge contracts if you can avoid it. Hold off on bold declarations like I quit this job or te dejo until retrograde is over. No se agarren de la greña, por favor. And definitely don't let your ego drive your decisions. Take a deep breath antes de reaccionar. Now let's flip it. Mijita, aquí te dejo.

Dora: 4:25

What's good to do while Mercury's chilling in reverse en Leo? Reflect on how you shine your light. Are you expressing yourself authentically? Revisit old, creative projects.

Dora: 4:38

Leo Retrograde is perfecto for finishing art, writing, music or business ideas you put on hold. Reconnect with your inner child. Play, laugh, dance, but be soft about it. Reconnect with old flames. Cautiously, leo rolls the romance and it is fuego, pero not all axes deserve a comeback. So be careful with those axes that come back in your life. Or I wouldn't be surprised if an old flame, an axe, reaches out. Or I wouldn't be surprised if an old flame, an axe reaches out. Check your pride. This is prime time to humble yourself. If needed. Practice speaking from the heart, with kindness, with empathy, love and compassion. And, my favorite, do limpias, or energy work to release eco blocks and restore your competence. Okay, let's talk astrology, because that's how you really personalize this retrograde.

Dora: 5:40

Look at where Leo falls in your natal chart. Vas a ver dónde vas a sentir el retrograde? Aquí te explico how Mercury retrograde en Leo could show up en cada casa. For the placement, you can look in the show notes. For my free guide on the raiz ritual, I summarize all the different practices that we've discussed in my podcast so far, and I talk about how to get your birth chart online and the steps to go and identify the placements and how to pull your chart. Be ready with your birthdate, the time you were born, the place you were born, such as city and state, and, of course, your legal name.

Dora: 6:24

Now the first house is all about identity and yourself and how you show up. So this is where, in Mercury Retrograde, you're re-questioning how you show up, your pride, wounds may surface and definitely watch your tone on how do you portray to others. Now the second house is all about your self-worth money, your values, and so here you reconsider spending on luxury items, you check your confidence versus your material possessions, and I love this house because this is where I have my self-node, where I know how to manage money, but I still have these money wounds that I'm still recovering from, let's say, in this lifetime. Now moving into the third house, about communication. This is where we'll find drama in convos, so be cautious when you go into these conversations with others, especially with siblings or neighbors acting a little extra, and remember to speak your truth and be gentle about it.

Dora: 7:31

Swinging on over to the fourth house. This is all about home and family. This is where you might notice tension with your family. You rethink your home decor so you start rearranging things around and it's perfect for decluttering old memories and things that do not serve you anymore, such as those things at your house or in your environment at home and I always love to think your home is your sacred space and that's your sanctuary, so make sure it reflects you. The fifth house is all about creativity and romance. Also children having fun, being joyful. So this is where we'll see creative blocks or bursts, so you might experience either of these ends or extremes Ex lovers reaching out and avoid drama in love, because this is where it can get definitely intense.

Dora: 8:24

The sixth house is all about your health, your wellness, your routines, your organization. This is where you will re-evaluate work habits. So watch the stress level because things can get a little hectic, especially at work or when you're trying to incorporate some habits or routines. And it's good for organizing your workspace, that environment, if you have your nine to five to work or your desk. The seventh health is all about partnerships. This is where you can have misunderstandings with your boo Great for clearing the air. But pick your battles wisely, because you definitely don't want to have and be in the wrong with your boo or with your love all the time. So be cautious into these partnerships and sharing these resources with each other.

Dora: 9:13

Now the eighth house is directly across from the second house that I talked about your worth and your finances, and so this is this house. The eighth house is all about intimacy and finances, so this is where secrets may surface. You want to avoid any risky investments and there's a lot of transformational things that can happen with deep emotional purging or deep emotional healing. This house also covers sexuality, and so you can get a little, you know, a little spicy, a little juicy up in there. So that's a little bit more about the eighth house. The ninth house is actually one of my favorites. This is long-term travel, your beliefs, higher education, and this is where we can see travel delays.

Dora: 10:03

We can definitely rethink our personal philosophies, especially if we're going through kind of an expansion after the eighth house of learning more things, and it's a good time to go inward before preaching outward, meditating, having that solo time, making sure that you kind of process what's coming up. The 10th house is all about career and reputation, so professional misunderstandings may occur. You can reconsider how you shine publicly. Be mindful of where pride shows up in these relationships at work. Friends might pop back in to your life. Drama might occur in social circles that you're in and you can reassess who deserves your energy. And that's where you balance this act between your personal right things that you have versus your social commitments.

Dora: 11:02

The last house, which the one that's happening in my chart, is the 12 house spirituality and secrets. This is where old subconscious patterns can surface and it's perfect for inner child healing and limpias, definitely my jam, and I've been feeling that Mercury retrograde shadow since last weekend, so I started doing my work of going inward. So, mijita, find Leo in your chart. That's where Mercury Retrograde will ask you to check your pride, revisit old dreams and shine your light from a place of truth. Personally, mercury Retrograde is falling in my 12th house, so I'm planning to spend time alone in my 12th house. So I'm planning to spend time alone decompressing.

Dora: 11:52

Over my weekend and upcoming weeks, I became aware that I need to let go of control and surrender whatever it is that I can't control. So work has been a little stressful lately and I've been checking my heart rate and let's just say it's been a little elevated these past three months. So I really need to take this time and go inward. Something I started doing last weekend after a long session of Olympia that I did for three hours on someone, was meditate on how or what secrets or things are coming up for me. And because I've been in this kind of stress loop for a while at work, I noticed that I'm addicted to stress, like I'm addicted to that racing heartbeat, the we got to get shit done. Right now, the I need to be everything for everyone and I know because of the practice and the work I do, that it's not okay to live in that vibe over and over. So before I get another divinely godly smackdown like WWE kind of thing right, the wrestling like hurting my back eight plus years ago, I definitely don't want to go there anymore. So that's where I talk to myself and I say okay, dora, you really got to let yourself go have some fun, because we've just been working and grinding and working and grinding and I have so many different projects that I want to put out there.

Dora: 13:19

But I have to remember I have to kind of prender my incense and I love me some rose incense, and especially after a long limpia like that, really kind of centers me and it's like no joke. It's kind of like smell the coffee. For me it's smell the roses, because roses for me has a very big significance in my life. Sometimes I'll smell roses out of nowhere and there's like no flowers around and that's my sign I'm on the right spot, I'm at the right place, I am doing the right things. I personally take it as a God wink, angel wink, that we're watching out for you. My ancestors and my guardians and my angels are all with me.

Dora: 14:01

Another thing that I've been really afraid of lately, that I'll definitely be working towards and uncovering some more, is putting myself out there, all the knowledge I have and, especially through this podcast, sharing a little bit more about my personal relationships. I plan to bring some guests in the future and that for me has been a little terrifying because it's obviously it's the first time I do such a thing. But talking about my life, putting myself out there, knowing that I made mistakes, really big ones but I've been so much better and learned so much because of it, knowing that I have these tendencies to be addicted to toxicity, that's another one that I'm kind of working through a through line right with my relationships. So there's a lot to unpack there. So I'm planning to also take extra pauses before I speak, because Leo energy makes me want to roar sometimes. Pero no, quiero ser dramática, especialmente innecesaria. So definitely taking a pause, taking deep breaths in and deep breaths out.

Dora: 15:25

I want to know how has Mercury Retrograde treated you in the past? If you noticed, have you ever had a super dramatic retrograde moment? And I'm also curious ¿en qué casa cae Leo in your chart? So DM me on Instagram at tipraxedis, or you can send me a voice note via the send message in the show notes. I'd love to share your retrograde stories in the future episodes, of course, anonymously, if you so choose. Gracias por estar aquí, cariño. Remember mercury retrograde and leo is not your enemy. Es solo una oportunidad para reflect, slow down and reconnect con tu esencia más auténtica. Shine bright, but shine wisely, okay. And if you loved este episodio, share it with friends, a cousin or anyone who needs a reminder that Mercury Retrograde is not the end of the world. And don't forget embrace your raíces, reclaim your esencia Hasta la próxima and enjoy this Leo season. Mercury Retrograde isn't here para arruinarte la vida. It's a cosmic pause to reflect, realign and reconnect con tu esencia más auténtica. Shine bright, pero con sabiduría, wisdom,