The very first and only connection Mercury retrograde will make is on the day of its shift. In the afternoon of July 18, Mercury will make a supporting connection to the love planet, Venus, in frenetic Gemini. So many things can go wrong here in partnerships — from miscommunications to overthinking in partnership to saying the wrong thing entirely.

In the wee hours of July 18th, Mercury, our planet of communication and exchange, lip service and slander, poetry and sexting, goes retrograde at 15° of Leo.