09/11/2025
Mercury stations retrograde on November 9, beginning a three-week cycle that reshapes timing, clarity, and communication. Plans shift suddenly, messages take longer to arrive, and details once overlooked return for review. What first feels disruptive soon reveals where awareness has been missing.
This retrograde starts in Sagittarius, the sign of travel, learning, and expansion, before entering Scorpio on November 18, where emotion, trust, and hidden truth move to the surface. The weeks between November 9 and November 29 slow the pace of life so you can see what needs correction, closure, or deeper focus.
From November 9 to November 17, Mercury moves through Sagittarius, influencing movement, schedules, and long-distance communication. Flights may shift, plans may change, and messages from far away may carry unexpected meaning.
These changes highlight details that were rushed earlier in the season. You may reconnect with someone who offers insight or return to a plan that deserves completion. Patience, preparation, and honest communication turn frustration into progress. The more carefully you check timing, agreements, and travel, the smoother your outcomes become.
On November 18, Mercury enters Scorpio, and the tone grows deeper, emotional, and revealing. Scorpio governs loyalty, finances, and shared resources, uncovering what has stayed hidden beneath routine. Intuition heightens, emotion strengthens, and awareness expands through situations that test honesty and trust.
You may uncover information that changes how you view someone or something that matters to you. Old conversations resurface, bringing closure or clarity that feels overdue. Each realization exposes truth that creates freedom through understanding.
Communication during this time feels intense and personal. Every word carries energy, and timing reveals more than language itself. Listen to tone, instinct, and the emotions behind what people say. Pay attention to pauses and subtle changes in conversation, because they reveal what others struggle to express directly.
Financial discussions and emotional exchanges need openness and patience before lasting agreements can form. Awareness strengthens as you choose honesty over avoidance, and clarity grows stronger each time you trust your intuition.
Every sign feels this retrograde, but Gemini and Virgo Suns, Moons, and Risings, ruled by Mercury, experience it the most personally. For Gemini, old conversations return with clarity that changes how you see the past. Messages arrive at the right moment, helping you recognize what you once missed. Familiar faces reappear, offering closure, truth, or emotional awareness that reshapes connection.
For Virgo, attention turns toward plans, work, and priorities that need restructuring. You begin to see where time has been misplaced and where discipline restores balance. Each choice made from awareness strengthens confidence and clears the path ahead.
Scorpio Suns, Moons, and Risings experience emotional release that clears attachments and restores power. Hidden feelings surface through reflection, revealing truth that brings peace after long resistance. This awareness reconnects you with your intuition and deepens your understanding of trust.
Sagittarius Suns, Moons, and Risings reexamine direction, ambition, and communication, finding clarity through the changes that once felt disruptive. Each delay brings focus, each shift creates purpose, and each realization draws you closer to the future you are ready to claim.
For all signs, during these weeks, technology, travel, and commitments require focus and care. Back up work, confirm times, and review details before finalizing agreements. If something repeats, it calls for reflection rather than reaction, and when timing changes, it opens space for better alignment.
Mercury retrograde serves as a reminder to slow down, think clearly, and act intentionally. The more awareness you bring to each decision, the easier forward movement becomes once this cycle ends.
By November 29, Mercury moves direct, and life begins to feel lighter and clearer. Communication flows easily, travel smooths out, and understanding replaces uncertainty.
This retrograde leaves you centered, aware, and aligned with timing that finally feels right. The lessons it brings sharpen your focus, strengthen your intuition, and prepare you to move through the final weeks of the year with clarity, confidence, and direction that supports real progress.
✍️ Alex Myles
