Welcome to a week of depth and beauty, expansion and forward momentum. As Mercury retrograde spins backward into Scorpio and the new Moon accompanies it there, we turn within. Later, as the week draws to a close, the mood shifts toward revelation and forward momentum with the onset of Sagittarius season.
The Scorpio constellation.
Mercury Retrograde in Scorpio
Last week, Mercury began its final backward spin of the year in the expansive heights of Sagittarius. As it continues to retrace its steps, Mercury will cross the threshold between Sagittarius and return to Scorpio on November 18, 2025. This is the same exact space the planet traversed a few weeks ago.
Mercury rules how we process reality and make meaning within the world. Retrogrades are a reorientation of perspective. Under the influence of Sagittarius, we review the belief systems that exist within us. Under Scorpio, we review the unconscious material that propels us to have these belief systems.
Scorpio reminds us that there is more to how we see this world, and therefore how we interact with this world, than what we are aware of. There are unconscious patterns and stories shaping things from beneath the surface. There are memories and emotions coloring the lens through which we look. There are ways that we are in opposition, battle, or competition that exist within ourselves.
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This retrograde invites us to look at these. Not to dismiss, belittle, or demonize them. Not to shame them. Not to blame or try to fix them. But to hear their call and find compassion for them. Shame isn’t our way forward.
New Moon in Scorpio
Welcome to our annual new Moon in Scorpio, which meets us on November 19 or 20, depending on where you are in the world. The new Moon always moves in rhythm with the Sun. This year, in addition to this alignment is Mercury retrograde. Three bodies holding hands. Three bodies inviting us inward.
There is also a zoomed-out cosmic backdrop taking place. In what is called a grand trine, three planets are forming a triangle, each in water signs. Together these planets sensitize our self-awareness and offer perspectives of ourselves and life that transform, awaken, and change us. It is a lunation of intuition, revelation, truth, liberation, and compassion.
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Sagittarius Season
On November 21, 2025, the Sun enters Sagittarius, bringing fire, momentum, and inspiration to this new version of ourselves. Sagittarius season is a time of learning and wisdom, exploration and adventure. This sign asks us to look ahead. It is the archer, standing in familiar lands yet aiming toward the height of what is possible.
Sagittarius season compels us to tune into ourselves before pointing our arrows. What call is whispering from beyond what we see and know? Curiosity, observance, and trust are your touchstones throughout the week. The influence of Scorpio is inner traversing and emotional maturing. The influence of Sagittarius invites truth, expansion, possibility, and adventure.
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Sagittarius Season brings new perspectives.
Scorpio: A Week of Relational Dynamics and Self-Trust
Emotional truths call your name early this week, as if you’re traversing the innermost layers of self and staring into a mirror. What exists here? What is it asking for? What are you seeing? As Sagittarius begins to influence your days, you’re supported as you emerge from the underworld and look straight toward the heavens of possibility.
Relational dynamics and heart healing. Intimacy and vulnerability. Connection to your truth and embodiment of your strength. This week calls for tenderness as you observe all that feeds your relationships, both consciously and unconsciously.
This week speaks through your body. It asks for a certain pace, it asks to be heard, and it asks for space. There is deep wisdom, empowerment, and healing found in listening to the way your body is speaking early this week. As Sagittarius season begins, the pace once again changes.
Review your narratives informing your perceived right to exist. Your right to play, create, and freely express the beauty that is you. Your right to enjoy your life and revel in your own life force. Your inner child and inner teenager possess much that they can share, express, and feel. Where do you hold resistance to them?
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As the Sun and week shift into the influence of Sagittarius later in the week, it invites these parts of yourself to express play, creativity, and aliveness. Your mind has been deep in exploration, communing with parts of yourself that have been waiting to be heard.
How can you offer yourself compassion throughout this process? How can you welcome the wisdom, insights, and narratives? Wherever your self-trust has been forgotten, this week reminds you and offers your inherent worthiness as if it were medicine itself.
It’s time to reclaim more of yourself and begin a new chapter, one that’s grounded in your innermost truths. Release of old stories. Release of unconscious material. Release of all that has kept you from your inner world, intuition, and connection with the sacred. This week is a release that becomes a rebirth. As your season begins again, so do you.
This week offers deep realignment. A reweaving of dreams, paths, and visions that have been waiting for their time to resurface. Your path ahead is re-writing itself and is asking for your truth and presence in this.
Where do you dim and hide? Where do you forget your authority and power? Where do you neglect your knowing and purpose? Your weekly horoscope asks you to hold these patterns close as you seek to understand and overcome them.
Life is speaking directly to you through each lived experience. Also through self-awareness, intuition, and an urge for exploration. It wants you to give yourself permission to claim your truths and your perspectives so they no longer come secondary to others’ voices.
Grab a dirty martini or mocktail to prepare for the week ahead because it’s going to be head spinning!
Daily Aspects for Scorpio
November 17: A mixed bag of energy. The Sun in Scorpio connects with Jupiter Retrograde in Cancer and Saturn Retrograde in Pisces, making our confidence high and low. In the afternoon, Mercury Retrograde in Sagittarius links up with Pluto in Aquarius, allowing us to rethink the text we sent to our ex yesterday.
November 18: Mercury moonwalks into Scorpio, taking us back to the beginning of the month-now we can reassess the communication and take a deep dive into our DMs from that period.
November 19: Venus in Scorpio harmonizes with the North Node of Destiny, pulling in a fling or crush. Mercury Retrograde opposes Uranus Retrograde in Taurus, helping us see the bigger picture. Less than an hour later, Mercury and Neptune Retrograde sync up, idealizing our memories.
November 20: The New Moon in Scorpio forms a conjunction to Mercury Retrograde, urging us to revisit the past and augment situations weighing our hearts. Uranus and Neptune Retrograde align, giving a new vision of old matters.
November 21: The Sun aspects Neptune and Uranus Retrograde, ushering us to embrace individuality. The Sun glides into Sagittarius, starting a new month of dreams that give us freedom and strength.
November 22: Mercury, Jupiter, and Saturn retrograde form a Grand Water Trine, heightening our emotions. Feel your feels.
Scorpio-Specific Advice for the Week
Retrograde season is proving less eventful than anticipated (at least for part of this week). A few minor delays at work are holding you back from completing projects, but if you opt not to let it stress you out, you'll thrive because you are a baller and can handle it.