Welcome to the last Mercury retrograde of the year. It prompts us to look back on the year that is soon to end and much more in an exploration of meaning, purpose, and our place in this world. It offers us an opportunity to refocus on our personal truths in the way we perceive and move through this world.
When is Mercury retrograde 2025?
The last Mercury retrograde of the year meets us on November 9, 2025 and continues until November 29, 2025. Mercury begins its apparent retrograde spin in Sagittarius and remains there until November 18, 2025, before returning to Scorpio, where it will remain for the entire duration of its retrograde.
What does Mercury in retrograde mean?
As Mercury enters its apparent backward spin known as retrograde, it emphasizes that life is shaped by perspective.
Astrology is a geocentric model, meaning it is based on the view of the cosmos from Earth. If we were to travel into the cosmos while Mercury is retrograde, we would see it moving as usual – there is no backward spin in sight. But if we were to look at Mercury from Earth, we would see it slow down, seemingly pause for a moment, and begin to retrace its steps, as if it had turned around to retread the path it had just taken.
This is our experience of the cosmos. This is how we perceive and therefore understand the movements of planets. It’s not objective. It’s not a fact. Yet it is so Real.
What Mercury Retrograde 2025 in Sagittarius teaches you
Mercury begins its retrograde in Sagittarius, a sign that’s all about perspective.
Sagittarius is our zodiac seeker. It is here to explore meaning, philosophy and possibilities. It is here to expand the mind and discover purpose. It is also here to experience life in its fullness, experience all there is, and draw meaning from those experiences to form beliefs. According to Sagittarius, truth is subjective: we are all here to discover our own understanding of truth, meaning, and purpose.
Sagittarius is also concerned with the big picture. It asks about the larger cosmologies of this universe and our place in it. It speaks of faith, belonging and faith.
In astrology, Mercury is ours planet of the mind, communication, thinking and learning. It is the way we process our reality – the stories through which we perceive the world, the way we integrate our daily interactions into those stories, and how we align the rhythms of life with our framework of understanding.
As Mercury retrogrades through this Jupiter-ruled sign, we reassess our own truth, meaning, and purpose. We turn, look inward, and observe and reconsider the stories, narratives, and perspectives that have shaped our understanding of truth, meaning, and purpose.
How many of the beliefs, stories, and perspectives that have shaped your reality are actually yours rather than inherited? How many are still relevant or no longer aligned with who you are? Mercury retrograde is a space to reorient the way we see the world. not just from the mind, but from a space of feeling, knowing, intuiting and understanding what your experiences have shown you.
As Mercury approaches the midpoint of its retrograde, it will turn backward into Scorpio on November 18, 2025, where it will travel for the remainder of its retrograde. While Sagittarius explores the heights of the cosmos and peers beyond the horizon so it can expand its perspective, Scorpio traverses the invisible depths of the underworld. Scorpio peels back layers, revealing the underlying meanings, truths, and invisible threads moving beneath the surface.
Mercury in Scorpio knows that there is more to this life than we see. Communication involves more than words. Our perspectives include more than just stories. There is a whole invisible world that, although invisible, powerfully shapes, guides and influences our lived reality.
As Mercury moves through this Pluto-ruled sign of the zodiac, it becomes the psychopomp – the cosmic guide that takes us into the unconscious, the layers of ourselves that live beneath it, the emotions, pain, memories, fears and experiences that have shaped our beliefs about this world. Whether they are our own or inherited responses, these responses have an origin. And they seep into our lives.
There is an invitation to reclamation in this second chapter of Mercury’s retrograde. A chance to meet the parts of us that have been kept from our consciousness and silenced. The parts of us that we have thrown away, suppressed, shamed and hidden underground. They have been waiting to be seen, understood, accepted and integrated. Here we meet more of ourselves. And in doing so, we regain, transform, and become even more of ourselves.
What Mercury Retrograde 2025 means for you
Mercury is looking for the truth. Each time it goes retrograde is an integral part of that journey that brings a new lens through which to experience the world. Just as Mercury retrograde is based on perspective, this entire retrograde—and your entire life—is an opportunity to expand your perspectives with intention, meaning, and purpose.
Just as Mercury turns to retread the path we have just taken, we do the same when we retrace the path we have just taken. Every moment of life has the potential to change us. When we arrive at this moment and look at our lives, we do so from a new point of view, through different eyes and with greater awareness. Personal truth, although created in conjunction with our outer experiences, comes from within. This retrograde is your space to go within and find your voice, your meaning, and your truth. Read for your rising sign.
Aries rising
This retrograde asks you to clear away the noise, teachings, and learned systems and perceptions so that you can refocus on your inner voice. It’s not about anyone else. It reminds you that your truth cannot be based on someone else’s ideas. It invites intimacy with yourself as you explore the experiences that make you who you are. Don’t be surprised if you feel contemplative and inward-looking.
Taurus rising
This retrograde integrates the mental body with the emotional body. It requires honesty as you explore the patterns and stories beneath the surface. These are the expressions of you waiting to be seen and the energy and stories that influence your sense of purpose, connection, empowerment and relationships.
Gemini rising
Talk to your mind, body and heart. What exists in your heart that no longer feels liberating or true? What stories and stories have shaped how your heart opens, closes, loves and connects? What perceptions have shaped your sense of belonging in this world and how you cherish all aspects of yourself? What you say to yourself matters. Choose carefully.
Cancer is rising
Reconnect with your deepest truths. Let it illuminate how finding your greater meaning and purpose can shape even the smallest moments of your life. This also applies to your daily rhythms and routines. The intentions that guide you and your relationship with yourself. The way you let your light shine or choose to dim it, suppress it or hide it. And your ability to cultivate a relationship with creativity and play. It’s all calling your name.
Leo rising
Reconnect with your life force, your truth, your passions and your creativity. As you move within, let your truth guide you. Let it bring you back to your sense of meaning and purpose, joy and play. Let it begin by unraveling and rewriting all the old stories that were never yours, but rather inherited in your formative years. Let it give your inner child a voice.
Virgo rising
Reexamine your foundation: the stories that shaped you, the experiences that shaped you, and the ways your formative years influenced your existence. This can be conscious and unconscious, supportive and harmful. It is a space to listen to all the voices in your mind – anxious and inspired, hurting and healing. By listening we offer space for things to change.
Libra rises
This Mercury retrograde longs for your liberation. It invites you to gather all the beliefs you have accumulated throughout your life and observe which ones are truly yours and which are ready to let go. It is an invitation to journey into your body and emotions and bring the truth of your dignity to all levels of yourself.
Scorpio rising
Reconnect with your perception of support and worth. Do you believe that you are worthy of good? That life supports you? That you are capable of beautiful things? You rewrite your inner story around dignity, freedom, money, safety, identity and confidence in yourself and in life. There is power in your intentions, beliefs and the ability to create your desires.
Sagittarius rising
If you could place every story, idea, and belief about who you are and what life means in front of you and step back, what would you see? What would you remove from that scenario? Then who could you be? Let this act of observation show you how life – and yourself – might surprise you by showing you something different. Listen to any inner truths that may now be speaking – not from your head but from your heart.
Capricorn Rising
Think of this retrograde as a sacred space where you can let go of everything you know is no longer yours to hold. That includes fears and stories that keep you from being your true self, that keep you from having the courage to be yourself, and that tell you not to follow your dreams. In this release there is a reorientation towards your most aligned path forward.
Aquarius rising
Mercury retrograde is a time to explore your stories, beliefs, emotions, and inner patterns around possibility and belonging. It is a space to look at what you want to contribute to this world and whether you think you can do that. And it’s an opportunity to observe the fears and voices (related to self-doubt and imposter syndrome) that exist within you, but are not yours.
Pisces rising
This Mercury retrograde brings you inward for the purpose of reorientation and realignment. This serves the forward movement of your life as it relates to purpose, belonging, creation and legacy. And that happens by reconnecting, by clearing your mind of all voices but your own, and by coming home to your passions, purpose, inner compass and self-authority.
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