Welcome to a week of depth and beauty, expansion and forward momentum. As Mercury turns retrograde into Scorpio and the new Moon joins him there, we turn inward. As the week draws to a close, the mood shifts toward revelation and forward momentum with the onset of Sagittarius season. Your weekly horoscope for November 16-23, 2025 explains how not to overlook the countless invitations to get to know yourself – and your potential – better.
Your weekly horoscope, November 16-23, 2025, example
November 17 | Moon enters Scorpio
November 18 | Mercury retrograde enters Scorpio
November 19 | New Moon in Scorpio
November 20 | Moon enters Sagittarius
November 21 | The sun enters Sagittarius
November 22 | Moon enters Capricorn
Mercury retrograde enters Scorpio
Last week, Mercury began its final retrograde spin of the year in the vast heights of Sagittarius. As he continues to retrace his steps, Mercury will cross the threshold between Sagittarius and return to Scorpio on November 18, 2025. This is the exact same space the planet crossed a few weeks ago. Now it returns to observe and experience what is there from a different perspective.
Mercury determines how we process reality and give meaning to the world. Retrogrades are a reorientation of perspective. Under the influence of Sagittarius, we assess the belief systems that exist within us. Under Scorpio we look at the unconscious material that causes us to have these belief systems. Sagittarius is enormous heights, Scorpio is deep depths.
Scorpio reminds us that there is more to the way we see this world, and therefore the way we interact with it, than we are aware of. There are unconscious patterns and stories that shape things beneath the surface. There are memories and emotions that color the lens through which we see. There are ways in which we are in opposition, struggle or competition within ourselves. This retrograde invites us to look at this. Not to dismiss, belittle or demonize them. Not to shame them. Not to blame them or try to fix them. But to hear their cry and find compassion for them. Shame is not our way forward. Understand.
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 Mercury is retrograde, in addition to this alignment. Three bodies holding hands. Three bodies invite us inside. There is strength in numbers, and in this situation there is also a strengthening of their tendency towards inner exploration.
A zoomed out cosmic background also takes place. In what is called a grand trine, three planets form a trine, each in water signs. Together these planets sensitize our self-awareness and offer perspectives on ourselves and life that transform, awaken and change us. It is a lunation of intuition, revelation, truth, liberation and compassion. It reconnects us with the deepest parts of ourselves, stripping away and starting over so that whatever we choose, we do so from a place of truth and what is real.
Sun enters Sagittarius
On November 21, 2025, the Sun enters Sagittarius, bringing fire, momentum and inspiration to this new version of ourselves. As the week comes under the influence of Sagittarius, the vibrations change and everything moves more freely.
Sagittarius season is a time of learning and wisdom, discovery and adventure. This sign asks us to look ahead. It is the archer, who stands in known lands and yet aims at the height of what is possible. Here we take a moment to listen and breathe as our inner compass reveals the direction of our arc, not with certainty but with honesty, aliveness and desire.
Sagittarius season forces us to tune in before we aim our arrows. What cry whispers from outside what we see and know? What do we want to achieve?
Your weekly horoscope, November 16-23, 2025
Curiosity, attentiveness and confidence are your touchstones throughout the week. The influence of Scorpio is inner development and emotional maturation. The influence of Sagittarius invites truth, expansion, possibility and adventure. Your weekly horoscope explains how to recognize what you are being shown.
Aries rising
Emotional truths are calling your name at the beginning of this week, as if you were traversing the deepest layers of yourself and staring into a mirror. What exists here? What does it ask for? What do you see? As Sagittarius begins to influence your days, you will be supported as you emerge from the underworld and look straight into the sky of possibilities. What’s next?
Taurus rising
Relational dynamics and heart healing. Intimacy and vulnerability. Connection to your truth and embodiment of your power. This week calls for tenderness in observing everything that nourishes your relationships, both consciously and unconsciously. It asks you to bring that same honesty to your belief in yourself, your strength and your life.
Gemini rising
This week speaks through your body. It asks for a certain pace, it asks to be heard, it asks for space. There is deep wisdom, power and healing in listening to the way your body speaks early this week. As Sagittarius season begins, the pace changes again. If so, you’re ready to take it a step further.
Cancer is rising
Check your stories that support 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 enjoy your own life force. Anticipate and allow yourself to experience liberation, passion and discovery all day long.
Leo rising
Your inner child and inner teenager possess much that they can share, express and feel. Where lies resistance to them? As the Sun and the sun come under Sagittarius’ influence later in the week, it invites these parts of yourself to express play, creativity and vibrancy. Allow it.
Virgo rising
Your mind has been deeply exploring and communicating with parts of yourself that have been waiting to be heard. How can you offer yourself compassion during this process? How can you welcome the wisdom, insights and stories? By the end of the week, the invitation is to come home to more comfortable spaces within your emotions, your body, and the spaces you consider home.
Libra rises
Wherever your self-confidence has been forgotten, this week reminds you and offers your inherent dignity as if it were the medicine itself. As Sagittarius season begins, it wants to open you up, show you more, and expand your vision, as if to repeatedly say, “More is possible.” Let yourself believe in it.
Scorpio rising
It’s time to reclaim more of yourself and start a new chapter, one based on your deepest truths. When the Sun leaves your sign later in the week, it’s time to not only claim this new self, but embody it.
Sagittarius rising
Edition of old stories. Releasing unconscious material. Liberation from everything that has kept you away from your inner world, intuition and connection with the sacred. This week is a liberation that becomes a rebirth. Now that your season is starting again, so are you. Who are you now?
Capricorn Rising
This week offers a profound recast. A reweaving of dreams, paths and visions that have been waiting for their time to resurface. Your path ahead is rewriting itself and calling for your truth and presence in it. As Sagittarius season begins, it invites you into the private sanctuary of your undisturbed, flowing, sacred energy.
Aquarius rising
Where do you dim and hide? Where do you forget your authority and power? Where are you neglecting your knowledge and purpose? Your weekly horoscope asks you to keep these patterns close as you try to understand and overcome them. It reminds us that your life is a canvas on which to create what you know you are here to create.
Pisces rising
Life speaks directly to you through every lived experience. Also through self-awareness, intuition and the urge to explore. It wants you to give yourself permission to claim your truths and perspectives so that they are no longer subordinate to the voices of others. It wants you to open yourself up to a future you may have never thought about.
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