The Final Mercury Retrograde of 2025 is Almost Here. This is What You Need to Know, Including Your Horoscope.

Welcome to the final Mercury retrograde of the year. It prompts us to review the year soon coming to a close and much more in an exploration of meaning, purpose, and our place in this world. It brings us a chance for reorienting toward and reclaiming our personal truths in how we perceive and move through this world.

When is Mercury Retrograde 2025?

The final Mercury retrograde of the year meets us on November 9, 2025, and continues until November 29, 2025. Mercury will begin its apparent backward spin in Sagittarius and remain there until November 18, 2025, before shifting back into Scorpio where it will remain throughout the duration of its retrograde.

What Does Mercury in Retrograde Mean?

As Mercury shifts into its apparent backward spin, known as retrograde, it highlights the fact 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 journey into the cosmos as Mercury is in retrograde, we would see it move as usual—no backward spin to be found. Yet if we were to look up at Mercury from Earth, we would see it slow down, seemingly pause for a moment, and begin retracing its steps, as if it had turned around to rewalk the path just taken.

This is our experience of the cosmos. This is how we observe, and therefore understand, the movements of planets. It is not objective. It is not fact. Yet it is real.

What Mercury Retrograde 2025 in Sagittarius Teaches You

Mercury begins its retrograde in Sagittarius, a sign that is all about perspective.

Sagittarius is our seeker of the zodiac. It’s here to explore meaning, philosophy, and possibility. It’s here to expand the mind and uncover purpose. It’s also here to experience life in its fullness, experience all there is, and extract meaning from those experiences in order to form beliefs. According to Sagittarius, truth is subjective—we are each here to discover our own understanding of truth, meaning, and purpose.

Sagittarius is also concerned with the big picture. It asks about the vaster cosmologies of this Universe and our place within them. It speaks of faith, belonging, and belief.

In astrology, Mercury is our planet of the mind, communication, thought, and learning. It is the way we process our reality—the narratives through which we perceive the world, the way we integrate our everyday interactions into those narratives, and howe we align the rhythms of life with our framework of understanding.

As Mercury retrogrades through this Jupiter-ruled sign, we review our own truth, meaning, and purpose. We turn around, look within, and observe as well as rethink the stories, narratives, and perspectives that have shaped our understanding of truth, meaning, and purpose.

How many of the beliefs, narratives, and perspectives that shaped your reality are actually yours versus inherited? How many are still relevant versus no longer aligned with who you are? Mercury retrograde is a space to reorient how we see the world. not only from the mind but from a space of feeling, knowing, intuiting, and understanding what your experiences have shown you.

As Mercury nears the mid-point of its retrograde, it spins backward into Scorpio on November 18, 2025, where it will journey for the remainder of its retrograde. Whereas Sagittarius explores the heights of the cosmos, peering beyond the horizon so that it may expand its perspective, Scorpio traverses the unseen depths of the underworld. Scorpio peels back layers, uncovering the underlying meanings, truths, and unseen threads that move beneath the surface.

Mercury in Scorpio knows that there is more to this life than we see. There is more to communication than words. There is more to our perspectives than stories. There is an entire world unseen that, while unseen, powerfully shapes, guides, and influences our lived reality.

When Mercury shifts and retrogrades through this Pluto-ruled sign of the zodiac, it becomes the psychopomp—the cosmic guide taking us into the unconscious, the layers of ourselves living beneath, the emotions, hurts, memories, fears, and experiences that have shaped our beliefs of this world. Whether our own or inherited, these reactions have origins. And they’re seeping into our living.

There is an invitation of reclamation in this second chapter of Mercury’s retrograde. An opportunity to meet the parts of us that have been kept from our awareness and silenced. The parts of us that we have cast 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 so doing, we reclaim, transform, and become even more of ourselves.

What Mercury Retrograde 2025 Means for You

Mercury is on a truth-seeking journey. Each time it retrogrades is an integral part of that journey that brings a new lens through which you can experience the world. Just as Mercury’s 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 around to rewalk the path just taken, we do the same when we rewalk our path just taken. Every moment of life has the potential to change us. As we arrive in this moment reviewing our lives, we do so from a new vantage point, through different eyes, and with increased awareness. Personal truth, although created in partnership with our outer experiences, comes from within. This retrograde is your space to venture inward and find your voice, your meaning, and your truth. Read for your rising sign.

Aries Rising

This retrograde asks you to strip away the noise, the teachings, and the learned systems and perceptions so that you can reorient to your inner voice. It isn’t 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 focused.

Taurus Rising

This retrograde integrates mental body with emotional body. It asks for honesty as you explore the patterns and narratives cycling beneath the surface. These are the expressions of you waiting to be seen and the energy and stories influencing your sense of purpose, belonging, empowerment, and relationships.

Gemini Rising

Come into conversation with your mind, body, and heart. What exists within your heart that no longer feels liberating or true? What stories and narratives have shaped how your heart opens, closes, loves, and connects? What perceptions have shaped your sense of belonging in this world and how you nurture all aspects of yourself? What you tell yourself matters. Choose carefully.

Cancer Rising

Reconnect with your deepest truths. Let it illuminate how finding your larger meaning and purpose can shape even the smallest moments of your life. That includes your everyday rhythms and routines. The intentions that guide you and your relationship with yourself. The way you allow your light to shine or choose to dim, suppress, or hide it. And your ability to cultivate a relationship with creativity and play. All of it is calling your name.

Leo Rising

Reconnect with your life force, your truth, your passions, and your creativity. As you go within, let your truth lead you. Let it bring you back to your sense of meaning and purpose, joy and play. Let it begin unraveling and rewriting any old stories that were never yours but rather inherited in your formative years. Let it give your inner child a voice.

Virgo Rising

Revisit your foundation—the stories that shaped you, the experiences that molded you, and the ways your formative years influenced your existence. This can be consciously and unconsciously, supportive and harmful. It is a space to listen to all the voices within your mind—fearful and inspired, hurting and healing. Through listening, we offer space for things to shift.

Libra Rising

This Mercury retrograde desires your liberation. It invites you to collect every belief gathered throughout your lifetime and observe which are truly yours and which are ready to be released. It is an invitation to travel into your body and emotions and bring the truth of your worthiness to all layers of self.

Scorpio Rising

Reconnect to your perception of support and worthiness. Do you believe you are worthy of goodness? That life is supporting you? That you are capable of beautiful things? You are rewriting your inner narrative around worthiness, freedom, money, security, identity, and trust in self as well as life. There is power found in your intentions, beliefs, and 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 take a step back, what would you see? What would you remove from that scenario? Who could you then be? Let this act of observing show you how life—and yourself—might surprise you by showing you something different. Listen for any inner truths that can now begin to speak—not from your mind but from your heart.

Capricorn Rising

Think of this retrograde as a sacred space where you can release all that you know isn’t yours to hold any longer. That includes fears and narratives that keep you from being your truest self, that hold you back from having the courage to be you, and that tell you not to follow your dreams. In this release, there is a reorienting to your most aligned way forward.

Aquarius Rising

Mercury retrograde is a time to explore your narratives, beliefs, emotions, and inner patterns surrounding possibility and belonging. It’s a space to look at what you want to contribute to this world and if you believe you can. And it’s a chance to observe the fears and voices—related to self-doubt and imposter syndrome—that exist within you yet don’t belong to you.

Pisces Rising

This Mercury retrograde brings you inward for the purpose of reorientation and realignment. This is in service to the forward movement of your life as relates to purpose, belonging, creation, and legacy. And it does so through reconnecting, through clearing your mind of all voices but your own, and by coming home to your passions, purpose, inner compass, and self-authority.