MERCURY IN SCORPIO

Mercury moves into Scorpio on November 18, 2025 until December 11, 2025. Mercury will be in retrograde motion this entire second transit through Scorpio this Fall. The first transit of Mercury in Scorpio was from October 6 - 29, 2025 and then moved into Sagittarius.

Mercury retrogrades in Sagittarius on November 9, 2025 and will re-enter Scorpio in retrograde status on November 18, 2025. Mercury will remain retrograde until November 29, 2025 where it will then turn 'Direct' and then move back into Sagittarius on December 11, 2025.

Mercury entered its pre-shadow period from October 21 to November 9, 2025. That's when Mercury started s-l-o-w-i-n-g down. It's the 'orb of influence'. Remember, no aspect or even transit just enters and SNAP it changes energy. It's not that cut and dry.

Mercury is a very fast planet (2nd to the Moon) and so he will slow down to a snails pace during that pre-shadow phase until he stops on November 9th and starts heading backward. It's like shifting the gears in your car from Drive to Reverse. You just don't BAM go into reverse. You have to slow down and then come to a stop and then shift gears.

The same is True coming out of Mercury Retrograde.

There is a 2 week post-shadow period when it takes him 2 weeks to get back up to his normal speed, like a locomotive that gradually choo-choo-choo gets back up to normal speed, or you when you are driving a car and getting on the highway. You start picking up speed on the ramp and by the time you get to the highway, you should be at highway speed. The post shadow period is from November 29 to December 16, 2025.

I will add, it is the same as when you get sick. You really don't just wake-up sick. Nothing works like that, the flu or a retrograde planet. You might feel like that is what occurred, but it isn't. The critter (virus or bacteria) or another issue was already manifesting itself. It was in the 'orb of influence'. The critter replicated enough so that it compromised you and set off a chain reaction. Blood sugar and Diabetes is like that. No one just wakes up and has a cold, the flu, cancer, or Type II Diabetes. Most of the time, a person works hard at compromising their own body systems until the systems swing in the negative direction.

During the pre-shadow phase, retrograde itself, and the post-shadow phase, DO NOT sign new contracts, documents or anything binding. DO NOT buy new devices, appliances, vehicles or gadgets. That would be from October 21, 2025 until December 16, 2025. And DO NOT have elective surgery during this time either as Mercury rules Gemini (communication and transportation) and Mercury rules Virgo (physical health care and doctors).

Mercury stands for the intellect, common sense, cold reason, commerce and business. Its qualities are fluidity and versatility. Its position and aspects tell us about our communication and learning habits and our modes of thinking. The house that Mercury occupies in your Natal Chart is where these characteristics will manifest the most.

Here is a nice little piece of Mercury trivia for you. Mercury will never be more than one Sun Sign away from the Sun. This means someone who has their Sun in Scorpio, will have their Mercury within 1 Sun Sign on either side of Scorpio or it will be in the sign of Scorpio. This means there are only three possibilities that a Scorpio Sun Sign individual might have their Mercury in -- Mercury in Libra, Mercury in Scorpio or Mercury in Sagittarius. This helps you guess someone's Mercury even if you don't know their exact birthdate but you know their Sun Sign. You can pretty much rule out Mercury in the opposite sign (Taurus) or the four signs on each side Taurus (Gemini, Cancer, Leo, Virgo) and (Aries, Pisces, Aquarius, Capricorn). Cool huh?

Mercury in Scorpio is a very profound communicative transit. Let's think about this. Scorpio is very intense, secretive and instinctive, so when coupled with the planet of communication this creates extremely profound and capable insight. This intensifies the ability to see human motivations more clearly.

Mercury in Scorpio cuts to the chase and does not mince words and if you know a Scorpio, their language is generally fairly sharp and often stinging. If you don't want to know, then don't ask a Scorpio because they won't spare your sensitive feelings, you will just have to get over it. Scorpio energy either says what it feels or doesn't say anything at all. Actually, the silence of a Scorpio says a lot. It's no secret, Scorpio hates and Loves with equal fervor.

Mercury in Scorpio creates a very determined mind able to tap all resources. Think people think! Mercury is the thinking planet and so Mercury in Scorpio will help you think your way through challenges and overcome them. Scorpio is also the worrier of the zodiac, so if you choose the route of worrying your way through instead of thinking your way through, then this transit will feed your 'chosen' suffering. Worrying does not serve you, it only makes you suffer. Make a choice, worry or solve through thinking.

Scorpio is not only ruled by the scorpion and the eagle, it is also ruled by the mythical and sacred bird, 'the phoenix rising' who rose from the ashes and transformed. Scorpio carries the ability of the 'Midas Touch' who has the ability to turn the situation around like King Midas who turned everything he touched into gold. Scorpio has knack for getting out of severely challenging situations by simply transforming the situation into something better. It's like taking a donut and twisting it like a pretzel into a neverending figure eight. That is the work of a Scorpio. It is my belief that a Scorpio invented the twist donut and lemonade. If anyone can take lemons and turn it into lemonade, it is indeed a Scorpio.

While it is important to have each sign of the zodiac on your team, can you now see how important it is to have a Scorpio on your team. Keep in mind that we all have Scorpio somewhere in our Natal Chart, which means Scorpio is part of you, so you should get to know this sign and where you carry the transformative power of the 'Midas Touch' and the 'Phoenix Rising'.

Scorpio rules the genitalia (sex organs) and thereby rules sex; therefore, the thinking planet of Mercury causes a preoccupation with sex. There is also probably some secret chatter, secret talks (or phone sex) going on as well.

Being that Scorpio is the secretive and investigative Agent 007 of the zodiac, this transit brings about intense research, detective and investigative tendencies. Mercury in Scorpio is like a dang ferret, rooting around and digging and finding answers.

As a gentle reminder, never ever lie to a Scorpio, because they will find out. Their natural suspicious and questioning mind tells them to "trust but verify". My favorite 'Scorpio' style quote is from the movie, 'The Firm'. Wilford Brimley's character who is 'the firms' cleaner, aka fixer, aka detective said, "I get paid to be suspicious when I've got nothing to be suspicious about."

Actually, Scorpio's don't really trust anyone. Someone in the zodiac has to be this way and Scorpio is the one. Scorpio's don't mistrust, they distrust. This why their level of communication often involves withholding information rather than providing information. You can always tell just how suspicious and/or secretive a Scorpio is when you ask them a question and they respond asking, "Why?" BOOM, they are withholding information right there because the 'why' stops the questioning and puts it back on you requiring you to answer their 'why'. Man that's slick! They will not answer your 'why' which gets volleyed back to you and trips you up.

Ask 666iden (Scorpio) a question and he says, "Ah come on man!" Scorpio's DO NOT like being questioned, but they will have a million questions for you. Scorpio wants to be the one asking the questions of you, not you asking questions of them.

So 666iden responds to your question with a question. He says, "I'll tell you what we should be asking, we should be asking . . ." and now if you notice, ca666ala harris does the same thing because she has Mercury in Scorpio in her Natal Chart. She changes the question too and then answers her own question. She says, "The better question is . . . " and then she answers that question. Watch for Scorpio's or those with Mercury in Scorpio to do this very thing. They correct your question and word it the way they want.

So the Scorpio is going to tell you what you should be asking. Scorpio wants to know why you are asking the question, even the simplest question. They want to know why you want to know why. So when a Scorpio asks you a question before they ask you why, ask them, "Why are you asking me 'why'? Is there a problem?" Just 'why' them back. (winky wink)

Hey, I'm a Gemini, we are ruled by Mercury, I know how to 'find-muck' aka 'mind f---' in return. I can play this game too ya' know. hehehe

So anyway, due to the distrust and/or mistrust, this is why Scorpio needs insurance and assurance. Scorpio naturally rules the 8th house of joint resources (money, wills, insurance), joint physicality (sex) and joint feeling (assurance). Scorpio really does want to share their Life with someone and when they do, you can best believe that they consider you, someone special. Stay Astrologized™.

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