ASTROLOGICAL WEATHER |TAROT and RITUAL | NOVEMBER 9-15 2025
ASTROLOGICAL WEATHER
Something is stirring in the soil. Deep tectonic shifts we’ve felt building beneath. This is the URANUS RETROGRADE into TAURUS (see last week's report), We now have a stirring closer to the surface — a sense that what’s been transforming in the deep is ready to be revised, reviewed, reimagined. This week, the theme is RETROGRADE REVERIE — an invitation to move forward by checking the rearview mirror.
MERCURY retrograde in SAGITTARIUS begins on November 9, the final retrograde of the year, and the last word in a long conversation about truth and belief. Sagittarius is ruled by JUPITER — so as MERCURY retraces its steps here, the mind turns toward meaning. This isn’t confusion; it’s composting. It’s the process of rethinking the stories we tell ourselves about freedom, direction, and faith. What needs to be revised so that your words ring truer? What vision are you ready to rewrite, not abandon?
On November 10, the MOON enters LEO, coaxing warmth and heart back into the room. We’re reminded to play, to perform, to find lightness even while revisiting the past. Then, JUPITER stations retrograde in CANCER on November 11, turning our gaze inward to the emotional foundations that shape our growth. It’s not expansion for expansion’s sake now, but a sacred homecoming. Where have we grown too far from what nurtures us?
By November 12, MERCURY conjuncts MARS — words are weapons or medicine, depending on how we wield them. Passion meets perspective; honesty demands presence. The MOON in VIRGO that same day steadies the energy, asking for ritual, clarity, devotion to what matters most.
The week closes with the MOON entering LIBRA on November 15 — a sigh of grace after the rewiring. We begin to balance, to see where our truth fits in relationship to others. Revision softens into understanding.
Two planets turning backward invite us to walk more slowly, more deliberately — to integrate what we’ve gathered. These retrogrades aren’t regressions; they’re sacred re-alignments, turning us gently toward the truest version of forward.
SUN | MOON | RISING
Read through your SUN | MOON | RISING to know where this week’s energy unfolds in your chart. Take what resonates, leave the rest.
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ARIES
This week invites you to slow the flame that burns so brightly within you. With MERCURY and MARS in SAGITTARIUS, your thoughts may race ahead — eager to leap, declare, or define. Yet MERCURY RETROGRADE reminds you that wisdom comes not from haste but reflection. Take time to notice where your fire is being directed and whether it serves your highest truth. When JUPITER RETROGRADE in CANCER stirs your emotional landscape, soften. Growth now is quiet, internal, and brave.
TAURUS
There’s a gentle rumbling beneath your calm exterior — a pull to revise your relationship with security and worth. JUPITER RETROGRADE in CANCER encourages reconnection with your emotional roots and ancestral stories. What patterns of care or self-protection have become too rigid? MERCURY RETROGRADE in SAGITTARIUS asks you to look at shared resources, trust, and where you’ve given too much of your energy away. Let the week be one of reclaiming your energy through small, sacred pauses.
GEMINI
Your ruling planet, MERCURY, is RETROGRADE, and you feel it keenly. Conversations twist, truths reveal themselves in stages, and the space between words feels louder than the words themselves. MARS in SAGITTARIUS adds heat — an urgency to be understood — but this week teaches that curiosity, not certainty, opens the way forward. JUPITER RETROGRADE in CANCER reawakens questions of value and safety; choose nourishment over noise.
CANCER
With JUPITER RETROGRADE in your own sign, the emotional tides rise and fall with a familiar rhythm. This week offers both expansion and release — a chance to forgive the self for holding on too tightly. MERCURY and MARS in SAGITTARIUS bring movement to your daily routines, stirring your motivation to improve, refine, and reimagine your rhythms. Listen to your body’s cues. Rest is not retreat; it is readiness.
LEO
The MOON moving through your sign early in the week fans your fire, illuminating where you shine effortlessly and where your energy needs rebalancing. MERCURY RETROGRADE in SAGITTARIUS asks you to reconnect with joy — not perform it, but feel it. JUPITER RETROGRADE in CANCER calls you inward, to replenish the unseen parts of yourself. There’s a quiet courage in stepping out of the spotlight to listen to your heart’s softer hum.
VIRGO
The MOON enters your sign midweek, grounding all that has been stirred by the recent retrogrades. MERCURY, your ruling planet, RETROGRADE in SAGITTARIUS, turns your attention toward your foundations — home, belonging, and what you consider sacred. Allow yourself to reorganize from the inside out. As JUPITER RETROGRADE in CANCER encourages reflection on your wider connections, choose kindness as your compass. You are refining, not retreating.
LIBRA
After the intensity of recent weeks, a gentler tone settles in. The MOON moves into your sign by week’s end, aligning with your desire for harmony and beauty. MERCURY and MARS in SAGITTARIUS spark your communication sector, but with MERCURY RETROGRADE, discernment matters more than speed. JUPITER RETROGRADE in CANCER calls for balance between your public and private selves. Let grace guide your recalibration.
SCORPIO
The SUN still illuminates your sign, and with it comes clarity — but also the need to rest after the light of revelation. MERCURY and MARS in SAGITTARIUS stir your thoughts about resources and stability. What sustains you, and what drains you? JUPITER RETROGRADE in CANCER reminds you that expansion often begins with emotional honesty. Allow yourself to feel before you act. There’s alchemy in patience.
SAGITTARIUS
Both MERCURY and MARS blaze through your sign this week, yet MERCURY RETROGRADE ensures that progress will feel more like pruning. You’re redefining how you share your truth, how you speak your philosophy into the world. JUPITER RETROGRADE in CANCER draws your gaze to vulnerability — the wisdom of showing your softer edges. This week isn’t about the grand leap; it’s about learning how to breathe midair.
CAPRICORN
The week begins under your influence, grounding what has felt unsteady. The MOON in your sign on MONDAY reminds you that the body is the container of all transformation. As JUPITER RETROGRADE in CANCER reworks your partnerships, you’re asked to open where you’ve built walls. MERCURY RETROGRADE in SAGITTARIUS brings intuitive downloads in solitude — make time for silence. Stillness is your strongest strategy.
AQUARIUS
The MOON in your sign midweek amplifies your vision — bright, bold, and future-bound. Yet with MERCURY RETROGRADE in SAGITTARIUS, there’s a reminder that clarity doesn’t require immediacy. JUPITER RETROGRADE in CANCER turns the lens inward toward emotional maintenance. What does self-care look like when you’re leading change? Balance vision with nourishment. You’re building the future one quiet choice at a time.
PISCES
JUPITER RETROGRADE in CANCER harmonizes beautifully with your sign, asking you to trust the unseen flow that carries you. MERCURY and MARS in fiery SAGITTARIUS may create internal tension — a feeling that the world moves faster than your heart. You are not meant to keep pace with the noise; you are meant to move with the rhythm of intuition. Let inspiration arrive gently. Let it be enough.
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TAROT OF THE WEEK
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TAROT OF THE WEEK — THE HERMIT
As the skies turn inward under the double retrogrades of MERCURY in SAGITTARIUS and JUPITER in CANCER, THE HERMIT steps forward with her lantern lit low — not to reveal the path ahead, but to remind us that illumination begins within. Her light doesn’t flood the terrain; it glows softly, enough for a single step, enough to keep moving even when clarity has not yet come.
This card is not about isolation but integration — the quiet art of re-gathering what has scattered, the wisdom of pausing when the world insists on speed. The retrogrades call for review, for revision, for remembering. THE HERMIT whispers: Don’t seek the answer out there, child of stars — it is already rising from within you.
You may feel the weight of reflection this week, but this is sacred work — the deep cleansing of perception that prepares us for expansion. Each retrograde, each pause, is a polishing of the lens through which we see our own becoming. This is your invitation to hold the light close, tend to your rituals, and listen for the truth moving quietly under all the noise.
RITUAL FOR THE WEEK — THE ART OF QUIET RETURN
This week, as MERCURY and JUPITER both turn RETROGRADE, the universe invites a slowing — a return to the internal flame. The PEACE Box becomes your companion in this descent, each roller a small ceremony of recalibration.
Begin in the morning, before words or screens, by rolling MINDFULNESS at the temples and the heart. Let its grounded citrus and woods remind you that the mind can be both vast and still. Sit for a minute with one hand on your chest, one on your belly — feel your own pulse as a compass.
When the noise of the day threatens to spill over, roll PEACE OUT at the wrists and behind the neck. Close the eyes. Inhale through the nose, exhale through the mouth. Let go of what isn’t yours to carry. Retrogrades are not setbacks; they are sacred revisions — opportunities to move differently through the same terrain.
And at night, as the Moon shifts toward LIBRA, soften everything. Roll SLEEP at the soles of the feet, the back of the neck, the palms. Breathe in the cool stillness it brings. Whisper a single sentence to yourself: “I am enough for this moment.”
This is the work of THE HERMIT — finding peace not in the absence of motion, but in the presence of awareness.