Mercury enters Aries

Mercury is in Aries from March 3-29, 2025, and then from April 16-May 10, 2025. [Why two periods? Mercury spends its time in Aries in two steps due to its upcoming retrograde cycle.]

When Mercury is in Aries, we are less concerned with objective viewpoints and explanations, and more concerned with reaching a decision…quickly!

Our thoughts and ideas are pioneering, and we tend to speak more spontaneously and directly with the planet of communication in bold and assertive Aries.

Mercury in Aries themes:

• quick, possibly impatient or hurried, decisions
• independent thought
• mental competitiveness
• direct, straightforward, honest, uncomplicated (perhaps insensitive or blunt) communications
• executive decisions
• preference to learn through personal experience, not instruction
• quick, perhaps defensive or combative, responses

Mercury spends more than the usual few weeks in the sign of Aries in 2025 due to a retrograde cycle that will occur in the signs of Aries and Pisces from March 15th to April 7th, 2025.

Aspects Mercury makes while in the sign of Aries in 2025

This list excludes the Moon since it forms far too many aspects to list here, and the dates of the major aspects of Mercury are in bold.

• Mar  3, 2025    12:15 PM Mercury quintile Jupiter
• Mar 5, 2025  8:13 AM Mercury  3 Aries 00 sextile Pluto  3 Aquarius 00
• Mar 11, 2025   6:54 PM Mercury  8 Aries 47 conjunction  Venus  8 Aries 47
• Mar 12, 2025     4:25 AM Mercury  8 Aries 58 semi-square Uranus 23 Taurus 58
• Mar 17, 2025     2:28 PM Mercury  9 Aries 10 semi-square Uranus 24 Taurus 10
• Mar 24, 2025  3:48 PM Sun  4 Aries 25 conjunction  Mercury  4 Aries 25
• Mar 25, 2025 6:02 PM Mercury  3 Aries 27 sextile Pluto  3 Aquarius 27
• Mar 26, 2025     2:53 AM Mercury quintile Jupiter
• Apr 17, 2025  12:11 AM Mercury  0 Aries 38 conjunction  Neptune  0 Aries 38
• April 20, 2025  5:39 PM Mercury  3 Aries 46 sextile Pluto  3 Aquarius 46
• Apr 25, 2025    12:12 AM Mercury quintile Jupiter
• Apr 27, 2025    10:58 AM Mercury 11 Aries 08 semi-square Uranus 26 Taurus 08
• May  1, 2025     1:19 AM Mercury quintile Pluto
• May 5, 2025  1:21 PM Mercury 22 Aries 20 sextile Jupiter 22 Gemini 20
• May 6, 2025  9:48 PM Mercury 24 Aries 25 conjunction  Chiron 24 Aries 25
• May  8, 2025     2:54 AM Mercury 26 Aries 20 semi-sextile  True Node 26 Pisces 20
• May  8, 2025     8:56 AM Mercury 26 Aries 45 semi-sextile  Uranus 26 Taurus 45
• May  9, 2025     1:31 PM Mercury 28 Aries 42 semi-sextile  Saturn 28 Pisces 42