November 18 2025

Tuesday, NOVEMBER 18

This morning, there is some tendency to want to get started before we have a good plan, as Mars and Jupiter form a minor square. This aspect excites our desire to do something new and produces some agitation and competitive feelings that can either distract us or spur us to improve. Enthusiasm and motivation can be incredible if we know where to channel excess energy.

Still, overconfidence and overestimation of what we can do may lead to poor decisions or regrettable actions. We can also be rather argumentative and reactive with this combination.

As well, a Venus-Neptune minor square this morning may seduce us into believing things we want to believe. While glossing over the more realistic points, details, and flaws of circumstances and people might feel good at the moment, it’s best to hold off on making important purchases or relationship decisions until the veil lifts.

Mercury, still retrograde, returns to Scorpio today, where it will spend for the remainder of Mercury’s retrograde (to the 29th) and beyond. While Mercury is retrograde in the sign of Scorpio, it’s a strong time to get in touch with our instincts, motivations, and “dark” side. Now is the time to explore our more intimate and emotional natures and how these affect our decision-making processes. Increased sensitivity in our emotional “radar” is likely.

We should watch that we don’t get into a paranoid frame of mind, or read too much negativity into what others say. Retrograde Mercury periods tend to send us to the past for more or previously hidden information, and while in Scorpio, this is especially the case.

When Mercury is in Scorpio in general, our thoughts and communications are more probing and intense. Looking for motivations–the more deeply buried, the better–satisfies an intellectual need now. Our thoughts are profound. We throw away superficial communication in favor of deep conversations. Our thinking is inclined to be one-track-minded, focused, and even obsessive in the weeks ahead.

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