October 24 2026

Saturday, OCTOBER 24

Mercury turns retrograde today, and cloudy thinking or confusion can figure strongly today with Mercury at a station. Communication can be tricky.

Mercury will remain retrograde until November 13th and will stay in the sign of Scorpio for the duration. During this time, our thinking turns inward as we review and reassess matters.

Mercury retrograde periods can be times of heightened inner awareness, when meditation, journal-keeping, reworking old plans, and reviewing past work are favored. Minor breaks in the mechanics of communication can reconnect us to other, possibly more meaningful, ways of communicating. We might look at past decisions and ideas from a new, enlightened perspective.

However, the chances of probing questions doing some damage run high.

Interestingly, this retrograde Mercury cycle overlaps the remainder of the retrograde Venus cycle, although Venus will return to Libra tomorrow. Both planets will end their retrogrades on the same day, November 13th.

The Moon spends today in the sign of Aries. While this is impulsive energy, today’s Moon transits help us moderate this tendency, and perhaps even use it to our advantage. We can be quite motivated to be more self-reliant.

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