This week, as both Mercury and Jupiter begin their retrograde cycle, we are reminded that even as time moves forward, it asks us to look backward. Retrogrades bring a necessary review before there can be integration, realignment, and wisdom. They’re a time of inward reflection and personal truth. Your weekly horoscope for November 9-15, 2025, helps you understand where to look for your insights.

Weekly Horoscope, November 9-15, 2025, Preview

November 9 | Mercury retrograde in Sagittarius
November 10 | Moon enters Leo
November 11 | Jupiter retrograde in Cancer
November 12 | Mercury conjunct Mars; Moon enters Virgo
November 15 | Moon enters Libra

Mercury Retrograde in Sagittarius

As the week begins, the final Mercury retrograde of the year begins on November 9, 2025, and continues until November 29, 2025.

Mercury governs perception, language, communication, and the mental patterns that translate experience into meaning. It rules how we create stories, whether inner or outer, personal or shared. This storytelling is central to our human experience. It allows us to integrate our experiences, make meaning of them, and share wisdom across people, cultures, time, and space.

When Mercury stations retrograde, it asks us to reconsider the stories we tell ourselves, the perceptions that shape our experience, the narratives that have become rigid and definitive in spite of not always being accurate. These are what keep us stuck in a chapter that is no longer current.

Sagittarius is our zodiac of meaning making. It is story, myth, philosophy, belief, and wisdom. It seeks life in all its fullness and wants to experience, breathe, expand, understand, and embody all that the Universe and beyond offers.

Mercury retrograde in Sagittarius invites us to revisit what we’ve told ourselves about who we are, what is true, what is possible, and what life asks of us. It asks us to reclaim the movement and evolution of meaning and wonder, with curiosity, about the possibility that our current understanding is only one tiny translation of something far larger—and to let that possibility expand our minds and draw us closer to life itself.

Jupiter Retrograde in Cancer

Two days later, another retrograde takes place in our vast cosmos. The annual retrograde of Jupiter begins on November 11, 2025, and continues until March 10, 2026.

Jupiter is wisdom and perspective, healing and opportunity. It is growth and faith, trust and hope.  Cancer is emotion and intuition. It swims in memory. When stationed in the emotive and intuitive sign of Cancer, the planet helps us reflect on our past so that we may reclaim the parts of us left behind. Only then can we fully move into our present and future.

As Jupiter retrogrades through Cancer, we return to the many stories and layers from our formative years that still exist within. Both the experiences and emotions that we love and adore, celebrate and accept as well as the material that has been waiting for processing and understanding. It’s as if we’re taken by the hand through themes of emotion, belonging, and safety as we explore all our meanings of home—personal, spiritual, physical, relational, and ancestral.

Taking place farther away in our cosmos, Jupiter’s backward spin is felt more subtly in our everyday existence than Mercury retrograde yet its influence is just as profound. The outer planet brings four months of integration and change as opposed to just four weeks during Mercury retrograde.

Weekly Horoscope, November 9-15, 2025

If the cosmos serve as a mirror, then retrogrades ask you to confront your own wisdom.

With two retrogrades this week, our awareness and attention are being turned inward. You are an entire Universe within and there is much to explore. What stories of meaning and purpose, belonging and truth constitute your inner map? What fundamental needs must be met so that you can experience belonging and beauty? What emotions must be reclaimed so they can be released?

You don’t need to search for your inner guidance. Simply turn within and you will be drawn toward what is asking for review and realignment. Your weekly horoscope helps you understand how to prepare yourself for this inner reclaiming.

Aries Rising

This week explores your felt sense of belonging—to yourself, your emotions, your truths, and your entire world. It speaks to your need to feel safe and connected as well as to find purpose and meaning. Ask your innermost self what it needs to belong. And ask your entire life what it wants to do next in terms of purpose.

Taurus Rising

There’s enhanced intimacy, honesty, and truth with yourself and the innermost layers of your psyche. Take the role of observer as you become curious about your emotional needs and stories related to what’s true for you. Where did they come from? Do they still align for you?

Gemini Rising

Bring your curiosity inward this week. You are invited to bridge intellect and intuition as you observe the narratives and emotions that exist underneath your relationships. These narratives and emotions that sit underneath your experience of security, safety, and abundance are what influence your interactions.

Cancer Rising

It’s as if you’re encountering all versions of yourself past and future—including all the wisdom and healing they offer. As you do so, explore how you think about and nurture yourself day in day out in body, mind and spirit. Simply be curious about where the many layers of your relationship with yourself originated and what shaped their current form.

Leo Rising

You are being drawn to meaning, truth, self-expression, and authenticity. Everything about you is  on purpose and this week invites you home to an understanding of this. What does this truth mean for you? What stories would unravel, hurts would heal, and perspectives would shift, open, and expand?

Virgo Rising

Your inner world is an entire world unto itself—and this week invites you to adventure through it. Within the depths of your memories and emotions is the medicine of your ideas, stories, and creative passions. It has so much to show you.

Libra Rising

Reflection comes to you in service of your future this week. Reflection upon your stories of self and life, possibility and purpose. Reflection upon your emotional belonging and childhood loves, intuition and safety. Each layer of your reflection offers you something for your future building, fulfillment, purpose, and confidence.

Scorpio Rising

Each of us has ideas, stories, emotions, and narratives about our sense of security and worth. Each of us projects these onto the opportunities, possibilities, and experiences that are available to us in this life. The days ahead ask you to look at your stories as relate to finances and purpose, worth and safety.

Sagittarius Rising

This week is an opportunity to consider the narratives, emotions, and stories that make up your identity. These create the structure through which you express yourself to the world. These are the layers within your psyche waiting to be understood and integrated. They are an integral part of the identity shift that’s been taking place and cannot be ignored.

Capricorn Rising

This week brings space to connect with soul and spirit. What results is Explore the meaning of safety and love that comes to you through silence and intuition. Here you might find the healing of relationship experiences through self-nurturing. Your purpose reveals itself through meditation and surrender.

Aquarius Rising

What exists within us is the architect of our future. It shapes the opportunities we believe possible for ourselves and the way we take care of ourselves mentally, emotionally, and physically. It also defines the way we take action—or not—toward our desires. It’s time to review and question your beliefs about yourself and opportunity.

Pisces Rising

Your path ahead is still unfolding. Before moving forward, it asks for a pause. There is wisdom waiting to be found in a more nuanced understanding of your childhood narratives, especially those that relate to your relationship with safety and being seen.