Mercury Retrograde in Scorpio: Secrets, Shadows, and Second Chances.

0:09 This is a post. Astrology is for everyone. She says, Mercury was in Scorpio the night those porno frat boys sent that group chat in Snapchat. It's October. Mercury and Venus both go retrograde in Scorpio. And the sign of secrets, Scorpio, is coming back for every single message. Holy cow. Yeah, guys, just like let's remove ourselves from this conversation for a second.

0:41 Collectively speaking, is sh not getting wild. What is going on? It's almost like the things we've sensed, like something's wrong, something's happening. Is it a conspiracy? Is it just me projecting? Like something ain't right. I feel like those things are being revealed. I kind of think with AI, it's like that thing is moving so fast.

1:05 Like, who are the people programming it and what is their mindset around how fast it's moving? Are they ever having meetings where they are just sweating and they're going, uh-oh, slow down. Wait, we can't slow down because it's like an invisible beast unleashed on the internet. That's a Scorpio thing right there.

1:23 I don't know. But guys, welcome to another episode of the Astrology Lounge. It's me, Stephanie Powers, coming at you live from beautiful Twin Moon Ranch, our astrology-themed ranch outside of Austin, Texas. I know we're 10 days early to the party. Can you tell I've been with a Virgo for almost 10 years?

1:45 Gotta show up early and leave late. It's so funny with Mr. Virgo. He gets so anxious when we're late for something, and I get uncomfortable if we're early. There's our Virgo Sagittarius square. Those signs are besties, but boy, do they just have to agree to disagree. But you know what? He arrives early.

2:05 I want to be there late. So when we blend our energies together, we get there right on time. Not a minute too soon or late. So it works out well. We're gonna talk about Mercury retrograde. And the reason why I'm putting this out a whopping 10 days early is because, guys, next week is packed. It is hot, and I'm like, I could put out an episode every day next week, but I feel like I'd lose my voice.

2:32 So just as a refresher, we talked about this in the October 1st episode for the astrology of October, but we have Venus conjunct the sun, the Venus Casimi. I always think of like a Greek dip when I hear that. Like up on a Greek salmon. A Venus Casimi on October 24th. That's gonna be next Saturday. And then we have the full moon and Taurus on October 25th, the following day.

3:01 Mercury actually goes retrograde October 24th, the same day as the Venus Sun can scrime. And then Scorpio season officially kicks off October 23rd or 24th. I gotta fact check that. But holy cow, next week we're gonna talk a lot about all these things that are happening. Like it's on, it's time. Scorpio season is officially enveloping us.

3:30 And the Venus Sun Casimi is important because this is the midway point in Venus retrograde. It's when she starts to emerge from the underworld and we start to say, okay, here, a data collection. I think I've collected enough data so that I can back up, let go of the Virgo data collection, and I can look at what I have, and I can look for patterns, and I can look for obvious things that I didn't see when I was in the weeds of it all.

3:58 It's a beautiful day. And I think it's so ironic that it clashes on the same day as Mercury going retrograde. In this Venus retrograde, you guys have really loved that analogy, and it makes me so happy because I'm on a mission to debunk and release fear around retrogrades. Venus in retrograde is simply data collection.

4:20 You get broken up with perfect data. Somebody gets sick around you and it breaks your heart, perfect data. You lose a pet, I'm sorry, data. It really helps. I want you if something awful happens, you get your heart broken or you break someone's heart, I want you to hear my voice saying, I'm so sorry.

4:37 But this is data. Collect that data, write this down, it's data. And then Venus meets the sun and she says, I've got enough data. Thank you. We don't need to collect it anymore. And then Mercury's like, okay, and now we need to reassess and rethink the route we were on because we've got data and we need to look at it.

4:58 We just put our heart on the line and we watched it and we observed it and we were like, ooh, definitely can't be in that environment around those people because they just mauled on it. Okay, what's what's working here, what's not. Mercury goes to retrogate and we go back into the locker room of the game of life and we reassess our heart, what we value, what we want to spend money on, how we look, who we're in love with, who we want to break up with.

5:23 No decisions being made. Don't fear those. I really do think that big decisions are going to organically, like the leaves falling from a tree in autumn. I think they're going to organically happen around December, especially January with Mars going retrograde. But Mercury goes retrograde October 21st, 24th with the Venus Kazimi, and it's just so synchronistic.

5:48 This is one of those moments where I'm like, astrology, it's not something you believe in, it is something you experience. Hang on, Jackson is snoring so loud, I'm gonna go give him a little nudge. Okay, we're back. Sorry. Sometimes when the pugs are on the hardwood floor, their throat hits the right spot and it just distracts me because it sounds like an engine.

6:12 By the way, guys, if anyone lives in Central Texas area and you want to come say hi to the people of the Astrology Lounge, me, Mr. Virgo, the Pugs, we will be at Austin's Pug Festival October this weekend, October 16th and 17th. Um, and Bass Trop. It's in the Bastrop, Texas area. We're gonna be there pushing the pugs around, wearing our astrology lounge gear, probably.

6:40 So please come say hello if you are there. Uh, I don't promote it enough, but it's on the website. Every week I donate a portion of my readings to a local animal shelter. And Austin Pug Rescue has, of course, been on the roster since we are pug people. So we'll be there. Come say hi. We would love to give you a hug and just have you guys meet the pugs that are essentially a part of the podcast.

7:01 So Austin Pug Festival this weekend, October 16th and 17th, come say hello to us. All right, Mercury retrograde in Scorpio. Mercury is sipping the Gatorade, Mercury is in the microwave, Mercury goes retrograde three times a year, every year. Have no fear. I love Mercury retrogrades. I can't get enough because in the day and age of such so much information, I love retrogrades because they're a time to just chill.

7:31 I don't need to make any decisions, I don't need to sign any contracts, I just need to reassess, rethink, and chill. Who doesn't love that? It's like taking your brain to the spa. You get a mental massage during this time. And if you were born during a Mercury retrograde, which a lot of people were, this is your fate most favorable time of the year because your brain is focused.

7:51 It's not so distracted or ADD. It's like, no, I know exactly what all of a sudden I just know exactly what I need to say. I know exactly what I need to do. I'm signing the contract because I just feel like I've got caffeine, right? So I love Mercury retrogrades. Might you have a delay in your flight?

8:09 Might you still have to buy a washer and dryer set because you need it and you don't want to go to a laundromat for three weeks while Mercury's in retrograde, but it ends up flooding your basement? Sure. Sure. I've heard those stories so many times. I think I've told you guys a story where I bought like six years ago, I bought a phone during Mercury retrograde.

8:26 It was fine in the store, took it home, dead. It was just the battery was fried. And so I had to go back and say, I don't know what happened. And they were like, oh, it's just a faulty phone. We gotta get you a new one. Mercury in the microwave. Be sure to visit the show notes for more ways to learn astrology.

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9:03 I'll have to check on that. But December is sedge season and it's your girl's birthday, and she's always up in the sky somewhere for that because life's too short, and you really should be. And uh, I gotta go into 38. What? I don't know why 38 gives me shivers. I think it's because it's like, oh, I'm in my I'm in the late 30s.

9:24 I can't get away with 37 being on the edge of my mid-30s. I'm in my late 30s. What? I don't know why I'm struggling to say that out loud. There's so many things that come up when I say that. Like that that's middle age. You could say that's middle age. I feel like I was just born. I I feel I get why that store is called Forever 21.

9:48 That's a real thing. I do kind of feel like I'm still in my 20s, especially like early to mid-20s. So then I'm like, wait, no, I'm in my late 30s. Oh my gosh, it's so weird. Even when Mr. Virgo turned to 39 back in August, I was like, what is happening? What? Why? When I met him, I was 30, he was 31, and I remember being in that mindset and thinking, oh, we met each other so late in life.

10:19 Oh well. I I wish I met you when I was a teenager, but whatever, here we are. And now that we are knocking on the door for our 40s, I'm like, no, we were babies. I mean, we were infants, but then I think, holy heck, I got engaged when I was 21 years old. And it's so funny because when I was like 21 to 25, is when I had the most confidence that I false confidence that I knew exactly who I was, what I wanted, and what I was doing, and it was literally the most lost I've ever been.

10:53 Oh we go, ain't life funny? It is just crazy like that. So here we go. We're doing a Mercury retrograde in Scorpio. It goes retrograde three times a year, every year. And the last time we had a Mercury retrograde that started and ended in Scorpio Lake, we will was in 2019. I believe it was October to November 2019.

11:20 So reflect on that time frame. What were you doing? What were you learning about love and relationships, you know, pre-pandemic? Uh November 2025, we also had Mercury going retrograde in Scorpio, but it started in Sagittarius. So I would connect this more to 2019 for sure. And because I like to reflect on past data, there's a really interesting correlation between this Mercury retrograde and Mercury's retrograde and Sagittarius and Scorpio last November 2025.

11:56 So get this. All right, let me look at the ephemeris. November 10th, 2025. So last year, Mercury stationed retrograde at six degrees Sagittarius. It moved back to the 5th, 4th, 3rd, and the 2nd. And then on November 20th, it entered Scorpio, where it was still retrograde. And then November 30th, it stationed direct at 20 degrees Scorpio.

12:26 Why this is interesting is now we go to this year, 2026, and Mercury is beginning to go retrograde at 20 degrees Scorpio on October 24th. Do you see how I'm connecting these? So November 2025, Mercury moves forward on 20 degrees Scorpio in October 2026, and into November 2026, it stations retrograde at 20 degrees Scorpio.

12:56 So reflect back to November 2025. What conversations were happening in the Scorpio-ruled house? What information became available? What secrets did you learn about? What conclusions did you draw? It doesn't mean the same events must repeat. So if something awful happened, then do not think something like that is going to occur.

13:17 It just makes a very intriguing comparison. There's something about the 20th degree of Scorpio. If you have any planets or angles at that, or if you don't, just look at where that falls into your chart that you've been working through for over a year, I would say. I would say last fall or autumn, well, speak for us in America, of course, there was a revelation around it.

13:41 And then you're revisiting it this year. It's almost like maybe something started or began back then, and you're revisiting it to make sure it can pass the Scorpio sniff test again this year. And when Mercury moves forward, let's see what day that's going to be. Mercury will move direct. That's right, with Venus.

14:05 Guys, there's so many dates I have to remember lately. November 14th. I want you guys to stop, drop, and write that in your calendars right now. Mercury moves direct at five degrees Scorpio. Venus moves direct at 22 degrees Libra. So Mercury retrograde begins October 24th, 20 degrees Scorpio. Venus will only be in that arena with him for the next two days because then on the 26th of October, Venus will enter back into Libra.

14:34 You guys remember our Venus retrograde episode where we said she's collecting data, she's gathering all the secrets, the power, the sex, the lies, all the Scorpio themes. And then you write it on the whiteboard, I use, and you're gonna step back and go, now how do we bring balance to this? And Mercury's like, I got you.

14:51 I'm gonna turn your brain up when it comes to reassessing, readjusting, rethinking. Like, how lucky are we to have two transits work with that? This is where I try and tell you guys do not be afraid, don't be scared, be prepared. But the universe is God, whatever you believe in, listening to this, it is orchestrating something here.

15:13 This is one of those moments in astrology that I'm like, oh, let go and let God, because this is orchestrated wild times. So let's get down to the basics of what Mercury retrograde means exactly. Remember, you're just doing all the REs, reassessing, rethinking. This time it's Scorpio themes of trust, power, emotional honesty, sex, sexual abuse, what goes on behind closed doors.

15:44 I always look at people like in public. I love people watching. That's why I got me a Virgo man. Listen, the comedian Drewski, I always talk about Matt Reif, who's hilarious and he's a Virgo, but Drewski has been my latest algorithm on YouTube. Oh my gosh, he is so funny, but he is incredible with his ability to analyze a culture and then go act it out.

16:09 And I'm like, he's gotta be a Virgo, he's gotta be a Virgo, September 12th, baby, he's a Virgo. They are the comedians of the Zodiac because their impressions cannot be matched. I always tell Mr. Virgo, I wish I could make a YouTube of him because he has me in stitches with his impressions of me, of the dogs, of everyone.

16:29 But the Scorpio energy is like watching someone and going, Oh my god, what happens to you at home? Where do you live? And what type of creatures inhabit your space with you? Because something is severely draining the light out of your eyes. What is going on? No, is that just me? Is that just like there's complete strangers?

16:50 I want to go up to and be like, hey, uh blink twice if you need help. Blink your right eye and move your shoulder to the left if you need help. Like, what is going on? That is Scorpio energy right there. So, what does this mean? That Mercury's going retrograde simultaneously with that Venus retrograde.

17:09 Venus asks us to reconsider what we value, who we love, what we love. Mercury, planet of thinking, communication, speaking, snoring with the bugs. Mercury retrograde asks us to reconsider what we think, believe, and what we communicate. Scorpio, being the sign of these two things, asks us to investigate what is happening beneath the surface.

17:34 I feel, I sense, I smell smoke, but I can't see a fire. So you know what? I'm gonna just I'm gonna step into the forest, go find that fire. I know it's there. I smell the smoke, and people around me are telling me, like, and this is an analogy, not literal, by the way. People around me are like, ah, it's nothing.

17:51 I'm sure it's just the breeze. And you're like, no, someone's house is on fire. I can't see it, but I it's getting strong. I'm gonna go investigate. That is Scorpio right there. Now, this is not about chaos or relationships falling apart. Erase that from your mind. This is about examining the emotional patterns that influence our decisions and every facet of life that influence what you eat, what you drink, what you do on a Tuesday evening, what you do on Sunday morning, who you're with on Friday night.

18:25 That's what we are fine-tuning right now. So get a special relationship or a job or someone or something that gives you financial security. Get those things off the plate. Are they a part of it? Sure. But we are just with the surgical precision of these two personal planets, Mercury and Venus, we are cleaning shit up.

18:47 So we have October 3rd, Venus stationed retrograde at eight degrees Scorpio. Boy, do you guys have stories? Whoa, October 3rd was crazy for so much of us. This is why I love my job because I get to talk to people of all ages from all over the country, the world, and that was quite a weekend. That was quite a weekend.

19:07 And then we had the Libra New Moon, which brought up a lot of emotions around fairness, jealousy, around relationships ending or beginning. There's something about relationships and those scales of balance that came up on October 10th, New Moon in Libra. Um, on October 4th, though, that crazy weekend of the third, Mercury entered its pre-retrograde shadow, meaning it started to touch the degrees that it would go on to backtrack over.

19:37 So Mercury enters its shadow. Now, October 23rd, we have Venus Kazimi. So Venus conjunct the sun at zero degree Scorpio. That's the other piece of this. Zero is such a critical degree. It's the first degree of every sign. So Venus hitting the sun at zero degree Scorpio. What a rebirth. We're all coming out of the canal.

20:01 And then we're turning around and recognizing, whoa, the thing that just gave birth to me, the mother. I read this quote that said, Imagine if a magical portal in the woods spit out babies on any given day or time. How would we treat that portal? We would all probably just look at it in awe and be like, whoa, little babies come out of that thing.

20:25 That's a woman. I'm not saying women need to be worshipped from some like egotistical standpoint, but hello, that's incredible. October 25th, 24th, 25th. This depends on where you live. Uh October 24th, for where we're at in Texas, Mercury stations retrograde at 20 degrees Scorpio. Um, the next day, retrograde Venus moves back into Libra on November 4th.

20:51 Mercury Casimi. I I think of a Greek dip every time I say that. So my Taurus rising. November 4th, Mercury and the Sun have a party at approximately 12 degrees Scorpio on its backtrack. November 13th, I mean sorry, 14th, Mercury and Venus both move directly. The orchestration between these things, the fact that they both move forward on the same day, the fact that the Venus conjunct of the sun is at zero degree Scorpio.

21:23 It could be at any degree, but it shows zero degree Scorpio. And we just looked at all the Scorpio themes from the Venus retrograde that started on the third all the way up until this retrograde. And Venus was like, okay, Mercury, come and join the party. We need you to work on our minds and our communication and information.

21:42 This is just wild. This is so wild. So they both move direct and we have our answers. We know what we need to do mid November and late November on the 30th. Mercury finishes its post retrograde shadow and carries on into late Scorpio and into Sagittarius and. Sails on. This is just this is one of those things that you experience with astrology and say this stuff is so cool.

22:08 So think of it as a three-layered astrological story. We have Mercury, the mind, communication, our memory, how we recall memory, information, conversations, how we interpret things that happen to us. In retrograde, what do I need to rethink? What do I need to understand differently around abuse, psychological abuse, physical abuse, sexual abuse, around power, taking my power back and not giving it away, around shared money with people, around staying in jobs or in relationships, giving them power over me simply out of exchange for financial security, not believing that I can go get that on my own?

22:48 And then we have Venus, the heart and the values, relationships, love, our self-worth, our money, what we're willing to invest in. The retrograde symbolism of Venus is does this still reflect what I value? Does this person have the same values as me anymore? I gotta reassess this. And then Scorpio, being in this sign, trust, shared your body, shared your money, psychological patterns, intimacy, secrets, things going on behind the scenes that we can smell.

23:21 We just can't see, but we smell it. So the symbolic question for the Scorpio archetype is what is motivating me underneath of my immediate reactions? Why do I say the things I say? Why do I keep repeating the patterns I do? Why do I stay in a toxic job? Why do I stay in an abusive relationship? How did the person or thing that poisoned me become my only source of medicine?

23:52 Okay, whoa, time to pop that balloon. Get out of that cycle. Now here's the kicker. Venus is already, by the time this happens, because we're recording this early, by the time Mercury goes retrograde, Venus has already been retrograde for a few weeks. So Venus has been asking us to re-examine sex, relationships, our personal values, our loss or over exertion of power and control.

24:17 And now Mercury arrives to revisit the conversations, the mental assumptions, the mental narratives surrounding those experiences that came up. This is where, in the case of the Cornell 7, I imagine there is going to be so much more text messages, emails, security footage, I don't know, people coming forward, sharing different narratives.

24:40 I think it's going to get like a spiderweb of information. And irregardless of what the truth is of that situation, I think it's revealing the belly of the beast, which is why are women so afraid? You guys, thank you again for sharing your experience as a racing kids today and how they don't grow up like kids in the 90s where we just ran wild wherever we wanted to, because the world is a scarier place.

25:06 Why? Is the world a scarier place because of women or because of men? Or because of both? Is there some deeper, darker energy that is manipulating us, which I think is a Scorpio word, into fighting? First, they wanted us to fight different races, then they wanted us to fight different uh sexual preferences in people, and now they're like, well, let's just hell, let's just pin men against women.

25:31 And when you do that, oh boy, that's like that's a severance right there. That's like ripping apart the yin and the yang, the day and the night. That's like telling the sun, the moon's breaking up with you. Hey, moon, you no longer have a sun to let you be full. Ooh, Venus identifies what matters to us, and Mercury helps us find the language to share that.

25:54 So, how are we gonna use this in everyday life? Data collection, data collection. Do not be intimidated by this. For relationships, we're gonna talk about the underlying issue that we've probably been avoiding, right? What feeling or unmet need keeps resurfacing? What pattern in friendships and romantic relationships keeps coming up, and why is it not being resolved?

26:21 For money, because this is a huge topic as well, financial entanglements, shared resources, debts, financial obligations within relationships. So a good time to review joint accounts, joint spending habits, or for the individual, subscriptions, what you spend your money on, how you're paying off loans, um, where you're saving money and why you're not, right?

26:45 The practical goal with the financial aspect of it is just greater financial transparency, not paranoia when it comes to money. And then emotional patterns. This is just using our triggers as data. I love getting triggered because it gives me a message of, hey, I've never set a boundary with this, but this feeling definitely was really big for me.

27:06 And so now moving forward, that's a boundary for me. I didn't know it before until like, you know, it happened to me, but it's a boundary. So if something makes you unusually jealous, defensive, or suspicious, this is such a Scorpio theme. If you during this time frame want to go through someone's phone, you want to go through their diary, their notebook, their work bag, their backpack, their purse, stop.

27:32 Stop. I I tell you, as a Scorpio moon in Venus, that does nothing. Because when you set out to find something because you're smelling the smoke, but you can't see the fire, you know what I mean? You will find something that upsets you. And it could be that they're not doing anything wrong, but something I don't like the way you talk to your friend.

27:51 Well, that's just me and my friend's mojo. Like, get out of my business. You will find something that upsets you. If you already feel the inclination to sneak behind someone's back to prove a point, you got a much bigger fish to fry than just pulling it out of their phone and talking about it and throwing it in their face.

28:10 Follow that intuition, but do not take the Scorpio back door because it never ends well and actually puts you in a position that's just as bad as them. And so you need to neither have a full, transparent conversation with them. And again, I don't want to give relationship advice because I really believe that that is not a one size fits all thing, but just take it from me during this time.

28:31 I would not let anybody do that to you, nor would I do that to anyone because it might be heavily exaggerated with that square to Mars during a lot of this, okay? So in communication during this time, frame, we're gonna replace assumptions with questions. The story I'm telling myself is you are cheating on me.

28:51 Can you please explain why I might have arrived to that conclusion? The story I'm telling myself, that's my favorite phrase to buffer an accusation with because it doesn't make people feel like they're being accused or they're bad. It is you sharing, hey, with all the data that I have collected plus my wounding from the past, the story I am now arriving at is and then let the other person speak.

29:16 Can you help me understand what that meant? Can you I know why you did that, but can you help me understand where that came from? Right? This is a Mercury in Scorpio practice. Investigate without interrogating. Not every uncomfortable feeling is evidence of deception. Let me say that again, both for myself and everybody listening.

29:37 Not every uncomfortable feeling is evidence of someone deceiving you. Does my reaction match the crime? If not, that is a me problem that I gotta take back. But if it does, hey, person involved in this feeling, the story I'm telling myself is. And hopefully you reach a place of two people sharing vulnerably and having emotional honesty with one another.

30:05 And of course, the classic Mercury things, review contracts, messages, passwords, any agreement involving shared money is huge. I wouldn't suggest, unless you were born during a Mercury and Venus retrograde, um, making large financial purchases where contracts are involved. I wouldn't sell anything that involves a contract.

30:26 Just wait, revise, rethink, sit on it for a second. Mercury retrograde, it doesn't prohibit signing or purchasing big things. It can just serve as a reminder to slow down, check the facts, check, avoid making decisions from an emotional reaction. That's it, right? A simple daily practice during this time frame would to just be sit down and ask yourself or journal about what bothered me today.

30:52 What story did I tell myself about that thing bothering me? And what do I actually know to be true about someone before they tell me? Ooh. So that exercise, those questions, integrates Mercury's thinking with Venus's values and Scorpio's psychological exploration. Right? My favorite part of all this has to be the Venus Greek dip Kazimi.

31:20 My mom used to take me to Greek festivals. I'm pretty sure this was Greek. My Aquarius mom took me to all different types of cultural festivals. She reminds me of. Have you guys ever heard? It's like the culture swap. It's a black guy and a white guy, and they're like, Welcome to another episode of Take in my black friend to do white people's shit.

31:38 Welcome to an episode of Take in My White Friend to do black people shit. I love them. They're so funny. That's my mom with me and my brother. She's like, Today we're gonna go do Greek people's shit. Today we're gonna go do Bosnian people's shit. I loved it. It's like she knew astrology without knowing.

31:55 The Sagittarius in me was like rock on. The Taurus and my brother was like, Is there food? But um, there was some cultural tradition that we went to where you would go pick a cherry, a fake like cherry from a tree, and you would get a prize. I'll have to look that up. I'm drawing a blank because my mind's in astrology right now, but I loved it.

32:16 I always thought it was so fun. Anyways, the Venus Casimi is one of my favorite parts, which is Venus conjunct the sun. Venus and the sun, same exact point in the sky. This is essentially Venus passing between Earth and the Sun. And in symbolic astrological tradition, this is a rebirth of Miss Venus herself.

32:37 So that October 23rd, 24th time frame of Mercury stationing backwards, Venus and the Sun being reborn, it becomes an opportunity to reassess, or you get an answer. There is an answer to something around value, love, money, and relationships. And then Mercury is like, all right, give me that answer. I'm gonna take it back to the meeting room, and I'm gonna have three weeks to reassess conversations surrounding those realizations you just handed me.

33:10 Conversations, text, emails, thoughts, dreams, journal entries. I'm gonna go reassess those things and compare it to this realization you have since October 3rd when you started collecting Venus data. And then on November 4th, Mercury makes its own Kazimi at approximately 12 degrees Scorpio with the sun.

33:30 So that's another symbolic checkpoint for clarity, especially concerning information or conversations that we were already reviewing and reassessing based off of those Venus rebirth values, love, money realizations we had around mid to late October. So October 23rd, 24th, recognition. What am I beginning to understand about my values?

33:53 What I want, what I need. October 24th to November 3rd, the investigation, interrogation. Mercury retrograde. What have I misunderstood about someone? What have I left unsaid? What have I avoided discussing? On November 4th, the reframing. Mercury in the sun. Is there a healthier way of interpreting or communicating the things that I've discovered since early October?

34:22 And then November 14th, favorite date. I've got it on my own calendar. November 14th, and for the rest of this year into 2027, Venus and Mercury move direct. It's the integration. Both planets say hand in hand, let's ride into the sunrise. How can we put all that we've learned since honestly late August?

34:42 How can we put all that into practice and move on? Mmm. So these are just symbolic themes, not guarantees that secrets will emerge or major life events will occur. Although, with what you guys have shared with me, there is. And honestly, depending on where everything is in your chart, a lot is moving collectively, as above, so below.

35:04 I think what's happening to the individual is happening collectively. And what's happening collectively that we're witnessing is stirring something up within. And so remember this: you're always in good company. We're all moving through and growing through these exact same feelings, just different faces in our own life's play.

35:20 So let's wrap this up, guys. It's very simple. I'll keep this episode short and sweet. Mercury and Venus. We'll throw her in there too. But Mercury retrograde and Scorpio is not asking us to become suspicious of every relationship around us. It's not, it's not foreshadowing pain, grief, a massive breakup, things exposed.

35:42 I mean, sure, those things could always happen during any time of the year. It's asking us to become more aware of the stories we tell ourselves. It's asking us where are you letting your mind have power and control over your heart? It has nothing to do with anyone outside of you and everything to do with you.

36:00 And you're always in control of your decisions and your reactions. There's no such thing as a right or wrong decision during this time frame. There is just a decision that you make and then you go out and make it right when these two move forward and mid-November. And remember, think back to no October, November 2018.

36:19 What shifted around your values? What shifted around the way you make money? What shifted in relationships? Because you're revisiting that and you're leveling up. You're getting even better than you were then. Venus retrograde, Mercury retrograde, they're just asking whether our current relationships, our current job, our current financial spending habits, our bank accounts, do those still align with your values?

36:46 It's okay if an old friend or a lover doesn't align with the same values. It's so beautiful to say, hey, our values are really clashing. And it's not that I don't like you. I just I need to be around people who are have the same mindset as me or the same values as me. I still got you though. If you need anything, call.

37:02 But I don't want to be so close to that. If it's a job where you don't feel valued, don't stay. There's so many ways to earn income today. Follow your gut, trust your heart, or have a conversation with your coworkers, with your boss, and say, I want to feel more valued. And write down what would make you feel more valued at that job.

37:21 And then communicate it and be very blunt and forward. Get your Capricorn friends out. Right? Together, these two personal planets and their retrograde cycles, they're inviting us to have conversations we've avoided for a long time, to question assumptions. I assume this. Why? Are you ready to let that go?

37:44 It's a wonderful time for us to recognize old emotional patterns that no longer serve us any good, that are keeping us stuck in the same cycle. If you're ready to break a seriously deep self-sabotaging cycle that has been around, maybe even since 2018, you should be celebrating, having a party every night during this because it's coming, it's arriving, it's here, it's giving you a boost.

38:10 If you've been like, man, I just wish the universe would throw me a bone, help me get out of this, this rat race, this wheel I've been stuck on. Here it is. Here you go. Take it, jump out. There's a there's someone that's gonna catch you. Sometimes transformation, it doesn't require starting a new relationship, starting a new job.

38:31 Sometimes it begins with finally understanding something old, renewing something. This is Scorpio, it's death and rebirth. Um Scorpio has loyalty and it stays loyal to things to people because it understands that how a relationship is today needs to die and be reborn. And if you're listening to this and you've been in a marriage or a friendship or something, you know this well.

38:56 Relationships and connections need to naturally die and be reborn because people are consistently always evolving, changing, and Scorpio things themes like a breach of trust or a death in the family or a loss of financial stability. These are all things that test and change people's character, and we all go through it.

39:20 We all have these fears and these deep griefs and these silent griefs that we carry with us. And if you're ready to not let them run the show anymore, if you're ready to let them go and you want to make money doing something you love and feel in control and power over, if you're ready to receive real intimacy and loyalty and your connection so that your chosen lovers or friends feel like family.

39:45 That ooh, that bond that biological family has. It's like you can't explain it, but I can always call this person because you know it's my uncle and we're related. It's time to create that with people you may not be biologically related to. That sense of family. I think that's what these two things are doing.

40:04 Venus, we're reconsidering what the heart wants. Mercury is reconsidering what the mind believes. Scorpio asks whether we're brave enough to examine both and let them meet halfway. That's all I got for you guys. Don't be scared, be prepared. My favorite Ryan Hall quote this is gonna be awesome. You guys can utilize this to completely up-level your life.

40:27 Check out the house rule by Scorpio in your chart to see what area of life you can work with. If you can see that, pour everything you've got, all the data collection, and then taking it back to the meeting room, write it on a whiteboard, uh, and just move forward with the new data you have and mmm, some serious.

40:49 Scorpio Empowered is one of the happiest, most passionate, just true passion, both in sex and love and passion and their purpose and what they do. And this is an opportunity for you to feel that. Whether you have Scorpio placements or not, it rules an area of life for you. And you have the ability to feel just pure sober ecstasy if you work with these two planets in the area of life ruled by Scorpio in your chart.

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41:29 Please send away. This is the show notes. I'm out of here. Sending love from Twin Moon Ranch outside of Austin, Texas. I'll see you guys for a very busy next week in the skies. Bye.