Weekly Horoscope, November 16-23, 2025: Seeing Your Potential

Welcome to a week of depth and beauty, expansion and forward momentum. As Mercury retrograde spins backward into Scorpio and the new Moon accompanies it there, we turn within. As the week draws to a close, the mood shifts toward revelation and forward momentum with the onset of Sagittarius season. Your weekly horoscope for November 16-23, 2025, explains how not to overlook the countless invitations to know yourself—and your potential—more intimately.

Your Weekly Horoscope, November 16-23, 2025, Preview

November 17 | Moon enters Scorpio
November 18 | Mercury retrograde enters Scorpio
November 19 | New Moon in Scorpio
November 20 | Moon enters Sagittarius
November 21 | Sun enters Sagittarius
November 22 | Moon enters Capricorn

Mercury Retrograde Enters Scorpio

Last week, Mercury began its final backward spin of the year in the expansive heights of Sagittarius. As it continues to retrace its steps, Mercury will cross the threshold between Sagittarius and return to Scorpio on November 18, 2025. This is the same exact space the planet traversed a few weeks ago. Now it returns to observe and experience what’s there from a different vantage.

Mercury rules how we process reality and make meaning within the world. Retrogrades are a reorientation of perspective. Under the influence of Sagittarius, we review the belief systems that exist within us. Under Scorpio, we review the unconscious material that propels us to have these belief systems. Sagittarius is vast heights, Scorpio is profound depths.

Scorpio reminds us that there is more to how we see this world, and therefore how we interact with this world, than what we are aware of. There are unconscious patterns and stories shaping things from beneath the surface. There are memories and emotions coloring the lens through which we look. There are ways that we are in opposition, battle, or competition that exist within ourselves. This retrograde invites us to look at these. Not to dismiss, belittle, or demonize them. Not to shame them. Not to blame or try to fix them. But to hear their call and find compassion for them. Shame isn’t our way forward. Understanding is.

New Moon in Scorpio

Welcome to our annual new Moon in Scorpio, which meets us on November 19 or 20, depending on where you are in the world.  The new Moon always moves in rhythm with the Sun. This year, in addition to this alignment is Mercury retrograde. Three bodies holding hands. Three bodies inviting us inward. There is strength in numbers, and in this situation, there is also amplification of their tendency toward inner exploration.

There is also a zoomed-out cosmic backdrop taking place. In what is called a grand trine, three planets are forming a triangle, each in water signs. Together these planets sensitize our self-awareness and offer perspectives of ourselves and life that transform, awaken, and change us. It is a lunation of intuition, revelation, truth, liberation, and compassion. It reconnects us to the deepest parts of ourselves, both stripping away and beginning again so that whatever we choose we do so from a place of truth and what is real.

Sun Enters Sagittarius

On November 21, 2025, the Sun enters Sagittarius, bringing fire, momentum, and inspiration to this new version of ourselves. As the week shifts into the influence of Sagittarius, the vibrations change and everything moves more freely.

Sagittarius season is a time of learning and wisdom, exploration and adventure. This sign asks us to look ahead. It is the archer, standing in familiar lands yet aiming toward the height of what is possible. Here we take a moment to listen and breathe as our inner compass reveals the direction of our bow, not with certainty but with honesty, aliveness, and longing.

Sagittarius season compels us to tune into ourselves before pointing our arrows. What call is whispering from beyond what we see and know? What is desiring to come into existence through us?

Your Weekly Horoscope, November 16-23, 2025

Curiosity, observance, and trust are your touchstones throughout the week. The influence of Scorpio is inner traversing and emotional maturing. The influence of Sagittarius invites truth, expansion, possibility, and adventure. Your weekly horoscope explains how to recognize what’s being shown to you.

Aries Rising

Emotional truths call your name early this week, as if you’re traversing the innermost layers of self and staring into a mirror. What exists here? What is it asking for? What are you seeing? As Sagittarius begins to influence your days, you’re supported as you emerge from the underworld and look straight toward the heavens of possibility. What’s next?

Taurus Rising

Relational dynamics and heart healing. Intimacy and vulnerability. Connection to your truth and embodiment of your strength. This week calls for tenderness as you observe all that feeds your relationships, both consciously and unconsciously. It asks you to bring the same honesty to your faith in yourself, your strength, and your life.

Gemini Rising

This week speaks through your body. It asks for a certain pace, it asks to be heard, and it asks for space. There is deep wisdom, empowerment, and healing found in listening to the way your body is speaking early this week. As Sagittarius season begins, the pace once again changes. When it does, you’ll be ready to step forward.

Cancer Rising

Review your narratives informing your perceived right to exist. Your right to play, create, and freely express the beauty that is you. Your right to enjoy your life and revel in your own life force. Anticipate and let yourself experience liberation, passion, and exploration throughout your days.

Leo Rising

Your inner child and inner teenager possess much that they can share, express, and feel. Where do you hold resistance to them? As the Sun and week shift into the influence of Sagittarius later in the week, it invites these parts of yourself to express play, creativity, and aliveness. Allow it.

Virgo Rising

Your mind has been deep in exploration, communing with parts of yourself that have been waiting to be heard. How can you offer yourself compassion throughout this process? How can you welcome the wisdom, insights, and narratives? Toward the end of the week, the invitation is to come back home to more comfortable spaces within your emotions, your body, and your spaces that you consider home.

Libra Rising

Wherever your self-trust has been forgotten, this week reminds you and offers your inherent worthiness as if it were medicine itself. As Sagittarius season begins, it wants to open you, show you more, and expand your vision, as if to repeatedly say, “More is possible.” Let yourself believe it.

Scorpio Rising

It’s time to reclaim more of yourself and begin a new chapter, one that’s grounded in your innermost truths. As the Sun leaves your sign later in the week, it becomes time to not only claim this new self but embody it.

Sagittarius Rising

Release of old stories. Release of unconscious material. Release of all that has kept you from your inner world, intuition, and connection with the sacred. This week is a release that becomes a rebirth. As your season begins again, so do you. Who are you now?

Capricorn Rising

This week offers deep realignment. A reweaving of dreams, paths, and visions that have been waiting for their time to resurface. Your path ahead is re-writing itself and is asking for your truth and presence in this. As Sagittarius Season begins – it invites you into the private sanctuary of your undisturbed, flowing, sacred energy.

Aquarius Rising

Where do you dim and hide? Where do you forget your authority and power? Where do you neglect your knowing and purpose? Your weekly horoscope asks you to hold these patterns close as you seek to understand and overcome them. It is a reminder that your life is a canvas on which you can create what you know that you are here to create.

Pisces Rising

Life is speaking directly to you through each lived experience. Also through self-awareness, intuition, and an urge for exploration. It wants you to give yourself permission to claim your truths and your perspectives so they no longer come secondary to others’ voices. It wants you to open yourself to a future you may have never considered for yourself.