Mercury Retrograde in Aries March 2025 Astrology

Mercury Retrograde, like all other astrological events, is filled with invitations and opportunities, wisdom, and insights – if we so choose to see them. 

Our first Mercury Retrograde of the year joins Venus Retrograde in Aries and Pisces.

When is Mercury Retrograde March 2025?

Mercury will begin its backwards spin on March 15, 2025 until April 7, 2025. Beginning in Aries, it will then step back into Pisces on March 29, 2025 for the remainder of its retrograde.

The Astrology of Mercury Retrograde

Mercury in Astrology represents the mind. It represents our thinking, mental processing, communication and learning. Mercury is alive within every word thought, written, spoken, heard, and received.

In Ancient Astrology, retrogrades were understood as a planet moving deep through the underworld on a quest for new perspectives, greater wisdom, and deeper insight. While the known path can be nourishing, supportive, and safe – sometimes a different direction and scenery is where our greatest growth, or at least, missing perspectives, can be found.

While retrogrades are less about actively expressing outwardly or even taking in more information – they are an opportune time for reviewing what already lives within us so that we may bring them into current time. For when we revisit something within our past from our new perspective, what lives within us is completely re-written.

Mercury Retrograde in Aries

Beginning in the fire sign of Aries, as Mercury dances through the underworld embodying this zodiac, it is reviewing a specific set of energies and life forms.

It is looking at our relationship with desire, action, inspiration, creation. It is reviewing how we channel passion and if we feel worthy, capable, or deserving of pursuing our visions. It’s re-writing our relationship with personal desire, identity, and ambition as we review where we are choosing to channel our life force. And it is reconnecting us with our own spark of direction, knowing, and instinct – the pulse within that shows us where to move and how to move in each moment – the pulse that reconnects us to our inbuilt compass.

While re-tracing it’s steps, the planet in its backwards movement is reviewing all that we have left behind us like a trail of unfinished business. It brings into our awareness ideas, narratives, desires, inspirations, seasons of us, projects, relationships, ways of being and more – that we have left behind yet not brought to completion. 

What is re-entering your awareness? What is returning to consciousness? Whatever might be tapping on the window of your mind, as something arises it is our role to discern why it is here.

Is it here so that we may close and complete, release and let go? Things often arise so that we may tie up loose ends – whether literally, or emotionally and energetically – putting this space, thing, or desire to rest for good.

Or does this desire, narrative, space within ourselves have something more to share with us? A different perspective to offer? Is there information or insights we missed when we were last with it? And is it from who we now are that we have the awareness and capacity to understand it and re-write this part of ourselves in the process?

Or perhaps, is this thing re-entering into our awareness ready to be picked up again and considered as a path, potential, and direction to move in? Perhaps when we first tuned into this idea or considered this path – we weren’t quite ready. We needed more time and space, experience and growth before we could live out this chapter of our lives. Is it now, that we are ready for it?

Mercury Retrograde in Pisces

Mercury retrograde will step back into Pisces on March 29, 2025, under the Solar Eclipse in Aries. Its energy will soften, blur, speaking more through whispers and emotions. Its energy will become more subtle, subjective and feeling-based as we review our willingness to release and change along with our relationship to intuition, creativity, and imagination. This is a healing time to receive deep insights from our own unconscious through dreams, intuition, and the unseen realms as we learn to surrender the mind as a tool for higher potential.

Further insights on Mercury Retrograde in Pisces will be shared closer to this time in its own article.