Welcome to our final Mercury Retrograde of 2024. Beginning November 25 and continuing until December 15, this retrograde arrives in beautiful timing inviting us to take a moment and intentionally realign what lives within our minds before ushering ahead into the new year of 2025. For everything needs the space, time, and energy for an update sometimes – a re-write, a refresh, a cleanse, and a realignment – including our mind.
While we’re likely already aware that Mercury Retrograde may not be the most supportive time for easeful travel, flowing communication, or document signing, as we sink further into the energy of this comic movement, we may just find far more healing, growth-filled, and nourishing opportunities awaiting us within this sacred pause.
Our Last Mercury Retrograde of 2024
Sagittarius is known as the seeker of the zodiac. It is a student of life, an explorer of truth, and a reminder of perspective, belief, and subjectivity. For how we experience what we experience is shaped by what lives within us. What we see depends on the framework we are looking through. And what we believe possible for ourselves, and not possible for ourselves, is often mirrored back to us.
As our planet of communication and the mind retrogrades through this Jupiter-ruled fire sign, instead of looking around, we are looking within. We are reviewing our beliefs, we are creating space for greater truth, and we are re-writing our own existing narratives, ideas, and meanings. We are exploring our relationship with our futures – what we want, what envision for ourselves, what we believe possible for ourselves. And we are observing how we relate to hope, our trust in something greater leading us, and our larger beliefs of what this world means – and what our place within it means. And we aren’t just doing this from the mind, rather we are also creating the space for our intuition, our body’s knowing, and our instincts, to speak.
As this sign lives from a widened perspective pondering the larger truths of life, this retrograde has us zooming out and looking at the kinds of perspectives that go on to hold and shape every other thought and belief. Is this world inherently good? Can we have hope? How does this Universe work? Does it move towards growth and evolution? Behind the many thoughts and ideas arising in our minds each day, what do you believe about life? About yourself?
As we reconnect to this space, let it speak from somewhere that has always been alive within you, rather than learned or taught from elsewhere. For Sagittarius is the kind of wisdom that lives beyond the rational mind. It comes from a higher perspective, a deeper truth, and our own unique connection with life itself.
A Cosmic Realignment
While retrogrades are less about actively expressing outward, 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. It is a beautiful time for journalling and spacious reflection, to re-attune to intuitive knowing, to create space before speaking and observe where the words are first coming from, and even, to create boundaries between the mind and the constant information influx that comes from spaces like social media, the news, and outer perspectives. For as we clear the noise, we can begin to attune to what is real to us.
Mercury Retrograde 2024 Horoscopes for your Zodiac Sign
As Mercury Retrogrades through Sagittarius it interacts with our own astrology chart in different ways. Highlighting a specific area of life as represented by the astrological houses, by looking at our Rising Sign, we can begin to unfold and deepen our understanding of what this retrograde is inviting us into.
Aries Rising
Create space within your mind, Aries Rising. And create space between yourself and humanity. This retrograde is more about the vaster conversation you are within – the one between you and life itself. The conversation between you and the Universe, between you and nature, between you and an inner wisdom. Let this conversation take priority over the words, thoughts, perspectives, and beliefs of the collective, those on social media, in the news, and those around you – at least for a moment. For in this space, much will begin to drop away that was never yours, and much of your own truth, direction, and wisdom will be rediscovered.
Taurus RisingÂ
It’s a retrograde of deep inner journeying, Taurus Rising. And it’s a retrograde that desires empowerment and self-intimacy, honesty and vulnerability. As Mercury travels backwards it takes you by the hand and invites you into your own underworld. It brings you face to face with the spaces within yourself yearning for love, presence, and conscious awareness. It brings you face to face with unconscious belief systems and narratives that influence your conscious mind and outer living. For as we bring questioning, a higher awareness, understanding, and love to these spaces, they transform – and we transform with them.
Gemini Rising
How do you desire to collaborate in this life, Gemini Rising? To connect, to love, to experience adventure and creation alongside another, or others? What do you want to share together, offer another, receive from another? What do you desire to experience within your relationships? And underneath it all, what is your purpose of coming together with others? Create the space to question and reconsider the thoughts and perspectives alive within currently, so that you may create the space for deeper self-insight and more aligned truth to take form.
Cancer Rising
This retrograde acts as a beautiful opportunity to pause and look around, Cancer Rising. To look at what lives within us and how this translates into our outer action. To reconnect with what matters beneath it all and if this is translating into our outer action. It is a retrograde to take a step back and reconnect with our bigger picture, our overarching beliefs, and our vaster desires and truths – so that we may then begin to realign our daily actions to be in service to this space. Whether through our habits, rituals, consistent movements and schedules, or daily thoughts, we are re-aligning the outer to the inner.
Leo Rising
Who are you, Leo Rising? What is your unique expression of life? What is your energy, and how does it feel as it moves through you? We are all here to express and live as the light that we are, freely and uniquely, lovingly and joyfully. This retrograde invites us to reflect on who that self is that we are here to express and create with. It invites us to clear the noise and reconnect to us our own larger truths and our own relationship with life, so that you may commune with our own light, with our own source of creativity, and with our own freedom of expression.
Virgo Rising
It’s a deeply internal retrograde, Virgo Rising. An opportunity to create a sanctuary both within and around you, so that you may deepen your sense of safety, belonging, and emotional wisdom. It’s a reminder that our deepest truths often live in the deepest spaces within us, sometimes requiring that we begin peeling away layers of other energies, past perspectives, outside teachings, and emotional build up in order to arrive there. This retrograde welcomes both a higher perspective, and a new relationship with your emotions. It is where we bring our past to the light of our expanded awareness, and with that, transform, re-write, and heal.
Libra RisingÂ
It’s a retrograde all about the mind, Libra Rising. The mind forms our beliefs and our perspectives, and it is during Mercury’s retrograde that we have an opportunity to peer within and observe the patterns, beliefs, and narratives that we are operating our lives through. We have grown since this narrative was created; does it still serve us? Our minds have expanded since this belief was formed; is it still true? It is through observing our habitual responses – through our thoughts, communication, and emotions, that deep insight and space for re-alignment can take place.
Scorpio Rising
Your truth is found in your body, Scorpio Rising. In welcoming more of your own energy into your physical form and reconnecting with your senses. This retrograde, allow yourself to move down from the mind and into your body, for it is here you will remember deeper truths and understandings of self and life. It is here you will track what beliefs are truly yours and what has been picked up from others. And it is here that you will remember the conversation with life itself, that you are always in. We are re-writing narratives around your body, safety, security, finances, and worth.Â
Sagittarius Rising
This retrograde acts as a sacred invitation to reconnect to your own truth, Sagittarius Rising. To come home to your own knowing. Your own desires. Your own relationship with meaning, with life, and with who you are. There is a knowing living deep within each of us, and this is your opportunity to clear the noise, the thoughts and ideas that were never yours, the patterns, and the narratives, so that you may return to that knowing. While creating space within the bounds of our own self-identity, we may just discover more of ourselves ready to bloom through us, we may just surprise ourselves.
Capricorn RisingÂ
It’s a retrograde to listen, Capricorn Rising. To go within, to hear the silence, and surrender the mind – for there are entire worlds living behind the mind, behind rational thought. It is a retrograde of intuition, communion with the sacred, and a deep release of what has been gathered and stored within the unconscious. Create the space for meditation and connection to everything divine that lives beyond time and space. For as we enter into this realm, it is as if we are plugging our minds into Universal truth, dissolving expired narratives, and expanding the mind and ourselves in the process.
Aquarius Rising                                                                                     Â
All cosmic movement arrives in service to evolution, Aquarius Rising, and this one is no different. Yet what retrogrades remind us is that it is often through tending to our past and our present that we are in deepest service to our future. There are dreams and realities that are awaiting you, experiences and hopes that are calling your name. This retrograde invites you to tend to your own beliefs of possibility, truth, and belief in yourself and life so that you may become the person required to meet these dreams, realities, experiences and hopes in your future.
Pisces Rising
Create a moment to review the path you are walking on, Pisces Rising. The life you are living. The direction you are moving in. The future you are building from both within yourself, and through your tangible actions. Create the space for reflection and intuition, questioning and reframing. Connect with past versions of yourself. Observe what dreams they hold for your life, if those dreams are still alive in the now or if they have shifted and evolved. Connect with future versions of yourself too, as if looking back at your life from a greater vantage. What whispers come through? What wisdom is available to be shared? Before we walk ahead, we are creating the space to consciously and intentionally choose our direction.
