Past
Mercury in Scorpio, 2025
Mercury enters Scorpio on Monday 6 October 2025, 16:41 UTC, which is in your time zone. It leaves for Sagittarius on Wednesday 29 October 2025, 11:02 UTC, after 23 days.
Mercury moves from Libra into Scorpio on 6 October 2025 at 16:41 UTC and stays for 23 days, leaving for Sagittarius on 29 October 2025 at 11:02 UTC. Scorpio is a fixed water sign ruled by Pluto. No retrograde falls within this passage, so Mercury travels forward through the sign the whole time.
Astrologers read Mercury in Scorpio as a probing, private kind of thinking. The sign's themes are depth, trust, shared resources and what lies beneath the surface, and the tradition says the mind here prefers investigation to small talk. Conversations may turn toward what usually goes unsaid, and attention can become intense and focused. The shadow side, in this reading, is suspicion or keeping too much to oneself. A modest suggestion is to pick one question worth researching properly and give it unhurried time.
By sign
The house it occupies for you
| Sun sign | House | Mercury in Scorpio falls on | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aries | eighth | shared money, intimacy, endings | |
| Taurus | seventh | partners and one-to-one relationships | |
| Gemini | sixth | daily work, routines, health | |
| Cancer | fifth | romance, play, children, creative work | |
| Leo | fourth | home, family, roots | |
| Virgo | third | conversations, siblings, short trips | |
| Libra | second | money, possessions, values | |
| Scorpio | first | self, body, how you come across | |
| Sagittarius | twelfth | rest, privacy, what happens behind the scenes | |
| Capricorn | eleventh | friends, groups, plans | |
| Aquarius | tenth | career and public role | |
| Pisces | ninth | travel, study, beliefs | |
Whole-sign houses counted from the Sun sign, the convention behind every Sun-sign horoscope. Your rising sign gives a more personal count: draw your chart.