New Moon in Scorpio, Mercury retrograde, and power water trine
The New Moon in Scorpio arrives with a very particular kind of energy, the kind that nudges you to stop skimming the surface and actually check in with what you’re feeling. Not the story you tell yourself, not the version you present to others, but the real thing underneath.
We’ve also got a Scorpio stellium, the Sun, Moon, Mercury retrograde all on the 28th degree, with Venus (16°) and Lilith (26°). It’s a lot of emotional depth going on during this New Moon cycle. Think of it as the universe dimming the lights so you can focus on your inner world without distractions.
And right as this New Moon forms, Mercury retrograde slips back from Sagittarius into Scorpio, amplifying that willingness (or need) to revisit what’s been left unsaid or unprocessed. Scorpio says, “slow down & carefully look again.”
There’s also a powerful water trine supporting everything happening under this New Moon. Jupiter retrograde in Cancer and Saturn and Neptune retrograde in Pisces are forming smooth, intuitive, emotional pathways between your memories, your boundaries, your dreams, and your present reality.
Even if you don’t consciously understand everything you’re feeling, there’s a sense of inner coherence available, like different parts of you are finally speaking the same language. Scorpio brings depth, Cancer brings emotional memory, and Pisces brings imagination and spiritual perspective. Together, they make this New Moon less overwhelming and more clarifying. You’re able to see what’s true without collapsing under the weight of it.
At the same time, Uranus in Taurus is directly opposing the Scorpio stellium, shaking loose anything stuck, rigid, or outdated. Uranus tends to wake you up. Sometimes gently, sometimes abruptly. Under this opposition, you might notice sudden realizations, shifts in perspective, or emotional truths that land in a way you can’t ignore. If something in your life has been running on autopilot, this is where the light switches back on. And while that can feel destabilizing in the moment, it’s ultimately freeing. Scorpio wants authenticity; Taurus wants stability. Uranus pushes both toward necessary change.
Chart of the day of the New Moon 20 November 2025 - 06:46 GMT - no house system
This shift supports the New Moon’s intention-setting energy by encouraging honesty and clarity about what you want and what feels true.
Let’s be honest: we all run from something.
A feeling we don’t want to name.
A choice we don’t want to face.
A desire we don’t want to admit.
A conversation we don’t want to have.
Chart of the day of the New Moon 20 November 2025- 06:46 GMT - no house system
This New Moon in Scorpio, powered by a grand water trine + stellium, actually illuminates what you’ve been dodging for quite a while.
Scorpio energy doesn’t expose you to embarrassment; it shows you so you can stop hiding from yourself.
Your truth has been knocking on the door.
Now it’s standing on the porch with its bags packed, asking to come in.
How the New Moon in Scorpio affects each rising sign
Using the Whole Sign house system, along with current transits of Jupiter rx + Saturn-Neptune rx. It is advisable to track what placements you have in the following-mentioned houses for further interpretation.
Aries Rising ♈
New Moon + Scorpio stellium in your 8th house
This New Moon makes a call to you into deeper emotional waters, and topics around trust, vulnerability, shared resources, or intimacy might feel more present than usual. You could find yourself returning to a conversation or emotional truth you tried to bypass in the past. With Mercury retrograde, you may revisit a boundary, a shared financial decision/inheritance, or an emotional attachment with more honesty this time.
Jupiter retrograde in your 4th brings family patterns or private emotional habits into the discussion, helping you understand where certain fears or avoidances originated.
Saturn–Neptune retrograde in your 12th adds a subtle but strong layer of emotional awareness; you’re more aware of what’s bubbling under the surface (if you decide to open the door to this knocking).
This unique planetary alignment and cycle moment is a meaningful internal reset for you. It’s a great time for choosing deeper honesty with yourself about what (or who) you trust and why.
Taurus Rising ♉
New Moon + Scorpio stellium in your 7th house
Relationships take center stage for you, romantic, platonic, or professional, this New Moon cycle. Someone in your life may prompt you to look at a truth you’ve sidestepped, for example. With Mercury retrograde, old conversations, dynamics, or agreements may resurface for clarification as well. Try to take an objective POV that this is about understanding what you truly want from a certain type of partnership.
Jupiter retrograde in your 3rd suggests that communication is the key to everything right now, as something unsaid or misunderstood is coming back for a second look.
Pisces Saturn–Neptune retrograde in your 11th highlights the role of community support and the expectations you place on others.
This New Moon helps you reset how you show up in connection. It’s the best time to reevaluate what’s mutual, what’s supportive, and what needs to evolve.
Gemini Rising ♊
New Moon + Scorpio stellium in your 6th house
Your daily life, routines, health, and work patterns receive a reset. You may feel more aware of the emotional habits behind your productivity or stress. With Mercury retrograde, you might revisit a project, a schedule, or a wellness goal, this time with more clarity about what actually works for you.
Jupiter retrograde in your 2nd brings attention to self-worth and financial habits, and your relationship with work may shift as your values shift.
Saturn–Neptune retrograde in your 10th asks you to take your long-term goals seriously without losing sight of what feels meaningful.
Cancer Rising ♋
New Moon + Scorpio stellium in your 5th house
There’s a fresh start around creativity, pleasure, dating, children, or simply feeling more alive. With Mercury retrograde, you might return to an old inspiration, a paused creative project, or unresolved feelings in your romantic life. There’s a desire to express yourself more honestly, too.
Jupiter retrograde in the 1st house heightens self-awareness, helping you clearly sense what aligns with you and what doesn’t. Although this transit is expansive and can feel overwhelming in terms of identity and self-expression, it ultimately supports a deeper understanding of your true self if you decide to bring this to consciousness.
Saturn–Neptune retrograde in your 9th adds a bigger-picture emotional perspective, helping you reconnect with your beliefs, hopes, and sense of meaning.
All in all, it’s a window of time to reconnect with what makes you feel genuinely inspired, seen, and excited again.
Leo Rising ♌
New Moon + Scorpio stellium in your 4th house
This New Moon pulls your focus inward toward your home, your family, and the feelings you usually keep tucked away. With Mercury retrograde, you may find yourself revisiting an old family discussion that needs to be brought to light, shuffling things around in your living space, or reflecting on emotional patterns that keep resurfacing.
Jupiter retrograde in your 12th basically asks you to sit with your deeper feelings, especially old fears or triggers that might still be lingering in the good old subconscious of yours. Meanwhile, the Saturn–Neptune retrograde in your 8th calls in to take an honest look at shared responsibilities or the emotional dynamics woven into your closest connections.
Seems like this is an overall quiet reset behind the scenes for you, Leo rising. It’s helping you understand what “home” truly means to you and what kind of emotional foundation you need to feel grounded and supported.
Virgo Rising ♍
New Moon + Scorpio stellium in your 3rd house
Intentions + resolutions around communication, planning, writing, learning, and everyday interactions are highlighted now. You may revisit conversations or decisions you made quickly earlier this year as Mercury RX brings something important back for deeper understanding.
Jupiter retrograde in your 11th reconnects you with supportive people, friendships, or networks that help you broaden your perspective, while Saturn–Neptune retrograde in your 7th adds clarity around relationship expectations and boundaries.
Lean into the help of this unique planetary alignment to acknowledge how you communicate more clearly and make choices that reflect your current truth, not your past assumptions.
Libra Rising ♎
New Moon + Scorpio stellium in your 2nd house
This period brings a reset in your finances, values, self-worth, and sense of material and overall sense of security. With Mercury retrograde, you might review recent spending, renegotiate something, or rethink how you want to use your energy and resources.
Now, Jupiter retrograde in your 10th may shift career priorities or your understanding of what success actually means to you. Great timing to journal about it!
And Saturn–Neptune retrograde in your 6th helps you identify work patterns that support or drain you, and what is also maybe straining your overall health.
This is a moment for choosing what you truly value, internally and externally, and aligning your life around it.
Scorpio Rising ♏
New Moon + Scorpio stellium in your 1st house
This is your personal reset of the year. With the Sun, Moon, Venus, Lilith AND Mercury retrograde in your rising sign, you’re becoming aware of truths about yourself that you may have… avoided. Try approaching this as objectively as possible, as the goal of this isn’t just to point out discomfort, but actual clarification that is necessary so you can grow further!
Meanwhile, trine to Jupiter retrograde in your 9th brings a philosophical backdrop, helping you reconnect with your long-term dreams or beliefs, and the trine to Saturn–Neptune retrograde in your 5th may bring clarity around creativity, your projects, and what genuinely brings you joy in the long run.
The doors are open for you to step into a new self-image, one that feels more honest, grounded, and aligned with your true self.
Sagittarius Rising ♐
New Moon + Scorpio stellium in your 12th house
Scorpio stellium with this divine New Moon takes place in your quietest, most introspective area of your chart. Emotional patterns you haven’t fully processed may resurface, especially with Mercury retrograde pulling your attention inward! This is a time of reflection, rest, and internal clarity. Something you ignored or moved past too quickly may come back for honest understanding.
Cancer Jupiter retrograde in your 8th deepens everything beneath the surface. It supports emotional honesty, vulnerability, and the kind of inner work that helps you understand why you feel the way you do.
You may find yourself opening up about things you usually keep private or recognizing where old emotional attachments still hold influence. This transit encourages you to explore your actual rich and juicy, divine inner world with curiosity rather than fear, and it can bring surprising clarity around intimacy, trust, and shared energy.
At the same time, Saturn–Neptune retrograde in your 4th is drawing your attention to your roots, like your family patterns, your sense of home, and the emotional foundation you operate from. You may be revisiting old memories, redefining what stability means, or noticing the ways your upbringing still shapes how you care for yourself and others. This energy asks for honesty but also compassion as you manage these deeper layers.
Altogether, this period acts as a reset from the inside out. It will be subtle, but it carries real weight. You’re clearing emotional space, releasing what’s outdated or heavy, and preparing yourself for a more grounded, aligned next chapter.
Capricorn Rising ♑
New Moon + Scorpio stellium in your 11th house
Friendships, communities, and long-term goals become central during this New Moon + Scorpio stellium transit planetary cycle. You may reconnect with people from your past or revisit a hope or project you once put aside. Mercury retrograde helps you understand what kind of support you actually want from others, and what you want to genuinely contribute to.
Side by side to the written above, Jupiter retrograde in your 7th turns the volume up on your one-on-one relationships, the people you commit to, rely on, or team up with. You might be circling back to certain conversations, reconnecting with someone, or simply paying more attention to the balance and give-and-take in your partnerships. It’s more like a slow, steady shift that helps you see how your relationships fit into the bigger picture of your life and the direction you want to head in.
Meanwhile, Saturn and Neptune retrograde in your 3rd house, bringing a quieter focus to your daily interactions, like the way you talk, listen, and show up in your immediate world. You may feel more aware of what kinds of communication feel supportive, what drains you, and where you need clearer boundaries so your words land in a way that actually feels true to you.
Taken together, this New Moon creates a moment to realign with the people in your life and reconnect with your sense of purpose.
Aquarius Rising ♒
New Moon + Scorpio stellium in your 10th house
Career, reputation, and long-term direction are undergoing a reset for you. With Mercury retrograde, you may rethink a professional decision(s), revisit old goals, or renegotiate work dynamics. This is a moment to check in with whether your public life matches your actual internal truth!
Jupiter retrograde in your 6th is slowing things down just enough for you to really look at your day-to-day life like the routines you keep, the work you do, and where your time and energy are actually going. It’s like getting a clearer picture of what’s genuinely helpful and what’s just draining you. You might realize you’ve been taking on too much, or that certain habits need adjusting so you can function with more ease.
At the same time, Saturn and Neptune retrograde in your 2nd house are calling you in to look at the connection between your work, your financial habits, and how you value yourself.
This can bring up questions like: am I being compensated fairly? Am I selling myself short? Do my financial choices reflect how much I value my own effort and talent? It’s all about pure honesty.
With this New Moon, you’re being given a clean slate to set a career direction that actually feels right for you, not just one you’ve fallen into out of habit. Take stock of what tasks energize you versus what drags you down.
Pisces Rising ♓
New Moon + Scorpio stellium in your 9th house
This lunation expands your perspective, your beliefs, your education, or your desire for meaning. With Mercury retrograde, you may revisit a past idea, spiritual insight, travel plan, or philosophical question. There’s a sense of returning to a truth you couldn’t or weren’t ready yet to fully integrate! Yay!
Jupiter retrograde in your 5th brings a kind of slow-burn inspiration, too. The kind that grows quietly in the background until you suddenly realize you’re feeling more creative, more expressive, and more confident in what you’re putting out into the world. You may find yourself returning to old hobbies, ideas, or passions you set aside, not out of pressure, but because they genuinely feel good again. This energy reminds you that creativity isn’t something you force; it’s something you follow.
At the same time, Saturn and Neptune retrograde in your 1st are, giving you a chance to check in with yourself, who you’re becoming, what you’re willing to stand for, and where your boundaries are shifting as you grow. You might notice certain parts of your identity feeling clearer (Neptune is at the end of your 1st, bringing the last check with this retrograde), while other parts are still forming. It’s all part of stepping into a version of yourself that feels more solid and more honest.
Take your time with it. You’re growing into yourself in a real, grounded way.
Planting seeds in the dark, radical releases, reclaiming personal power
In life, as in the cycles of the Moon, there are moments when we must plant seeds without knowing exactly what they will become, trusting that what we nurture beneath the surface will one day break through. This is the essence of personal transformation: an act of faith, courage, and intention.
And this New Moon in Scorpio is exactly about all of that!
Planting seeds in the dark often requires radical releases. We can’t create space for growth while clinging to what no longer serves us. Letting go can feel uncomfortable or even frightening, but it is also empowering. It might mean leaving behind old habits, outdated beliefs, or relationships that drain rather than support us. It might mean acknowledging truths about ourselves that we have avoided, embracing the parts of us that are messy, complicated, or vulnerable. Each thing we release makes room for something richer, deeper, and more aligned to our authentic selves…
Reclaiming personal power is intertwined with this process. Power is not about control over others; it is about ownership of our choices, our desires, and our boundaries. When we release what no longer serves us, we take back energy that has been scattered or surrendered. We become conscious of the ways we have compromised ourselves and begin to choose differently. Every act of honesty, every moment of emotional courage, every decision to honor our own needs is a step toward reclaiming that power. It is an ongoing practice, rooted in self-respect and awareness.
The dark is also our greatest teacher. When we plant seeds without immediate evidence of growth, we are learning the management of patience and trust. We learn that transformation rarely happens in the spotlight.
Growth often begins quietly, in hidden places,beneath the surface of our daily lives, in the folds of our routines, in the shadows of our minds. This is where resilience is forged, where intuition deepens, and where the most profound changes take root. It is in these unseen spaces that we discover how strong we are, how capable of change, and how much potential we carry.
If you are ready to explore this New Moon cycle even deeper…
…I am here to guide you further. I work with Western tropical astrology because it reflects nature’s rhythms and helps bring the unconscious into the conscious. It’s not about labeling or putting others or myself into boxes, but it’s about recognizing the deeper patterns shaping thoughts, emotions, and behaviors, often without us realizing it.
This approach helps make sense of what’s stirring beneath the surface, offering language and timing for inner processes that are already unfolding. When we see those patterns clearly, we can respond with intention instead of confusion. Astrology becomes a tool for self-awareness, emotional clarity, and meaningful growth.
