Mercury Stations Retrograde

Mercury slows and turns backward in Scorpio this October, parking itself in your 11th house where your own Lilith already lives, that wild, honest part of you that refuses to soften or perform for the crowd. This station asks you to look hard at your friendships and the groups you belong to. What truths have you been keeping quiet? What do you really want from the people around you?

The sky offers you an easy opening: Mercury sextiles your Venus in the 9th, suggesting conversations that deepen connection through shared ideas and genuine exchange. Yet Mercury also squares your Mars in the 8th, desire and courage pulling against careful speech. Something will need to bend.

Your North Node catches the sextile too: growth lives in speaking what’s real, even when it costs.