Mercury Retrograde in Capricorn – Horoscopes for All 12 Signs

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Hey everyone, this is Adam Elenbaas from Nightlight Astrology. Today, we are taking a look at Mercury retrograde in the sign of Capricorn through all 12 signs. So, this is a further exploration of Mercury's retrograde in Capricorn. Yesterday, we did a kind of 20,000-foot view of the entire cycle and all of the interesting points that make this really unique Mercury retrograde cycle.

Today, we're going to try to put some skin on it by looking at Mercury's retrograde through Capricorn back into Sagittarius and then back into Capricorn through direct motion through the 12 signs. So these are horoscopes for all 12 signs that we'll look at the whole sign house of Capricorn and Sagittarius, and your charts tried to give you some more context and embodied specific topics that are likely to be active through the retrograde in the weeks ahead.

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You can find a link at the top of the comment section pinned to the top if you'd like to click over and donate today, and you can also find it in the description of the video. Three things I want to share today have to do with those things that I've learned personally as a content creator in the past year. These are my personal spiritual; I don't know revelations, insights, or the ways in which I see myself having grown as a person, which I think has had a direct impact on the quality of the content that I've made.

Dare I say I think the content has gotten better? Dare I say, I think it gets a little bit better over time every year. But it goes through the ups and downs of being, you know, I'm a human who's learning and growing just like everybody else, and the way that the filter through which the content comes is often, you know, my own, my own work, my own inner process, my shadows and so forth.

I want to share with you guys three things that I feel comfortable sharing that I have learned personally in the past year that I think have made for better content, and I also want to share with you that I'm committed to continuing to do my own personal work in the year ahead to make sure that I want people to know that they're listening to someone who cares that the content gets better, because the quality of my heart, my soul and my spiritual life is aimed at getting better, better might not even be the right word growth, insight, reflection, deepening, soulfulness, whatever, I just want to keep learning and let that learning be an extension of, you know, improved content for all of you. So anyway, three things I learned personally in the past year.

Number one, I am religious, but not religious. You guys may know that about a year ago, I left a religious tradition that I was a part of. I had an initiated name that was Acyuta Bhava, and that was a really, really huge and one of the most difficult choices of my life, to leave that religious tradition and to come back to my given birth name of Adam, which was just the outer token really of a much deeper choice that had to do with recognizing that while I have a religious attitude toward life, but I am not inherently a religious person. What I wouldn't recognize about myself is that getting identified with a religious order or sect with vows and that level of commitment is not right for me, and it might be my Capricorn moon in the ninth house, you know, my own shadows growing up as a preacher's kid in the church.

But, I had to come to the realization that I have a religious attitude towards life. There was a wonderful book I read this past year; it really changed my life. It was called Religious but not Religious, living the symbolic life, and it was by a Jungian psychologist named Jason Smith. You can find that book on Amazon; I highly recommend it, and I have recommended it throughout the year; what I learned from reading that book and being in my own therapy process and coming to that really difficult crossroads of having to leave a religious tradition. Was that a religious attitude?

Well, if you think about the word religion, it just means to reconnect, something that's been severed or cut off, and there's a way in which I experienced life, and I think the way that a lot of people do as seeking out connection with the divine, you might call it seeking a connection with the universe or with the spirit or with God, or the gods, or Shakti, or whatever you want to call it.

But it's been a part of my life since I was a little boy growing up in the church to seek out and find meaning through religious participation, and what I discovered in the past year was that I could do that every single day, I could live that kind of life without feeling like there was anything wrong with not belonging to a religion.

There was always a pressure that I felt after sort of leaving the Christian fold of like, well, I have to find the what's the new community? Or what's the right community for this one, isn't it? And I know for some people, this is like, Dude, why are you even struggling with this? I've been sort of religious but not religious my whole life. But for me, it was a struggle, feeling like I needed to be a part of a religious tradition. Otherwise, there was something wrong about about living a life without a specific religious affiliation. That was really, really hard for me. But making that choice and making that shift was one of the best things I've ever done. I don't feel any less religious and attitude when I say what I mean; that is, I take a devotional spiritual approach to my astrology, to my prayer life, to learning about spiritual things, to being conscious to being open to and respectful of world religions. But I'm religious, but not religious.

I think that had a profound impact on the quality of the content in the past year because I think I became more open-minded. I think there was a closed-minded, somewhat narrow, and afraid piece of me that decided that everything was okay. But yeah, so that was a huge lesson. I think it made for better content. I can't quantify exactly how, but I just felt lighter and easier since then.

Number two, I learned that the body is sacred. I went through a profound physical transformation. I've talked about that in other videos; I'm not going to go through the whole thing. But one of the reasons that I really had a hard time seeking out the help I needed with diet, with exercise with, weightlifting, with sleep, with hormonal health, with all sorts of stuff was because, coupled with that kind of, I must find a religion. That coupled with that this kind of, I don't know, a fear was also a kind of programming that I wasn't super aware of.

I was into yoga; we owned a yoga studio. I'm a Taurus rising; I consider myself a pretty sensual person; like artistic, I went to art school. But there was something in me that, probably from my Christian upbringing and ancestral karma, or something, I just really didn't think that the body was that like Earth, and below was as sacred as above. One of the things that happened in the past year was I became physically embodied in a way that I never have before.

My hormonal health changed dramatically because I sought out help that I was afraid to seek out because I thought there was something wrong with seeking out a transformation of body and health; when I prioritize that, everything shifted, and far from what I thought it would do, which was like, you know, somehow it would invalidate my spirituality to focus on the bodily realm.

I mean, it was new, and there were some adjustments getting into my body that came with, like, I don't know, some ego adjustments at times, for sure. But more than anything, what it did was it just made me realize that the imminent worldly material energy is as beautiful and sacred as the transcendent or transcendental, and there was a split in me that I wasn't super; I wouldn't have thought that it was there.

But it was, and that shift for me, I think, has greatly improved the quality of the content; that shift is still happening. It's not like it happens. It's like layers of an onion, you know. But I noticed that now in me, I have more appreciation for the worldly, the feminine, and the embodied sensual, and I think it's made for better content in the past year; at least, I feel better about the content I'm making and then finally, relationships and creativity or nutritional in the past year. You see, I'll just be honest, I have stayed so busy with this work with the content creation for ten years that I didn't think that I would have time to write a book again.

This year, by prioritizing the Grateful Dead and dancing and doing fun things with my wife, which I been so busy with work and kids for so many years. Uranus hit my natal Venus, and I was like, all right. I feel so overworked that I need to return to; I need to spend more time dating my wife because I love her, and we're not; we weren't like there wasn't a problem. But there was also not the same joy and fun and creativity that we had before kids came, and it just felt like I was on the hamster wheel of, like, kids and duties and work all the time.

Somehow, I realized that it's really, really important to step off that hamster wheel, that conveyor belt, and go dancing with my wife go to a Grateful Dead show, you know, smoking joint for the first time in six years, that's honest. But that happened, and it was it was good. It was fantastic. So, at the Grateful Dead show, by the way, which was amazing. So sorry; that was probably TMI.

I also got back into my guitar, and I also started writing a book again, and I did those things; I made myself do those things because I had to put faith in the idea that taking care of myself creatively is a kind of nutrition that spills over into everything else and I believe that those things have made for better content this past year.

Anyway, thank you guys for listening. Thank you for supporting me, and thank you for supporting my staff. Thank you for supporting the vision of Nightlight, thank you for supporting everything that we do, and for being so generous as you've watched me grow. You've been forgiving, kind, and supportive as I've grown as a human and as a content creator, and I just can't tell you how much I appreciate that. So, on that note, I hope you will really enjoy today's talk on Mercury retrograde and some horoscopes. Don't forget to support the Kickstarter if you haven't yet. We would really appreciate it, and yeah, we'll see you again tomorrow.

All right, let's go ahead and get into it. We are looking at Mercury Retrograde in the sign of Capricorn backing into Sagittarius. Going back into Capricorn, we're going to look at the pair of those two houses and all of our horoscopes today.

I want to go over the timeline first, and then we'll get into it for all 12 signs and what I'm going to be doing is a little bit more like a mini horoscope. So I'm going to be mentioning things in the topics that I think might be active and how the two houses topically might pair together, and we'll just be kind of running through each sign as a way of giving you some deeper context for the retrograde that we talked about yesterday.

So, I'm going to share my screen now, and here it is. So here is Mercury Retrograde as of Thursday, December 14. Now, let's watch as this unfolds; we're going to go one week at a time. So we can see it's backed into Sagittarius. This is by late December, and then we see it turn stationing and turning direct on January 1.

We want to bring it all the way back up to eight degrees because, as we discussed in yesterday's video, and Mercury retrograde, it's really doing some pretty amazing things all the way up until it returns to the degree at which it station didn't turn retrograde, which takes us to about January 20. So we're thinking of this as a period.

Now, all of the horoscopes we do today, you could think of as going from about December 14 13th 14th through about January 20 21st. Okay, so that being said, let us get now to the retrograde here; you can see it placed there in Capricorn and what do we want to say for each of the 12 signs? We'll start with Aries, and we're going to notice the pairing of houses ten and nine; you think about the 10th house and you think about career, you think about activities in the world that engage you with the world.

So, if you're retired, how are you engaging with the world? What kind of activities are defining or guiding your interaction with the world if you're a kid, it's the same thing. In midlife, we tend to think about those activities that engage us with the greater society in which we live as occupational. But keep in mind that, more broadly speaking, it has to do with those things we do, we practice, we do, we do them consistently that engages with the world, there is some kind of change or reorientation or shift or delay or reversal taking place in this area right now and it's going to also dip into the house of our higher beliefs, or moral spiritual or philosophical compass.

Aries
If you're an Aries or Aries rising, which means that we're talking about a reorientation around worldly activities that coincides with some shifting or amplifying or reflecting on the nature of your beliefs and your convictions. So as your activities in the world shift, your beliefs shift as your beliefs shift, your career shifts, and things like that, that is the best.

Just think of those two houses as working together in this process that's taking place between now and about January 20; we know that the end of the process will also engage as the sun and Pluto are entering your 11th house. So the final result of all of this might be that there is a very different kind of social engagement happening in terms of the group of the house of groups, friends, allies, and so forth.

It's a really interesting set of themes to consider. But the main ones, again, that I would look at are going to be the Capricorn and Sagittarius themes and the 10th and ninth house beliefs, higher learning religion, or spiritual or moral or philosophical orientation, and change is happening in both that area, and the area of our vocation or worldly endeavors, practices, habits, routines, and so forth, the things that engage us out in the world.

Taurus
All right, let's move ahead to Taurus rising. With Taurus rising, we find the interaction between the ninth and the eighth. I think it's always a little bit easier when you have the two signs if you're looking at a transition like this in the same angular triad, like, you know, 9, 10, and 11, as opposed to nine and eight, which are a part of the same angular triad. But if you don't know about triads, don't worry about that for another time.

Regardless, we see a shifting in terms of beliefs and convictions morally, again, philosophically or spiritually, religiously, something about learning and education, going through a transformation, as we also see a shift around people's resources, money investments, The way in which others give or withhold, share, or, or demand something of you. So the reciprocal nature of those things that come out of the eighth house, or being paired around the spiritual and philosophical changes happening in the ninth, there is some connection between the soul contracts you have money, debts, and shared assets or resources in the realm of beliefs, religion, philosophy, higher education, and so forth.

It is really fascinating to pair those things together because it suggests an exploration of relational values and exchanges alongside of political, moral, philosophical, or spiritual outlooks.

Gemini
Now, for Geminis, we see the retrograde coming through the eighth house being paired in the eighth and the seventh, so it Retrogrades into the seventh and comes back into the eighth. Now, you could also say that the back and forth between the two is because they're in the same angular tribe; we're talking about changes in relationships related to the assets or resources of partners or people we are in relationships with. It has to do with the debts and responsibilities that others have to us, or that we have to others the crosses we bear and the relationships we have, the duties, responsibilities, and obligations of a spouse or partner, or that we have to a spouse or partner or that they have to us in business and love a roommate, any kind of examination of our exchanges of emotion, energy finance resource, in relationships with other people alongside have an exploration of relationships themselves. So, changes in relationships along with the change of values, services, duties, and obligations in relationships, Geminis are looking at that, at a pretty deep level.

Cancer
We go forward to Cancer, and we see the pairing alongside the seventh and sixth house axis. So again, same angular triad. This would mean that the topics are paired together in a more immediate and obvious way. For example, we have changes in relationships in Mercury's retrograde in the seventh house, paired alongside of sacrifice, work, labor, and conflict in the sixth house. So, for example, when you're looking at changes in relationships, and they force you to have to sacrifice or work or, you know, face and work through adversity, hardships or conflict, that's a Mercury Retrograde going from seven to six back to seven relationship changes are imminent, and they will require work sacrifice service, hard work and the overcoming of adversity or conflict. Or even some, you know, you could see something like the need to persevere as a way of overcoming and working through something, not just in a relationship, but something that a partner is dealing with. So you can also see this as something reflected in the life of a close partner or friend or lover.

Leo
So, we go to Leo on the ascendant, and we have the pairing of the sixth and fifth houses. The connection between these two houses again is that we don't have them in the same angular triad. However, the fifth house was called the place of good fortune, the sixth, the place of misfortune. That's interesting because when Mercury Retrograde starts off in the sixth house, you think about things breaking down, or you think about challenges that have to be overcome through a kind of re-reassessing how you're utilizing resources or whether a plan or a current way of doing something is going to get the job done or whether it's just going to create more problems.

So you're really looking at the exact like, almost like taking problematic things and breaking them down in order to understand and solve them and as a part of the mercury retrograde in the sixth house, like Mercury retrograde in the sixth house is frequently associated with like dis assembling things and putting them back together. It's a Mercury retrograde in the sixth kind of theme.

When it dips back into the fifth house, you also think about creativity, self-expression, joy, happiness, good fortune, and romance, and so it almost seems like a process of breakdown or difficulty is moving into a space of ease, joy, creativity and saying, hey, you know, there's an easier way of doing things, there's actually a way that you can move from a kind of, you know, hard-working, dutiful solve problems, practical Capricornian space into a more creative and less inhibited Sagittarian space.

Yet, at the end of the day, you carry that Sagittarian energy back into Capricorn, where, then, hopefully, a different way of approaching problems has presented itself, maybe a freer, looser, easier way of doing things. So that's the way I would look at this, you know, just sort of trying to pick up a really good general storyline that a lot of people will probably see.

Virgo
All right, let's go forward to Virgo. With Virgo, we see the pairing of the fifth and fourth houses. Now we're in the same angular triad again, and five, four, and three, and here we have the Mercury retrograde in the fifth, going down into the fourth and coming back into the fifth.

For example, you might see a connection here between creativity and self-expression, things that you're working on, things that are requiring a lot of sacrifice and hard work but that are sort of creatively rewarding, and it's almost like you think about Capricorn in the fifth house is like a creative cross to bear. It's like the weight of a book you're writing or an album you're creating; it's beautiful, but it's like, wow, is it a lot of work and there's something about, you know, redirecting, or revising or reconsidering are kind of going in a different direction, maybe creatively and, you know, kind of reconsidering what it means for something to be happy or beautiful or fun and then the exploration takes you into the realm of home and family.

It takes you into the realm of your living environment and rest, relaxation, and release from the world. It's almost as though Virgos are getting a creative break and saying, Look, you know, you can't make it; even creative things can find a way of becoming stressful. So, do you have a space that you can go into that's truly more relaxed and liberating? And if not, if you feel like you always have to be productive, even on a creative level, which is supposed to be about joy and happiness, where does that come from?

Does it have roots in anything unconscious, ancestral, or in the family? What can you do to loosen up your creative life? And what kind of inspiration can you bring forth, if you take enough time to rest that can make the creative crosses that you bear, you know, just easier or lighter somehow. So, a lot of loosening and lightening around this axis, as far as I can tell.

Libra
Then, when we have Libra rising, we get the access of houses four and three, and here, I think a lot about the connection between home, family, and living environment and the harder or more difficult karma that you bear around your ancestry, your parents, there's changes around the roots, things that are ready to be let go of or reordered or revision somehow, maybe in your living environment, you know, again, maybe around where you live, or what the home space looks or feels like, but also relationships in the family, things from the past coming back up.

Then there's also again, like if there's a weightiness around the Capricorn energy in the fourth house of home and family, there's a lighter, more expansive quality in the third house that's coming through How can I change my mind? How can my mindset be lighter, which creates less of a burden at the roots? It's sort of like saying I'm not responsible for every last thing that's come through my life, or my family, or my home or my org, my place of origin; I can, I can just set some of it down, I don't have to carry all of it.

Again, almost like around this axis, I feel like the transition from Capricorn to Sagittarius and back to Capricorn is very much loosening or lightening of creative energies of ancestral karma of the mind moods and emotion. There's a sense of just letting yourself off the hook and taking it easier. This is also about, you know, fundamental changes happening around again, anything like your lease could change with your landlord or you could find yourself moving to a different neighborhoods, very practical changes that could happen around home family and living environment as well for Libras.

Scorpio
Let's go to Scorpios. So with Scorpios, we start shifting again, and we have houses two and three, and this is interesting because we're talking about changes that have to be made, especially with Mercury in the third house to our mind, our mind in you know almost think about like a weightiness and alike, your mind being occupied with things that are very serious and then as the as Mercury moves into the second house and goes into Sagittarius Jupiter ruled sign it's almost like there's an invitation to develop some skills or resources that frees you up.

That allows for more space, freedom, creativity flow, and then you go back, you go back to work, you go back to the burdens of the world, but you have new skills that you develop new excitement, new enthusiasm, it makes the load lighter to carry. But I think a lot of this has to do with what you have, what you're in possession of, what you can develop or cultivate a skills or resources that can lighten the mood, lighten the mind, lighten the load you're carrying mentally. There's a close connection here between the environment of the mind and the environment of money and resources and what you have or are in possession of, what skills you have, or which ones you want to develop, and again, how that could contribute to some kind of fundamentally different or lighter or easier way of being, like mentally or intellectually or something like that.

Sagittarius
All right, so we go forward to Sagittarius rising, and now we have an angular triad connecting again, and this time, we have the first and second houses, and I think about this process in terms of, again, assets, money, resources, change and how you allocate or use or spend time, money, energy resources. Overall, it's a change of financial approach, a change in business, some change in terms of who or what you can rely on as an asset or resource as some some of the revisions that are happening there.

But this revision is coinciding with a change to your sense of who you are, which is implied by Mercury retrograding into your first house; there's a fundamental change in how you see yourself, how you communicate yourself, how you want to be seen, how you treat your body, or what your mind or body looks like and it's connected very intimately to some kind of change around money or resources.

Again, the resources don't have to be financial; they can be. So resource changes alongside of identity changes; those seem to be the most common themes for this pairing of houses in the retrograde.

Capricorn
If you go forward to Capricorn, now we have the first and 12th houses, and you know, interestingly, now we have identity again, but this time, we have a space that is deeply unconscious. So we're talking about a different way of thinking about ourselves, but it emerges through contact with unconscious material, could be shadows could be bad habits, undermining people, or thoughts or behaviors or situations that undermine us.

But we're going to be realizing if you're a Capricorn, you're going to be realizing something really important about who you are, the direction you want to take in your life, how you think about yourself, how you communicate yourself to other people and it's going to happen because there's, an opportunity, I should say, to look into a kind of blind spot, or a shadow spot as Mercury retrogrades, into the 12th and then it comes back into your awareness as it comes into the first. So this is shadow work, and, you know, integration of a more conscious identity, you know, it's very psychologically shifting through an exploration of the unconscious for Capricorns.

Aquarius
Now, we go to Aquarius, and we get the 12th in the 11th, which means we have the same kind of unconscious material being visited for Aquarians. But it's tapping that unconscious exploration is being brought to bear on the house of friends, groups, allies, communities, and so the unconscious material that's showing itself is directly impacting, you know, your social network, or the people that are like allies or friends in your life.

So really interesting exploration; you could very easily realize through this retrograde who your friends are and who they aren't, where you could start to see the shadows or blind spots of a group or of people that you consider friends, and you know, maybe it's forgivable, maybe it's just good to be aware of, maybe it's so powerful that you feel like you need to shift or change your priorities socially. Those are the kinds of things that I could see coming up for Aquarians.

Pisces
All right, if we move forward to Pisces, we then look at last at the 10th and 11th houses and so groups, communities, friends, allies connecting with changes around career or social, societal participation, what kinds of activities worldly activities are you revising, shifting or changing in correspondence with changes among friends, allies, groups, networks of people, and so forth, change in friends change in people that act as like allies for your goals and ambitions. There are changes happening in that house alongside of changes happening in the professional house or the house that engages us in the world.

So, for example, some of your goals, if you're in retirement, some of your goals might have to do with the kinds of people and activities that you'd like to do, and now that you're retired, this could bring about changes in the kind of people you hang out with as well as the kinds of activities that you enjoy or how you enjoy them or how you do the things that you do or who and where you do them or who you do them with and where you do them. Things like that.

So you can, you can have an imagination about this, if you're not, in if you're like in more of a retirement phase of life, you know, for children, this is also about shaping your ambitions and state shaping the kinds of people that are going to be, you know, the right, a lot rightly aligned for who you're becoming and who you want to become and that happens in the lives of even young children. So you think about those things to help.

Anyway, this has been just a kind of brief breakdown of the combination. Listen, the possibility, I think, exists that the Capricorn house will be much more important than the sagittarius house. The reason for that is that the Capricorn house is where it starts and where it ends, and it does so in trines with Jupiter, so if you were listening to this and you had a harder time hearing the two houses working together, then just focus on the Capricorn house by whole sign and you think you know, like, in the case of Aries, that's your career. In the case of Taurus, that's the place of religion and spirituality or education, schools, stuff like that.

For Geminis, that's the eighth house of your, you know, kind of contractual obligations to other people and those that they have to you. If you are a Capricorn cancer, this has to do with marriage and relationships. If you're a Leo, it has to do with the sacrifices, the hard work, the adversity, and the sort of perseverance required to overcome something. If it's the fifth house, which is Virgo, then it's creative, its creativity, and joy, and if it's the fourth house is Libra, you know, then you're looking at home and family, and again, I'll just repeat this for all the signs.

So Scorpio, the third house, you think of your mind and the mental and emotional environment. If it's Sagittarius, think about the second house money and resources; if it's kept, you think about identity. If it's Aquarius, you think about blind spots and unconscious material, and if it's Pisces, and you're thinking about groups, community, friends, and allies as the main source of change, reflection revision, that the retrograde indicate retrograde indicates, so I just went through those again really quickly, because again, like I said, I think that for a lot of people, the cap area might be the one that's that pops the most.

But the two together hopefully gives you some insight into how the two houses might be working in cahoots, over the next over the next weeks until, from now until about January 20. Anyway, I hope that this was useful alongside of our general exploration of the archetypal themes of the retrograde we did yesterday. I hope this gives you some good things to think about.

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