Cancer WEEK OF November 17 - 23, 2025

WEEK OF November 17 - 23, 2025

Don’t count on everything unfolding exactly when you want it to over the next week and a half. On Tuesday, November 18, messenger Mercury backflips from Sagittarius and your hardworking sixth house (where it’s been retrograde since November 9) into Scorpio and your playful fifth house, staying there until November 29. You’ve been absorbing valuable lessons about patience and restraint, so dealing with communication breakdowns, misunderstandings and tech problems might feel extra aggravating right now. Your smartest approach until late November? Zero in on what you can actually influence. Perhaps a creative endeavor requires your attention, or you need to revisit earlier work and make essential updates. Confirm every plan and reservation both verbally and in writing to prevent confusion. The upside of retrograde periods is that they tend to reconnect you with people from earlier chapters of your life, so an old friend might suddenly reach out, or an ex could slide back into your DMs. Just keep your sentimental Cancer heart in check and make sure nostalgia isn’t clouding your judgment about someone who isn’t actually good for you anymore.