As we move through November, the energy around us feels slow, thick, reflective. It is one of those months where life seems to ask you to sit down for a moment, breathe, and look inward. With five planets retrograde, Mercury, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune, there is a very real sense of being pulled back into ourselves.

And if you’ve been feeling tired, foggy, emotional, or like you’re walking through treacle… you’re right on time. This is not a period for pushing. It’s a period for listening.

🌻 What the November Retrogrades Are Teaching Us

Each of these retrogrades is touching a different part of our lives, nudging us to pay attention.

🌻 Mercury

A spotlight on communication, misunderstandings, and the conversations you’ve avoided. Where do you need clarity? Where have you been holding your tongue, or where have you spoken too quickly?

🌻 Jupiter

A gentle but firm invitation to revisit your beliefs, your long-term dreams, and the big vision you carry for your life. Are your goals still aligned with who you’re becoming, or have they carried an old version of you for too long?

🌻 Saturn

A check-in with responsibilities, discipline, and structure. What feels heavy or restrictive? Where do you need boundaries, support, or breathing space?

🌻 Uranus

The planet of change asking you to look at your path. What’s shifting? What’s trying to change, even if you’re not quite ready to move with it?

🌻 Neptune

A clear look at your dreams, intuition, and the places where illusion has been hiding. What truth is becoming impossible to ignore?

Together, these retrogrades create a potent energy for inner work. It can feel intense, but it’s purposeful.

This is the season where life gently takes your chin, lifts it up, and says:
 

Are you sure this still fits you?

🌻 Why Letting Go Matters During Retrograde Season

The challenges many of us have faced this year weren’t punishments. They’ve been revelations. They’ve shown us what no longer serves us, what drains us, what keeps us stuck, and what’s simply outdated.

Letting go isn’t about abandoning something or giving up.
It’s about finally admitting the truth of what is aligned and what isn’t.

And when we let go, we create the one thing the Universe needs most in order to support us: space.

If your hands are full of the old
- the old responsibilities
- the old expectations
- the old stories
- the old identities

There’s no room for the new to land.

🌻 Clearing Before the Christmas Season

This time of year brings a whole mix of emotions.
Joy and magic for some.
Pressure, obligations, and old family patterns for others.

It can stir up all the places where we feel responsible for everything and everyone.

This is why November’s reflective energy is so important. Before we step into the busyness, it’s worth pausing to ask:

🌻 What traditions or expectations have I carried simply because I always have?
🌻 Which responsibilities feel true, and which feel outdated?
🌻 What would make this season feel softer, more aligned, more peaceful?
🌻 What do I need to release to protect my energy?

Letting go makes room for a new experience of the season, one that honours who you are now, not who you used to be.

🌻 The End of a Numerology Cycle

2025 is a nine year in numerology, which brings the energy of completion and closure.
It’s the final chapter in a bigger cycle. A year where we release what can’t come with us into the future.

And 2026 is a one year.
- A fresh start.
- A new era.
- A clean slate in many ways.

But these shifts don’t happen on the stroke of midnight on the 1st of January. We ease out of old energy and soften into the new. The second half of 2025 has been the unravelling. The first half of 2026 will be the rebuilding.

Once the outer planets settle into their new signs and stay there, this push-pull feeling will ease.
The fog will lift.
Momentum will return.

🌻 If Things Aren’t Moving Forward, Trust the Timing

Not everything is meant to move forward right now.
- Not everything is ready.
- Not everything is meant to be pushed.

If it’s not flowing, don’t force it.
- If you’re tired, rest.
- If you’re unclear, pause.

This is a time of clearing.
- A time of making space.
- A time of loosening your grip on what has already served its purpose.

Letting go can be physical decluttering, clearing of the loft, the cupboards, the bookshelves.
Or emotional decluttering, releasing old grudges, regrets, and outdated stories.
Or spiritual decluttering, letting go of the identities that no longer match your soul’s direction.

This is why letting go is spiritually important.

Whatever it looks like for you, trust that the clearing creates a pathway for what’s coming.

Because the new energy is gathering.
And the more space you create now, the more ease you’ll feel as you step into it.

With love,
Mags x 💛

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