The Second Mercury Retrograde of 2025
It’s important to know these dates for Mercury Retrograde in the summer of 2025. Vedic Astrology views and uses the knowledge of Mercury retrograde as a way to counter the instability, miscommunication and changes that may take place during Mercury Retrograde.
Mercury Retrograde Dates
July 18, 2025 Mercury begins retrograding
August 11, 2025 Mercury goes direct or finishes retrograding
The Fourth Phase of Mercury Retrograde begins.
(Learn about the Fourth Phase of Mercury Retrograde – the most important part of the entire cycle)
August 25, 2025 Phase 4 of Mercury Retrograde
You can bring stability to your life when you know when Mercury is retrograding.
In 2025, Mercury is retrograding in water signs.
Mercury retrograding in the water sign of Cancer during this cycle brings special challenges to communications.
Writing, communication and messages might take longer to complete, your messages might get confused – both how you say something might now be clear and how they are received might not be clear. And since Cancer can be an emotional sign, having Mercury retrograde here can bring bigger emotions or scattered thinking when communicating.
If communication is seen as waves in the air or wires and fiber optic cables for your computer, then imagine that unless you have well insulted “wires”, your messages will arrive jumbled or garbled.
Communication shows up in our lives in at least 4 ways:
- How your nervous system operates – You might notice more nervousness, anxiety, or needing to self-soothe more during this Mercury retrograde. The brain to body connection needs support.
- How you think, speak, and write about yourself and to yourself.
- How you think, speak and write TO others
- How what you say, write or gesture is RECEIVED by others
and then what message is received then trickles down into the receiver.
Communication is an incredible process. How do we know that what we think, then speak or write and its meaning is actually being received as you meant it?
Mercury Retrogrades challenge the entire concept of communication. And it’s a perfect time to just OBSERVE where things break down, and then improve yourself AFTER Mercury goes direct.
Each Mercury Retrograde is unique but a theme over 13 months prevails.
Secret Teaching about Mercury Retrogrades and Vedic Astrology
Here’s a big lesson for you, especially if you are a student of Vedic Astrology. Mercury Retrogrades in one ELEMENT every 13 months.
For instance, Mercury will retrograde in WATER SIGNS for all of 2025.
This allows a student of Vedic Astrology to find a theme or draw a thread of stability for an entire year. Especially if someone is running a Maha Dasha cycle of Mercury.
Mercury changes constellations almost every 3 weeks, unless it is retrograding in a sign or constellation.
Mercury Retrogrades bring bigger lessons over a year
Mercury Retrogrades both slow Mercury’s effects down in our lives so we can listen and integrate the lesson and also gives our nervous systems a chance to ‘catch up’. When a student or observer of Vedic Astrology begins to observe these longer patterns – like Mercury Retrograding in one element at a time – you can allow yourself to drop into relaxation and ride the wave of bigger messages that are coming to you.