The Week of November 17th, 2025: A New Moon, a Mercury cazimi, and a dozen other things
Astrology of the Week Ahead with Chani Nicholas
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🗓️ 17 November 2025
⏱️ 23 minutes
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Summary
Episode 257
In this podcast, New York Times best-selling author and astrologer Chani Nicholas discusses the astrology of the week and what it might mean for us all.
The astrology of the week of November 17th, 2025, is busy and a little intense. The New Moon in Scorpio reveals our deepest emotional patterns. The Mercury cazimi in Scorpio shows us which habits we need to break. And a flurry of other planetary activity brings a mix of clarity, disruption, and breakthroughs. This is the time to make the changes you need to make. But/and take a breather if you get overwhelmed. Growth doesn’t have to happen overnight.
This episode covers:
The Sun’s trine to Saturn on Monday, November 17th
Mercury’s sextile to Pluto on Monday, November 17th
Mercury’s re-entrance into Scorpio on Tuesday, November 18th
Mercury’s opposition to Uranus on Wednesday, November 19th
Mercury’s trine to Neptune on Wednesday, November 19th
The New Moon in Scorpio on Wednesday, November 19th
The Mercury cazimi on Thursday, November 20th
Uranus’ sextile to Neptune on Thursday, November 20th
The Sun’s opposition to Uranus on Friday, November 21st
The Sun’s trine to Neptune on Friday, November 21st
The Sun’s entrance into Sagittarius on Friday, November 21st
Mercury’s trine to Saturn on Saturday, November 22nd
Mercury’s trine to Jupiter on Saturday, November 22nd
The Sun’s sextile to Pluto on Sunday, November 23rd
This episode was recorded on 10/30/2025.
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| 0:00.0 | Three things about this week. |
| 0:02.0 | One, it's full of new beginnings that require our radical honesty. |
| 0:09.2 | Two, it's also full of rude awakenings. |
| 0:14.1 | Three, it's going to end with a lot of sweetness and a lot of help and a lot of hope. |
| 0:20.5 | Hello and welcome. This is the |
| 0:23.0 | Astrology of the Week Ahead podcast. I'm your host, your Astro Bestie Channy Nicholas. |
| 0:29.3 | In this episode, we are talking about the week of November 17th. Thanks to you all, every single |
| 0:36.8 | year we totally completely sell out of the Chani Astro Planner. |
| 0:42.4 | And I cannot wait for you to get your hands on this year's. |
| 0:47.1 | 2026 is full of 300 pages of rituals, of reflections, of details about every single astrological transit |
| 0:58.3 | that you need to know about this year. This is how you plan for a year of success. This is such |
| 1:05.2 | a lovely companion to the weekly readings on the Chani app, to the yearly readings on the |
| 1:09.8 | Chani app, to the daily horoscopes on the Chani app, to the yearly readings on the Chani app, to the daily |
| 1:11.2 | horoscopes on the Chani app, to all of it and then some. You get to understand like, oh, yeah, |
| 1:16.5 | that's what she was talking about there and here and oh, this is how I see it showing up in my life. |
| 1:21.0 | It has daily little journal prompts and reflections. It has New Moon, full moon, rituals. |
| 1:26.8 | And as always, sets of the cutest stickers |
| 1:31.0 | you've ever seen in your life. They are the collages from the Chani app. You get to work with them |
| 1:36.5 | in your little astro planner. My favorite is also the monthly pages because you can just get |
| 1:42.2 | to understand like what is going on for the month |
| 1:45.2 | week to week day to day all at the same time. And I extra extra love the mood of the month |
| 1:51.3 | section. Every single month we have written out a synopsis of what this month is all about. |
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