Mercury, planet of intellect and communication, crosses the Gandanta zone between fire and water signs and nakshatras from Dec 26th to Dec 31st 2025.

The transition from Scorpio-Jyeshta to Sagittarius-Mula is a particularly intense Gandanta phase, or junction area, which translates to ‘knot-end’, and has a quality of instability and karmic experience. The ‘knot’ symbol also suggests it is wrong to resist or pull too tightly, at the risk of further entanglement, where the right approach is to let a question play out naturally. For a decision-making planet like Mercury, this can mean business is up in the air, with many uncertainties, and looking into the fine print brings a technicality to the surface.

Holiday plans may go awry, or you can’t get an agreement with your friends and family to all pull the same way. A good lead or contact initially comes to nothing, and somebody may back out of an agreement, or you yourself have second thoughts on a settled deal. This kind of obstacle feels like the intervention of fate, which makes you work a little bit harder. You go from certainty to confusion more than once, or feel that people are not picking up on your hints and suggestions.

Mercury in Scorpio from December 26th to 29th operates independently and sees you focused on a fixed outcome. Moving into Sagittarius on Dec 29th, Mercury picks up the influence of both Jupiter and Saturn, where you are negotiating a more complex picture. The transition between these two extremes requires great focus, and you have to cut out unnecessary details and also risk a disagreement. This raises your awareness and brings out your negotiation skills, and discarding a past attachment allows you to move on.