Mercury retrograde
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Mercury appears to move backward from January 24, 2028 until February 14, 2028, through Aquarius. The full write-up for this cycle is still to come; the station dates below are already exact.
- Pre-shadow begins
- January 8, 2028 · 19:24 UTC
- Stations retrograde
- January 24, 2028 · 11:03 UTC
- Stations direct
- February 14, 2028 · 12:39 UTC
- Post-shadow ends
- March 5, 2028 · 16:45 UTC
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- Retrograde station
- 2028-01-24T11:03:25.224Z
- Direct station
- 2028-02-14T12:39:29.091Z
- Pre-shadow begins
- 2028-01-08T19:24:01.405Z
- Post-shadow ends
- 2028-03-05T16:45:06.370Z
- Ecliptic longitude
- 319.70° · 19°41′ Aquarius
- Fact source
- sky.json, generated 2026-07-20
- Derived for display
- station signs and degrees read from the engine at the committed instants
Instants and positions come from the site's astronomy engine and its committed yearly and monthly sky catalogs — the same data behind the Almanac and the daily horoscopes. Times are universal time; in the Americas an instant can fall the evening before the date printed. Sign-by-sign notes, where present, use whole-sign solar houses. The readings are a tradition being applied, not a forecast — the methodology page sets out both halves.