Mercury retrograde
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Mercury appears to move backward from May 21, 2028 until June 14, 2028, through Gemini. The full write-up for this cycle is still to come; the station dates below are already exact.
- Pre-shadow begins
- May 6, 2028 · 18:40 UTC
- Stations retrograde
- May 21, 2028 · 08:39 UTC
- Stations direct
- June 14, 2028 · 06:06 UTC
- Post-shadow ends
- June 29, 2028 · 08:58 UTC
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- Retrograde station
- 2028-05-21T08:39:48.427Z
- Direct station
- 2028-06-14T06:06:53.964Z
- Pre-shadow begins
- 2028-05-06T18:40:25.284Z
- Post-shadow ends
- 2028-06-29T08:58:04.147Z
- Ecliptic longitude
- 76.31° · 16°18′ Gemini
- 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.