Mercury retrograde
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Mercury appears to move backward from January 7, 2029 until January 27, 2029, through Capricorn and Aquarius. The full write-up for this cycle is still to come; the station dates below are already exact.
- Pre-shadow begins
- December 21, 2028 · 21:24 UTC
- Stations retrograde
- January 7, 2029 · 07:57 UTC
- Stations direct
- January 27, 2029 · 18:37 UTC
- Post-shadow ends
- February 16, 2029 · 16:50 UTC
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- Retrograde station
- 2029-01-07T07:57:13.446Z
- Direct station
- 2029-01-27T18:37:56.806Z
- Pre-shadow begins
- 2028-12-21T21:24:12.171Z
- Post-shadow ends
- 2029-02-16T16:50:47.825Z
- Ecliptic longitude
- 303.63° · 3°38′ 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.