Mercury retrograde
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Mercury appears to move backward from December 22, 2029 until January 11, 2030, through Capricorn. The full write-up for this cycle is still to come; the station dates below are already exact.
- Pre-shadow begins
- December 4, 2029 · 23:15 UTC
- Stations retrograde
- December 22, 2029 · 05:49 UTC
- Stations direct
- January 11, 2030 · 05:44 UTC
- Post-shadow ends
- January 30, 2030 · 15:51 UTC
- Entirely within
Before and after
Around this date
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- Total lunar eclipse in Gemini · December 20, 2029
The lunar eclipse one day away makes this an eclipse-season moment.
Keep following
Behind this eventExact times, positions, sources, and method
- Retrograde station
- 2029-12-22T05:49:44.325Z
- Direct station
- 2030-01-11T05:44:22.646Z
- Pre-shadow begins
- 2029-12-04T23:15:55.121Z
- Post-shadow ends
- 2030-01-30T15:51:28.997Z
- Ecliptic longitude
- 287.71° · 17°42′ Capricorn
- 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.