Mercury retrograde
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Mercury appears to move backward from August 16, 2030 until September 8, 2030, through Virgo. The full write-up for this cycle is still to come; the station dates below are already exact.
- Pre-shadow begins
- July 27, 2030 · 12:48 UTC
- Stations retrograde
- August 16, 2030 · 01:22 UTC
- Stations direct
- September 8, 2030 · 09:22 UTC
- Post-shadow ends
- September 22, 2030 · 14:57 UTC
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- Retrograde station
- 2030-08-16T01:22:46.259Z
- Direct station
- 2030-09-08T09:22:14.179Z
- Pre-shadow begins
- 2030-07-27T12:48:46.838Z
- Post-shadow ends
- 2030-09-22T14:57:21.382Z
- Ecliptic longitude
- 164.49° · 14°29′ Virgo
- 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.