Mercury retrograde
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Mercury appears to move backward from December 6, 2030 until December 25, 2030, through Sagittarius and Capricorn. The full write-up for this cycle is still to come; the station dates below are already exact.
- Pre-shadow begins
- November 17, 2030 · 23:55 UTC
- Stations retrograde
- December 6, 2030 · 02:44 UTC
- Stations direct
- December 25, 2030 · 21:17 UTC
- Post-shadow ends
- January 13, 2031 · 14:44 UTC
- Crosses back from
Before and after
Around this date
- Jupiter sextile Pluto · December 8, 2030
Jupiter and Pluto are exact 2 days away — part of the same sky.
- Penumbral lunar eclipse in Gemini · December 9, 2030
The lunar eclipse 4 days away makes this an eclipse-season moment.
- Full moon in Gemini · December 9, 2030
The full moon 4 days away brings this thread to light.
Keep following
Behind this eventExact times, positions, sources, and method
- Retrograde station
- 2030-12-06T02:44:21.328Z
- Direct station
- 2030-12-25T21:17:13.593Z
- Pre-shadow begins
- 2030-11-17T23:55:09.382Z
- Post-shadow ends
- 2031-01-13T14:44:45.468Z
- Ecliptic longitude
- 271.86° · 1°51′ 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.