Station to station
Mercury retrograde, 2023.
Computed in America/New York (Eastern Time); every time prints its UTC offset.
Mercury appears to backtrack three or four times a year. Tradition — the tradition Orrery scores with — flags those weeks for do-overs in what Mercury governs: messages, deals, signatures. Not doom; drag. The stations below are computed to the minute from JPL ephemeris data, which is why they don’t round to tidy dates the way listicles do.
| Stations retrograde | Stations direct |
|---|---|
| Thu, Dec 29, 4:31 AM EST | Wed, Jan 18, 8:13 AM EST |
| Fri, Apr 21, 4:34 AM EDT | Sun, May 14, 11:17 PM EDT |
| Wed, Aug 23, 3:59 PM EDT | Fri, Sep 15, 4:21 PM EDT |
| Wed, Dec 13, 2:08 AM EST | Mon, Jan 1, 10:08 PM EST |
What the retrograde touches
Orrery weighs Mercury retrograde most heavily for words and commitments: see sending a pitch, signing a contract, and the hard conversation — each month page shows the retrograde inside the days it drags on. The full rulebook is in Method.
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Engine 0.6.0 · config v3 · JPL de440s.bsp · tzdata 2026.3. Station times are computed, not copied — check any row against a published ephemeris.