Station to station
Mercury retrograde, 2024.
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 |
|---|---|
| Wed, Dec 13, 2:08 AM EST | Mon, Jan 1, 10:08 PM EST |
| Mon, Apr 1, 6:14 PM EDT | Thu, Apr 25, 8:55 AM EDT |
| Mon, Aug 5, 12:56 AM EDT | Wed, Aug 28, 5:14 PM EDT |
| Mon, Nov 25, 9:42 PM EST | Sun, Dec 15, 3:57 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.
Other years
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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.