Station to station
Mercury retrograde, 2029.
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 |
|---|---|
| Sun, Jan 7, 2:56 AM EST | Sat, Jan 27, 1:41 PM EST |
| Tue, May 1, 7:04 PM EDT | Fri, May 25, 3:22 PM EDT |
| Sun, Sep 2, 8:17 AM EDT | Mon, Sep 24, 10:02 PM EDT |
| Sat, Dec 22, 12:50 AM EST | Fri, Jan 11, 12:46 AM 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.