February station retrograde
- Input
- ☿ 2026-02-26 06:47Z
- Expected output
- 22°34′ ♓
1:47 am in New York, 3:47 am in Brasília.
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mercury retrograde 2026
Mercury goes retrograde three times in 2026: February 26 to March 20 in Pisces, June 29 to July 23 in Cancer and October 24 to November 13 in Scorpio. The tool shows every milestone with the hour in your time zone, includes the shadow periods and downloads the year as an .ics calendar.
1:47 am in New York, 3:47 am in Brasília.
Back at the degree where the pre-shadow began.
The longest retrograde of the year, at 24 days.
Still July 23 in both Brasília and New York.
3:15 am in New York: the 24th does not change between the two zones.
The panel at the top answers with the current phase. Retrograde means Mercury's ecliptic longitude is decreasing at this moment, between the station retrograde and the station direct. If it has not reached the station retrograde yet but has passed the degree where it will station direct, it is in the pre-shadow: still moving direct, and the panel shows when the retrograde starts. After the station direct comes the post-shadow, until it returns to the degree of the station retrograde. Outside those spans the motion is plain direct. In 2026 Mercury has three retrogrades: February 26 to March 20, June 29 to July 23, and October 24 to November 13, and on those dates New York and Brasília show the same day.
There are three: February 26 to March 20, June 29 to July 23 and October 24 to November 13. In UTC the stations happen on 02/26 at 06:47, 03/20 at 19:34, 06/29 at 17:37, 07/23 at 22:56, 10/24 at 07:15 and 11/13 at 15:52.
The pre-shadow of the next cycle starts on January 25, 2027 and the station retrograde comes on February 9, 2027, at 12:35 pm Eastern, at 5°59′ Pisces. Mercury stays retrograde until March 3.
The length of each Mercury retrograde varies between 20 and 24 days and depends, among other factors, on where Mercury is in its orbit, the most eccentric of the eight planets. The June 2026 one lasts 24.2 days, February 22.5 and October 20.4, measured between the stations.
In astrology, tradition links the period to misunderstandings and communication failures. There is no scientific evidence that a planet's apparent motion interferes with devices or conversations. The checkable part is the astronomy, which the tool computes.
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