Mercury retrograde 2006

3 periods, 67 days inside the year — 18.4% of 2006. Station times below are UTC and computed to the minute.

23 days · retreats 13.74°

2 March → 25 March 2006 in Pisces

Stations retrograde 2 Mar 2006, 20:20 UTC at 26.84° Pisces
Stations direct 25 Mar 2006, 13:48 UTC at 13.1° Pisces
Shadow opens 16 Feb 2006 (14 days before)
Shadow closes 14 Apr 2006 (19 days after)
Full window including shadows 56 days

Mercury retrograde in Pisces

In Pisces the retrograde blurs details and heightens intuition. Instructions are misread, dates are forgotten and communication relies on feeling rather than fact. It favours rest, creative reflection and double-checking anything that must be exact.

It begins in Pisces season and ends in Aries season.

Also retrograde at the same time

  • Saturn in Leo — 2 Mar to 25 Mar 2006 (23 days of overlap)
  • Jupiter in Scorpio — 4 Mar to 25 Mar 2006 (21 days of overlap)

Read against Pisces, and see that sign’s horoscope for the period.

24 days · retreats 10.31°

4 July → 29 July 2006 in Leo

Stations retrograde 4 Jul 2006, 19:25 UTC at 1.28° Leo
Stations direct 29 Jul 2006, 00:34 UTC at 20.96° Cancer
Shadow opens 17 Jun 2006 (17 days before)
Shadow closes 12 Aug 2006 (14 days after)
Full window including shadows 55 days

Mercury retrograde in Leo

In Leo the retrograde touches creative projects, self-expression and romance. Work you shelved asks to be finished, performances need rehearsing again, and an old flame may reappear. It is a good window for revising creative work rather than launching it.

…and back into Cancer

In Cancer the retrograde turns towards home, family and memory. Old family conversations resurface, house moves hit snags, and people revisit the past more than usual. It suits sorting photographs, repairing the home and having the talk you postponed with a relative.

It begins in Cancer season and ends in Leo season.

Also retrograde at the same time

  • Jupiter in Scorpio — 4 Jul to 6 Jul 2006 (2 days of overlap)
  • Uranus in Pisces — 4 Jul to 29 Jul 2006 (24 days of overlap)
  • Neptune in Aquarius — 4 Jul to 29 Jul 2006 (24 days of overlap)
  • Pluto in Sagittarius — 4 Jul to 29 Jul 2006 (24 days of overlap)

Read against Leo, and see that sign’s horoscope for the period.

20 days · retreats 16.02°

28 October → 18 November 2006 in Scorpio

Stations retrograde 28 Oct 2006, 19:02 UTC at 24.98° Scorpio
Stations direct 18 Nov 2006, 00:27 UTC at 8.96° Scorpio
Shadow opens 9 Oct 2006 (20 days before)
Shadow closes 4 Dec 2006 (17 days after)
Full window including shadows 57 days

Mercury retrograde in Scorpio

In Scorpio the retrograde goes digging. Secrets surface, shared finances need re-examining, and conversations turn intense. It suits research, therapy and honest reckonings, and it punishes suspicion that runs ahead of the facts.

It begins in Scorpio season and ends in Scorpio season, inside a single month of the Sun's year.

Also retrograde at the same time

  • Uranus in Pisces — 28 Oct to 18 Nov 2006 (20 days of overlap)
  • Neptune in Aquarius — 28 Oct to 29 Oct 2006 (1 days of overlap)

Read against Scorpio, and see that sign’s horoscope for the period.

Computed from the actual motion

The nearest Mercury retrogrades either side of 2006

Previous

2005 Ended 4 December 2005 after 20 days, moving back 16.2° through the zodiac.

Next

2007 Begins 14 February 2007 and runs 22 days.

Gap across 2006

1.2 years between the two — long enough for a whole calendar year to fall inside it with nothing to report.

Both dates are computed from the planet’s apparent motion, not taken from a table. A retrograde begins the moment its daily movement against the stars turns negative, and that moment is findable to the hour.

2006 at a glance

Every other retrograde in 2006

Saturn in Leo 22 Nov 2005 – 5 Apr 2006 · 134 days
Venus in Aquarius 24 Dec 2005 – 3 Feb 2006 · 41 days
Jupiter in Scorpio 4 Mar 2006 – 6 Jul 2006 · 124 days
Pluto in Sagittarius 29 Mar 2006 – 4 Sep 2006 · 160 days
Neptune in Aquarius 22 May 2006 – 29 Oct 2006 · 160 days
Uranus in Pisces 19 Jun 2006 – 20 Nov 2006 · 154 days
Saturn in Leo 5 Dec 2006 – 9 Feb 2007 · 66 days
← 2005 Mercury retrograde in 2005. All Mercury retrogrades Averages, shadow periods and the sign distribution over fifty years. 2007 → Mercury retrograde in 2007.