Saturday 24 October 2026. Mercury stations retrograde.
Mercury appears to stop and turn back. Until it turns direct, re-read messages, contracts and plans before you send them. Where it lands depends on your chart: the same degree is someone’s 10th house and someone else’s 4th.
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Station
Mercury stations retrograde · 20° Scorpio
Mercury appears to stop and turn back. Until it turns direct, re-read messages, contracts and plans before you send them.
Where 20° Scorpio falls in your chart
20° Scorpio is one address in a wheel of twelve houses. In one chart it sits in the house of money, in another in the house of daily work or of home. Your birth date, time and place decide which.
Related answer: Does Mercury retrograde affect my job search?
Not a prediction. The chart locates the question. You still make the decision.
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Coming up after 24 October
The whole tree- 25 OctVenus enters Libra · 0° LibraOpen the day
- 26 OctFull Moon · 2° TaurusOpen the day
- 9 NovNew Moon · 16° ScorpioOpen the day
- 13 NovMercury stations direct · 5° ScorpioOpen the day
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