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Mercury retrograde October 2026: retrograde October 24 at 20° Scorpio, direct November 13 at 5° Scorpio, shadow window October 4 to November 30. Free calculator maps it onto your birth chart, house and station aspects included.
Retrograde station: October 24, 2026 at 20° Scorpio. Direct station: November 13, 2026 at 5° Scorpio. Pre-shadow from October 4, post-shadow until November 30. This page computes those moments from the ephemeris the same way it computes your chart, so the dates and degrees agree with the sky rather than with a reprinted list.
Fifteen degrees of Scorpio get walked three times: forward through the shadow, backward through the retrograde, forward again after the direct station. Scorpio rules the merged and the hidden in traditional astrology: shared accounts, loans, inheritances, intimacy, therapy, research. A retrograde here favors auditing over launching. The house those degrees occupy in your chart names the specific life area under review, and that is different for every birth time.
The two stations are the sensitive degrees of the season. If you have personal planets or angles near 20° Scorpio or 5° Scorpio (or facing them from Taurus), the stations land on your chart directly; the calculator checks conjunctions and oppositions within 3° and squares within 2.5°. A clean miss is a real answer too: that retrograde is background weather for you, whatever the headlines say.
Mercury stations retrograde on October 24, 2026 at 20° Scorpio and turns direct on November 13 at 5° Scorpio. The pre-shadow opens October 4 and the post-shadow runs to November 30. These dates are solved from the Swiss Ephemeris at the exact station moments, not copied from a table, and this is the final Mercury retrograde of 2026: the next one does not begin until February 9, 2027.
The whole backward arc stays in Scorpio, the sign astrologers link to shared money, debts, taxes, intimacy, secrets and research. Classic advice for a Scorpio retrograde: reread anything involving joint finances before signing, expect buried conversations to resurface, and treat digging as the season’s real work. Which life area it lands in for YOU depends on the natal house 20° to 5° Scorpio crosses in your chart; the calculator computes that from your birth time.
Yes. The retrograde spans the United States midterm elections on November 3, 2026, sitting mid-arc between the October 24 and November 13 stations. Astrologers have watched election-day retrogrades closely since the famous 2000 recount season, so expect that conversation to get loud. Whether this one is personal for you is a chart question: run it above to see if either station touches your planets.