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Mercury in Capricorn, 2030

Mercury enters Capricorn on Sunday 1 December 2030, 02:27 UTC, which is 1 December 2030, 02:27 UTC in your time zone. It leaves for Sagittarius on Tuesday 10 December 2030, 15:11 UTC, after 10 days. During this stay Mercury turns retrograde from 6 December 2030 to 25 December 2030.

Mercury's visit to Capricorn in December 2030 is short and interrupted. It arrives from Sagittarius on 1 December 2030 at 02:27 UTC, turns retrograde on 6 December 2030 and slips back into Sagittarius on 10 December 2030 at 15:11 UTC, after about 10 days. The retrograde continues until 25 December 2030. Capricorn is a cardinal earth sign ruled by Saturn.

The tradition reads Mercury in Capricorn as practical, structured and focused on what is workable. Capricorn is associated with responsibility, long-term plans and the shape of commitments, and astrologers treat this placement as favoring careful, realistic thinking. With the retrograde beginning here, the brief stay is often read as a preview: plans sketched now may be reviewed before they settle. A modest approach is to outline goals loosely and leave room for revision later in the month.

By sign

The house it occupies for you

	House	Mercury in Capricorn falls on
Aries	tenth	career and public role
Taurus	ninth	travel, study, beliefs
Gemini	eighth	shared money, intimacy, endings
Cancer	seventh	partners and one-to-one relationships
Leo	sixth	daily work, routines, health
Virgo	fifth	romance, play, children, creative work
Libra	fourth	home, family, roots
Scorpio	third	conversations, siblings, short trips
Sagittarius	second	money, possessions, values
Capricorn	first	self, body, how you come across
Aquarius	twelfth	rest, privacy, what happens behind the scenes
Pisces	eleventh	friends, groups, plans

Whole-sign houses counted from the Sun sign, the convention behind every Sun-sign horoscope. Your rising sign gives a more personal count: draw your chart.