Past, retrograde re-entry
Mercury in Pisces, 2025
Mercury enters Pisces on Sunday 30 March 2025, 02:18 UTC, which is in your time zone, moving backwards. It leaves for Aries on Wednesday 16 April 2025, 06:25 UTC, after 17 days. During this stay Mercury turns retrograde from 15 March 2025 to 7 April 2025.
Moving backward through the zodiac, Mercury slips from Aries back into Pisces on 30 March 2025 at 02:18 UTC, a re-entry into a sign it left earlier. The retrograde runs from 15 March 2025 to 7 April 2025, so the planet turns direct while still in Pisces. It then returns to Aries on 16 April 2025 at 06:25 UTC, after 17 days. Pisces is a mutable water sign ruled by Neptune.
The tradition treats retrograde Mercury as a period for review: reconsidering, repairing and returning to unfinished matters. Pisces is associated with dreams, compassion and the unseen, so astrologers read that review as inward, touching memories and feelings as much as plans. Clarity is said to return gradually after the planet turns direct. A practical suggestion: revisit an old piece of creative work or a conversation left hanging, and allow extra time for travel and messages.
By sign
The house it occupies for you
| Sun sign | House | Mercury in Pisces falls on | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aries | twelfth | rest, privacy, what happens behind the scenes | |
| Taurus | eleventh | friends, groups, plans | |
| Gemini | tenth | career and public role | |
| Cancer | ninth | travel, study, beliefs | |
| Leo | eighth | shared money, intimacy, endings | |
| Virgo | seventh | partners and one-to-one relationships | |
| Libra | sixth | daily work, routines, health | |
| Scorpio | fifth | romance, play, children, creative work | |
| Sagittarius | fourth | home, family, roots | |
| Capricorn | third | conversations, siblings, short trips | |
| Aquarius | second | money, possessions, values | |
| Pisces | first | self, body, how you come across | |
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.