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Mercury retrograde, January 2029

Mercury stations retrograde on Sunday 7 January 2029, 07:57 UTC at 3°38′ Aquarius and turns direct on Saturday 27 January 2029, 18:40 UTC at 17°32′ Capricorn, having slipped back from Aquarius into Capricorn. The shadow period runs from 21 December 2028 to 16 February 2029.

Mercury begins 2029 by turning back across a sign boundary. It stations retrograde on 7 January 2029 at 3°38' Aquarius and stations direct on 27 January 2029 at 17°32' Capricorn, a retrograde of 20.4 days that carries it from Aquarius back into Capricorn. The shadow period runs from 21 December 2028 to 16 February 2029.

The tradition treats Aquarius as the sign of groups, networks and new ideas, and Capricorn as the sign of structure and long-term aims. Astrologers read Mercury's backward step between them as a time to test fresh plans against practical limits, and to revisit messages within friendships and organizations. A modest suggestion is to draft ideas freely but wait a little before announcing them.

By sign

Which house it walks through

	House	Mercury's retrograde (Capricorn and Aquarius) 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.

The retrograde starts one sign later, in Aquarius: add one house for the first part.