The first Mercury retrograde of 2026 happens tonight at 10:46 PM Pacific Time at 8° of Pisces,sign of the Fishes and will last until March 20 and 21st 2026 when it moves ahead on 22° Pisces.
This is no ordinary Mercury Retrograde ! Mercury messenger of the gods is the planet of communication, travel, and technology. As an optical illusion it appears to move backward across the Firmament relative to Earth’s orbit and all through dreamy, intuitive, compassionate Pisces.
This Rx creates a strong need to turn all things inward. Now for the next three weeks or so please listen to your hunches, your feelings, inductive rather than deductive reasoning, your heart’s desire and the soul’s path. Redirect, review, realign, repurpose, revisit and reconnect with any or all parts of yourself that may have been forfended, forgotten, abused or neglected. This is a good time to delve deeply into unfinished mental, emotional physical and spiritual business.
This watery and mysterious Retrograde comes on the heels of the extraordinary and extremely rare Saturn/Neptune conjunction at 0° of Aries, and an equally beautiful and portentous Solar Eclipse /New Moon in Aquarius. The retrograde will add another dimension to what is already shaping up to be one of the most spiritually and emotionally transformative months in many many years.
Pisces is the final sign of the zodiac — representing Endings; it is the sign of completion, transcendence, and Spiritual illumination. Ruled by Neptune, the planet of Oceans, dreams/nightmares,illusions/revelations and Divine connection OR intercession.
When Mercury retrogrades through Pisces, the usual retrograde snafus and problems with emails, technology glitches and travel plans take on a much deeper, almost mystical quality!
We will more than likely ruminate, reminisce about or revisit Our Past … maybe even Past Lifetimes. Thinking about or running into people from our Past is common: as is revisiting unfinished plans, sidelined projects,creative ventures, or even experiencing vivid and prophetic dreams!
Mercury in Pisces enhances all PSI phenomena including intuition, clairvoyance, Déjà vu, paranormal events, and High Strangeness passing for normalcy may abound. Our rational logical minds may feel cloudy or foggy. This is completely normal from a cosmic perspective. The universe is in a reset mode, urging us to redirect, recover, recharge and to rebuild. Time to rediscover and to release spiritual even karmic baggage. Please remember to depend less on your head and more on your heart.
What makes this 2026 Mercury Rx particularly potent is its context in the Cosmological and Cosmographical Arenas. Astrologically and Astronomically we are still seeing all the planetary transits, movements eclipses and lineups in the Heavens whilst integrating the massive unfolding energies of the Saturn/ Neptune conjunction at 0° Aries — a once-in-a-5000 year event that occurred on February 20.
The veil between the spiritual and material worlds is already thin, and now Sun in Pisces, Mercury retrograde in Pisces, Mars and the New Moon soon to be in Watery Pisces as well will makes it more permeable still ! We also have a spectacular and powerful full moon, lunar eclipse, an 82 minute long total blood moon over North America on March 3rd, that should prove very very interesting in opposition to all the Pisces planets in the sky…
So remember, don’t sign, don’t buy, watch your travel plans back up your technologies be patient. You’ll swear that I said “meet me at 3 o’clock on fourth Street and I’ll swear I heard 4 o’clock on third Street”! Expect some delays, look for red herrings in your path, double and triple check, anticipate some Blasts from the Past: but use this time to continue the spiritual journey as Pisces moves towards ultimate Transpersonal Transformational Transmogrification of the Soul. PATIENCE FORBEARANCE & CHANGE are KEYWORDS.
This retrograde is going to amplify everything we’ve been feeling so count to ten while you are waiting to Exhale!
Namaste.