Mastering Mercury Retrograde in 2026

“It couldn’t be clearer or better explained… thank you!” ~Fernando Paxe

2026 Mercury Retrogrades: Cycles of Reflection

As we look to our regular Mercury Retrograde (MRx) passages (which always occur about three times during any given year) we have additional timeframes to be acutely aware of within 2026 due to one Eclipse Season and another inner planet cycle of reflection of Venus Retrograde coupled with the preparation Approach to Mars Retrograde that will intertwine along with them.

We gratefully enter 2026 under no inner planet Retrograde Cycle nor Mercury Retrograde activity, unlike what 2025 granted us entering it during our last Mars Retrograde.

Understanding Mercury Retrograde and what it actually is meant to positively do for anyone is wise timing is everything wisdom to always take into consideration for our planning and scheduling needs. These recurring astrological cycles are mistakenly overly associated with fear and frustration, which absolutely is not the reaction we are ever meant to have with them.

Mercury Retrograde is always first & foremost: A Cycle of Reflection.~Sharita Star

Read that last statement again.

The only reasons Mercury Retrogrades “trip up” anyone is that:

One: most people are unaware it is in affect because they have never been introduced to the value of astrology, and naively choose to make initiations for intended long term success during them. 

Two: those who are aware of it are fooled into believing they should fear it every time is comes back around because they are simply misinformed.

If you know what not to do, and most importantly, what you absolutely can do under these reflective, recharging, reassessment and ultimate “time out” periods: you will always be in the energetic flow of Mastering Mercury Retrograde.

Before we get into when all of 2025’s cycle of reflection periods will urgently ask us to have the heads up in our calendars, let’s give you some astrological tips and tools to implement during any of them.

Why Are We Not Favored To Move Forward Under MRx? 

Mercury is our Messenger planet from above that guides all communications, thinking, mentality, movement, electronics, transportation, travel, changes, perceptions, adaptability and all exchanges of information that occur down here below.

When in Retrograde -due to the backtracking energy that is cast off from Mercury- all of the matters it watches over do not function nor move forward optimally. Precisely why, anyone is well advised to utilize these periods of time for pause, redoing, and only focus upon reworking what already exists.

Human error is always highest under Mercury Retrograde than any other time of the year. Naturally, forward thinking and planting for future success under this time is equally not well supported. 

Therefore, hold off on important decisions such as: starting a business, signing contracts, launching a product, getting married, buying a new car, engaging in any kind of new relationship, purchasing new technology, or buying a new home. None of these initiating actions will turn out well for the long-term, and if implemented under MRx, it is an astrological guarantee they are energetically tied up in faulty foundations that never have the genuine ability to sustain themselves for success.

What Are We Favored To Do With Success Under MRx?

Taking the first rule of thumb that Mercury Retrograde is a cycle of reflection, we are promised to flow with this reassessment time when we honor staying in this exact frame of mind. By only placing our attention upon what already exists, and choosing to wait and see about the future, our personal mastery of this cycle absolutely unfolds.

Getting out our “RE” vocabulary is one of the best ways we can discover ease and peace of mind.

Rerouting, reconnecting, reconsidering, recharging, resting, relaxing, reorganizing, researching, retreating, remembering, replanning, reframing, rescheduling, rekindling, repairing and replacing are all wonderful ways to reap the rewards of what this cycle of reflection is absolutely all about.

Mercury Retrograde is a marvelous time to work with: unfinished projects, revisiting existing creative outlets, reconnecting with old friends/former associates, reassessing existing business plans, practicing the pause, expecting rescheduling of plans, anticipating delays and set backs, having backup plans ready to go, replacing objects in need of repair (yet make sure these are done correctly), doing research, retreating away from the world, and above all, remembering to take a silent listen for oneself (extra meditation, journaling and yoga time please!).

Mercury Retrogrades & YOU! 

For anyone’s individual experience, taking a look at your Personal Forecast is always extremely favored to know the precise and specific areas of your life that each one will be seeking your reflective focus within.

As everyone collectively experiences any and all MRx cycles, each one is energetically different from the last, making no two MRxs exactly alike. While the same rules of thumb will always apply, the pulse will always cast off unique affects being Mercury is in another zodiac sign each time. Equally, the other positioning of the planets above any MRx also will relate to, also are never in the same configurations.

So, where is change and necessary reflection asking for your attention during any given year, and especially this one? Is it your income, lifestyle and vocation? Or your home/family life, wealth, and inner healing? Or how you approach your life, heart space and beliefs? What about your communication skills, relationships and hopes for the future? 


Wherever Mercury Retrograde lands in your life or business, know this: it is always time to sharpen the saw within it. The value of astrology is, you always have a precise map and blueprint to help personally guide you through any of them.

Each Mercury Retrograde lasts for approximately 21 days (3 weeks). All have an Approach period, (date when Mercury crosses over the degree point it will fully Retrograde back to) and a Shadow period, (date when Mercury moving forward crosses back over the degree point it began to Retrograde upon). The Approach alerts us to what MRx reflections and matters are on the way to be resolved, while the Shadow allows us to tie up the loose ends and recorrect any natural errors that occur during the Retrograde itself. As noted below, two of 2026’s Mercury Retrogrades overlap an Eclipse Season and Venus Retrograde coupled with the preparation Approach to a Mars Retrograde in early 2027: our other highly important inner planet cycles of reflection to be fully aware of.

An especially conscious observation to note: ALL 2026 Mercury Retrogrades only reflect within our three WATER Signs in Astrology: Pisces, Cancer & Scorpio. SO, Be Extra WATER Aware & Prepared as well!

26 FEBRUARY to 20 MARCH 2026 in PISCES, 22 to 08 degrees 

Approach begins 11 February; Shadow completes 09 April

Eclipse Season: 17 February 2026 Leo Solar Eclipse, 28 degrees

17 Feb: Entrance to Chinese New Year of the FIRE HORSE thru 06 February 2027

03 March 2026 Pisces TOTAL Lunar Eclipse, 12 degrees

29 JUNE to 23 JULY 2026 in CANCER, 26 to 16 degrees

Approach begins 12 June; Shadow completes 06 August

24 OCT to 13 NOV 2026 in SCORPIO, 20 to 05 degrees

Approach begins 04 October; Shadow completes 29 November 

03 October to 13 November 2026, Venus Retrograde, 08 degs Scorpio to 22 degs Libra

Venus Retrograde Approach begins 30 August; Shadow completes 15 December

Mars Retrograde Approach begins 05 November: Mars Retrograde 10 Jan to 01 Apr 2027

“I have found these to be so helpful during all the major transits over the last year and a half. I leave these workshops armed with the tools needed to excel during these challenging times!!! Highly recommend!!” ~Jenny Brooklane 

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Tapping into the mysteries of Lexigrams, take in more energetic tips as we Spell Out the Truth to better understand this cycle of reflection: What’s Really in a Word? MERCURY RETROGRADE

Remember, reflection and reassessment success always can be absolutely ours, but one must choose to consciously slow down. Pause. Take those deeper breaths. Stop forcing matters, and quit the grinding, societal falsified illusion of maintaining the incessant and constant busy bubble rush.

Mercury Retrograde passages come back around in our lives in their appropriate timing is everything cycles, to be our perfect opportunities to restore, recharge and reboot. Without this necessary timeout and downtime, humanity is a mere stone that gathers no moss.

To Your Attainment of SOUL Certainty in Our Uncertain Times.

IT IS ALWAYS UP TO YOUR FREE WILL TO BE MASTERING MERCURY RETROGRADE.

Awakening America To Nurture Transformation, 04 July 2025-26

Understanding a 2 Personal Year Cycle via The 20

Whether we are forecasting for the experience of a person, project launch, business or country: any soul being or entity with a specific point of initiation moves and changes their Personal Year Cycle year to year as another Solar Return annually aligns, marking what we more commonly know as one’s birthday or anniversary.


In a 2 Personal Year, The Moon is the primary planetary guidance in charge of the energetic flow and pulse of the current numerological forecast. The need for remaining in the emotional response versus heated reaction space is critical to best nurture the seeds planted within the previous personal year of new beginnings is always required when the 2 is present. 

Most important to deeply understand for any 2 Personal Year: what is ever sensitively experienced is not only healing, but an extremely feeling based energetics to behold. Our 1 to 4 Personal Year Cycles always build a new foundational process within any life via law of attraction. Now, with wall 1 up and in place, the secondary wall of the foundation being built within the current 9 year span of time now, distinctly affects the strength of how the next 7 years to follow will play out for America’s free will.

04 July 2025 to 04 July 2026 will be crucial for the country to maintain a grounded and centered space. As The Moon and all transits it will make within America’s natal birth chart for the 12 months are now the most valuable Conscious Forecasting points to focus upon and follow along with for a crystal ball view into the specific areas of life where the nation’s emotional intelligence will be absolutely and undeniably required. Equally the consciousness necessary to remain well aware of the grave importance of an intense awakening energetics that seeks to nurture the nation to once again transform, are all foreseen to be the direct experiences within the nation’s present journey.

As we fuse the Current 2 Personal Year Numerology perspective back to the current transits in affect for the natal Astrological birth chart of the nation, there is a completely detailed laser focus forecasting view to gain in further divine connecting of the planetary energetic dots understanding.

The primary focus America will need to exercise nurturing transformation as 04 July 2025 aligns: is where “WE SOCIALIZE” within its’ future goals, visualization, holding of faith, friendships/groups/organizations and how it is regarded and respected amongst its’ peers. 

By 04 July 2026, The Moon will have spun around America’s natal birth chart 12 times, repeatedly touching upon all 12 areas of America’s life with emotion and feeling soul nurturing homework that will need to be faced, and not ignored. 

Now as The Sun hands over the planetary baton from being in charge since 04 July 2024, it is doing so as it sits at 13 degrees Cancer within “WE RELATE” concerning the country’s abilities to relate to others, form legal agreements, and align with partnerships on all levels.

Energetically overall, the 1 Personal Year Cycle that spanned from 04 July 2024 to 04 July 2025 has ideally (or at the very least, in the highest of conscious intentions was favored to do so) now newly planted seeds within a clean and fertile ground where meant to naturally allow beginning again with as fresh of a start as possible. The tricky part here is: the ground was still rather full of weeds from the past that were not exactly properly removed within our last 9 Personal Year.

Equally adhering to keen law of attraction attention, moving forward as any 2 Personal Year Cycle will naturally ask: all of these newly planted seeds now need the nurturing water process in order to properly grow. Hence the common sense knowing, “seeds cannot grow without water.” Water is an emotional and sensitivity oriented element, and America will be undeniably feeling it all as a nation throughout the 12 months of this intensely healing year in its’ life.

To be perfectly clear: the rising emotions already present within the nation have a lot more serious SOUL work to now actually do. America must in all that should be visualized here, hold the highest faith the existing UNTIED mess will finally face long overdue healing and become UNITED once again.

Looking Back In America’s Conscious Forecasting History

As America started upon a 32/5 Lifepath in 1776, it has had moving forward, 27 “Spin in Time in 9” passages since 1781….  

Its’ 28th 9 Year Period began 04 July 2024, with the 29th beginning 04 July 2033.

Providing further back context, a 9 Personal Year going back to a 1 Personal Year is always extremely pivotal for these 2 years within any life experience. Not resisting what needs to naturally be let go of, allows the fluidity of the 1 Personal Year Cycle to always kick off a brand new 9 year span of time via the mantra “If it is NEW it is for YOU!” which has just guided the last 12 month forecast of America’s soul journey from 04 July 2024 to 04 July 2025.

Taking a look back, our prior 9 to 1 Personal Years pivotal shifts occurred: 

27/9, 1780 to 1781, 28/1.  36/9, 1789 to 1790 28/1.  36/9, 1798 to 1799 to 37/1.      

27/9, 1807 to 1808, 28/1.   27/9, 1816 to 1817, 28/1.  27/9, 1825 to 1826, 28/1.   

27/9, 1834 to 1835, 28/1.   27/9, 1843 to 1844, 28/1.  27/9, 1852 to 1853, 28/1.    

27/9, 1861 to 1862, 28/1.   27/9, 1870 to 1871, 28/1.   27/9, 1879 to 1880, 28/1.   

36/9, 1888 to 1889, 37/1.   36/9, 1897 to 1898, 37/1.    27/9, 1906 to 1907, 28/1.

27/9, 1915 to 1916, 28/1.   27/9, 1924 to 1925, 28/1.    27/9, 1933 to 1934, 28/1.

27/9, 1942 to 1943, 28/1.   27/9, 1951 to 1952, 28/1.   27/9, 1960 to 1961, 28/1.

36/9, 1969 to 1970, 28/1.   36/9, 1978 to 1979, 37/1.   36/9,1987 to 1988, 37/1.

36/9, 1996 to 1997, 37/1.   18/9, 2005 to 2006, 19/1.    18/9, 2014 to 2015, 19/1.

2024-25’s Seed Planting Process affects the next Personal Year Chapters:

04 July 2025-26, 20/2 Nurturing/Healing/Feeling Emotion

04 July 2026-27, 21/3 Growth/Learning

04 July 2027-28, 22/4 Foundation/Structure/Solidification

04 July 2028-29, 23/5 Blossoming/Permanent Changes

04 July 2029-30, 24/6 Compassion/Understanding

04 July 2030-31, 16/7 Inner Work/Deep Reflection/Heallng

04 July 2031-32, 17/8 Reaping A Harvest

04 July 2032-33, 18/9 Conclusions/Clearance 

04 July 2033-34, 19/1 New Beginnings/Initiation

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Gain Exclusive Conscious Forecasting and learn all about how Eclipses, Inner & Outer Planet Retrograde Cycles and the 12 New & Full Moons will affect the nation 04 July 2025-2026. Within any Personal Year, there is a further inner working of how Personal Months flow for the entire year tying in further Numerology Need To Know. 

Why is it a ‘Awakening America to Nurture Transformation’ Year for The Nation?

As the top graphic illustrates, America’s 11 constant of 04 July (7 + 4 = 11) is then added to our Current 9 Universal Year of 2025: we by the math arrive at the value of 20. As discussed on 21 June’s The SOUL Certainty Show, understanding this higher vibrational energy is to be taken into keen forecasting insight consideration as well as how the reducing back to 2 root number also provides further energetics to be well prepared for as this year’s Personal Forecast is experienced on the highest emotion and feeling level within America.

The 20 represents ‘The Awakening.’ Whenever the 20 is present, this is part of what its’ Chaldean Karmic Mystery wishes for the person or entity to consciously unlock:


~20, The Awakening | 2, The Moon Linda Goodman’s Star Cards

20 Chaldean Karmic Mystery for America to Unlock, 2025-26: 

In addition to being called ‘The Awakening,’ this Compound number is also pictured by the ancient Chaldeans as ‘The Judgment.’ It has a peculiar interpretation, and is symbolized as “a winged angel, sounding a trumpet, while from below, a man, woman, and child are seen arising from a tomb, with their hands clasped in prayer.” At some time in the experience of the person or entity represented by the number 20, there is a powerful awakening, bringing in a new purpose, new plans, new ambitions- the call to action for some great cause or ideal. There may be occasional delays and obstacles to oneʼs plans, but these may be conquered through developing patience (the challenge of the number 20) and by continually cultivating faith in oneʼs own powers to transform. 20 brings the blessing of vivid precognitive dreams, plus the ability to manifest the happy ones and cancel the negative ones. It is not a material number, therefore is doubtful regarding financial success. If large sums of money are necessary for practical support of the new cause or ideal, then one may choose a more positive materialistic number by changing the spelling of the name, assuming the 20 is the birth number. If the 20 is the name or personal year cycle number, then, hopefully the birth number will bestow a more fortunate financial vibration. However, those who are comfortable with their 20 vibration seldom care about matters of finance. Money is not important to them, and the 20 will, as a general rule, provide enough for the basic necessities. ~Linda Goodman’s Star Signs

We recently have had The 20 work with the collective as 11 June’s Full Moon at 20 degrees Sagittarius. was globally experienced. Unless you are living under a rock, it is undeniable a more than fiery awakening more fully emerged as we beared witness to the 20 energetics in play here as 11 to 25 June 2025’s Waning Phase of reflection played out.

America received 11 June’s 20 degrees Sagittarius Full Moon reflective requests concerning all of her approaches to life and the mask she wears to the entire world. Learn more Conscious Forecasting details in 11 June’s LunarOScopes American Forecasting Analysis.

Why all the emotion and feeling it all? The root of 20 reduces to 2, which is energetically guided by The Moon. The Moon guides feelings and the emotional space. Always keep in touch moving forward with Every New & Full Moon LunarOScopes, which includes Exclusive American Forecasting.


As any 2 Personal Year focuses not only on the rapidly changing Lunar Forecast, it equally is very significant to note all Solar and Lunar Eclipses as they unfold through the year. With any Eclipse activation, these alignments mark all the more intense longer term passages of initiation or reflection from specific areas of the life to remain well aware of.

We are currently within a years’ reflective release from 14 March’s TOTAL Lunar Eclipse at 23 degrees Virgo. America’s Conscious Forecasting 14 March 2025’ LunarOScopes details are quintessential to understand thru March 2026 concerning all its’ foreign affairs, policies, belief systems and what it understands is any form of the truth.

This is only the 3rd time in America’s entire history it will cycle through ‘The Awakening’ 20 vibration of a 2 Personal Year. The only other years this has ever happened was during 2007-08 and 2016-17. All 2 Personal Years the nation has ever experienced prior to 2000 otherwise always computed to a 38 or 29 on their higher 2 compound number vibrations, and allowed for a different Chaldean Karmic Mystery to be consciously understood.

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LISTEN TO 21 JUNE’S PODCAST of The SOUL Certainty Show

After the Podcast, Take In the further & CRITICAL Need to Know Forecasting Details for America, 04 July 2025 to 2026.


Looking Back, How Did We Get Here?

2024-25: Healing The Heart of America, Understanding a 19/1 Personal Year Cycle

2023-24: Spiritual Material Conflict in America, Understanding an 18/9 Personal Year Cycle

2022-23: 17/8 Accepting Accountability, Understanding an 8 Personal Year Cycle

2021-22: 16/7 Healing America from Within, Understanding a 7 Personal Year Cycle

Near Death Experience to Rebirth for America: Understanding a Pluto Return, 2021-2024

2020-21: 15/6 Realigning & Reuniting America: Understanding a 6 Personal Year Cycle

2019-20: Irreversible America, Understanding a 23/5 Personal Year Cycle

2018-19: Reinventing America 2018-19, Understanding a 22/4 Personal Year Cycle

2017-18: The Learning for America 2017-18, Understanding a 21/3 Personal Year Cycle

Moving America Forward: The Practice of Patriotism

2016-17: The Nurturing of America, Understanding a 20/2 Personal Year Cycle

USA’s LAST 2 Personal Year in the 20, saw a different beginning to the focus of the year than how 2025-26 will be experienced. Back then, the lunar focus began as a Waxing Moon where “WE TRANSFORM”  that sought for the nation to nurture and awaken concerning it’s wealth, core source energy, death/rebirth, sexuality and all matters that allow to sit from the mountain of its’ entire life and taken in the full view. More intense long term focuses via Solar & Lunar Eclipses energies triggered from “WE COMMUNICATE” and “WE BELIEVE” which marked significant mindset/thinking/spreading of information changes as well as ones that worked within the truth of the nation, its’ foreign affairs/policy, and all belief systems and philosophies. We are equally mirroring very similar Eclipse energetics within this 20/2 Personal Year 2025-26.

Why Donald Trump Riles America

2015-16: The 19/1 Personal Year: What It Means for America

2014-15: The Cultivation of Courage in a 18/9 Personal Year 

Grand Cardinal Cross & The USA

Realigning Your Leadership: The Calling for Regeneration – Change

2013-14: Rising Responsibility in an 8 Personal Year

2012-13: Listening from Within in a 7 Personal Year

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