What Planets Are in Retrograde Right Now?
The live retrograde status of every major planet — Mercury through Pluto — with exact station dates.
Right now, Pluto is retrograde. Pluto is retrograde in Aquarius and stations direct October 16, 2026 (in 138 days). Every other major planet is moving direct.
What does this mean for YOUR chart?
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Retrograde is an optical effect: from Earth, a planet appears to drift backward through the zodiac for a stretch before resuming forward motion. The inner, faster planets — Mercury, Venus, Mars — do this rarely (Mercury three or four times a year, Venus only every ~18 months, Mars every ~2 years).
The outer planets are a different story: Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto each spend a large chunk of every year retrograde — Pluto alone is retrograde for roughly five to six months annually. So at almost any moment, at least one of the slow planets is moving backward; this dashboard shows exactly which, computed live.
Inner-planet vs outer-planet retrogrades
A Mercury, Venus, or Mars retrograde is the kind people feel week to week — missed messages, revisited relationships, stalled drive — because those planets move fast and govern daily life. When one of these is retrograde, it is worth noting.
Outer-planet retrogrades (Jupiter through Pluto) are slow, generational, and mostly internal. They are normal background weather rather than an alarm; the table above flags them for completeness, but the headline question — ‘is a personal planet retrograde?’ — is the one most people are really asking.
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Frequently Asked Questions
what planets are in retrograde right now
Right now Pluto is retrograde; every other major planet is direct. Computed live from the Swiss Ephemeris.
how many planets are retrograde right now
1 of the eight major planets (Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, Pluto) is retrograde right now.
is mercury retrograde right now
No — Mercury is direct; its next retrograde begins June 29, 2026.
is pluto retrograde right now
Yes — Pluto is retrograde in Aquarius, stationing direct October 16, 2026.
do retrograde planets affect everyone?
A retrograde is shared cosmic weather, but it lands hardest where the planet touches your own birth chart. The dashboard answers the general question; the personal one depends on your chart.
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