Mercury stations Retrograde at 22 degrees Pisces on February 26, entering one of the most psychologically and spiritually porous zones of the zodiac. In Pisces, Mercury is in her fall and detriment: the planet of logic, language, contracts, cognition, and sequencing is submerged in the oceanic sign of dreams, memory, mysticism, dissolution, and the collective unconscious.
This is not a retrograde of missed emails and broken gadgets so much as a retrograde of blurred boundaries, altered narratives, half-remembered truths, prophetic flashes, emotional telepathy, and karmic recall. Information does not arrive linearly here; it arrives symbolically, intuitively, or through omission and silence. What is forgotten may be more important than what is remembered. What is said may matter less than what is felt.
Mercury will continue his retrograde motion all the way back to 8 degrees Pisces until Tekufah Nissan, the Spring Equinox on March 20, a liminal threshold where time itself resets. This places the entire retrograde within the final sign of the zodiac, the womb of endings, forgiveness, release, and spiritual accounting.
Mercury’s backward journey through Pisces functions like a cosmic return to the archives of the soul: unresolved grief, ancestral memory, past-life echoes, unfinished conversations, and spiritual debts resurface for review. This is a period when the veil between conscious and unconscious thought is thin, when synchronicities multiply, when dreams speak louder than facts, and when discernment becomes a spiritual discipline rather than an intellectual one.
Altogether, with the pre-shadow period beginning February 12 and the post-shadow period ending April 9 (Chesed Sh’b’Malchut on the Sefirot HaOmer calendar), the entire Pisces Mercury Retrograde preparation and recovery field of 2026 spans a total of 55 days. This is not merely a transit but an extended psychic weather system, one that encloses both Purim and Pesach within its parentheses — two festivals themselves concerned with hidden realities, reversals of narrative, memory, redemption, and the liberation of consciousness. Purim operates through masks, irony, and concealed providence; Pesach through remembrance, retelling, and the rewriting of collective identity. Mercury Retrograde in Pisces becomes the mythic editor of this season, destabilizing surface stories so that deeper truths can emerge, dissolving false coherence so that a more authentic spiritual narrative can be reclaimed.
In this sense, the 2026 Pisces retrograde is less about “delays” and more about deprogramming: dissolving mental constructs that no longer serve, eroding rigid identities, and returning the psyche to a more fluid, imaginal, and receptive state. It is a transit of spiritual debugging, karmic composting, and narrative purification — not meant to be mastered through control, but navigated through surrender, symbolic literacy, and radical compassion for the unconscious mind.
Mars in Aquarius squares Uranus in Taurus on February 27; the last hurrah of the Aquarius/Taurus squares echoing through the Zeitgeist since 2021. The dance of Radical Conservatism vs. Aggressive Progressivism has turned into a mad Danse Macabre.
Retrograde Mercury conjuncts Venus in Pisces on Shabbat Zachor, Shabbos Tetzaveh. Woe to those who don’t remember! Mercury in Retrograde Pisces is when the sea gives up its dead. Memories may come flooding back and trying to repress them is like sticking your finger into the proverbial dike. Better to learn how to ride the waves and help them break cleanly on the shore.
As Adar bleeds into the threshold of Nissan, Mars enters Pisces on March 2, followed by a Full “Blood” Moon / Total Lunar Eclipse at 12 degrees Virgo. We haven’t had a Total Lunar Eclipse on Erev Purim / Purim since 2007 (5767), which was at 13 degrees Virgo. This eclipse in Israel’s 11th House (Transiting Full Moon) and 5th House (Transiting Sun in Pisces) and squares the Modern State of Israel’s natal 8th House Vertex in Gemini. This is truly Purim!
Purim is not just about hidden identities — it is about hidden weapons, hidden intentions, and hidden timelines. Funny enough, as today Israel faces Iran’s nuclear threat, the 2007 eclipse occurred during the Syrian Nuclear Reactor Intelligence Incident of March 2007. Mossad agents conducted a secret raid on the Vienna home of Ibrahim Othman, head of the Syrian Atomic Energy Commission, stealing computer data that revealed a North Korean-backed, nearly operational plutonium reactor. Who is wearing masks here?
Purim and the lunar eclipse are the energetic climax of Chodesh Adar but wait: there’s more! It’s either good news or a good consolation prize: Venus sextiles Uranus March 4 and the Sun trines Jupiter March 5. Venus stops moping around and puts on some lipstick before she enters Aries March 6.
The Sun conjuncts retrograde Mercury and Venus conjuncts Neptune on Shabbat Parah, Shabbos Ki Tisa. Tell yourself the truth: what has become the Golden Calf of your life? Or are you the mother cow who comes along and has to clean up her calf’s mess?
Venus conjuncts Saturn in Aries on March 8: Aggressive Boundaries!
Retrograde Mercury in Pisces trines retrograde Jupiter in Cancer on March 9: Oh, did I really say that? I mean this: the revision replaces the truth.
Retrograde Mercury sextiles Pluto March 10. Don’t succumb to the temptation to be a bully.
The Last Quarter Moon in Sagittarius March 11 squares the Pisces Sun. That arrow of truth sinks deep beneath the waves but does it hit the target?
Saturn rules Shabbat HaChodesh, Shabbos Vayakhel/Pekudei, with the Moon in Capricorn giving way to Moon in Aquarius. As Shabbat is Shabbtai, Saturn, and the day of Saturday is ruled by Saturn, this is one of those energetically aligned days. Practical spirituality and grounded transcendence can simultaneously exist.
Retrograde Mercury conjuncts Mars in Pisces March 15. Do we believe in “Beware the Ides of March”? No, but do we believe in watching our tongue that it say no evil? Yes we do.
Venus in Aries squares retrograde Jupiter in Cancer, and the Sun sextiles Uranus on March 18, with a New Moon at 28 degrees Pisces on Erev Rosh Chodesh Nissan. Everything is about to change — not incrementally, but archetypally. Venus in Aries is raw desire, ignition, courage, and the will to begin anew, while Jupiter retrograde in Cancer reopens old emotional territories: ancestral bonds, family karma, collective grief, and the deep psychic need for belonging and safety. Their square describes a tension between the impulse to break free and the instinct to retreat, between personal sovereignty and inherited emotional gravity. It is the friction between the soul’s hunger for forward motion and the psyche’s unresolved attachments to the past.
This is not a polite or gentle configuration. Venus in Aries wants truth without cushioning, love without pretense, authenticity without delay. Jupiter retrograde in Cancer wants memory, protection, roots, and emotional continuity. Together, they force a reckoning around intimacy, loyalty, home, and identity: what are you loyal to out of love, and what are you loyal to out of habit, guilt, or ancestral inertia? This square exposes where emotional patterns masquerade as virtues, and where growth requires the courage to disappoint old narratives in order to honor a truer future.
Simultaneously, the Sun sextile Uranus acts like a cosmic voltage spike. Uranus is revelation, rupture, awakening, and liberation from stagnant timelines. A sextile is an invitation rather than a demand — but in this context, it functions as a window of sudden clarity, a moment when insight arrives not through effort but through shock, recognition, or divine interruption. The nervous system becomes a receiver. Truth arrives sideways. The old story glitches, and a new operating system becomes visible.
All of this culminates in a New Moon at 28 Pisces, the very end of the zodiac, on Erev Rosh Chodesh Nissan — the threshold of the month of liberation, spring, and national rebirth. A New Moon in late Pisces is a cosmic dissolution point: ego boundaries soften, identities blur, timelines dissolve. This is not the planting of a seed into stable soil; it is the planting of a seed into mist, dream, prayer, and the collective unconscious. It is the moment before form, the breath before speech, the silence before revelation.
So “everything is about to change” not because of external events alone, but because the internal symbolic architecture is being rewritten. Venus destabilizes desire. Jupiter destabilizes memory. Uranus destabilizes reality. Pisces dissolves the narrative altogether. And Nissan arrives to initiate a new myth.
This is a hinge moment between endings and beginnings, exile and Exodus, karma and choice. The psyche sheds an old skin, the soul exits a familiar story, and consciousness prepares to step into a timeline that did not previously exist. Are you ready?
