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Budha (Mercury) today
Where Mercury is in the sidereal zodiac as this page loaded, what it does next, and the classical reference: dignities, significations and its place in the dasha cycle.
- SignLibra
- Degree25°38′
- NakshatraVishakha 2
- Motionretrograde
- DignityFriendly sign
- CombustNo
What Mercury does next
It enters Scorpio on 2 December 2026.
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
| 13 November 2026 | Mercury turns direct |
| 9 February 2027 | Mercury turns retrograde |
| 3 March 2027 | Mercury turns direct |
| 11 June 2027 | Mercury turns retrograde |
Where Mercury is strong and weak
| Dignity | Sign | Detail |
|---|---|---|
| Exalted | Virgo | deepest at 15° |
| Debilitated | Pisces | deepest at 15° |
| Own sign | Gemini | |
| Own sign | Virgo | |
| Moolatrikona | Virgo | 16° to 20° |
What Mercury signifies
Speech, writing, trade, analysis, nerves, skin, humour, students and paperwork, and anything that needs an intermediary.
| Area | Character |
|---|---|
| General | talking, writing, trade, analysis, paperwork, short journeys |
| Relationship | talking things through, negotiation, clearing the air |
| Work | communication, deals, study, anything with documents in it |
| Money | money through networks, referrals, trading and skill |
Mercury in the Vimshottari dasha
Mercury's mahadasha runs 17 of the 120 years in the cycle. It rules Ashlesha, Jyeshtha, Revati, so a Moon in any of them at birth starts life in a Mercury period.
Mercury aspects the 7th house from wherever it sits.
Mercury is doing something specific in your chart. This page cannot say what.
What this page describes is true of Mercury in general. In one chart it occupies one house, rules one or two others, carries a dignity and a set of aspects, and runs its dasha on dates fixed by your birth. That is the part you can plan around.
- Where Mercury sits in your chart, what it rules, and its condition
- When its period and sub-periods run, dated to the day
- The years its transits press on your houses, named as pressure and not as prediction
- The remedies your chart says you can ignore
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Questions
Where is Mercury now?
Mercury is in Libra at 25°38′, in Vishakha pada 2, moving retrograde.
Where is Mercury exalted?
In Virgo, most deeply at 15°.
How long is Mercury's mahadasha?
17 years.
How this is calculated
Positions come from Skyfield and the JPL DE440s ephemeris, with our own Lahiri ayanamsa referred to the mean equinox of date. Every planet agrees with Swiss Ephemeris to under one arcsecond, and the lunar node to under a tenth of one. We publish that because nobody else in this market publishes theirs.
- Skyfield. The astronomy library that computes every position on this site.
- JPL planetary ephemerides. NASA JPL's ephemeris export page. The DE440s kernel we load is the source of every raw planetary position.
- Capitaine, Wallace and Chapront (2003), IAU 2006 precession. The precession expressions our Lahiri ayanamsa is carried forward with from its J2000 anchor.
- Positional Astronomy Centre, Kolkata. The India Meteorological Department office that publishes the Rashtriya Panchang, which defines the Lahiri ayanamsa.
- Swiss Ephemeris. The reference implementation we test against: under one arcsecond on every planet. It is used only in our test suite, never on this site.
. The calculation is live; this date is when the writing on this page was last reviewed.