What Planets Are in Retrograde Right Now? A Simple Answer

If your feed is full of "everything is in retrograde" posts, here's the honest answer as of this week: six bodies are moving retrograde right now — Venus, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, Pluto, and Chiron. Mercury is not one of them yet, though it joins the club on October 24.

Venus just turned retrograde yesterday, October 3, in Scorpio, and stays backward until November 13. That is the one most people are actually feeling — old flames resurfacing, money behaving strangely, moods swinging for no reason. The others have been retrograde for months already; they are the slow background noise of life, not week-to-week chaos.

Pluto goes direct again around October 15, so the pileup thins for a week — but when Mercury stations retrograde on the 24th, we are right back to six. It is the busiest stretch of the fall, which probably explains why searches for "what planet is in retrograde right now" are spiking.

Retrogrades get hyped as disasters, but most astrologers treat them as review seasons — revise, reflect, revisit; don't panic, and don't sign what you haven't read. If six retrogrades at once have you overthinking everything, a calm reading can help you sort what's worth revisiting from what's just noise. The first 3 minutes of every PsychicSmile chat are free.