yuti · Surya–Budh
Sun–Mercury Conjunction: Every Meeting, 2026 to 2028
19 meetings · Capricorn, Aquarius, Aries, Gemini, Leo, Libra, Sagittarius, Cancer, Scorpio, Pisces, Taurus and Virgo
Between 2026 and 2028 the site’s DE421 table records 19 conjunctions of the Sun and Mercury — days on which the two share a sidereal longitude — in Capricorn, Aquarius, Aries, Gemini, Leo, Libra, Sagittarius, Cancer, Scorpio, Pisces, Taurus and Virgo. Successive meetings come 45 to 70 days apart.
The Sun counts Mercury neutral, while Mercury counts the Sun a friend: for Sun–Mercury the table is not symmetric. In four of the 19 meetings the sign belongs to one of the pair itself (Gemini, 13 July 2026, Leo, 27 August 2026, Gemini, 23 June 2027 and Virgo, 2 October 2028).
Mercury orbits inside the Earth’s orbit, so it meets the Sun two ways: at inferior conjunction, passing between the Earth and the Sun while retrograde, and at superior conjunction, on the far side of the Sun while direct. Of these 19, nine are inferior (7 March 2026, 13 July 2026, 4 November 2026, 18 February 2027, 23 June 2027, 19 October 2027, 2 February 2028, 2 June 2028 and 2 October 2028) and the rest superior.
The 19 Meetings
| Day | Sign, degree | Nakshatra | Sun | Mercury |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 21 January 2026 | Capricorn 7° | Uttara Ashadha 4 | in an enemy's sign | in a neutral sign |
| 7 March 2026 | Aquarius 22° | Purva Bhadrapada 1 | in an enemy's sign | in a neutral sign, retrograde |
| 14 May 2026 | Aries 29° | Krittika 1 | exalted | in a neutral sign |
| 13 July 2026 | Gemini 26° | Punarvasu (near a pada edge) | in a neutral sign | in its own sign, retrograde |
| 27 August 2026 | Leo 10° | Magha (near a pada edge) | in its own sign | in a friend's sign |
| 4 November 2026 | Libra 17° | Swati 4 | debilitated | in a friend's sign, retrograde |
| 1 January 2027 | Sagittarius 16° | Purva Ashadha (near a pada edge) | in a friend's sign | in a neutral sign |
| 18 February 2027 | Aquarius 5° | Dhanishta 4 | in an enemy's sign | in a neutral sign, retrograde |
| 29 April 2027 | Aries 14° | Bharani 1 | exalted | in a neutral sign |
| 23 June 2027 | Gemini 7° | Ardra 1 | in a neutral sign | in its own sign, retrograde |
| 11 August 2027 | Cancer 24° | Ashlesha 3 | in a friend's sign | in an enemy's sign |
| 19 October 2027 | Libra 1° | Chitra 3 | debilitated | in a friend's sign, retrograde |
| 12 December 2027 | Scorpio 25° | Jyeshtha 3 | in a friend's sign | in a neutral sign |
| 2 February 2028 | Capricorn 18° | Shravana 3 | in an enemy's sign | in a neutral sign, retrograde |
| 12 April 2028 | Pisces 28° | Revati 4 | in a friend's sign | debilitated |
| 2 June 2028 | Taurus 17° | Rohini 3 | in an enemy's sign | in a friend's sign, retrograde |
| 25 July 2028 | Cancer 8° | Pushya 2 | in a friend's sign | in an enemy's sign |
| 2 October 2028 | Virgo 15° | Hasta 2 | in a neutral sign | exalted, retrograde |
| 20 November 2028 | Scorpio 4° | Anuradha 1 | in a friend's sign | in a neutral sign |
The dignity columns are each graha’s standing in the sign of the meeting, as the planet-in-sign pages give it; the nakshatra is the one the shared longitude falls in. “Retrograde” marks a meeting inside one of the graha’s retrograde windows. For Sun–Mercury every date is a day, not a time: the table does carry a minute, but the site publishes a conjunction to the day, the resolution independent tables agree on.
A conjunction in the sky touches every chart at once, in whichever house that sign falls for it; it is not a reading of anyone’s chart. For the Sun and Mercury in a birth chart, see the Sun and Mercury pages, and for how grahas are read together, astrology for beginners and what Vedic astrology is.