Retrograde Calendar
Station times, degrees, durations, and shadow periods for every retrograde of the year — computed astronomy, not folklore.
No planet ever backs up; the loop is a trick of parallax as Earth laps a slower world or is lapped by a faster one. The tradition reads it accordingly. A changes a planet's gear, not its meaning; matters under its sponsorship come round again for review, revision, repair. The days that carry real weight are the , when a planet stands still to turn. Mark those dates, not the whole stretch.
☿︎Mercury retrograde 1999· three times this year
The classic season of crossed wires; three or four short spells a year. Re-read, re-confirm, back up the files; let the signature wait for the turning day if it can.
Retrograde 10 Mar – 02 Apr (3 weeks), 4°03' Aries back to 20°52' Pisces; shadow from 24 Feb to 21 Apr. Stations at 09:15 and 09:21 UT.
Retrograde 12 Jul – 06 Aug (3 weeks), 9°29' Leo back to 28°35' Cancer; shadow from 25 Jun to 20 Aug. Stations at 23:26 and 03:31 UT.
Retrograde 05 Nov – 25 Nov (3 weeks), 1°43' Sagittarius back to 15°37' Scorpio; shadow from 16 Oct to 12 Dec. Stations at 02:54 and 03:57 UT.
♀︎Venus retrograde 1999· once this year
Retrograde 30 Jul – 11 Sep (6 weeks), 5°07' Virgo back to 18°47' Leo; shadow from 26 Jun to 14 Oct. Stations at 01:39 and 00:21 UT.
♂︎Mars retrograde 1999· once this year
Retrograde 18 Mar – 04 Jun (11 weeks), 12°12' Scorpio back to 24°26' Libra; shadow from 13 Jan to 02 Aug. Stations at 13:45 and 06:12 UT.
The slow planets
Jupiter outward, a planet spends four to five months of every year retrograde; that is ordinary weather, not an event. The slower the planet, the longer the spell and the less it asks of any single day. Mark the stations; the rest is season.
♃︎Jupiter retrograde 1999· once this year
Retrograde 25 Aug – 20 Dec (17 weeks), 4°59' Taurus back to 25°00' Aries; shadow from 01 Jun to 12 Mar 2000. Stations at 02:35 and 14:53 UT.
♄︎Saturn retrograde 1999· once this year
Retrograde 30 Aug – 12 Jan 2000 (19 weeks), 17°10' Taurus back to 10°17' Taurus; shadow from 25 May to 15 Apr 2000. Stations at 01:25 and 04:58 UT.
♅︎Uranus retrograde 1999· once this year
Retrograde 21 May – 23 Oct (22 weeks), 16°47' Aquarius back to 12°51' Aquarius; shadow from 03 Feb to 06 Feb 2000. Stations at 22:23 and 06:05 UT.
♆︎Neptune retrograde 1999· once this year
Retrograde 07 May – 14 Oct (23 weeks), 4°22' Aquarius back to 1°35' Aquarius; shadow from 15 Jan to 01 Feb 2000. Stations at 00:47 and 01:07 UT.
♇︎Pluto retrograde 1999· once this year
Retrograde 13 Mar – 19 Aug (23 weeks), 10°29' Sagittarius back to 7°44' Sagittarius; shadow from 25 Nov 1998 to 06 Dec. Stations at 21:17 and 01:30 UT.
All times Universal Time (UT), from the same engine as the sky. Spells that open or close beyond the calendar year are listed with their own year on the date; the window belongs to both years and appears on both pages. On doctrine: a retrograde conditions a planet's expression; it does not doom it. The working tradition keeps no list of forbidden days, a spell that repeats a is one process rather than three misfortunes, and the shadow is context, not an extension of the sentence. The stations are the moments that matter; what a planet touches while standing still, it means.