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 2006· 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 02 Mar – 25 Mar (3 weeks), 26°55' Pisces back to 13°10' Pisces; shadow from 16 Feb to 14 Apr. Stations at 20:29 and 13:44 UT.
Retrograde 04 Jul – 29 Jul (3 weeks), 1°22' Leo back to 21°03' Cancer; shadow from 17 Jun to 12 Aug. Stations at 19:29 and 00:39 UT.
Retrograde 28 Oct – 18 Nov (3 weeks), 25°04' Scorpio back to 9°03' Scorpio; shadow from 09 Oct to 04 Dec. Stations at 19:12 and 00:26 UT.
♀︎Venus retrograde 2006· once this year
Retrograde 24 Dec 2005 – 03 Feb (6 weeks), 1°28' Aquarius back to 16°01' Capricorn; shadow from 22 Nov 2005 to 07 Mar. Stations at 09:41 and 09:20 UT.
♂︎Mars retrograde 2006· not retrograde this year
Mars holds a straight course through 2006; no spell, no shadow, no station to mark.
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 2006· once this year
Retrograde 04 Mar – 06 Jul (18 weeks), 18°51' Scorpio back to 8°58' Scorpio; shadow from 07 Dec 2005 to 02 Oct. Stations at 17:55 and 07:11 UT.
♄︎Saturn retrograde 2006· twice this year
Retrograde 22 Nov 2005 – 05 Apr (19 weeks), 11°18' Leo back to 4°22' Leo; shadow from 19 Aug 2005 to 10 Jul. Stations at 09:08 and 12:52 UT.
Retrograde 06 Dec – 19 Apr 2007 (19 weeks), 25°04' Leo back to 18°09' Leo; shadow from 02 Sep to 25 Jul 2007. Stations at 04:00 and 21:42 UT.
♅︎Uranus retrograde 2006· once this year
Retrograde 19 Jun – 20 Nov (22 weeks), 14°43' Pisces back to 10°48' Pisces; shadow from 03 Mar to 06 Mar 2007. Stations at 07:50 and 05:56 UT.
♆︎Neptune retrograde 2006· once this year
Retrograde 22 May – 29 Oct (23 weeks), 19°49' Aquarius back to 17°02' Aquarius; shadow from 30 Jan to 17 Feb 2007. Stations at 13:28 and 08:24 UT.
♇︎Pluto retrograde 2006· once this year
Retrograde 29 Mar – 05 Sep (23 weeks), 26°45' Sagittarius back to 24°04' Sagittarius; shadow from 10 Dec 2005 to 24 Dec. Stations at 12:51 and 00:05 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.