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 2007· 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 14 Feb – 08 Mar (3 weeks), 10°13' Pisces back to 25°24' Aquarius; shadow from 30 Jan to 28 Mar. Stations at 04:35 and 04:48 UT.
Retrograde 15 Jun – 10 Jul (3 weeks), 11°35' Cancer back to 2°28' Cancer; shadow from 31 May to 24 Jul. Stations at 23:46 and 02:07 UT.
Retrograde 12 Oct – 01 Nov (3 weeks), 9°04' Scorpio back to 23°21' Libra; shadow from 21 Sep to 17 Nov. Stations at 03:58 and 22:58 UT.
♀︎Venus retrograde 2007· once this year
Retrograde 27 Jul – 08 Sep (6 weeks), 2°57' Virgo back to 16°35' Leo; shadow from 24 Jun to 11 Oct. Stations at 17:28 and 16:17 UT.
♂︎Mars retrograde 2007· once this year
Retrograde 15 Nov – 30 Jan 2008 (11 weeks), 12°27' Cancer back to 24°04' Gemini; shadow from 16 Sep to 04 Apr 2008. Stations at 08:28 and 22:34 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 2007· once this year
Retrograde 06 Apr – 07 Aug (18 weeks), 19°46' Sagittarius back to 9°55' Sagittarius; shadow from 09 Jan to 01 Nov. Stations at 01:24 and 02:10 UT.
♄︎Saturn retrograde 2007· twice this year
Retrograde 06 Dec 2006 – 19 Apr (19 weeks), 25°04' Leo back to 18°09' Leo; shadow from 02 Sep 2006 to 25 Jul. Stations at 04:00 and 21:42 UT.
Retrograde 19 Dec – 03 May 2008 (19 weeks), 8°34' Virgo back to 1°40' Virgo; shadow from 16 Sep to 08 Aug 2008. Stations at 14:10 and 03:05 UT.
♅︎Uranus retrograde 2007· once this year
Retrograde 23 Jun – 24 Nov (22 weeks), 18°41' Pisces back to 14°46' Pisces; shadow from 07 Mar to 09 Mar 2008. Stations at 14:51 and 10:41 UT.
♆︎Neptune retrograde 2007· once this year
Retrograde 25 May – 31 Oct (23 weeks), 22°02' Aquarius back to 19°15' Aquarius; shadow from 02 Feb to 19 Feb 2008. Stations at 01:37 and 20:04 UT.
♇︎Pluto retrograde 2007· once this year
Retrograde 31 Mar – 07 Sep (23 weeks), 28°58' Sagittarius back to 26°18' Sagittarius; shadow from 12 Dec 2006 to 27 Dec. Stations at 23:01 and 14:46 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.