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 2013· 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 23 Feb – 17 Mar (3 weeks), 19°52' Pisces back to 5°37' Pisces; shadow from 08 Feb to 06 Apr. Stations at 09:39 and 20:05 UT.
Retrograde 26 Jun – 20 Jul (3 weeks), 23°06' Cancer back to 13°21' Cancer; shadow from 10 Jun to 03 Aug. Stations at 13:12 and 18:16 UT.
Retrograde 21 Oct – 10 Nov (3 weeks), 18°23' Scorpio back to 2°29' Scorpio; shadow from 01 Oct to 27 Nov. Stations at 10:26 and 21:12 UT.
♀︎Venus retrograde 2013· once this year
Retrograde 21 Dec – 31 Jan 2014 (6 weeks), 28°58' Capricorn back to 13°33' Capricorn; shadow from 20 Nov to 04 Mar 2014. Stations at 21:56 and 20:54 UT.
♂︎Mars retrograde 2013· not retrograde this year
Mars holds a straight course through 2013; 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 2013· twice this year
Retrograde 04 Oct 2012 – 30 Jan (17 weeks), 16°22' Gemini back to 6°19' Gemini; shadow from 10 Jul 2012 to 25 Apr. Stations at 13:22 and 11:39 UT.
Retrograde 07 Nov – 06 Mar 2014 (17 weeks), 20°30' Cancer back to 10°26' Cancer; shadow from 12 Aug to 01 Jun 2014. Stations at 05:03 and 10:46 UT.
♄︎Saturn retrograde 2013· once this year
Retrograde 18 Feb – 08 Jul (20 weeks), 11°31' Scorpio back to 4°49' Scorpio; shadow from 15 Nov 2012 to 14 Oct. Stations at 17:07 and 05:04 UT.
♅︎Uranus retrograde 2013· once this year
Retrograde 17 Jul – 17 Dec (22 weeks), 12°31' Aries back to 8°35' Aries; shadow from 30 Mar to 03 Apr 2014. Stations at 17:22 and 17:20 UT.
♆︎Neptune retrograde 2013· once this year
Retrograde 07 Jun – 13 Nov (23 weeks), 5°22' Pisces back to 2°35' Pisces; shadow from 14 Feb to 04 Mar 2014. Stations at 08:41 and 18:59 UT.
♇︎Pluto retrograde 2013· once this year
Retrograde 12 Apr – 20 Sep (23 weeks), 11°35' Capricorn back to 8°59' Capricorn; shadow from 22 Dec 2012 to 10 Jan 2014. Stations at 19:26 and 15:48 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.