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 2019· 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 05 Mar – 28 Mar (3 weeks), 29°38' Pisces back to 16°05' Pisces; shadow from 19 Feb to 16 Apr. Stations at 18:21 and 14:01 UT.
Retrograde 07 Jul – 01 Aug (3 weeks), 4°27' Leo back to 23°56' Cancer; shadow from 20 Jun to 15 Aug. Stations at 23:09 and 04:01 UT.
Retrograde 31 Oct – 20 Nov (3 weeks), 27°38' Scorpio back to 11°35' Scorpio; shadow from 11 Oct to 07 Dec. Stations at 15:37 and 19:13 UT.
♀︎Venus retrograde 2019· not retrograde this year
Venus holds a straight course through 2019; no spell, no shadow, no station to mark.
♂︎Mars retrograde 2019· not retrograde this year
Mars holds a straight course through 2019; 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 2019· once this year
Retrograde 10 Apr – 11 Aug (18 weeks), 24°21' Sagittarius back to 14°30' Sagittarius; shadow from 14 Jan to 06 Nov. Stations at 17:05 and 13:38 UT.
♄︎Saturn retrograde 2019· once this year
Retrograde 30 Apr – 18 Sep (20 weeks), 20°31' Capricorn back to 13°54' Capricorn; shadow from 22 Jan to 24 Dec. Stations at 00:49 and 08:35 UT.
♅︎Uranus retrograde 2019· twice this year
Retrograde 07 Aug 2018 – 06 Jan (22 weeks), 2°33' Taurus back to 28°36' Aries; shadow from 20 Apr 2018 to 23 Apr. Stations at 16:43 and 20:18 UT.
Retrograde 12 Aug – 11 Jan 2020 (22 weeks), 6°36' Taurus back to 2°39' Taurus; shadow from 25 Apr to 26 Apr 2020. Stations at 02:38 and 02:11 UT.
♆︎Neptune retrograde 2019· once this year
Retrograde 21 Jun – 27 Nov (23 weeks), 18°43' Pisces back to 15°55' Pisces; shadow from 28 Feb to 17 Mar 2020. Stations at 14:44 and 12:46 UT.
♇︎Pluto retrograde 2019· once this year
Retrograde 24 Apr – 03 Oct (23 weeks), 23°09' Capricorn back to 20°38' Capricorn; shadow from 02 Jan to 23 Jan 2020. Stations at 19:00 and 06:52 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.