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 2024· four 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 13 Dec 2023 – 02 Jan (3 weeks), 8°29' Capricorn back to 22°10' Sagittarius; shadow from 25 Nov 2023 to 21 Jan. Stations at 07:04 and 03:12 UT.
Retrograde 01 Apr – 25 Apr (3 weeks), 27°13' Aries back to 15°58' Aries; shadow from 19 Mar to 13 May. Stations at 22:15 and 12:52 UT.
Retrograde 05 Aug – 28 Aug (3 weeks), 4°06' Virgo back to 21°24' Leo; shadow from 17 Jul to 11 Sep. Stations at 04:58 and 21:07 UT.
Retrograde 26 Nov – 15 Dec (3 weeks), 22°40' Sagittarius back to 6°23' Sagittarius; shadow from 07 Nov to 03 Jan 2025. Stations at 02:36 and 21:02 UT.
♀︎Venus retrograde 2024· not retrograde this year
Venus holds a straight course through 2024; no spell, no shadow, no station to mark.
♂︎Mars retrograde 2024· once this year
Retrograde 06 Dec – 24 Feb 2025 (11 weeks), 6°10' Leo back to 17°00' Cancer; shadow from 05 Oct to 02 May 2025. Stations at 23:34 and 02:01 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 2024· once this year
Retrograde 09 Oct – 04 Feb 2025 (17 weeks), 21°20' Gemini back to 11°16' Gemini; shadow from 15 Jul to 30 Apr 2025. Stations at 07:04 and 09:39 UT.
♄︎Saturn retrograde 2024· once this year
Retrograde 29 Jun – 15 Nov (20 weeks), 19°25' Pisces back to 12°41' Pisces; shadow from 24 Mar to 18 Feb 2025. Stations at 19:07 and 14:28 UT.
♅︎Uranus retrograde 2024· twice this year
Retrograde 29 Aug 2023 – 27 Jan (22 weeks), 23°04' Taurus back to 19°05' Taurus; shadow from 12 May 2023 to 12 May. Stations at 02:09 and 07:30 UT.
Retrograde 01 Sep – 30 Jan 2025 (22 weeks), 27°15' Taurus back to 23°15' Taurus; shadow from 16 May to 17 May 2025. Stations at 15:27 and 16:28 UT.
♆︎Neptune retrograde 2024· once this year
Retrograde 02 Jul – 07 Dec (23 weeks), 29°56' Pisces back to 27°08' Pisces; shadow from 11 Mar to 28 Mar 2025. Stations at 10:26 and 23:48 UT.
♇︎Pluto retrograde 2024· once this year
Retrograde 02 May – 12 Oct (23 weeks), 2°06' Aquarius back to 29°38' Capricorn; shadow from 09 Jan to 02 Feb 2025. Stations at 17:31 and 01:10 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.