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 2033· 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 18 Feb – 13 Mar (3 weeks), 15°33' Pisces back to 1°02' Pisces; shadow from 04 Feb to 02 Apr. Stations at 21:18 and 03:01 UT.
Retrograde 21 Jun – 15 Jul (3 weeks), 17°56' Cancer back to 8°30' Cancer; shadow from 05 Jun to 29 Jul. Stations at 10:14 and 14:12 UT.
Retrograde 16 Oct – 06 Nov (3 weeks), 14°16' Scorpio back to 28°26' Libra; shadow from 26 Sep to 22 Nov. Stations at 22:02 and 12:41 UT.
♀︎Venus retrograde 2033· once this year
Retrograde 27 Feb – 10 Apr (6 weeks), 8°31' Aries back to 22°21' Pisces; shadow from 26 Jan to 13 May. Stations at 15:41 and 15:31 UT.
♂︎Mars retrograde 2033· once this year
Retrograde 26 May – 01 Aug (10 weeks), 12°30' Capricorn back to 29°47' Sagittarius; shadow from 05 Apr to 16 Sep. Stations at 23:47 and 14:22 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 2033· once this year
Retrograde 25 Jun – 23 Oct (17 weeks), 7°19' Pisces back to 27°27' Aquarius; shadow from 01 Apr to 14 Jan 2034. Stations at 21:53 and 07:20 UT.
♄︎Saturn retrograde 2033· twice this year
Retrograde 18 Oct 2032 – 01 Mar (19 weeks), 7°10' Cancer back to 0°12' Cancer; shadow from 15 Jul 2032 to 04 Jun. Stations at 22:16 and 16:05 UT.
Retrograde 02 Nov – 16 Mar 2034 (19 weeks), 21°19' Cancer back to 14°21' Cancer; shadow from 30 Jul to 19 Jun 2034. Stations at 06:55 and 02:32 UT.
♅︎Uranus retrograde 2033· twice this year
Retrograde 06 Oct 2032 – 05 Mar (21 weeks), 1°39' Cancer back to 27°35' Gemini; shadow from 21 Jun 2032 to 20 Jun. Stations at 19:58 and 14:58 UT.
Retrograde 11 Oct – 10 Mar 2034 (21 weeks), 6°06' Cancer back to 2°01' Cancer; shadow from 26 Jun to 24 Jun 2034. Stations at 15:46 and 06:38 UT.
♆︎Neptune retrograde 2033· once this year
Retrograde 23 Jul – 28 Dec (23 weeks), 20°07' Aries back to 17°18' Aries; shadow from 01 Apr to 18 Apr 2034. Stations at 10:32 and 07:52 UT.
♇︎Pluto retrograde 2033· once this year
Retrograde 17 May – 27 Oct (23 weeks), 16°46' Aquarius back to 14°24' Aquarius; shadow from 21 Jan to 19 Feb 2034. Stations at 13:10 and 16:05 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.