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 2045· 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 10 Mar – 02 Apr (3 weeks), 5°08' Aries back to 21°58' Pisces; shadow from 24 Feb to 21 Apr. Stations at 14:44 and 15:10 UT.
Retrograde 13 Jul – 06 Aug (3 weeks), 10°36' Leo back to 29°40' Cancer; shadow from 25 Jun to 20 Aug. Stations at 05:30 and 09:31 UT.
Retrograde 05 Nov – 25 Nov (3 weeks), 2°46' Sagittarius back to 16°40' Scorpio; shadow from 16 Oct to 12 Dec. Stations at 08:02 and 08:56 UT.
♀︎Venus retrograde 2045· once this year
Retrograde 12 Dec – 21 Jan 2046 (6 weeks), 19°01' Capricorn back to 3°40' Capricorn; shadow from 10 Nov to 22 Feb 2046. Stations at 01:32 and 22:57 UT.
♂︎Mars retrograde 2045· not retrograde this year
Mars holds a straight course through 2045; 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 2045· once this year
Retrograde 01 Jul – 28 Oct (17 weeks), 12°18' Pisces back to 2°26' Pisces; shadow from 06 Apr to 18 Jan 2046. Stations at 00:43 and 04:33 UT.
♄︎Saturn retrograde 2045· once this year
Retrograde 20 Mar – 08 Aug (20 weeks), 11°47' Sagittarius back to 5°08' Sagittarius; shadow from 14 Dec 2044 to 14 Nov. Stations at 18:20 and 15:11 UT.
♅︎Uranus retrograde 2045· twice this year
Retrograde 01 Dec 2044 – 29 Apr (21 weeks), 26°53' Leo back to 22°44' Leo; shadow from 18 Aug 2044 to 14 Aug. Stations at 15:02 and 18:24 UT.
Retrograde 06 Dec – 04 May 2046 (21 weeks), 1°38' Virgo back to 27°29' Leo; shadow from 23 Aug to 19 Aug 2046. Stations at 15:51 and 19:48 UT.
♆︎Neptune retrograde 2045· twice this year
Retrograde 17 Aug 2044 – 21 Jan (22 weeks), 14°51' Taurus back to 12°02' Taurus; shadow from 25 Apr 2044 to 13 May. Stations at 12:11 and 16:09 UT.
Retrograde 19 Aug – 24 Jan 2046 (22 weeks), 17°06' Taurus back to 14°18' Taurus; shadow from 28 Apr to 15 May 2046. Stations at 23:51 and 03:32 UT.
♇︎Pluto retrograde 2045· once this year
Retrograde 03 Jun – 14 Nov (23 weeks), 4°04' Pisces back to 1°49' Pisces; shadow from 05 Feb to 11 Mar 2046. Stations at 17:00 and 16:59 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.