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 2053· 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 14 Feb – 08 Mar (3 weeks), 11°17' Pisces back to 26°28' Aquarius; shadow from 30 Jan to 28 Mar. Stations at 09:43 and 10:20 UT.
Retrograde 16 Jun – 10 Jul (3 weeks), 12°43' Cancer back to 3°34' Cancer; shadow from 31 May to 24 Jul. Stations at 06:11 and 08:40 UT.
Retrograde 12 Oct – 02 Nov (3 weeks), 10°07' Scorpio back to 24°24' Libra; shadow from 22 Sep to 18 Nov. Stations at 09:17 and 03:59 UT.
♀︎Venus retrograde 2053· once this year
Retrograde 09 Dec – 19 Jan 2054 (6 weeks), 16°32' Capricorn back to 1°12' Capricorn; shadow from 07 Nov to 20 Feb 2054. Stations at 13:55 and 11:24 UT.
♂︎Mars retrograde 2053· not retrograde this year
Mars holds a straight course through 2053; 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 2053· once this year
Retrograde 19 Feb – 22 Jun (18 weeks), 6°03' Scorpio back to 26°09' Libra; shadow from 24 Nov 2052 to 19 Sep. Stations at 01:51 and 13:32 UT.
♄︎Saturn retrograde 2053· once this year
Retrograde 24 Jun – 10 Nov (20 weeks), 14°34' Pisces back to 7°50' Pisces; shadow from 18 Mar to 13 Feb 2054. Stations at 15:20 and 20:10 UT.
♅︎Uranus retrograde 2053· once this year
Retrograde 08 Jan – 07 Jun (21 weeks), 5°07' Libra back to 0°59' Libra; shadow from 27 Sep 2052 to 21 Sep. Stations at 19:09 and 17:49 UT.
♆︎Neptune retrograde 2053· twice this year
Retrograde 04 Sep 2052 – 08 Feb (22 weeks), 2°52' Gemini back to 0°03' Gemini; shadow from 13 May 2052 to 31 May. Stations at 18:38 and 15:49 UT.
Retrograde 07 Sep – 11 Feb 2054 (22 weeks), 5°07' Gemini back to 2°18' Gemini; shadow from 16 May to 03 Jun 2054. Stations at 08:36 and 03:13 UT.
♇︎Pluto retrograde 2053· once this year
Retrograde 14 Jun – 25 Nov (24 weeks), 14°29' Pisces back to 12°18' Pisces; shadow from 14 Feb to 23 Mar 2054. Stations at 00:17 and 12:59 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.