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 2055· 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 12 Jan – 02 Feb (3 weeks), 8°47' Aquarius back to 22°47' Capricorn; shadow from 27 Dec 2054 to 22 Feb. Stations at 21:41 and 12:28 UT.
Retrograde 08 May – 01 Jun (3 weeks), 2°51' Gemini back to 24°00' Taurus; shadow from 24 Apr to 17 Jun. Stations at 11:52 and 07:52 UT.
Retrograde 08 Sep – 30 Sep (3 weeks), 7°16' Libra back to 22°39' Virgo; shadow from 19 Aug to 15 Oct. Stations at 10:12 and 18:24 UT.
Retrograde 27 Dec – 16 Jan 2056 (3 weeks), 22°50' Capricorn back to 6°35' Capricorn; shadow from 10 Dec to 05 Feb 2056. Stations at 19:35 and 22:03 UT.
♀︎Venus retrograde 2055· once this year
Retrograde 13 Jul – 25 Aug (6 weeks), 19°56' Leo back to 3°29' Leo; shadow from 09 Jun to 28 Sep. Stations at 15:16 and 17:52 UT.
♂︎Mars retrograde 2055· once this year
Retrograde 08 Nov 2054 – 23 Jan (11 weeks), 5°54' Cancer back to 17°53' Gemini; shadow from 11 Sep 2054 to 28 Mar. Stations at 18:44 and 10:01 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 2055· once this year
Retrograde 24 Apr – 25 Aug (17 weeks), 8°11' Capricorn back to 28°21' Sagittarius; shadow from 28 Jan to 19 Nov. Stations at 21:45 and 08:24 UT.
♄︎Saturn retrograde 2055· once this year
Retrograde 21 Jul – 06 Dec (20 weeks), 9°39' Aries back to 2°51' Aries; shadow from 15 Apr to 09 Mar 2056. Stations at 12:53 and 00:01 UT.
♅︎Uranus retrograde 2055· once this year
Retrograde 18 Jan – 18 Jun (21 weeks), 14°41' Libra back to 10°32' Libra; shadow from 07 Oct 2054 to 02 Oct. Stations at 18:25 and 02:46 UT.
♆︎Neptune retrograde 2055· twice this year
Retrograde 09 Sep 2054 – 13 Feb (22 weeks), 7°21' Gemini back to 4°32' Gemini; shadow from 19 May 2054 to 06 Jun. Stations at 20:08 and 15:08 UT.
Retrograde 12 Sep – 16 Feb 2056 (22 weeks), 9°36' Gemini back to 6°47' Gemini; shadow from 21 May to 07 Jun 2056. Stations at 09:42 and 02:03 UT.
♇︎Pluto retrograde 2055· once this year
Retrograde 16 Jun – 28 Nov (24 weeks), 16°59' Pisces back to 14°48' Pisces; shadow from 17 Feb to 25 Mar 2056. Stations at 22:33 and 16:16 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.