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 2058· 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 13 Mar – 05 Apr (3 weeks), 7°52' Aries back to 24°56' Pisces; shadow from 27 Feb to 24 Apr. Stations at 13:21 and 15:56 UT.
Retrograde 16 Jul – 09 Aug (3 weeks), 13°39' Leo back to 2°30' Leo; shadow from 28 Jun to 23 Aug. Stations at 08:14 and 11:44 UT.
Retrograde 08 Nov – 28 Nov (3 weeks), 5°20' Sagittarius back to 19°12' Scorpio; shadow from 19 Oct to 15 Dec. Stations at 04:05 and 03:49 UT.
♀︎Venus retrograde 2058· once this year
Retrograde 23 Sep – 04 Nov (6 weeks), 29°06' Libra back to 13°20' Libra; shadow from 21 Aug to 06 Dec. Stations at 11:55 and 09:43 UT.
♂︎Mars retrograde 2058· not retrograde this year
Mars holds a straight course through 2058; 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 2058· once this year
Retrograde 13 Aug – 09 Dec (17 weeks), 24°14' Aries back to 14°17' Aries; shadow from 20 May to 01 Mar 2059. Stations at 12:10 and 05:37 UT.
♄︎Saturn retrograde 2058· once this year
Retrograde 31 Aug – 13 Jan 2059 (19 weeks), 19°34' Taurus back to 12°41' Taurus; shadow from 27 May to 17 Apr 2059. Stations at 19:23 and 20:53 UT.
♅︎Uranus retrograde 2058· once this year
Retrograde 01 Feb – 02 Jul (22 weeks), 28°53' Libra back to 24°45' Libra; shadow from 20 Oct 2057 to 16 Oct. Stations at 14:11 and 11:50 UT.
♆︎Neptune retrograde 2058· twice this year
Retrograde 16 Sep 2057 – 20 Feb (22 weeks), 14°05' Gemini back to 11°16' Gemini; shadow from 25 May 2057 to 12 Jun. Stations at 09:57 and 00:06 UT.
Retrograde 18 Sep – 22 Feb 2059 (22 weeks), 16°20' Gemini back to 13°31' Gemini; shadow from 28 May to 15 Jun 2059. Stations at 21:48 and 10:20 UT.
♇︎Pluto retrograde 2058· once this year
Retrograde 20 Jun – 02 Dec (24 weeks), 20°39' Pisces back to 18°30' Pisces; shadow from 20 Feb to 30 Mar 2059. Stations at 12:01 and 01:50 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.