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 2066· 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 17 Feb – 11 Mar (3 weeks), 13°57' Pisces back to 29°17' Aquarius; shadow from 02 Feb to 31 Mar. Stations at 06:00 and 09:24 UT.
Retrograde 19 Jun – 13 Jul (3 weeks), 15°54' Cancer back to 6°36' Cancer; shadow from 03 Jun to 27 Jul. Stations at 11:36 and 14:53 UT.
Retrograde 15 Oct – 04 Nov (3 weeks), 12°43' Scorpio back to 26°57' Libra; shadow from 25 Sep to 21 Nov. Stations at 06:20 and 22:49 UT.
♀︎Venus retrograde 2066· once this year
Retrograde 21 Sep – 02 Nov (6 weeks), 26°46' Libra back to 10°59' Libra; shadow from 19 Aug to 04 Dec. Stations at 01:07 and 00:36 UT.
♂︎Mars retrograde 2066· not retrograde this year
Mars holds a straight course through 2066; 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 2066· once this year
Retrograde 26 Mar – 28 Jul (18 weeks), 10°46' Sagittarius back to 0°55' Sagittarius; shadow from 30 Dec 2065 to 23 Oct. Stations at 21:26 and 04:45 UT.
♄︎Saturn retrograde 2066· twice this year
Retrograde 07 Dec 2065 – 21 Apr (19 weeks), 27°29' Leo back to 20°35' Leo; shadow from 04 Sep 2065 to 27 Jul. Stations at 19:32 and 17:22 UT.
Retrograde 21 Dec – 05 May 2067 (19 weeks), 10°57' Virgo back to 4°04' Virgo; shadow from 17 Sep to 10 Aug 2067. Stations at 06:04 and 20:45 UT.
♅︎Uranus retrograde 2066· once this year
Retrograde 10 Mar – 09 Aug (22 weeks), 5°46' Sagittarius back to 1°43' Sagittarius; shadow from 26 Nov 2065 to 23 Nov. Stations at 08:03 and 22:13 UT.
♆︎Neptune retrograde 2066· twice this year
Retrograde 04 Oct 2065 – 10 Mar (22 weeks), 2°03' Cancer back to 29°14' Gemini; shadow from 12 Jun 2065 to 01 Jul. Stations at 13:31 and 00:46 UT.
Retrograde 07 Oct – 12 Mar 2067 (22 weeks), 4°17' Cancer back to 1°28' Cancer; shadow from 15 Jun to 03 Jul 2067. Stations at 01:41 and 12:37 UT.
♇︎Pluto retrograde 2066· once this year
Retrograde 29 Jun – 11 Dec (24 weeks), 0°01' Aries back to 27°54' Pisces; shadow from 28 Feb to 10 Apr 2067. Stations at 15:23 and 20:06 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.