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 2072· 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 27 Feb – 21 Mar (3 weeks), 23°37' Pisces back to 9°34' Pisces; shadow from 13 Feb to 09 Apr. Stations at 12:06 and 01:14 UT.
Retrograde 29 Jun – 24 Jul (3 weeks), 27°23' Cancer back to 17°24' Cancer; shadow from 13 Jun to 07 Aug. Stations at 23:54 and 05:15 UT.
Retrograde 24 Oct – 13 Nov (3 weeks), 22°01' Scorpio back to 6°04' Scorpio; shadow from 04 Oct to 30 Nov. Stations at 12:23 and 20:51 UT.
♀︎Venus retrograde 2072· not retrograde this year
Venus holds a straight course through 2072; no spell, no shadow, no station to mark.
♂︎Mars retrograde 2072· once this year
Retrograde 02 Dec 2071 – 18 Feb (11 weeks), 0°35' Leo back to 11°35' Cancer; shadow from 01 Oct 2071 to 25 Apr. Stations at 01:28 and 12:42 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 2072· twice this year
Retrograde 24 Sep 2071 – 20 Jan (17 weeks), 6°05' Gemini back to 26°02' Taurus; shadow from 01 Jul 2071 to 13 Apr. Stations at 15:20 and 08:40 UT.
Retrograde 28 Oct – 23 Feb 2073 (17 weeks), 10°52' Cancer back to 0°47' Cancer; shadow from 03 Aug to 21 May 2073. Stations at 03:38 and 21:48 UT.
♄︎Saturn retrograde 2072· once this year
Retrograde 21 Feb – 09 Jul (20 weeks), 13°43' Scorpio back to 7°00' Scorpio; shadow from 17 Nov 2071 to 16 Oct. Stations at 04:04 and 19:43 UT.
♅︎Uranus retrograde 2072· once this year
Retrograde 05 Apr – 05 Sep (22 weeks), 2°11' Capricorn back to 28°10' Sagittarius; shadow from 22 Dec 2071 to 20 Dec. Stations at 07:05 and 21:53 UT.
♆︎Neptune retrograde 2072· twice this year
Retrograde 18 Oct 2071 – 22 Mar (22 weeks), 15°26' Cancer back to 12°38' Cancer; shadow from 27 Jun 2071 to 14 Jul. Stations at 12:58 and 22:32 UT.
Retrograde 20 Oct – 25 Mar 2073 (22 weeks), 17°40' Cancer back to 14°52' Cancer; shadow from 28 Jun to 16 Jul 2073. Stations at 00:41 and 11:29 UT.
♇︎Pluto retrograde 2072· once this year
Retrograde 05 Jul – 18 Dec (24 weeks), 6°43' Aries back to 4°38' Aries; shadow from 06 Mar to 17 Apr 2073. Stations at 21:47 and 03:41 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.