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 2073· 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 09 Feb – 03 Mar (3 weeks), 7°01' Pisces back to 21°59' Aquarius; shadow from 26 Jan to 23 Mar. Stations at 22:40 and 18:05 UT.
Retrograde 11 Jun – 05 Jul (3 weeks), 7°29' Cancer back to 28°34' Gemini; shadow from 26 May to 19 Jul. Stations at 00:55 and 02:15 UT.
Retrograde 07 Oct – 28 Oct (3 weeks), 5°58' Scorpio back to 20°21' Libra; shadow from 17 Sep to 13 Nov. Stations at 19:58 and 19:13 UT.
♀︎Venus retrograde 2073· once this year
Retrograde 15 Feb – 29 Mar (6 weeks), 26°51' Pisces back to 10°46' Pisces; shadow from 14 Jan to 01 May. Stations at 18:21 and 12:18 UT.
♂︎Mars retrograde 2073· not retrograde this year
Mars holds a straight course through 2073; 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 2073· twice this year
Retrograde 28 Oct 2072 – 23 Feb (17 weeks), 10°52' Cancer back to 0°47' Cancer; shadow from 03 Aug 2072 to 21 May. Stations at 03:38 and 21:48 UT.
Retrograde 29 Nov – 29 Mar 2074 (17 weeks), 13°35' Leo back to 3°32' Leo; shadow from 03 Sep to 26 Jun 2074. Stations at 07:50 and 16:18 UT.
♄︎Saturn retrograde 2073· once this year
Retrograde 04 Mar – 22 Jul (20 weeks), 25°28' Scorpio back to 18°48' Scorpio; shadow from 28 Nov 2072 to 28 Oct. Stations at 04:39 and 09:25 UT.
♅︎Uranus retrograde 2073· once this year
Retrograde 09 Apr – 10 Sep (22 weeks), 6°28' Capricorn back to 2°28' Capricorn; shadow from 25 Dec 2072 to 25 Dec. Stations at 20:12 and 13:16 UT.
♆︎Neptune retrograde 2073· twice this year
Retrograde 20 Oct 2072 – 25 Mar (22 weeks), 17°40' Cancer back to 14°52' Cancer; shadow from 28 Jun 2072 to 16 Jul. Stations at 00:41 and 11:29 UT.
Retrograde 22 Oct – 27 Mar 2074 (22 weeks), 19°54' Cancer back to 17°06' Cancer; shadow from 01 Jul to 19 Jul 2074. Stations at 14:05 and 23:52 UT.
♇︎Pluto retrograde 2073· once this year
Retrograde 07 Jul – 19 Dec (24 weeks), 7°48' Aries back to 5°43' Aries; shadow from 07 Mar to 18 Apr 2074. Stations at 06:36 and 12:41 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.