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 2075· 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 08 Jan – 28 Jan (3 weeks), 4°40' Aquarius back to 18°34' Capricorn; shadow from 23 Dec 2074 to 17 Feb. Stations at 12:51 and 23:52 UT.
Retrograde 03 May – 27 May (3 weeks), 27°47' Taurus back to 18°41' Taurus; shadow from 19 Apr to 12 Jun. Stations at 05:48 and 01:50 UT.
Retrograde 03 Sep – 26 Sep (3 weeks), 2°53' Libra back to 18°29' Virgo; shadow from 14 Aug to 10 Oct. Stations at 17:48 and 07:15 UT.
Retrograde 23 Dec – 12 Jan 2076 (3 weeks), 18°44' Capricorn back to 2°28' Capricorn; shadow from 06 Dec to 31 Jan 2076. Stations at 10:43 and 10:53 UT.
♀︎Venus retrograde 2075· not retrograde this year
Venus holds a straight course through 2075; no spell, no shadow, no station to mark.
♂︎Mars retrograde 2075· not retrograde this year
Mars holds a straight course through 2075; 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 2075· once this year
Retrograde 29 Dec 2074 – 30 Apr (17 weeks), 14°36' Virgo back to 4°36' Virgo; shadow from 03 Oct 2074 to 29 Jul. Stations at 23:25 and 20:58 UT.
♄︎Saturn retrograde 2075· once this year
Retrograde 27 Mar – 15 Aug (20 weeks), 18°30' Sagittarius back to 11°53' Sagittarius; shadow from 21 Dec 2074 to 21 Nov. Stations at 19:40 and 21:58 UT.
♅︎Uranus retrograde 2075· once this year
Retrograde 18 Apr – 19 Sep (22 weeks), 14°57' Capricorn back to 10°58' Capricorn; shadow from 03 Jan to 03 Jan 2076. Stations at 22:22 and 20:04 UT.
♆︎Neptune retrograde 2075· twice this year
Retrograde 25 Oct 2074 – 30 Mar (22 weeks), 22°08' Cancer back to 19°19' Cancer; shadow from 03 Jul 2074 to 21 Jul. Stations at 00:48 and 11:28 UT.
Retrograde 27 Oct – 31 Mar 2076 (22 weeks), 24°22' Cancer back to 21°33' Cancer; shadow from 06 Jul to 23 Jul 2076. Stations at 13:00 and 23:57 UT.
♇︎Pluto retrograde 2075· once this year
Retrograde 10 Jul – 22 Dec (24 weeks), 9°57' Aries back to 7°53' Aries; shadow from 09 Mar to 20 Apr 2076. Stations at 00:20 and 02:05 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.