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 2080· 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 03 Feb – 25 Feb (3 weeks), 0°10' Pisces back to 14°49' Aquarius; shadow from 19 Jan to 16 Mar. Stations at 16:25 and 04:24 UT.
Retrograde 02 Jun – 26 Jun (3 weeks), 29°03' Gemini back to 20°24' Gemini; shadow from 18 May to 11 Jul. Stations at 11:54 and 12:11 UT.
Retrograde 30 Sep – 21 Oct (3 weeks), 29°10' Libra back to 13°44' Libra; shadow from 09 Sep to 06 Nov. Stations at 08:19 and 15:23 UT.
♀︎Venus retrograde 2080· not retrograde this year
Venus holds a straight course through 2080; no spell, no shadow, no station to mark.
♂︎Mars retrograde 2080· once this year
Retrograde 14 May – 22 Jul (10 weeks), 2°48' Capricorn back to 19°05' Sagittarius; shadow from 21 Mar to 09 Sep. Stations at 22:16 and 17:06 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 2080· once this year
Retrograde 09 Jun – 07 Oct (17 weeks), 21°50' Aquarius back to 12°00' Aquarius; shadow from 15 Mar to 29 Dec. Stations at 01:21 and 05:31 UT.
♄︎Saturn retrograde 2080· once this year
Retrograde 24 May – 12 Oct (20 weeks), 15°38' Aquarius back to 8°59' Aquarius; shadow from 17 Feb to 16 Jan 2081. Stations at 20:38 and 14:04 UT.
♅︎Uranus retrograde 2080· once this year
Retrograde 09 May – 10 Oct (22 weeks), 5°44' Aquarius back to 1°48' Aquarius; shadow from 23 Jan to 24 Jan 2081. Stations at 08:31 and 13:19 UT.
♆︎Neptune retrograde 2080· twice this year
Retrograde 05 Nov 2079 – 09 Apr (22 weeks), 3°14' Leo back to 0°26' Leo; shadow from 15 Jul 2079 to 01 Aug. Stations at 06:26 and 21:27 UT.
Retrograde 06 Nov – 12 Apr 2081 (22 weeks), 5°27' Leo back to 2°39' Leo; shadow from 16 Jul to 04 Aug 2081. Stations at 18:44 and 08:48 UT.
♇︎Pluto retrograde 2080· once this year
Retrograde 14 Jul – 26 Dec (24 weeks), 15°15' Aries back to 13°12' Aries; shadow from 14 Mar to 26 Apr 2081. Stations at 15:35 and 15:55 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.