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 2118· 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 28 Feb – 23 Mar (3 weeks), 24°41' Pisces back to 10°39' Pisces; shadow from 14 Feb to 11 Apr. Stations at 17:22 and 06:49 UT.
Retrograde 02 Jul – 26 Jul (3 weeks), 28°31' Cancer back to 18°31' Cancer; shadow from 15 Jun to 09 Aug. Stations at 06:15 and 11:38 UT.
Retrograde 26 Oct – 16 Nov (3 weeks), 23°04' Scorpio back to 7°07' Scorpio; shadow from 06 Oct to 02 Dec. Stations at 17:36 and 01:49 UT.
♀︎Venus retrograde 2118· not retrograde this year
Venus holds a straight course through 2118; no spell, no shadow, no station to mark.
♂︎Mars retrograde 2118· once this year
Retrograde 27 Nov – 12 Feb 2119 (11 weeks), 24°47' Cancer back to 6°01' Cancer; shadow from 26 Sep to 19 Apr 2119. Stations at 00:31 and 17:44 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 2118· once this year
Retrograde 09 Sep – 04 Jan 2119 (17 weeks), 20°20' Taurus back to 10°20' Taurus; shadow from 16 Jun to 29 Mar 2119. Stations at 09:35 and 22:11 UT.
♄︎Saturn retrograde 2118· twice this year
Retrograde 03 Sep 2117 – 16 Jan (19 weeks), 21°53' Taurus back to 14°59' Taurus; shadow from 30 May 2117 to 20 Apr. Stations at 10:46 and 11:11 UT.
Retrograde 17 Sep – 30 Jan 2119 (19 weeks), 5°45' Gemini back to 28°50' Taurus; shadow from 14 Jun to 04 May 2119. Stations at 22:08 and 08:31 UT.
♅︎Uranus retrograde 2118· twice this year
Retrograde 13 Oct 2117 – 11 Mar (21 weeks), 7°17' Cancer back to 3°12' Cancer; shadow from 27 Jun 2117 to 26 Jun. Stations at 05:04 and 19:29 UT.
Retrograde 18 Oct – 16 Mar 2119 (21 weeks), 11°45' Cancer back to 7°40' Cancer; shadow from 02 Jul to 01 Jul 2119. Stations at 00:09 and 10:41 UT.
♆︎Neptune retrograde 2118· once this year
Retrograde 27 Jan – 05 Jul (23 weeks), 26°37' Libra back to 23°50' Libra; shadow from 08 Oct 2117 to 27 Oct. Stations at 16:12 and 13:53 UT.
♇︎Pluto retrograde 2118· twice this year
Retrograde 21 Aug 2117 – 02 Feb (24 weeks), 21°29' Taurus back to 19°31' Taurus; shadow from 19 Apr 2117 to 05 Jun. Stations at 10:52 and 06:18 UT.
Retrograde 22 Aug – 03 Feb 2119 (24 weeks), 22°25' Taurus back to 20°28' Taurus; shadow from 20 Apr to 06 Jun 2119. Stations at 12:41 and 13:16 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.