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 2135· 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 27 Dec 2134 – 16 Jan (3 weeks), 22°21' Capricorn back to 6°06' Capricorn; shadow from 10 Dec 2134 to 05 Feb. Stations at 10:34 and 12:04 UT.
Retrograde 18 Apr – 12 May (3 weeks), 12°57' Taurus back to 2°52' Taurus; shadow from 04 Apr to 29 May. Stations at 18:43 and 12:51 UT.
Retrograde 21 Aug – 13 Sep (3 weeks), 19°29' Virgo back to 5°53' Virgo; shadow from 01 Aug to 28 Sep. Stations at 13:05 and 17:40 UT.
Retrograde 11 Dec – 31 Dec (3 weeks), 6°30' Capricorn back to 20°11' Sagittarius; shadow from 23 Nov to 18 Jan 2136. Stations at 07:52 and 02:59 UT.
♀︎Venus retrograde 2135· once this year
Retrograde 21 Jun – 03 Aug (6 weeks), 28°27' Cancer back to 11°56' Cancer; shadow from 18 May to 06 Sep. Stations at 09:42 and 12:48 UT.
♂︎Mars retrograde 2135· once this year
Retrograde 18 Dec – 07 Mar 2136 (11 weeks), 17°23' Leo back to 28°02' Cancer; shadow from 16 Oct to 14 May 2136. Stations at 21:47 and 15:56 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 2135· once this year
Retrograde 20 Jan – 23 May (18 weeks), 6°08' Libra back to 26°10' Virgo; shadow from 25 Oct 2134 to 21 Aug. Stations at 20:01 and 14:38 UT.
♄︎Saturn retrograde 2135· once this year
Retrograde 11 Apr – 30 Aug (20 weeks), 1°58' Capricorn back to 25°21' Sagittarius; shadow from 04 Jan to 06 Dec. Stations at 00:34 and 09:13 UT.
♅︎Uranus retrograde 2135· once this year
Retrograde 01 Jan – 30 May (21 weeks), 26°45' Virgo back to 22°36' Virgo; shadow from 19 Sep 2134 to 14 Sep. Stations at 09:15 and 21:34 UT.
♆︎Neptune retrograde 2135· once this year
Retrograde 06 Mar – 12 Aug (23 weeks), 3°36' Sagittarius back to 0°50' Sagittarius; shadow from 15 Nov 2134 to 03 Dec. Stations at 01:09 and 20:54 UT.
♇︎Pluto retrograde 2135· twice this year
Retrograde 06 Sep 2134 – 18 Feb (24 weeks), 7°32' Gemini back to 5°34' Gemini; shadow from 05 May 2134 to 21 Jun. Stations at 20:52 and 13:30 UT.
Retrograde 08 Sep – 19 Feb 2136 (24 weeks), 8°29' Gemini back to 6°31' Gemini; shadow from 06 May to 21 Jun 2136. Stations at 01:09 and 19:53 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.