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 2136· 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 30 Mar – 23 Apr (3 weeks), 24°44' Aries back to 13°08' Aries; shadow from 16 Mar to 11 May. Stations at 13:07 and 01:29 UT.
Retrograde 02 Aug – 26 Aug (3 weeks), 1°33' Virgo back to 19°10' Leo; shadow from 15 Jul to 09 Sep. Stations at 20:11 and 15:19 UT.
Retrograde 24 Nov – 13 Dec (3 weeks), 20°41' Sagittarius back to 4°26' Sagittarius; shadow from 05 Nov to 31 Dec. Stations at 02:50 and 21:39 UT.
♀︎Venus retrograde 2136· not retrograde this year
Venus holds a straight course through 2136; no spell, no shadow, no station to mark.
♂︎Mars retrograde 2136· once this year
Retrograde 18 Dec 2135 – 07 Mar (11 weeks), 17°23' Leo back to 28°02' Cancer; shadow from 16 Oct 2135 to 14 May. 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 2136· once this year
Retrograde 20 Feb – 22 Jun (18 weeks), 6°00' Scorpio back to 26°05' Libra; shadow from 25 Nov 2135 to 19 Sep. Stations at 03:22 and 15:27 UT.
♄︎Saturn retrograde 2136· once this year
Retrograde 21 Apr – 10 Sep (20 weeks), 13°18' Capricorn back to 6°42' Capricorn; shadow from 15 Jan to 16 Dec. Stations at 22:32 and 06:56 UT.
♅︎Uranus retrograde 2136· once this year
Retrograde 06 Jan – 04 Jun (21 weeks), 1°33' Libra back to 27°24' Virgo; shadow from 24 Sep 2135 to 18 Sep. Stations at 08:38 and 01:29 UT.
♆︎Neptune retrograde 2136· once this year
Retrograde 07 Mar – 14 Aug (23 weeks), 5°47' Sagittarius back to 3°01' Sagittarius; shadow from 17 Nov 2135 to 04 Dec. Stations at 10:04 and 08:51 UT.
♇︎Pluto retrograde 2136· twice this year
Retrograde 08 Sep 2135 – 19 Feb (24 weeks), 8°29' Gemini back to 6°31' Gemini; shadow from 06 May 2135 to 21 Jun. Stations at 01:09 and 19:53 UT.
Retrograde 08 Sep – 19 Feb 2137 (24 weeks), 9°27' Gemini back to 7°28' Gemini; shadow from 06 May to 23 Jun 2137. Stations at 08:03 and 23:11 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.