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 2164· 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 29 Feb – 23 Mar (3 weeks), 25°45' Pisces back to 11°45' Pisces; shadow from 15 Feb to 12 Apr. Stations at 22:40 and 12:27 UT.
Retrograde 02 Jul – 26 Jul (3 weeks), 29°39' Cancer back to 19°37' Cancer; shadow from 15 Jun to 09 Aug. Stations at 12:29 and 17:53 UT.
Retrograde 26 Oct – 16 Nov (3 weeks), 24°07' Scorpio back to 8°09' Scorpio; shadow from 07 Oct to 02 Dec. Stations at 22:50 and 06:47 UT.
♀︎Venus retrograde 2164· once this year
Retrograde 02 Apr – 15 May (6 weeks), 12°29' Taurus back to 26°05' Aries; shadow from 29 Feb to 17 Jun. Stations at 14:02 and 01:12 UT.
♂︎Mars retrograde 2164· not retrograde this year
Mars holds a straight course through 2164; 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 2164· once this year
Retrograde 16 Jul – 12 Nov (17 weeks), 27°41' Pisces back to 17°47' Pisces; shadow from 22 Apr to 02 Feb 2165. Stations at 18:56 and 09:51 UT.
♄︎Saturn retrograde 2164· once this year
Retrograde 05 Apr – 24 Aug (20 weeks), 27°18' Sagittarius back to 20°40' Sagittarius; shadow from 30 Dec 2163 to 30 Nov. Stations at 06:58 and 12:19 UT.
♅︎Uranus retrograde 2164· once this year
Retrograde 10 May – 12 Oct (22 weeks), 6°56' Aquarius back to 2°59' Aquarius; shadow from 25 Jan to 25 Jan 2165. Stations at 21:21 and 02:35 UT.
♆︎Neptune retrograde 2164· once this year
Retrograde 08 May – 15 Oct (23 weeks), 7°04' Aquarius back to 4°18' Aquarius; shadow from 18 Jan to 03 Feb 2165. Stations at 18:24 and 19:47 UT.
♇︎Pluto retrograde 2164· twice this year
Retrograde 07 Oct 2163 – 18 Mar (23 weeks), 6°47' Cancer back to 4°42' Cancer; shadow from 06 Jun 2163 to 18 Jul. Stations at 03:34 and 08:14 UT.
Retrograde 07 Oct – 19 Mar 2165 (23 weeks), 7°53' Cancer back to 5°47' Cancer; shadow from 06 Jun to 19 Jul 2165. Stations at 15:18 and 13:39 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.