Retrograde Calendar
About 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 2190· 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 06 Mar – 29 Mar (3 weeks), 1°10' Aries back to 17°32' Pisces; shadow from 20 Feb to 17 Apr. Stations at 17:50 and 12:26 UT.
Retrograde 08 Jul – 02 Aug (3 weeks), 5°52' Leo back to 25°26' Cancer; shadow from 21 Jun to 16 Aug. Stations at 20:21 and 01:23 UT.
Retrograde 01 Nov – 21 Nov (3 weeks), 29°15' Scorpio back to 13°13' Scorpio; shadow from 12 Oct to 08 Dec. Stations at 15:54 and 20:17 UT.
♀︎Venus retrograde 2190· not retrograde this year
Venus holds a straight course through 2190; no spell, no shadow, no station to mark.
♂︎Mars retrograde 2190· not retrograde this year
Mars holds a straight course through 2190; 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 2190· once this year
Retrograde 09 Oct – 04 Feb 2191 (17 weeks), 21°03' Gemini back to 11°00' Gemini; shadow from 15 Jul to 30 Apr 2191. Stations at 07:40 and 07:06 UT.
♄︎Saturn retrograde 2190· once this year
Retrograde 25 Feb – 14 Jul (20 weeks), 17°59' Scorpio back to 11°17' Scorpio; shadow from 21 Nov 2189 to 21 Oct. Stations at 01:55 and 17:58 UT.
♅︎Uranus retrograde 2190· twice this year
Retrograde 22 Aug 2189 – 20 Jan (22 weeks), 17°07' Taurus back to 13°09' Taurus; shadow from 05 May 2189 to 07 May. Stations at 02:44 and 16:25 UT.
Retrograde 26 Aug – 25 Jan 2191 (22 weeks), 21°15' Taurus back to 17°16' Taurus; shadow from 09 May to 11 May 2191. Stations at 15:30 and 00:41 UT.
♆︎Neptune retrograde 2190· once this year
Retrograde 07 Jul – 13 Dec (23 weeks), 4°54' Aries back to 2°06' Aries; shadow from 16 Mar to 02 Apr 2191. Stations at 14:35 and 03:21 UT.
♇︎Pluto retrograde 2190· twice this year
Retrograde 09 Nov 2189 – 19 Apr (23 weeks), 9°16' Leo back to 6°56' Leo; shadow from 14 Jul 2189 to 15 Aug. Stations at 10:52 and 01:35 UT.
Retrograde 11 Nov – 20 Apr 2191 (23 weeks), 10°44' Leo back to 8°24' Leo; shadow from 16 Jul to 16 Aug 2191. Stations at 04:42 and 18:00 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.