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 2192· 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 01 Feb – 23 Feb (3 weeks), 28°04' Aquarius back to 12°33' Aquarius; shadow from 17 Jan to 14 Mar. Stations at 16:29 and 00:25 UT.
Retrograde 30 May – 23 Jun (3 weeks), 26°04' Gemini back to 17°30' Gemini; shadow from 15 May to 08 Jul. Stations at 18:15 and 17:34 UT.
Retrograde 28 Sep – 19 Oct (3 weeks), 27°04' Libra back to 11°46' Libra; shadow from 07 Sep to 04 Nov. Stations at 04:50 and 16:16 UT.
♀︎Venus retrograde 2192· not retrograde this year
Venus holds a straight course through 2192; no spell, no shadow, no station to mark.
♂︎Mars retrograde 2192· not retrograde this year
Mars holds a straight course through 2192; 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 2192· twice this year
Retrograde 11 Nov 2191 – 10 Mar (17 weeks), 25°05' Cancer back to 15°01' Cancer; shadow from 17 Aug 2191 to 05 Jun. Stations at 21:59 and 06:07 UT.
Retrograde 12 Dec – 12 Apr 2193 (17 weeks), 27°06' Leo back to 17°04' Leo; shadow from 16 Sep to 10 Jul 2193. Stations at 09:32 and 08:32 UT.
♄︎Saturn retrograde 2192· once this year
Retrograde 19 Mar – 07 Aug (20 weeks), 11°14' Sagittarius back to 4°35' Sagittarius; shadow from 14 Dec 2191 to 13 Nov. Stations at 18:52 and 15:14 UT.
♅︎Uranus retrograde 2192· twice this year
Retrograde 31 Aug 2191 – 29 Jan (22 weeks), 25°24' Taurus back to 21°25' Taurus; shadow from 14 May 2191 to 15 May. Stations at 03:10 and 08:46 UT.
Retrograde 03 Sep – 01 Feb 2193 (22 weeks), 29°35' Taurus back to 25°35' Taurus; shadow from 18 May to 19 May 2193. Stations at 16:29 and 18:09 UT.
♆︎Neptune retrograde 2192· once this year
Retrograde 11 Jul – 17 Dec (23 weeks), 9°23' Aries back to 6°35' Aries; shadow from 20 Mar to 07 Apr 2193. Stations at 18:16 and 03:05 UT.
♇︎Pluto retrograde 2192· twice this year
Retrograde 12 Nov 2191 – 21 Apr (23 weeks), 12°14' Leo back to 9°53' Leo; shadow from 18 Jul 2191 to 17 Aug. Stations at 23:46 and 07:56 UT.
Retrograde 13 Nov – 23 Apr 2193 (23 weeks), 13°45' Leo back to 11°23' Leo; shadow from 19 Jul to 18 Aug 2193. Stations at 19:12 and 00:27 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.