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 2194· 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 30 Dec 2193 – 19 Jan (3 weeks), 25°58' Capricorn back to 9°44' Capricorn; shadow from 13 Dec 2193 to 08 Feb. Stations at 10:24 and 13:26 UT.
Retrograde 22 Apr – 15 May (3 weeks), 17°02' Taurus back to 7°11' Taurus; shadow from 08 Apr to 01 Jun. Stations at 05:16 and 23:44 UT.
Retrograde 24 Aug – 16 Sep (3 weeks), 23°23' Virgo back to 9°37' Virgo; shadow from 05 Aug to 01 Oct. Stations at 18:54 and 20:19 UT.
Retrograde 14 Dec – 03 Jan 2195 (3 weeks), 10°06' Capricorn back to 23°48' Sagittarius; shadow from 26 Nov to 22 Jan 2195. Stations at 07:55 and 03:43 UT.
♀︎Venus retrograde 2194· once this year
Retrograde 14 Aug – 26 Sep (6 weeks), 20°35' Virgo back to 4°20' Virgo; shadow from 11 Jul to 29 Oct. Stations at 09:55 and 04:36 UT.
♂︎Mars retrograde 2194· not retrograde this year
Mars holds a straight course through 2194; 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 2194· once this year
Retrograde 11 Jan – 14 May (17 weeks), 27°39' Virgo back to 17°40' Virgo; shadow from 16 Oct 2193 to 11 Aug. Stations at 18:05 and 04:08 UT.
♄︎Saturn retrograde 2194· once this year
Retrograde 12 Apr – 31 Aug (20 weeks), 3°59' Capricorn back to 27°23' Sagittarius; shadow from 05 Jan to 07 Dec. Stations at 09:52 and 17:48 UT.
♅︎Uranus retrograde 2194· twice this year
Retrograde 08 Sep 2193 – 06 Feb (22 weeks), 3°47' Gemini back to 29°46' Taurus; shadow from 22 May 2193 to 23 May. Stations at 04:59 and 03:34 UT.
Retrograde 12 Sep – 10 Feb 2195 (22 weeks), 8°00' Gemini back to 3°59' Gemini; shadow from 27 May to 28 May 2195. Stations at 19:00 and 13:52 UT.
♆︎Neptune retrograde 2194· once this year
Retrograde 16 Jul – 22 Dec (23 weeks), 13°52' Aries back to 11°04' Aries; shadow from 25 Mar to 12 Apr 2195. Stations at 21:49 and 03:18 UT.
♇︎Pluto retrograde 2194· twice this year
Retrograde 15 Nov 2193 – 24 Apr (23 weeks), 15°17' Leo back to 12°55' Leo; shadow from 21 Jul 2193 to 20 Aug. Stations at 17:52 and 16:43 UT.
Retrograde 17 Nov – 26 Apr 2195 (23 weeks), 16°51' Leo back to 14°28' Leo; shadow from 23 Jul to 22 Aug 2195. Stations at 14:49 and 12:12 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.