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 2196· 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 16 Mar – 08 Apr (3 weeks), 11°06' Aries back to 28°15' Pisces; shadow from 02 Mar to 27 Apr. Stations at 05:50 and 09:17 UT.
Retrograde 19 Jul – 12 Aug (3 weeks), 17°00' Leo back to 5°46' Leo; shadow from 01 Jul to 26 Aug. Stations at 02:17 and 05:33 UT.
Retrograde 10 Nov – 30 Nov (3 weeks), 8°29' Sagittarius back to 22°20' Scorpio; shadow from 22 Oct to 18 Dec. Stations at 19:24 and 18:43 UT.
♀︎Venus retrograde 2196· once this year
Retrograde 24 Mar – 05 May (6 weeks), 3°31' Taurus back to 17°11' Aries; shadow from 20 Feb to 08 Jun. Stations at 05:35 and 14:18 UT.
♂︎Mars retrograde 2196· not retrograde this year
Mars holds a straight course through 2196; 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 2196· once this year
Retrograde 12 Mar – 14 Jul (18 weeks), 27°38' Scorpio back to 17°45' Scorpio; shadow from 16 Dec 2195 to 10 Oct. Stations at 18:20 and 07:03 UT.
♄︎Saturn retrograde 2196· once this year
Retrograde 05 May – 23 Sep (20 weeks), 26°40' Capricorn back to 20°04' Capricorn; shadow from 28 Jan to 29 Dec. Stations at 03:56 and 12:00 UT.
♅︎Uranus retrograde 2196· twice this year
Retrograde 17 Sep 2195 – 15 Feb (22 weeks), 12°15' Gemini back to 8°13' Gemini; shadow from 01 Jun 2195 to 31 May. Stations at 08:58 and 00:34 UT.
Retrograde 21 Sep – 18 Feb 2197 (21 weeks), 16°32' Gemini back to 12°30' Gemini; shadow from 04 Jun to 05 Jun 2197. Stations at 00:05 and 11:52 UT.
♆︎Neptune retrograde 2196· once this year
Retrograde 21 Jul – 26 Dec (23 weeks), 18°21' Aries back to 15°33' Aries; shadow from 29 Mar to 16 Apr 2197. Stations at 00:28 and 02:29 UT.
♇︎Pluto retrograde 2196· twice this year
Retrograde 19 Nov 2195 – 27 Apr (23 weeks), 18°26' Leo back to 16°02' Leo; shadow from 25 Jul 2195 to 22 Aug. Stations at 13:16 and 08:23 UT.
Retrograde 20 Nov – 29 Apr 2197 (23 weeks), 20°03' Leo back to 17°38' Leo; shadow from 26 Jul to 24 Aug 2197. Stations at 09:58 and 03:43 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.