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 2197· 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 27 Feb – 21 Mar (3 weeks), 24°07' Pisces back to 9°58' Pisces; shadow from 12 Feb to 10 Apr. Stations at 06:40 and 18:24 UT.
Retrograde 30 Jun – 24 Jul (3 weeks), 27°39' Cancer back to 17°47' Cancer; shadow from 13 Jun to 08 Aug. Stations at 14:29 and 19:47 UT.
Retrograde 25 Oct – 14 Nov (3 weeks), 22°36' Scorpio back to 6°40' Scorpio; shadow from 05 Oct to 01 Dec. Stations at 07:20 and 17:00 UT.
♀︎Venus retrograde 2197· once this year
Retrograde 26 Oct – 06 Dec (6 weeks), 2°07' Sagittarius back to 16°42' Scorpio; shadow from 24 Sep to 07 Jan 2198. Stations at 14:20 and 20:56 UT.
♂︎Mars retrograde 2197· once this year
Retrograde 29 Nov – 14 Feb 2198 (11 weeks), 27°50' Cancer back to 9°00' Cancer; shadow from 28 Sep to 22 Apr 2198. Stations at 03:36 and 23:11 UT.
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 2197· once this year
Retrograde 14 Apr – 15 Aug (18 weeks), 28°50' Sagittarius back to 18°59' Sagittarius; shadow from 18 Jan to 09 Nov. Stations at 10:16 and 06:01 UT.
♄︎Saturn retrograde 2197· once this year
Retrograde 17 May – 05 Oct (20 weeks), 8°07' Aquarius back to 1°30' Aquarius; shadow from 08 Feb to 09 Jan 2198. Stations at 07:26 and 08:36 UT.
♅︎Uranus retrograde 2197· twice this year
Retrograde 21 Sep 2196 – 18 Feb (21 weeks), 16°32' Gemini back to 12°30' Gemini; shadow from 04 Jun 2196 to 05 Jun. Stations at 00:05 and 11:52 UT.
Retrograde 25 Sep – 22 Feb 2198 (21 weeks), 20°50' Gemini back to 16°47' Gemini; shadow from 09 Jun to 09 Jun 2198. Stations at 15:52 and 23:50 UT.
♆︎Neptune retrograde 2197· once this year
Retrograde 23 Jul – 28 Dec (23 weeks), 20°36' Aries back to 17°48' Aries; shadow from 01 Apr to 18 Apr 2198. Stations at 12:16 and 14:12 UT.
♇︎Pluto retrograde 2197· twice this year
Retrograde 20 Nov 2196 – 29 Apr (23 weeks), 20°03' Leo back to 17°38' Leo; shadow from 26 Jul 2196 to 24 Aug. Stations at 09:58 and 03:43 UT.
Retrograde 22 Nov – 30 Apr 2198 (23 weeks), 21°41' Leo back to 19°15' Leo; shadow from 28 Jul to 25 Aug 2198. Stations at 07:11 and 23:56 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.