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 2198· 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 10 Feb – 04 Mar (3 weeks), 7°33' Pisces back to 22°26' Aquarius; shadow from 26 Jan to 24 Mar. Stations at 18:02 and 11:52 UT.
Retrograde 11 Jun – 05 Jul (3 weeks), 7°43' Cancer back to 28°53' Gemini; shadow from 27 May to 20 Jul. Stations at 14:25 and 15:33 UT.
Retrograde 08 Oct – 29 Oct (3 weeks), 6°32' Scorpio back to 20°56' Libra; shadow from 18 Sep to 14 Nov. Stations at 14:26 and 15:14 UT.
♀︎Venus retrograde 2198· not retrograde this year
Venus holds a straight course through 2198; no spell, no shadow, no station to mark.
♂︎Mars retrograde 2198· once this year
Retrograde 29 Nov 2197 – 14 Feb (11 weeks), 27°50' Cancer back to 9°00' Cancer; shadow from 28 Sep 2197 to 22 Apr. 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 2198· once this year
Retrograde 19 May – 17 Sep (17 weeks), 1°50' Aquarius back to 22°00' Capricorn; shadow from 22 Feb to 11 Dec. Stations at 09:55 and 17:48 UT.
♄︎Saturn retrograde 2198· once this year
Retrograde 29 May – 17 Oct (20 weeks), 19°42' Aquarius back to 13°04' Aquarius; shadow from 20 Feb to 21 Jan 2199. Stations at 15:07 and 06:03 UT.
♅︎Uranus retrograde 2198· twice this year
Retrograde 25 Sep 2197 – 22 Feb (21 weeks), 20°50' Gemini back to 16°47' Gemini; shadow from 09 Jun 2197 to 09 Jun. Stations at 15:52 and 23:50 UT.
Retrograde 30 Sep – 27 Feb 2199 (21 weeks), 25°11' Gemini back to 21°07' Gemini; shadow from 14 Jun to 14 Jun 2199. Stations at 08:29 and 12:21 UT.
♆︎Neptune retrograde 2198· once this year
Retrograde 26 Jul – 31 Dec (23 weeks), 22°51' Aries back to 20°02' Aries; shadow from 03 Apr to 21 Apr 2199. Stations at 02:15 and 00:23 UT.
♇︎Pluto retrograde 2198· twice this year
Retrograde 22 Nov 2197 – 30 Apr (23 weeks), 21°41' Leo back to 19°15' Leo; shadow from 28 Jul 2197 to 25 Aug. Stations at 07:11 and 23:56 UT.
Retrograde 24 Nov – 02 May 2199 (23 weeks), 23°21' Leo back to 20°54' Leo; shadow from 31 Jul to 27 Aug 2199. Stations at 06:25 and 17:49 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.