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 2199· 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 25 Jan – 15 Feb (3 weeks), 21°17' Aquarius back to 5°32' Aquarius; shadow from 09 Jan to 07 Mar. Stations at 11:48 and 12:18 UT.
Retrograde 23 May – 16 Jun (3 weeks), 17°41' Gemini back to 9°07' Gemini; shadow from 08 May to 01 Jul. Stations at 04:31 and 01:36 UT.
Retrograde 21 Sep – 13 Oct (3 weeks), 20°11' Libra back to 5°06' Libra; shadow from 01 Sep to 28 Oct. Stations at 16:01 and 11:19 UT.
♀︎Venus retrograde 2199· once this year
Retrograde 02 Jun – 15 Jul (6 weeks), 11°20' Cancer back to 24°49' Gemini; shadow from 30 Apr to 18 Aug. Stations at 21:56 and 23:41 UT.
♂︎Mars retrograde 2199· not retrograde this year
Mars holds a straight course through 2199; 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 2199· once this year
Retrograde 25 Jun – 23 Oct (17 weeks), 6°54' Pisces back to 27°02' Aquarius; shadow from 01 Apr to 13 Jan 2200. Stations at 14:07 and 01:37 UT.
♄︎Saturn retrograde 2199· once this year
Retrograde 11 Jun – 29 Oct (20 weeks), 1°28' Pisces back to 24°48' Aquarius; shadow from 05 Mar to 01 Feb 2200. Stations at 05:30 and 06:02 UT.
♅︎Uranus retrograde 2199· twice this year
Retrograde 30 Sep 2198 – 27 Feb (21 weeks), 25°11' Gemini back to 21°07' Gemini; shadow from 14 Jun 2198 to 14 Jun. Stations at 08:29 and 12:21 UT.
Retrograde 05 Oct – 04 Mar 2200 (21 weeks), 29°33' Gemini back to 25°29' Gemini; shadow from 19 Jun to 18 Jun 2200. Stations at 02:18 and 01:57 UT.
♆︎Neptune retrograde 2199· once this year
Retrograde 28 Jul – 02 Jan 2200 (23 weeks), 25°06' Aries back to 22°17' Aries; shadow from 06 Apr to 23 Apr 2200. Stations at 14:14 and 11:27 UT.
♇︎Pluto retrograde 2199· twice this year
Retrograde 24 Nov 2198 – 02 May (23 weeks), 23°21' Leo back to 20°54' Leo; shadow from 31 Jul 2198 to 27 Aug. Stations at 06:25 and 17:49 UT.
Retrograde 26 Nov – 04 May 2200 (23 weeks), 25°02' Leo back to 22°34' Leo; shadow from 02 Aug to 29 Aug 2200. Stations at 05:42 and 14:33 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.