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Retrograde calendar 2020

In 2020 Mercury is retrograde three times: 17 Feb to 10 Mar (Pisces back into Aquarius), 18 Jun to 12 Jul (in Cancer) and 14 Oct to 3 Nov (Scorpio back into Libra).

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec☿︎ Mercury♀︎ Venus♂︎ Mars♃︎ Jupiter♄︎ Saturn♅︎ Uranus♆︎ Neptune♇︎ Pluto
retrograde shadow, before and after
Retrograde periods overlapping 2020
PlanetTurns retrogradeTurns directFrom, toShadow
MercuryMon 17 Feb, 00:54Tue 10 Mar, 03:4812°53′ Pisces → 28°12′ Aquarius2 Feb to 30 Mar
PlutoSat 25 Apr, 18:53Sun 4 Oct, 13:3224°59′ Capricorn → 22°29′ Capricorn4 Jan to 25 Jan 2021
SaturnMon 11 May, 04:09Tue 29 Sep, 05:111°57′ Aquarius → 25°20′ Capricorn3 Feb to 3 Jan 2021
VenusWed 13 May, 06:45Thu 25 Jun, 06:4821°50′ Gemini → 5°20′ Gemini9 Apr to 29 Jul
JupiterThu 14 May, 14:32Sun 13 Sep, 00:4027°14′ Capricorn → 17°24′ Capricorn18 Feb to 6 Dec
MercuryThu 18 Jun, 04:58Sun 12 Jul, 08:2614°45′ Cancer → 5°29′ Cancer2 Jun to 26 Jul
NeptuneTue 23 Jun, 04:32Sun 29 Nov, 00:3620°57′ Pisces → 18°09′ Pisces2 Mar to 19 Mar 2021
UranusSat 15 Aug, 14:26Thu 14 Jan 2021, 08:3510°41′ Taurus → 6°43′ Taurus28 Apr to 1 May 2021
MarsWed 9 Sep, 22:22Sat 14 Nov, 00:3528°08′ Aries → 15°13′ Aries25 Jul to 2 Jan 2021
MercuryWed 14 Oct, 01:05Tue 3 Nov, 17:4911°40′ Scorpio → 25°54′ Libra23 Sep to 19 Nov

Tropical zodiac · geocentric, apparent positions · stations from the Swiss Ephemeris, checked against NASA JPL DE440 · times in UTC

Go deeper: stations, shadows and why sites disagree by a day

Retrograde. Seen from Earth, a planet sometimes appears to stop and move backwards through the zodiac. Nothing reverses in space: Earth is overtaking the planet, or being overtaken by it. The moments it stops are its stations; the time given is when its speed along the zodiac passes through zero.

Shadow. Before a retrograde, the planet crosses the degree where it will later turn direct; after it, it passes the degree where it turned retrograde. Between those two crossings it goes over the same stretch of sky three times. That span is the shadow.

A day’s difference. A station at 23:30 in London falls on the next day in Berlin. Calendars printed for one time zone are a day off for others; this page uses yours. Slow planets also barely move near a station, so sources that round differently can disagree by an hour for Jupiter to Pluto.