Retrograde calendar 2024
In 2024 Mercury is retrograde four times: 13 Dec 2023 to 2 Jan (Capricorn back into Sagittarius), 1 Apr to 25 Apr (in Aries), 5 Aug to 28 Aug (Virgo back into Leo) and 26 Nov to 15 Dec (in Sagittarius).
| Planet | Turns retrograde | Turns direct | From, to | Shadow |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Uranus | Tue 29 Aug 2023, 02:38 | Sat 27 Jan, 07:35 | 23°04′ Taurus → 19°05′ Taurus | 12 May 2023 to 12 May |
| Jupiter | Mon 4 Sep 2023, 14:10 | Sun 31 Dec 2023, 02:40 | 15°34′ Taurus → 5°34′ Taurus | 11 Jun 2023 to 23 Mar |
| Mercury | Wed 13 Dec 2023, 07:09 | Tue 2 Jan, 03:07 | 8°29′ Capricorn → 22°10′ Sagittarius | 25 Nov 2023 to 21 Jan |
| Mercury | Mon 1 Apr, 22:14 | Thu 25 Apr, 12:54 | 27°13′ Aries → 15°58′ Aries | 19 Mar to 13 May |
| Pluto | Thu 2 May, 17:47 | Sat 12 Oct, 00:31 | 2°06′ Aquarius → 29°38′ Capricorn | 9 Jan to 2 Feb 2025 |
| Saturn | Sat 29 Jun, 19:06 | Fri 15 Nov, 14:20 | 19°25′ Pisces → 12°41′ Pisces | 24 Mar to 18 Feb 2025 |
| Neptune | Tue 2 Jul, 10:40 | Sat 7 Dec, 23:42 | 29°55′ Pisces → 27°07′ Pisces | 11 Mar to 28 Mar 2025 |
| Mercury | Mon 5 Aug, 04:56 | Wed 28 Aug, 21:13 | 4°06′ Virgo → 21°24′ Leo | 17 Jul to 11 Sep |
| Uranus | Sun 1 Sep, 15:17 | Thu 30 Jan 2025, 16:22 | 27°15′ Taurus → 23°15′ Taurus | 16 May to 17 May 2025 |
| Jupiter | Wed 9 Oct, 07:04 | Tue 4 Feb 2025, 09:40 | 21°20′ Gemini → 11°16′ Gemini | 15 Jul to 30 Apr 2025 |
| Mercury | Tue 26 Nov, 02:42 | Sun 15 Dec, 20:56 | 22°40′ Sagittarius → 6°24′ Sagittarius | 7 Nov to 3 Jan 2025 |
| Mars | Fri 6 Dec, 23:33 | Mon 24 Feb 2025, 01:59 | 6°10′ Leo → 17°01′ Cancer | 5 Oct to 2 May 2025 |
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.