Retrograde calendar 2025
In 2025 Mercury is retrograde three times: 15 Mar to 7 Apr (Aries back into Pisces), 18 Jul to 11 Aug (in Leo) and 9 Nov to 29 Nov (Sagittarius back into Scorpio).
| Planet | Turns retrograde | Turns direct | From, to | Shadow |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Uranus | Sun 1 Sep 2024, 15:17 | Thu 30 Jan, 16:22 | 27°15′ Taurus → 23°15′ Taurus | 16 May 2024 to 17 May |
| Jupiter | Wed 9 Oct 2024, 07:04 | Tue 4 Feb, 09:40 | 21°20′ Gemini → 11°16′ Gemini | 15 Jul 2024 to 30 Apr |
| Mars | Fri 6 Dec 2024, 23:33 | Mon 24 Feb, 01:59 | 6°10′ Leo → 17°01′ Cancer | 5 Oct 2024 to 2 May |
| Venus | Sun 2 Mar, 00:36 | Sun 13 Apr, 01:02 | 10°50′ Aries → 24°37′ Pisces | 28 Jan to 16 May |
| Mercury | Sat 15 Mar, 06:46 | Mon 7 Apr, 11:07 | 9°35′ Aries → 26°49′ Pisces | 1 Mar to 26 Apr |
| Pluto | Sun 4 May, 15:27 | Tue 14 Oct, 02:52 | 3°49′ Aquarius → 1°22′ Aquarius | 10 Jan to 4 Feb 2026 |
| Neptune | Fri 4 Jul, 21:33 | Wed 10 Dec, 12:23 | 2°10′ Aries → 29°22′ Pisces | 13 Mar to 31 Mar 2026 |
| Saturn | Sun 13 Jul, 04:07 | Fri 28 Nov, 03:51 | 1°55′ Aries → 25°09′ Pisces | 6 Apr to 2 Mar 2026 |
| Mercury | Fri 18 Jul, 04:45 | Mon 11 Aug, 07:29 | 15°34′ Leo → 4°15′ Leo | 30 Jun to 25 Aug |
| Uranus | Sat 6 Sep, 04:51 | Wed 4 Feb 2026, 02:33 | 1°27′ Gemini → 27°27′ Taurus | 20 May to 21 May 2026 |
| Mercury | Sun 9 Nov, 19:01 | Sat 29 Nov, 17:38 | 6°51′ Sagittarius → 20°42′ Scorpio | 21 Oct to 17 Dec |
| Jupiter | Tue 11 Nov, 16:41 | Wed 11 Mar 2026, 03:29 | 25°09′ Cancer → 15°05′ Cancer | 17 Aug to 6 Jun 2026 |
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.