Retrograde tracker
Which planet is retrograde right now, at what degree, and when it turns direct. Station dates with times. No account.
Turns retrograde: the planet starts to appear to move backwards. Turns direct: it moves forwards again. All times are in UTC.
- Jupiter118 days♊︎ Gemini 16°22′♊︎ Gemini 6°19′
- Saturn140 days♏︎ Scorpio 11°31′♏︎ Scorpio 4°49′
- Mercury22 days♓︎ Pisces 19°52′♓︎ Pisces 5°37′
- Pluto161 days♑︎ Capricorn 11°35′♑︎ Capricorn 8°59′
- Neptune159 days♓︎ Pisces 5°22′♓︎ Pisces 2°34′
- Mercury24 days♋︎ Cancer 23°06′♋︎ Cancer 13°21′
- Uranus153 days♈︎ Aries 12°31′♈︎ Aries 8°35′
- Mercury20 days♏︎ Scorpio 18°23′♏︎ Scorpio 2°29′
- Jupiter119 days♋︎ Cancer 20°30′♋︎ Cancer 10°26′
- Venus41 days♑︎ Capricorn 28°58′♑︎ Capricorn 13°33′
Retrograde motion is apparent, not actual: as Earth overtakes a planet in its faster orbit, the planet appears to move backwards against the stars for a while. This page states dates, times and degrees, and nothing else. A station date says nothing about anyone's week, and it is not pretended otherwise here.
Mercury retrograde: 23 Feb – 17 Mar; 26 Jun – 20 Jul; 21 Oct – 10 Nov
Venus retrograde: 21 Dec – 31 Jan 2014
Mars: no retrograde period this year
Jupiter retrograde: 4 Oct 2012 – 30 Jan; 7 Nov – 6 Mar 2014
Saturn retrograde: 18 Feb – 8 Jul
Uranus retrograde: 17 Jul – 17 Dec
Neptune retrograde: 7 Jun – 13 Nov
Pluto retrograde: 12 Apr – 20 Sept
One row per body. The thin line is the year's course; the thick coloured band marks the days it ran retrograde. Dates are UTC.
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