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Retrograde dates for 2017

These are the exact dates every planet from Mercury to Pluto turns retrograde and turns direct in 2017, in Universal Time. Mercury is retrograde from 19 December 2016 to 8 January 2017, and from 9 April 2017 to 3 May 2017, and from 13 August 2017 to 5 September 2017, and from 3 December 2017 to 23 December 2017.

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Mercury retrograde in 2017

Mercury is retrograde in 4 periods touching 2017.

Venus retrograde in 2017

Venus is retrograde in 1 period touching 2017.

Mars retrograde in 2017

Mars does not turn retrograde or direct in 2017.

Jupiter retrograde in 2017

Jupiter is retrograde in 1 period touching 2017.

Saturn retrograde in 2017

Saturn is retrograde in 1 period touching 2017.

Uranus retrograde in 2017

Uranus is retrograde in 1 period touching 2017.

Neptune retrograde in 2017

Neptune is retrograde in 1 period touching 2017.

Pluto retrograde in 2017

Pluto is retrograde in 1 period touching 2017.

What “retrograde” means here

A planet is retrograde when its ecliptic longitude, seen from the Earth, is decreasing: it appears to move backwards against the stars. A station is the moment it appears to stop before changing direction. The Sun and the Moon never turn retrograde. Each date above is a station computed to the minute.

What these dates are worth

Every time on this page is computed by the engine that casts the charts, not copied from a table. All times are Universal Time (UT), so a date can fall a day either side of your own clock: add your time zone's offset to get local time. The Moon is checked against NASA and JPL values and the planets against published station and ingress dates; the table of what Umbriel checks, and how close it comes is public. Umbriel is for reflection and self-understanding, not prediction.

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