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Retrograde dates for 2022

These are the exact dates every planet from Mercury to Pluto turns retrograde and turns direct in 2022, in Universal Time. Mercury is retrograde from 14 January 2022 to 4 February 2022, and from 10 May 2022 to 3 June 2022, and from 10 September 2022 to 2 October 2022, and from 29 December 2022 to 18 January 2023.

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Mercury retrograde in 2022

Mercury is retrograde in 4 periods touching 2022.

Venus retrograde in 2022

Venus is retrograde in 1 period touching 2022.

Mars retrograde in 2022

Mars is retrograde in 1 period touching 2022.

Jupiter retrograde in 2022

Jupiter is retrograde in 1 period touching 2022.

Saturn retrograde in 2022

Saturn is retrograde in 1 period touching 2022.

Uranus retrograde in 2022

Uranus is retrograde in 2 periods touching 2022.

Neptune retrograde in 2022

Neptune is retrograde in 1 period touching 2022.

Pluto retrograde in 2022

Pluto is retrograde in 1 period touching 2022.

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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