Retrograde 2024. Saturn is about to go retrograde on june 29th, 2024, and neptune retrograde is set for july 2nd, 2024. Technically, mercury was wrapping up its retrograde when the year started on january 1.

Because mercury completes its orbit around the sun in only 88 days, the swift planet becomes retrograde three or four times in a calendar year, for about three weeks at a.  — the first mercury retrograde of 2024 spans from april 1 to 25.