The answer today
Yes. Uranus is retrograde right now. It stationed on September 10, 2026 at 5°42' Gemini and turns direct on February 8, 2027 at 1°41' Gemini — 137 days from today.
Every upcoming period
| Stations retrograde | Turns direct | In | Length |
|---|---|---|---|
| September 10, 2026 | February 8, 2027 | Gemini | 151 days |
| September 15, 2027 | February 12, 2028 | Gemini | 151 days |
| September 19, 2028 | February 16, 2029 | Gemini | 150 days |
| September 23, 2029 | February 20, 2030 | Gemini | 150 days |
| September 28, 2030 | February 25, 2031 | Gemini | 150 days |
| October 3, 2031 | March 1, 2032 | Gemini | 150 days |
| October 6, 2032 | March 5, 2033 | Cancer | 150 days |
What retrograde motion actually is
Uranus does not reverse. Earth and Uranus orbit the Sun at different speeds, and when the geometry between them changes in a particular way, Uranus appears from here to move backward against the background stars for a stretch of weeks. Its actual motion never changes.
The effect is entirely a matter of viewing angle, which is why every planet does it and why the periods are perfectly predictable centuries in advance.
How much of the time it is retrograde
Over the published range Uranus is retrograde for 1505 days out of 3476, which is 43% of the time. The periods last 150 days on average, and there are 10 of them in the range.
That proportion is worth knowing before treating a retrograde as an unusual condition. For the outer planets it is close to half the year, every year, which makes it the normal state of affairs rather than an event — and any reading that treats it as an interruption is describing something that is true more often than not.
What the tradition makes of it
The convention is that a retrograde planet's significations turn inward and backward, so the period suits review rather than launch. For Uranus that means the areas it governs are better revisited than committed to.
Stated that narrowly it is a useful prompt. Stated as a general curse on the weeks concerned it stops being a reading and becomes a superstition, and the difference is worth keeping.
The one genuinely practical observation is about the station rather than the period. A planet at a station is moving almost not at all in longitude, so it sits on the same degree for days at a time — and if that degree happens to touch something in your own chart, the contact is unusually long. That is a real feature of the geometry rather than a piece of lore, and it applies equally to the direct station at the far end.
Questions people ask about this
Is Uranus retrograde today?
Yes — until February 8, 2027
How often does Uranus go retrograde?
The table above lists every upcoming period with its length. Inner planets do it a few times a year at most; the outer ones spend months of every year retrograde.
Does Uranus retrograde cause problems?
No. It is a line-of-sight effect produced by Earth's own motion. The traditional reading treats it as a period better suited to review than to launch, which is a rule of thumb, not a mechanism.