Retrograde Calendar
About Retrograde Calendar
Station times, degrees, durations, and shadow periods for every retrograde of the year — computed astronomy, not folklore.
No planet ever backs up; the loop is a trick of parallax as Earth laps a slower world or is lapped by a faster one. The tradition reads it accordingly. A changes a planet's gear, not its meaning; matters under its sponsorship come round again for review, revision, repair. The days that carry real weight are the , when a planet stands still to turn. Mark those dates, not the whole stretch.
☿︎Mercury retrograde 1792· four times this year
The classic season of crossed wires; three or four short spells a year. Re-read, re-confirm, back up the files; let the signature wait for the turning day if it can.
Retrograde 09 Jan – 30 Jan (3 weeks), 5°07' Aquarius back to 19°07' Capricorn; shadow from 24 Dec 1791 to 19 Feb. Stations at 10:49 and 02:02 UT.
Retrograde 04 May – 27 May (3 weeks), 29°14' Taurus back to 20°23' Taurus; shadow from 19 Apr to 12 Jun. Stations at 02:31 and 22:48 UT.
Retrograde 03 Sep – 26 Sep (3 weeks), 3°34' Libra back to 18°55' Virgo; shadow from 14 Aug to 11 Oct. Stations at 23:38 and 07:28 UT.
Retrograde 23 Dec – 12 Jan 1793 (3 weeks), 19°08' Capricorn back to 2°54' Capricorn; shadow from 06 Dec to 01 Feb 1793. Stations at 08:42 and 11:27 UT.
♀︎Venus retrograde 1792· not retrograde this year
Venus holds a straight course through 1792; no spell, no shadow, no station to mark.
♂︎Mars retrograde 1792· once this year
Retrograde 05 Feb – 26 Apr (12 weeks), 5°19' Libra back to 16°12' Virgo; shadow from 01 Dec 1791 to 30 Jun. Stations at 23:34 and 12:59 UT.
The slow planets
Jupiter outward, a planet spends four to five months of every year retrograde; that is ordinary weather, not an event. The slower the planet, the longer the spell and the less it asks of any single day. Mark the stations; the rest is season.
♃︎Jupiter retrograde 1792· once this year
Retrograde 15 Feb – 17 Jun (18 weeks), 1°26' Scorpio back to 21°32' Libra; shadow from 20 Nov 1791 to 14 Sep. Stations at 05:35 and 16:15 UT.
♄︎Saturn retrograde 1792· once this year
Retrograde 13 Aug – 27 Dec (19 weeks), 2°11' Taurus back to 25°18' Aries; shadow from 08 May to 31 Mar 1793. Stations at 11:24 and 06:11 UT.
♅︎Uranus retrograde 1792· twice this year
Retrograde 24 Nov 1791 – 21 Apr (21 weeks), 18°59' Leo back to 14°50' Leo; shadow from 11 Aug 1791 to 05 Aug. Stations at 10:06 and 11:32 UT.
Retrograde 28 Nov – 26 Apr 1793 (21 weeks), 23°43' Leo back to 19°34' Leo; shadow from 15 Aug to 11 Aug 1793. Stations at 10:12 and 11:55 UT.
♆︎Neptune retrograde 1792· once this year
Retrograde 30 Jan – 08 Jul (23 weeks), 29°49' Libra back to 27°03' Libra; shadow from 11 Oct 1791 to 29 Oct. Stations at 21:41 and 01:27 UT.
♇︎Pluto retrograde 1792· once this year
Retrograde 23 May – 03 Nov (23 weeks), 23°32' Aquarius back to 21°14' Aquarius; shadow from 27 Jan to 27 Feb 1793. Stations at 19:18 and 13:51 UT.
All times Universal Time (UT), from the same engine as the sky. Spells that open or close beyond the calendar year are listed with their own year on the date; the window belongs to both years and appears on both pages. On doctrine: a retrograde conditions a planet's expression; it does not doom it. The working tradition keeps no list of forbidden days, a spell that repeats a is one process rather than three misfortunes, and the shadow is context, not an extension of the sentence. The stations are the moments that matter; what a planet touches while standing still, it means.