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 1793· 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 23 Dec 1792 – 12 Jan (3 weeks), 19°08' Capricorn back to 2°54' Capricorn; shadow from 06 Dec 1792 to 01 Feb. Stations at 08:42 and 11:27 UT.
Retrograde 15 Apr – 08 May (3 weeks), 10°05' Taurus back to 0°10' Taurus; shadow from 01 Apr to 25 May. Stations at 00:48 and 19:38 UT.
Retrograde 17 Aug – 09 Sep (3 weeks), 16°26' Virgo back to 2°41' Virgo; shadow from 28 Jul to 24 Sep. Stations at 15:17 and 17:44 UT.
Retrograde 07 Dec – 27 Dec (3 weeks), 3°16' Capricorn back to 16°58' Sagittarius; shadow from 19 Nov to 15 Jan 1794. Stations at 06:09 and 01:45 UT.
♀︎Venus retrograde 1793· once this year
Retrograde 06 May – 18 Jun (6 weeks), 15°13' Gemini back to 28°43' Taurus; shadow from 03 Apr to 22 Jul. Stations at 13:11 and 12:57 UT.
♂︎Mars retrograde 1793· not retrograde this year
Mars holds a straight course through 1793; no spell, no shadow, no station to mark.
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 1793· once this year
Retrograde 17 Mar – 19 Jul (18 weeks), 1°53' Sagittarius back to 22°01' Scorpio; shadow from 21 Dec 1792 to 14 Oct. Stations at 16:14 and 00:22 UT.
♄︎Saturn retrograde 1793· once this year
Retrograde 27 Aug – 09 Jan 1794 (19 weeks), 15°48' Taurus back to 8°52' Taurus; shadow from 23 May to 13 Apr 1794. Stations at 19:29 and 19:51 UT.
♅︎Uranus retrograde 1793· twice this year
Retrograde 28 Nov 1792 – 26 Apr (21 weeks), 23°43' Leo back to 19°34' Leo; shadow from 15 Aug 1792 to 11 Aug. Stations at 10:12 and 11:55 UT.
Retrograde 03 Dec – 01 May 1794 (21 weeks), 28°28' Leo back to 24°19' Leo; shadow from 20 Aug to 16 Aug 1794. Stations at 10:02 and 13:04 UT.
♆︎Neptune retrograde 1793· once this year
Retrograde 01 Feb – 10 Jul (23 weeks), 2°00' Scorpio back to 29°14' Libra; shadow from 13 Oct 1792 to 31 Oct. Stations at 08:22 and 12:11 UT.
♇︎Pluto retrograde 1793· once this year
Retrograde 25 May – 05 Nov (23 weeks), 24°57' Aquarius back to 22°39' Aquarius; shadow from 28 Jan to 01 Mar 1794. Stations at 11:23 and 07:08 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.