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 1794· three 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 27 Mar – 20 Apr (3 weeks), 21°47' Aries back to 10°22' Aries; shadow from 13 Mar to 08 May. Stations at 16:52 and 06:36 UT.
Retrograde 30 Jul – 23 Aug (3 weeks), 28°36' Leo back to 16°02' Leo; shadow from 12 Jul to 06 Sep. Stations at 23:35 and 17:12 UT.
Retrograde 21 Nov – 10 Dec (3 weeks), 17°26' Sagittarius back to 1°10' Sagittarius; shadow from 02 Nov to 28 Dec. Stations at 01:25 and 19:52 UT.
♀︎Venus retrograde 1794· once this year
Retrograde 12 Dec – 22 Jan 1795 (6 weeks), 19°32' Capricorn back to 4°10' Capricorn; shadow from 10 Nov to 23 Feb 1795. Stations at 13:02 and 10:53 UT.
♂︎Mars retrograde 1794· once this year
Retrograde 18 Mar – 03 Jun (11 weeks), 12°11' Scorpio back to 24°39' Libra; shadow from 14 Jan to 01 Aug. Stations at 10:47 and 12:19 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 1794· once this year
Retrograde 20 Apr – 20 Aug (17 weeks), 3°40' Capricorn back to 23°50' Sagittarius; shadow from 24 Jan to 14 Nov. Stations at 04:26 and 13:12 UT.
♄︎Saturn retrograde 1794· twice this year
Retrograde 27 Aug 1793 – 09 Jan (19 weeks), 15°48' Taurus back to 8°52' Taurus; shadow from 23 May 1793 to 13 Apr. Stations at 19:29 and 19:51 UT.
Retrograde 11 Sep – 23 Jan 1795 (19 weeks), 29°39' Taurus back to 22°43' Taurus; shadow from 07 Jun to 27 Apr 1795. Stations at 06:54 and 16:49 UT.
♅︎Uranus retrograde 1794· twice this year
Retrograde 03 Dec 1793 – 01 May (21 weeks), 28°28' Leo back to 24°19' Leo; shadow from 20 Aug 1793 to 16 Aug. Stations at 10:02 and 13:04 UT.
Retrograde 08 Dec – 06 May 1795 (21 weeks), 3°14' Virgo back to 29°05' Leo; shadow from 25 Aug to 21 Aug 1795. Stations at 10:34 and 14:56 UT.
♆︎Neptune retrograde 1794· once this year
Retrograde 03 Feb – 12 Jul (23 weeks), 4°11' Scorpio back to 1°24' Scorpio; shadow from 15 Oct 1793 to 03 Nov. Stations at 17:15 and 23:29 UT.
♇︎Pluto retrograde 1794· once this year
Retrograde 27 May – 07 Nov (23 weeks), 26°21' Aquarius back to 24°04' Aquarius; shadow from 29 Jan to 03 Mar 1795. Stations at 01:47 and 01:19 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.