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 1795· 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 10 Mar – 02 Apr (3 weeks), 4°14' Aries back to 21°19' Pisces; shadow from 24 Feb to 21 Apr. Stations at 03:14 and 06:10 UT.
Retrograde 12 Jul – 06 Aug (3 weeks), 9°59' Leo back to 28°48' Cancer; shadow from 25 Jun to 20 Aug. Stations at 22:27 and 01:46 UT.
Retrograde 04 Nov – 24 Nov (3 weeks), 1°37' Sagittarius back to 15°28' Scorpio; shadow from 16 Oct to 12 Dec. Stations at 17:18 and 16:44 UT.
♀︎Venus retrograde 1795· once this year
Retrograde 12 Dec 1794 – 22 Jan (6 weeks), 19°32' Capricorn back to 4°10' Capricorn; shadow from 10 Nov 1794 to 23 Feb. Stations at 13:02 and 10:53 UT.
♂︎Mars retrograde 1795· not retrograde this year
Mars holds a straight course through 1795; 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 1795· once this year
Retrograde 25 May – 23 Sep (17 weeks), 7°22' Aquarius back to 27°32' Capricorn; shadow from 01 Mar to 16 Dec. Stations at 21:28 and 15:03 UT.
♄︎Saturn retrograde 1795· twice this year
Retrograde 11 Sep 1794 – 23 Jan (19 weeks), 29°39' Taurus back to 22°43' Taurus; shadow from 07 Jun 1794 to 27 Apr. Stations at 06:54 and 16:49 UT.
Retrograde 25 Sep – 06 Feb 1796 (19 weeks), 13°43' Gemini back to 6°45' Gemini; shadow from 22 Jun to 10 May 1796. Stations at 20:36 and 19:31 UT.
♅︎Uranus retrograde 1795· twice this year
Retrograde 08 Dec 1794 – 06 May (21 weeks), 3°14' Virgo back to 29°05' Leo; shadow from 25 Aug 1794 to 21 Aug. Stations at 10:34 and 14:56 UT.
Retrograde 13 Dec – 10 May 1796 (21 weeks), 8°00' Virgo back to 3°51' Virgo; shadow from 30 Aug to 25 Aug 1796. Stations at 09:58 and 16:47 UT.
♆︎Neptune retrograde 1795· once this year
Retrograde 06 Feb – 15 Jul (23 weeks), 6°22' Scorpio back to 3°35' Scorpio; shadow from 18 Oct 1794 to 05 Nov. Stations at 04:19 and 11:18 UT.
♇︎Pluto retrograde 1795· once this year
Retrograde 28 May – 08 Nov (23 weeks), 27°45' Aquarius back to 25°28' Aquarius; shadow from 31 Jan to 04 Mar 1796. Stations at 15:17 and 19:32 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.