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 1801· 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 20 Mar – 13 Apr (3 weeks), 14°20' Aries back to 2°16' Aries; shadow from 06 Mar to 01 May. Stations at 20:08 and 05:36 UT.
Retrograde 24 Jul – 16 Aug (3 weeks), 20°53' Leo back to 8°54' Leo; shadow from 05 Jul to 31 Aug. Stations at 00:58 and 23:54 UT.
Retrograde 14 Nov – 04 Dec (3 weeks), 10°49' Sagittarius back to 24°36' Scorpio; shadow from 26 Oct to 22 Dec. Stations at 19:44 and 15:28 UT.
♀︎Venus retrograde 1801· once this year
Retrograde 05 May – 17 Jun (6 weeks), 13°04' Gemini back to 26°34' Taurus; shadow from 01 Apr to 21 Jul. Stations at 05:11 and 04:28 UT.
♂︎Mars retrograde 1801· not retrograde this year
Mars holds a straight course through 1801; 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 1801· twice this year
Retrograde 21 Nov 1800 – 21 Mar (17 weeks), 4°27' Leo back to 24°23' Cancer; shadow from 26 Aug 1800 to 17 Jun. Stations at 02:42 and 04:07 UT.
Retrograde 22 Dec – 22 Apr 1802 (17 weeks), 5°43' Virgo back to 25°42' Leo; shadow from 26 Sep to 21 Jul 1802. Stations at 00:27 and 15:38 UT.
♄︎Saturn retrograde 1801· twice this year
Retrograde 05 Dec 1800 – 18 Apr (19 weeks), 24°01' Leo back to 17°07' Leo; shadow from 01 Sep 1800 to 24 Jul. Stations at 04:26 and 21:46 UT.
Retrograde 18 Dec – 03 May 1802 (19 weeks), 7°31' Virgo back to 0°38' Virgo; shadow from 15 Sep to 08 Aug 1802. Stations at 15:22 and 03:19 UT.
♅︎Uranus retrograde 1801· once this year
Retrograde 06 Jan – 05 Jun (21 weeks), 1°54' Libra back to 27°46' Virgo; shadow from 24 Sep 1800 to 19 Sep. Stations at 11:10 and 11:13 UT.
♆︎Neptune retrograde 1801· once this year
Retrograde 19 Feb – 29 Jul (23 weeks), 19°24' Scorpio back to 16°38' Scorpio; shadow from 31 Oct 1800 to 19 Nov. Stations at 17:34 and 11:32 UT.
♇︎Pluto retrograde 1801· once this year
Retrograde 06 Jun – 17 Nov (23 weeks), 5°48' Pisces back to 3°35' Pisces; shadow from 07 Feb to 14 Mar 1802. Stations at 03:58 and 15:45 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.