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 1802· 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 03 Mar – 26 Mar (3 weeks), 27°03' Pisces back to 13°33' Pisces; shadow from 17 Feb to 14 Apr. Stations at 13:21 and 09:43 UT.
Retrograde 05 Jul – 30 Jul (3 weeks), 1°55' Leo back to 21°21' Cancer; shadow from 18 Jun to 13 Aug. Stations at 19:37 and 00:17 UT.
Retrograde 29 Oct – 18 Nov (3 weeks), 24°58' Scorpio back to 8°55' Scorpio; shadow from 09 Oct to 05 Dec. Stations at 10:06 and 13:08 UT.
♀︎Venus retrograde 1802· once this year
Retrograde 11 Dec – 20 Jan 1803 (6 weeks), 17°03' Capricorn back to 1°41' Capricorn; shadow from 09 Nov to 21 Feb 1803. Stations at 01:25 and 22:47 UT.
♂︎Mars retrograde 1802· once this year
Retrograde 15 Nov – 31 Jan 1803 (11 weeks), 12°28' Cancer back to 23°56' Gemini; shadow from 16 Sep to 06 Apr 1803. Stations at 12:12 and 09:49 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 1802· once this year
Retrograde 22 Dec 1801 – 22 Apr (17 weeks), 5°43' Virgo back to 25°42' Leo; shadow from 26 Sep 1801 to 21 Jul. Stations at 00:27 and 15:38 UT.
♄︎Saturn retrograde 1802· twice this year
Retrograde 18 Dec 1801 – 03 May (19 weeks), 7°31' Virgo back to 0°38' Virgo; shadow from 15 Sep 1801 to 08 Aug. Stations at 15:22 and 03:19 UT.
Retrograde 31 Dec – 17 May 1803 (19 weeks), 20°42' Virgo back to 13°52' Virgo; shadow from 28 Sep to 22 Aug 1803. Stations at 18:09 and 03:28 UT.
♅︎Uranus retrograde 1802· once this year
Retrograde 11 Jan – 10 Jun (21 weeks), 6°41' Libra back to 2°33' Libra; shadow from 29 Sep 1801 to 24 Sep. Stations at 10:13 and 13:50 UT.
♆︎Neptune retrograde 1802· once this year
Retrograde 22 Feb – 31 Jul (23 weeks), 21°35' Scorpio back to 18°49' Scorpio; shadow from 03 Nov 1801 to 21 Nov. Stations at 04:32 and 22:03 UT.
♇︎Pluto retrograde 1802· once this year
Retrograde 07 Jun – 19 Nov (24 weeks), 7°06' Pisces back to 4°53' Pisces; shadow from 08 Feb to 16 Mar 1803. Stations at 16:10 and 06:57 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.