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 1803· 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 14 Feb – 08 Mar (3 weeks), 10°16' Pisces back to 25°38' Aquarius; shadow from 31 Jan to 28 Mar. Stations at 19:24 and 23:14 UT.
Retrograde 17 Jun – 11 Jul (3 weeks), 12°16' Cancer back to 2°57' Cancer; shadow from 01 Jun to 25 Jul. Stations at 02:12 and 05:25 UT.
Retrograde 12 Oct – 02 Nov (3 weeks), 9°00' Scorpio back to 23°13' Libra; shadow from 22 Sep to 18 Nov. Stations at 19:42 and 11:42 UT.
♀︎Venus retrograde 1803· once this year
Retrograde 11 Dec 1802 – 20 Jan (6 weeks), 17°03' Capricorn back to 1°41' Capricorn; shadow from 09 Nov 1802 to 21 Feb. Stations at 01:25 and 22:47 UT.
♂︎Mars retrograde 1803· once this year
Retrograde 15 Nov 1802 – 31 Jan (11 weeks), 12°28' Cancer back to 23°56' Gemini; shadow from 16 Sep 1802 to 06 Apr. 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 1803· once this year
Retrograde 21 Jan – 24 May (18 weeks), 5°53' Libra back to 25°56' Virgo; shadow from 26 Oct 1802 to 21 Aug. Stations at 03:13 and 00:19 UT.
♄︎Saturn retrograde 1803· once this year
Retrograde 31 Dec 1802 – 17 May (19 weeks), 20°42' Virgo back to 13°52' Virgo; shadow from 28 Sep 1802 to 22 Aug. Stations at 18:09 and 03:28 UT.
♅︎Uranus retrograde 1803· once this year
Retrograde 16 Jan – 15 Jun (21 weeks), 11°27' Libra back to 7°19' Libra; shadow from 04 Oct 1802 to 29 Sep. Stations at 11:22 and 18:34 UT.
♆︎Neptune retrograde 1803· once this year
Retrograde 24 Feb – 03 Aug (23 weeks), 23°46' Scorpio back to 20°59' Scorpio; shadow from 05 Nov 1802 to 23 Nov. Stations at 13:49 and 08:44 UT.
♇︎Pluto retrograde 1803· once this year
Retrograde 09 Jun – 20 Nov (23 weeks), 8°23' Pisces back to 6°11' Pisces; shadow from 10 Feb to 17 Mar 1804. Stations at 07:29 and 18:13 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.