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 1804· 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 29 Jan – 19 Feb (3 weeks), 23°52' Aquarius back to 8°25' Aquarius; shadow from 14 Jan to 11 Mar. Stations at 10:04 and 20:02 UT.
Retrograde 27 May – 20 Jun (3 weeks), 22°14' Gemini back to 13°37' Gemini; shadow from 12 May to 05 Jul. Stations at 19:57 and 19:45 UT.
Retrograde 24 Sep – 16 Oct (3 weeks), 22°49' Libra back to 7°27' Libra; shadow from 04 Sep to 31 Oct. Stations at 23:54 and 09:16 UT.
♀︎Venus retrograde 1804· once this year
Retrograde 13 Jul – 25 Aug (6 weeks), 19°47' Leo back to 3°22' Leo; shadow from 10 Jun to 28 Sep. Stations at 21:57 and 22:43 UT.
♂︎Mars retrograde 1804· once this year
Retrograde 20 Dec – 10 Mar 1805 (11 weeks), 19°06' Leo back to 29°39' Cancer; shadow from 16 Oct to 17 May 1805. Stations at 07:34 and 12:00 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 1804· once this year
Retrograde 20 Feb – 23 Jun (18 weeks), 5°48' Scorpio back to 25°54' Libra; shadow from 25 Nov 1803 to 20 Sep. Stations at 12:18 and 00:44 UT.
♄︎Saturn retrograde 1804· once this year
Retrograde 13 Jan – 29 May (20 weeks), 3°35' Libra back to 26°47' Virgo; shadow from 10 Oct 1803 to 04 Sep. Stations at 15:45 and 19:51 UT.
♅︎Uranus retrograde 1804· once this year
Retrograde 21 Jan – 19 Jun (21 weeks), 16°12' Libra back to 12°05' Libra; shadow from 09 Oct 1803 to 04 Oct. Stations at 10:02 and 21:10 UT.
♆︎Neptune retrograde 1804· once this year
Retrograde 27 Feb – 04 Aug (23 weeks), 25°57' Scorpio back to 23°10' Scorpio; shadow from 08 Nov 1803 to 25 Nov. Stations at 01:12 and 20:07 UT.
♇︎Pluto retrograde 1804· once this year
Retrograde 09 Jun – 21 Nov (23 weeks), 9°40' Pisces back to 7°27' Pisces; shadow from 11 Feb to 18 Mar 1805. Stations at 20:37 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.