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 1807· 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 31 Mar – 24 Apr (3 weeks), 24°40' Aries back to 13°29' Aries; shadow from 17 Mar to 12 May. Stations at 18:25 and 09:30 UT.
Retrograde 04 Aug – 27 Aug (3 weeks), 1°31' Virgo back to 18°46' Leo; shadow from 15 Jul to 10 Sep. Stations at 00:41 and 16:18 UT.
Retrograde 24 Nov – 14 Dec (3 weeks), 20°00' Sagittarius back to 3°44' Sagittarius; shadow from 06 Nov to 01 Jan 1808. Stations at 20:48 and 15:09 UT.
♀︎Venus retrograde 1807· once this year
Retrograde 24 Sep – 05 Nov (6 weeks), 29°17' Libra back to 13°36' Libra; shadow from 23 Aug to 07 Dec. Stations at 22:01 and 18:18 UT.
♂︎Mars retrograde 1807· once this year
Retrograde 23 Jan – 14 Apr (12 weeks), 22°24' Virgo back to 3°02' Virgo; shadow from 18 Nov 1806 to 20 Jun. Stations at 20:49 and 19:36 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 1807· once this year
Retrograde 31 May – 29 Sep (17 weeks), 12°10' Aquarius back to 2°19' Aquarius; shadow from 07 Mar to 21 Dec. Stations at 20:43 and 09:45 UT.
♄︎Saturn retrograde 1807· once this year
Retrograde 18 Feb – 08 Jul (20 weeks), 10°27' Scorpio back to 3°45' Scorpio; shadow from 15 Nov 1806 to 14 Oct. Stations at 17:52 and 06:48 UT.
♅︎Uranus retrograde 1807· once this year
Retrograde 04 Feb – 05 Jul (22 weeks), 0°21' Scorpio back to 26°15' Libra; shadow from 23 Oct 1806 to 19 Oct. Stations at 06:02 and 08:09 UT.
♆︎Neptune retrograde 1807· once this year
Retrograde 05 Mar – 12 Aug (23 weeks), 2°30' Sagittarius back to 29°43' Scorpio; shadow from 14 Nov 1806 to 02 Dec. Stations at 10:49 and 07:11 UT.
♇︎Pluto retrograde 1807· once this year
Retrograde 14 Jun – 26 Nov (24 weeks), 13°25' Pisces back to 11°14' Pisces; shadow from 14 Feb to 22 Mar 1808. Stations at 05:33 and 00:25 UT.
All times Universal Time (UT), from the same engine as the sky. 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.