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 1808· 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 13 Mar – 05 Apr (3 weeks), 7°01' Aries back to 24°19' Pisces; shadow from 28 Feb to 24 Apr. Stations at 02:20 and 07:12 UT.
Retrograde 16 Jul – 09 Aug (3 weeks), 13°01' Leo back to 1°38' Leo; shadow from 28 Jun to 23 Aug. Stations at 00:48 and 03:25 UT.
Retrograde 07 Nov – 27 Nov (3 weeks), 4°11' Sagittarius back to 18°01' Scorpio; shadow from 19 Oct to 14 Dec. Stations at 13:16 and 11:38 UT.
♀︎Venus retrograde 1808· not retrograde this year
Venus holds a straight course through 1808; no spell, no shadow, no station to mark.
♂︎Mars retrograde 1808· not retrograde this year
Mars holds a straight course through 1808; 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 1808· once this year
Retrograde 07 Jul – 03 Nov (17 weeks), 18°01' Pisces back to 8°08' Pisces; shadow from 13 Apr to 24 Jan 1809. Stations at 17:09 and 09:51 UT.
♄︎Saturn retrograde 1808· once this year
Retrograde 01 Mar – 19 Jul (20 weeks), 22°15' Scorpio back to 15°34' Scorpio; shadow from 26 Nov 1807 to 26 Oct. Stations at 16:20 and 22:09 UT.
♅︎Uranus retrograde 1808· once this year
Retrograde 09 Feb – 09 Jul (22 weeks), 5°02' Scorpio back to 0°55' Scorpio; shadow from 28 Oct 1807 to 23 Oct. Stations at 02:25 and 10:58 UT.
♆︎Neptune retrograde 1808· once this year
Retrograde 06 Mar – 13 Aug (23 weeks), 4°40' Sagittarius back to 1°54' Sagittarius; shadow from 16 Nov 1807 to 04 Dec. Stations at 20:45 and 21:03 UT.
♇︎Pluto retrograde 1808· once this year
Retrograde 14 Jun – 26 Nov (24 weeks), 14°40' Pisces back to 12°29' Pisces; shadow from 16 Feb to 24 Mar 1809. Stations at 18:58 and 12:00 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.