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 1809· 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 24 Feb – 18 Mar (3 weeks), 19°58' Pisces back to 5°56' Pisces; shadow from 09 Feb to 07 Apr. Stations at 01:39 and 15:12 UT.
Retrograde 27 Jun – 21 Jul (3 weeks), 23°44' Cancer back to 13°44' Cancer; shadow from 10 Jun to 05 Aug. Stations at 14:19 and 19:37 UT.
Retrograde 22 Oct – 11 Nov (3 weeks), 18°18' Scorpio back to 2°21' Scorpio; shadow from 02 Oct to 28 Nov. Stations at 01:42 and 09:46 UT.
♀︎Venus retrograde 1809· once this year
Retrograde 02 May – 14 Jun (6 weeks), 10°55' Gemini back to 24°25' Taurus; shadow from 30 Mar to 18 Jul. Stations at 21:35 and 20:01 UT.
♂︎Mars retrograde 1809· once this year
Retrograde 02 Mar – 20 May (11 weeks), 27°14' Libra back to 8°53' Libra; shadow from 26 Dec 1808 to 20 Jul. Stations at 03:27 and 01:19 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 1809· once this year
Retrograde 14 Aug – 10 Dec (17 weeks), 24°55' Aries back to 14°57' Aries; shadow from 21 May to 03 Mar 1810. Stations at 20:25 and 11:44 UT.
♄︎Saturn retrograde 1809· once this year
Retrograde 13 Mar – 01 Aug (20 weeks), 3°50' Sagittarius back to 27°11' Scorpio; shadow from 07 Dec 1808 to 07 Nov. Stations at 13:50 and 08:26 UT.
♅︎Uranus retrograde 1809· once this year
Retrograde 12 Feb – 14 Jul (22 weeks), 9°40' Scorpio back to 5°34' Scorpio; shadow from 01 Nov 1808 to 28 Oct. Stations at 23:05 and 13:28 UT.
♆︎Neptune retrograde 1809· once this year
Retrograde 09 Mar – 16 Aug (23 weeks), 6°51' Sagittarius back to 4°05' Sagittarius; shadow from 18 Nov 1808 to 06 Dec. Stations at 08:17 and 08:45 UT.
♇︎Pluto retrograde 1809· once this year
Retrograde 16 Jun – 27 Nov (24 weeks), 15°53' Pisces back to 13°43' Pisces; shadow from 16 Feb to 26 Mar 1810. Stations at 07:08 and 23:53 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.