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 1810· 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 07 Feb – 01 Mar (3 weeks), 3°21' Pisces back to 18°20' Aquarius; shadow from 23 Jan to 21 Mar. Stations at 11:58 and 07:52 UT.
Retrograde 08 Jun – 02 Jul (3 weeks), 3°51' Cancer back to 24°56' Gemini; shadow from 24 May to 17 Jul. Stations at 15:33 and 17:00 UT.
Retrograde 05 Oct – 26 Oct (3 weeks), 2°15' Scorpio back to 16°37' Libra; shadow from 15 Sep to 11 Nov. Stations at 09:17 and 08:04 UT.
♀︎Venus retrograde 1810· once this year
Retrograde 08 Dec – 18 Jan 1811 (6 weeks), 14°33' Capricorn back to 29°12' Sagittarius; shadow from 06 Nov to 19 Feb 1811. Stations at 14:12 and 11:12 UT.
♂︎Mars retrograde 1810· not retrograde this year
Mars holds a straight course through 1810; 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 1810· once this year
Retrograde 20 Sep – 16 Jan 1811 (17 weeks), 1°24' Gemini back to 21°22' Taurus; shadow from 27 Jun to 10 Apr 1811. Stations at 18:37 and 09:59 UT.
♄︎Saturn retrograde 1810· once this year
Retrograde 25 Mar – 13 Aug (20 weeks), 15°18' Sagittarius back to 8°40' Sagittarius; shadow from 18 Dec 1809 to 19 Nov. Stations at 09:37 and 11:44 UT.
♅︎Uranus retrograde 1810· once this year
Retrograde 17 Feb – 19 Jul (22 weeks), 14°17' Scorpio back to 10°11' Scorpio; shadow from 05 Nov 1809 to 02 Nov. Stations at 18:37 and 15:38 UT.
♆︎Neptune retrograde 1810· once this year
Retrograde 11 Mar – 18 Aug (23 weeks), 9°02' Sagittarius back to 6°15' Sagittarius; shadow from 20 Nov 1809 to 09 Dec. Stations at 17:05 and 21:54 UT.
♇︎Pluto retrograde 1810· once this year
Retrograde 17 Jun – 29 Nov (24 weeks), 17°06' Pisces back to 14°56' Pisces; shadow from 17 Feb to 27 Mar 1811. Stations at 19:45 and 09:58 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.