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 1811· 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 22 Jan – 12 Feb (3 weeks), 17°03' Aquarius back to 1°22' Aquarius; shadow from 06 Jan to 04 Mar. Stations at 05:11 and 07:41 UT.
Retrograde 20 May – 13 Jun (3 weeks), 13°49' Gemini back to 5°16' Gemini; shadow from 05 May to 28 Jun. Stations at 06:14 and 03:49 UT.
Retrograde 18 Sep – 10 Oct (3 weeks), 15°56' Libra back to 0°47' Libra; shadow from 29 Aug to 25 Oct. Stations at 11:18 and 04:32 UT.
♀︎Venus retrograde 1811· once this year
Retrograde 08 Dec 1810 – 18 Jan (6 weeks), 14°33' Capricorn back to 29°12' Sagittarius; shadow from 06 Nov 1810 to 19 Feb. Stations at 14:12 and 11:12 UT.
♂︎Mars retrograde 1811· once this year
Retrograde 20 Apr – 01 Jul (10 weeks), 9°44' Sagittarius back to 24°18' Scorpio; shadow from 21 Feb to 23 Aug. Stations at 10:13 and 21:34 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 1811· twice this year
Retrograde 20 Sep 1810 – 16 Jan (17 weeks), 1°24' Gemini back to 21°22' Taurus; shadow from 27 Jun 1810 to 10 Apr. Stations at 18:37 and 09:59 UT.
Retrograde 25 Oct – 20 Feb 1812 (17 weeks), 6°16' Cancer back to 26°11' Gemini; shadow from 31 Jul to 17 May 1812. Stations at 06:31 and 22:57 UT.
♄︎Saturn retrograde 1811· once this year
Retrograde 06 Apr – 25 Aug (20 weeks), 26°40' Sagittarius back to 20°02' Sagittarius; shadow from 30 Dec 1810 to 01 Dec. Stations at 03:14 and 12:31 UT.
♅︎Uranus retrograde 1811· once this year
Retrograde 22 Feb – 24 Jul (22 weeks), 18°52' Scorpio back to 14°47' Scorpio; shadow from 10 Nov 1810 to 07 Nov. Stations at 13:49 and 15:52 UT.
♆︎Neptune retrograde 1811· once this year
Retrograde 14 Mar – 21 Aug (23 weeks), 11°12' Sagittarius back to 8°26' Sagittarius; shadow from 23 Nov 1810 to 11 Dec. Stations at 03:55 and 09:01 UT.
♇︎Pluto retrograde 1811· once this year
Retrograde 19 Jun – 30 Nov (24 weeks), 18°18' Pisces back to 16°09' Pisces; shadow from 18 Feb to 28 Mar 1812. Stations at 05:31 and 22:15 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.