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 1814· 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 23 Mar – 16 Apr (3 weeks), 17°09' Aries back to 5°19' Aries; shadow from 10 Mar to 04 May. Stations at 20:38 and 07:35 UT.
Retrograde 27 Jul – 19 Aug (3 weeks), 23°50' Leo back to 11°39' Leo; shadow from 08 Jul to 03 Sep. Stations at 02:43 and 23:53 UT.
Retrograde 17 Nov – 07 Dec (3 weeks), 13°23' Sagittarius back to 27°08' Scorpio; shadow from 29 Oct to 25 Dec. Stations at 15:26 and 10:33 UT.
♀︎Venus retrograde 1814· once this year
Retrograde 19 Feb – 02 Apr (6 weeks), 29°26' Pisces back to 13°18' Pisces; shadow from 18 Jan to 05 May. Stations at 11:57 and 09:31 UT.
♂︎Mars retrograde 1814· not retrograde this year
Mars holds a straight course through 1814; 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 1814· once this year
Retrograde 26 Dec 1813 – 27 Apr (17 weeks), 10°08' Virgo back to 0°08' Virgo; shadow from 30 Sep 1813 to 25 Jul. Stations at 05:50 and 02:21 UT.
♄︎Saturn retrograde 1814· once this year
Retrograde 11 May – 29 Sep (20 weeks), 0°46' Aquarius back to 24°08' Capricorn; shadow from 02 Feb to 03 Jan 1815. Stations at 01:29 and 04:10 UT.
♅︎Uranus retrograde 1814· once this year
Retrograde 07 Mar – 07 Aug (22 weeks), 2°27' Sagittarius back to 28°24' Scorpio; shadow from 23 Nov 1813 to 21 Nov. Stations at 21:30 and 13:33 UT.
♆︎Neptune retrograde 1814· once this year
Retrograde 20 Mar – 27 Aug (23 weeks), 17°44' Sagittarius back to 14°58' Sagittarius; shadow from 29 Nov 1813 to 17 Dec. Stations at 11:32 and 16:43 UT.
♇︎Pluto retrograde 1814· once this year
Retrograde 22 Jun – 04 Dec (24 weeks), 21°51' Pisces back to 19°42' Pisces; shadow from 21 Feb to 02 Apr 1815. Stations at 09:57 and 10:54 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.