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 1815· 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 06 Mar – 29 Mar (3 weeks), 29°46' Pisces back to 16°29' Pisces; shadow from 20 Feb to 17 Apr. Stations at 11:31 and 10:17 UT.
Retrograde 08 Jul – 02 Aug (3 weeks), 5°00' Leo back to 24°13' Cancer; shadow from 21 Jun to 16 Aug. Stations at 22:57 and 03:11 UT.
Retrograde 01 Nov – 21 Nov (3 weeks), 27°32' Scorpio back to 11°27' Scorpio; shadow from 12 Oct to 08 Dec. Stations at 06:21 and 08:00 UT.
♀︎Venus retrograde 1815· once this year
Retrograde 22 Sep – 03 Nov (6 weeks), 26°57' Libra back to 11°13' Libra; shadow from 20 Aug to 05 Dec. Stations at 10:40 and 08:06 UT.
♂︎Mars retrograde 1815· once this year
Retrograde 12 Sep – 18 Nov (9 weeks), 0°46' Taurus back to 17°19' Aries; shadow from 27 Jul to 08 Jan 1816. Stations at 22:20 and 00:30 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 1815· once this year
Retrograde 25 Jan – 28 May (18 weeks), 10°12' Libra back to 0°16' Libra; shadow from 30 Oct 1814 to 26 Aug. Stations at 08:42 and 10:02 UT.
♄︎Saturn retrograde 1815· once this year
Retrograde 23 May – 11 Oct (20 weeks), 12°19' Aquarius back to 5°40' Aquarius; shadow from 14 Feb to 15 Jan 1816. Stations at 08:07 and 00:24 UT.
♅︎Uranus retrograde 1815· once this year
Retrograde 12 Mar – 12 Aug (22 weeks), 6°55' Sagittarius back to 2°53' Sagittarius; shadow from 28 Nov 1814 to 26 Nov. Stations at 14:32 and 09:44 UT.
♆︎Neptune retrograde 1815· once this year
Retrograde 22 Mar – 30 Aug (23 weeks), 19°55' Sagittarius back to 17°09' Sagittarius; shadow from 02 Dec 1814 to 20 Dec. Stations at 23:07 and 04:33 UT.
♇︎Pluto retrograde 1815· once this year
Retrograde 23 Jun – 05 Dec (24 weeks), 23°01' Pisces back to 20°53' Pisces; shadow from 23 Feb to 02 Apr 1816. Stations at 22:42 and 18:35 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.