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 1816· 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 17 Feb – 10 Mar (3 weeks), 12°57' Pisces back to 28°27' Aquarius; shadow from 03 Feb to 30 Mar. Stations at 15:56 and 22:28 UT.
Retrograde 19 Jun – 13 Jul (3 weeks), 15°25' Cancer back to 5°57' Cancer; shadow from 03 Jun to 27 Jul. Stations at 07:11 and 11:13 UT.
Retrograde 14 Oct – 04 Nov (3 weeks), 11°35' Scorpio back to 25°45' Libra; shadow from 24 Sep to 20 Nov. Stations at 16:37 and 06:31 UT.
♀︎Venus retrograde 1816· not retrograde this year
Venus holds a straight course through 1816; no spell, no shadow, no station to mark.
♂︎Mars retrograde 1816· not retrograde this year
Mars holds a straight course through 1816; 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 1816· once this year
Retrograde 24 Feb – 27 Jun (18 weeks), 10°07' Scorpio back to 0°14' Scorpio; shadow from 29 Nov 1815 to 24 Sep. Stations at 20:26 and 09:48 UT.
♄︎Saturn retrograde 1816· once this year
Retrograde 03 Jun – 22 Oct (20 weeks), 24°03' Aquarius back to 17°22' Aquarius; shadow from 26 Feb to 25 Jan 1817. Stations at 19:23 and 01:00 UT.
♅︎Uranus retrograde 1816· once this year
Retrograde 16 Mar – 16 Aug (22 weeks), 11°22' Sagittarius back to 7°20' Sagittarius; shadow from 03 Dec 1815 to 30 Nov. Stations at 08:19 and 07:31 UT.
♆︎Neptune retrograde 1816· once this year
Retrograde 24 Mar – 31 Aug (23 weeks), 22°06' Sagittarius back to 19°20' Sagittarius; shadow from 04 Dec 1815 to 21 Dec. Stations at 11:46 and 14:46 UT.
♇︎Pluto retrograde 1816· once this year
Retrograde 24 Jun – 06 Dec (24 weeks), 24°10' Pisces back to 22°02' Pisces; shadow from 24 Feb to 04 Apr 1817. Stations at 09:05 and 03:59 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.