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 1822· 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 26 Feb – 21 Mar (3 weeks), 22°40' Pisces back to 8°49' Pisces; shadow from 12 Feb to 10 Apr. Stations at 23:06 and 15:00 UT.
Retrograde 30 Jun – 24 Jul (3 weeks), 26°52' Cancer back to 16°40' Cancer; shadow from 13 Jun to 08 Aug. Stations at 18:28 and 23:42 UT.
Retrograde 24 Oct – 14 Nov (3 weeks), 20°53' Scorpio back to 4°53' Scorpio; shadow from 05 Oct to 30 Nov. Stations at 22:21 and 04:31 UT.
♀︎Venus retrograde 1822· once this year
Retrograde 17 Feb – 30 Mar (6 weeks), 27°06' Pisces back to 10°59' Pisces; shadow from 15 Jan to 02 May. Stations at 02:24 and 23:07 UT.
♂︎Mars retrograde 1822· once this year
Retrograde 10 Jan – 01 Apr (12 weeks), 9°43' Virgo back to 20°13' Leo; shadow from 05 Nov 1821 to 07 Jun. Stations at 07:08 and 05:36 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 1822· once this year
Retrograde 25 Sep – 21 Jan 1823 (17 weeks), 6°34' Gemini back to 26°32' Taurus; shadow from 02 Jul to 16 Apr 1823. Stations at 18:04 and 11:37 UT.
♄︎Saturn retrograde 1822· once this year
Retrograde 22 Aug – 05 Jan 1823 (19 weeks), 10°09' Taurus back to 3°17' Taurus; shadow from 18 May to 09 Apr 1823. Stations at 22:49 and 09:37 UT.
♅︎Uranus retrograde 1822· once this year
Retrograde 12 Apr – 12 Sep (22 weeks), 7°22' Capricorn back to 3°23' Capricorn; shadow from 27 Dec 1821 to 27 Dec. Stations at 00:33 and 21:02 UT.
♆︎Neptune retrograde 1822· once this year
Retrograde 07 Apr – 14 Sep (23 weeks), 5°15' Capricorn back to 2°28' Capricorn; shadow from 17 Dec 1821 to 04 Jan 1823. Stations at 06:04 and 16:13 UT.
♇︎Pluto retrograde 1822· once this year
Retrograde 01 Jul – 13 Dec (24 weeks), 0°59' Aries back to 28°53' Pisces; shadow from 02 Mar to 12 Apr 1823. Stations at 16:48 and 14:14 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.