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 1823· 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 10 Feb – 04 Mar (3 weeks), 6°00' Pisces back to 21°06' Aquarius; shadow from 26 Jan to 24 Mar. Stations at 08:01 and 06:40 UT.
Retrograde 11 Jun – 05 Jul (3 weeks), 7°03' Cancer back to 28°00' Gemini; shadow from 27 May to 20 Jul. Stations at 21:39 and 23:32 UT.
Retrograde 08 Oct – 29 Oct (3 weeks), 4°52' Scorpio back to 19°10' Libra; shadow from 18 Sep to 14 Nov. Stations at 06:42 and 02:59 UT.
♀︎Venus retrograde 1823· once this year
Retrograde 19 Sep – 31 Oct (6 weeks), 24°37' Libra back to 8°52' Libra; shadow from 18 Aug to 02 Dec. Stations at 23:44 and 22:14 UT.
♂︎Mars retrograde 1823· not retrograde this year
Mars holds a straight course through 1823; 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 1823· twice this year
Retrograde 25 Sep 1822 – 21 Jan (17 weeks), 6°34' Gemini back to 26°32' Taurus; shadow from 02 Jul 1822 to 16 Apr. Stations at 18:04 and 11:37 UT.
Retrograde 29 Oct – 25 Feb 1824 (17 weeks), 11°07' Cancer back to 1°03' Cancer; shadow from 04 Aug to 22 May 1824. Stations at 22:37 and 21:09 UT.
♄︎Saturn retrograde 1823· twice this year
Retrograde 22 Aug 1822 – 05 Jan (19 weeks), 10°09' Taurus back to 3°17' Taurus; shadow from 18 May 1822 to 09 Apr. Stations at 22:49 and 09:37 UT.
Retrograde 06 Sep – 19 Jan 1824 (19 weeks), 23°53' Taurus back to 16°58' Taurus; shadow from 02 Jun to 21 Apr 1824. Stations at 08:33 and 02:01 UT.
♅︎Uranus retrograde 1823· once this year
Retrograde 16 Apr – 17 Sep (22 weeks), 11°36' Capricorn back to 7°37' Capricorn; shadow from 31 Dec 1822 to 01 Jan 1824. Stations at 11:33 and 11:24 UT.
♆︎Neptune retrograde 1823· once this year
Retrograde 09 Apr – 17 Sep (23 weeks), 7°26' Capricorn back to 4°40' Capricorn; shadow from 19 Dec 1822 to 06 Jan 1824. Stations at 16:47 and 02:24 UT.
♇︎Pluto retrograde 1823· once this year
Retrograde 02 Jul – 15 Dec (24 weeks), 2°05' Aries back to 0°00' Aries; shadow from 03 Mar to 12 Apr 1824. Stations at 23:55 and 00:31 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.