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 1824· 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 25 Jan – 15 Feb (3 weeks), 19°40' Aquarius back to 4°04' Aquarius; shadow from 09 Jan to 06 Mar. Stations at 00:25 and 05:31 UT.
Retrograde 22 May – 15 Jun (3 weeks), 16°59' Gemini back to 8°26' Gemini; shadow from 07 May to 30 Jun. Stations at 13:02 and 11:27 UT.
Retrograde 20 Sep – 11 Oct (3 weeks), 18°35' Libra back to 3°22' Libra; shadow from 31 Aug to 27 Oct. Stations at 09:27 and 23:54 UT.
♀︎Venus retrograde 1824· not retrograde this year
Venus holds a straight course through 1824; no spell, no shadow, no station to mark.
♂︎Mars retrograde 1824· once this year
Retrograde 15 Feb – 05 May (11 weeks), 13°22' Libra back to 24°28' Virgo; shadow from 11 Dec 1823 to 08 Jul. Stations at 10:22 and 12:55 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 1824· twice this year
Retrograde 29 Oct 1823 – 25 Feb (17 weeks), 11°07' Cancer back to 1°03' Cancer; shadow from 04 Aug 1823 to 22 May. Stations at 22:37 and 21:09 UT.
Retrograde 29 Nov – 30 Mar 1825 (17 weeks), 13°37' Leo back to 3°34' Leo; shadow from 04 Sep to 27 Jun 1825. Stations at 20:44 and 09:51 UT.
♄︎Saturn retrograde 1824· twice this year
Retrograde 06 Sep 1823 – 19 Jan (19 weeks), 23°53' Taurus back to 16°58' Taurus; shadow from 02 Jun 1823 to 21 Apr. Stations at 08:33 and 02:01 UT.
Retrograde 19 Sep – 01 Feb 1825 (19 weeks), 7°50' Gemini back to 0°54' Gemini; shadow from 16 Jun to 06 May 1825. Stations at 22:08 and 00:22 UT.
♅︎Uranus retrograde 1824· once this year
Retrograde 20 Apr – 21 Sep (22 weeks), 15°47' Capricorn back to 11°49' Capricorn; shadow from 05 Jan to 04 Jan 1825. Stations at 00:15 and 02:30 UT.
♆︎Neptune retrograde 1824· once this year
Retrograde 11 Apr – 18 Sep (23 weeks), 9°37' Capricorn back to 6°51' Capricorn; shadow from 21 Dec 1823 to 07 Jan 1825. Stations at 03:48 and 14:09 UT.
♇︎Pluto retrograde 1824· once this year
Retrograde 03 Jul – 15 Dec (24 weeks), 3°11' Aries back to 1°06' Aries; shadow from 03 Mar to 14 Apr 1825. Stations at 05:31 and 12:25 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.