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 1825· four 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 07 Jan – 28 Jan (3 weeks), 3°34' Aquarius back to 17°32' Capricorn; shadow from 22 Dec 1824 to 17 Feb. Stations at 20:51 and 10:16 UT.
Retrograde 03 May – 26 May (3 weeks), 27°15' Taurus back to 18°18' Taurus; shadow from 19 Apr to 11 Jun. Stations at 02:36 and 22:55 UT.
Retrograde 03 Sep – 25 Sep (3 weeks), 1°55' Libra back to 17°23' Virgo; shadow from 14 Aug to 10 Oct. Stations at 06:20 and 16:37 UT.
Retrograde 22 Dec – 11 Jan 1826 (3 weeks), 17°37' Capricorn back to 1°22' Capricorn; shadow from 05 Dec to 31 Jan 1826. Stations at 18:45 and 20:23 UT.
♀︎Venus retrograde 1825· once this year
Retrograde 28 Apr – 10 Jun (6 weeks), 6°35' Gemini back to 20°05' Taurus; shadow from 25 Mar to 14 Jul. Stations at 07:13 and 03:48 UT.
♂︎Mars retrograde 1825· not retrograde this year
Mars holds a straight course through 1825; 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 1825· twice this year
Retrograde 29 Nov 1824 – 30 Mar (17 weeks), 13°37' Leo back to 3°34' Leo; shadow from 04 Sep 1824 to 27 Jun. Stations at 20:44 and 09:51 UT.
Retrograde 30 Dec – 01 May 1826 (17 weeks), 14°27' Virgo back to 4°28' Virgo; shadow from 04 Oct to 30 Jul 1826. Stations at 10:12 and 12:38 UT.
♄︎Saturn retrograde 1825· twice this year
Retrograde 19 Sep 1824 – 01 Feb (19 weeks), 7°50' Gemini back to 0°54' Gemini; shadow from 16 Jun 1824 to 06 May. Stations at 22:08 and 00:22 UT.
Retrograde 04 Oct – 15 Feb 1826 (19 weeks), 21°57' Gemini back to 15°00' Gemini; shadow from 01 Jul to 20 May 1826. Stations at 12:15 and 05:22 UT.
♅︎Uranus retrograde 1825· once this year
Retrograde 24 Apr – 25 Sep (22 weeks), 19°57' Capricorn back to 15°59' Capricorn; shadow from 08 Jan to 09 Jan 1826. Stations at 10:18 and 15:00 UT.
♆︎Neptune retrograde 1825· once this year
Retrograde 13 Apr – 20 Sep (23 weeks), 11°49' Capricorn back to 9°02' Capricorn; shadow from 23 Dec 1824 to 10 Jan 1826. Stations at 16:31 and 23:46 UT.
♇︎Pluto retrograde 1825· once this year
Retrograde 04 Jul – 16 Dec (24 weeks), 4°16' Aries back to 2°12' Aries; shadow from 04 Mar to 15 Apr 1826. Stations at 15:30 and 20:23 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.