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 1826· 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 22 Dec 1825 – 11 Jan (3 weeks), 17°37' Capricorn back to 1°22' Capricorn; shadow from 05 Dec 1825 to 31 Jan. Stations at 18:45 and 20:23 UT.
Retrograde 14 Apr – 07 May (3 weeks), 8°13' Taurus back to 28°07' Aries; shadow from 31 Mar to 24 May. Stations at 02:51 and 21:22 UT.
Retrograde 16 Aug – 09 Sep (3 weeks), 14°42' Virgo back to 1°06' Virgo; shadow from 28 Jul to 23 Sep. Stations at 20:58 and 01:43 UT.
Retrograde 06 Dec – 26 Dec (3 weeks), 1°45' Capricorn back to 15°27' Sagittarius; shadow from 18 Nov to 14 Jan 1827. Stations at 16:01 and 11:09 UT.
♀︎Venus retrograde 1826· once this year
Retrograde 03 Dec – 13 Jan 1827 (6 weeks), 9°34' Capricorn back to 24°15' Sagittarius; shadow from 02 Nov to 14 Feb 1827. Stations at 15:58 and 12:48 UT.
♂︎Mars retrograde 1826· once this year
Retrograde 30 Mar – 13 Jun (11 weeks), 21°50' Scorpio back to 4°55' Scorpio; shadow from 27 Jan to 09 Aug. Stations at 05:06 and 21:35 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 1826· once this year
Retrograde 30 Dec 1825 – 01 May (17 weeks), 14°27' Virgo back to 4°28' Virgo; shadow from 04 Oct 1825 to 30 Jul. Stations at 10:12 and 12:38 UT.
♄︎Saturn retrograde 1826· twice this year
Retrograde 04 Oct 1825 – 15 Feb (19 weeks), 21°57' Gemini back to 15°00' Gemini; shadow from 01 Jul 1825 to 20 May. Stations at 12:15 and 05:22 UT.
Retrograde 19 Oct – 01 Mar 1827 (19 weeks), 6°07' Cancer back to 29°10' Gemini; shadow from 15 Jul to 04 Jun 1827. Stations at 00:07 and 15:13 UT.
♅︎Uranus retrograde 1826· once this year
Retrograde 28 Apr – 30 Sep (22 weeks), 24°06' Capricorn back to 20°08' Capricorn; shadow from 12 Jan to 14 Jan 1827. Stations at 22:19 and 03:58 UT.
♆︎Neptune retrograde 1826· once this year
Retrograde 16 Apr – 23 Sep (23 weeks), 14°00' Capricorn back to 11°13' Capricorn; shadow from 25 Dec 1825 to 12 Jan 1827. Stations at 04:05 and 12:03 UT.
♇︎Pluto retrograde 1826· once this year
Retrograde 06 Jul – 18 Dec (24 weeks), 5°21' Aries back to 3°17' Aries; shadow from 05 Mar to 17 Apr 1827. Stations at 00:44 and 04:09 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.