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 1832· 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 01 Jan – 22 Jan (3 weeks), 26°51' Capricorn back to 10°42' Capricorn; shadow from 16 Dec 1831 to 10 Feb. Stations at 17:17 and 01:00 UT.
Retrograde 24 Apr – 18 May (3 weeks), 19°09' Taurus back to 9°47' Taurus; shadow from 10 Apr to 03 Jun. Stations at 15:34 and 11:23 UT.
Retrograde 26 Aug – 18 Sep (3 weeks), 24°46' Virgo back to 10°35' Virgo; shadow from 06 Aug to 02 Oct. Stations at 14:29 and 08:36 UT.
Retrograde 15 Dec – 04 Jan 1833 (3 weeks), 10°57' Capricorn back to 24°39' Sagittarius; shadow from 28 Nov to 23 Jan 1833. Stations at 15:01 and 13:19 UT.
♀︎Venus retrograde 1832· not retrograde this year
Venus holds a straight course through 1832; no spell, no shadow, no station to mark.
♂︎Mars retrograde 1832· once this year
Retrograde 13 Oct – 24 Dec (10 weeks), 7°24' Gemini back to 20°53' Taurus; shadow from 20 Aug to 22 Feb 1833. Stations at 22:24 and 22:51 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 1832· once this year
Retrograde 18 Jul – 13 Nov (17 weeks), 28°39' Pisces back to 18°45' Pisces; shadow from 24 Apr to 04 Feb 1833. Stations at 13:51 and 20:44 UT.
♄︎Saturn retrograde 1832· once this year
Retrograde 26 Dec 1831 – 10 May (19 weeks), 15°04' Virgo back to 8°12' Virgo; shadow from 22 Sep 1831 to 15 Aug. Stations at 06:54 and 06:28 UT.
♅︎Uranus retrograde 1832· once this year
Retrograde 23 May – 24 Oct (22 weeks), 18°32' Aquarius back to 14°36' Aquarius; shadow from 05 Feb to 07 Feb 1833. Stations at 07:57 and 14:28 UT.
♆︎Neptune retrograde 1832· once this year
Retrograde 29 Apr – 06 Oct (23 weeks), 27°11' Capricorn back to 24°25' Capricorn; shadow from 08 Jan to 25 Jan 1833. Stations at 04:04 and 09:30 UT.
♇︎Pluto retrograde 1832· once this year
Retrograde 12 Jul – 24 Dec (24 weeks), 11°44' Aries back to 9°41' Aries; shadow from 11 Mar to 23 Apr 1833. Stations at 00:04 and 01:08 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.