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 1833· 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 15 Dec 1832 – 04 Jan (3 weeks), 10°57' Capricorn back to 24°39' Sagittarius; shadow from 28 Nov 1832 to 23 Jan. Stations at 15:01 and 13:19 UT.
Retrograde 05 Apr – 29 Apr (3 weeks), 0°28' Taurus back to 19°45' Aries; shadow from 23 Mar to 17 May. Stations at 22:52 and 16:02 UT.
Retrograde 09 Aug – 01 Sep (3 weeks), 7°16' Virgo back to 24°09' Leo; shadow from 20 Jul to 15 Sep. Stations at 01:57 and 13:35 UT.
Retrograde 29 Nov – 19 Dec (3 weeks), 25°07' Sagittarius back to 8°49' Sagittarius; shadow from 11 Nov to 06 Jan 1834. Stations at 11:24 and 05:49 UT.
♀︎Venus retrograde 1833· once this year
Retrograde 26 Apr – 07 Jun (6 weeks), 4°25' Gemini back to 17°55' Taurus; shadow from 23 Mar to 11 Jul. Stations at 00:27 and 20:21 UT.
♂︎Mars retrograde 1833· not retrograde this year
Mars holds a straight course through 1833; 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 1833· once this year
Retrograde 25 Aug – 21 Dec (17 weeks), 5°37' Taurus back to 25°37' Aries; shadow from 01 Jun to 14 Mar 1834. Stations at 12:21 and 00:26 UT.
♄︎Saturn retrograde 1833· once this year
Retrograde 07 Jan – 24 May (20 weeks), 28°04' Virgo back to 21°14' Virgo; shadow from 04 Oct 1832 to 29 Aug. Stations at 06:49 and 01:34 UT.
♅︎Uranus retrograde 1833· once this year
Retrograde 27 May – 28 Oct (22 weeks), 22°33' Aquarius back to 18°38' Aquarius; shadow from 09 Feb to 11 Feb 1834. Stations at 15:23 and 22:07 UT.
♆︎Neptune retrograde 1833· once this year
Retrograde 01 May – 08 Oct (23 weeks), 29°24' Capricorn back to 26°37' Capricorn; shadow from 10 Jan to 27 Jan 1834. Stations at 15:25 and 21:28 UT.
♇︎Pluto retrograde 1833· once this year
Retrograde 13 Jul – 25 Dec (24 weeks), 12°47' Aries back to 10°44' Aries; shadow from 12 Mar to 25 Apr 1834. Stations at 07:20 and 07:58 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.