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 1834· 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 19 Mar – 11 Apr (3 weeks), 12°35' Aries back to 0°20' Aries; shadow from 05 Mar to 29 Apr. Stations at 01:36 and 09:45 UT.
Retrograde 22 Jul – 15 Aug (3 weeks), 19°01' Leo back to 7°12' Leo; shadow from 03 Jul to 29 Aug. Stations at 05:02 and 05:20 UT.
Retrograde 13 Nov – 03 Dec (3 weeks), 9°18' Sagittarius back to 23°06' Scorpio; shadow from 25 Oct to 20 Dec. Stations at 05:02 and 01:28 UT.
♀︎Venus retrograde 1834· once this year
Retrograde 01 Dec – 11 Jan 1835 (6 weeks), 7°04' Capricorn back to 21°46' Sagittarius; shadow from 30 Oct to 11 Feb 1835. Stations at 04:08 and 01:11 UT.
♂︎Mars retrograde 1834· once this year
Retrograde 23 Nov – 09 Feb 1835 (11 weeks), 21°32' Cancer back to 2°41' Cancer; shadow from 23 Sep to 17 Apr 1835. Stations at 20:02 and 16:25 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 1834· once this year
Retrograde 30 Sep – 26 Jan 1835 (17 weeks), 11°42' Gemini back to 1°39' Gemini; shadow from 07 Jul to 21 Apr 1835. Stations at 17:22 and 15:25 UT.
♄︎Saturn retrograde 1834· once this year
Retrograde 19 Jan – 06 Jun (20 weeks), 10°46' Libra back to 3°58' Libra; shadow from 17 Oct 1833 to 12 Sep. Stations at 22:44 and 15:04 UT.
♅︎Uranus retrograde 1834· once this year
Retrograde 01 Jun – 02 Nov (22 weeks), 26°33' Aquarius back to 22°38' Aquarius; shadow from 13 Feb to 16 Feb 1835. Stations at 00:41 and 05:36 UT.
♆︎Neptune retrograde 1834· once this year
Retrograde 04 May – 11 Oct (23 weeks), 1°36' Aquarius back to 28°49' Capricorn; shadow from 12 Jan to 30 Jan 1835. Stations at 04:08 and 07:08 UT.
♇︎Pluto retrograde 1834· once this year
Retrograde 14 Jul – 26 Dec (24 weeks), 13°49' Aries back to 11°47' Aries; shadow from 13 Mar to 26 Apr 1835. Stations at 11:15 and 17:43 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.