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 1835· 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 01 Mar – 24 Mar (3 weeks), 25°22' Pisces back to 11°43' Pisces; shadow from 15 Feb to 13 Apr. Stations at 20:49 and 15:06 UT.
Retrograde 03 Jul – 28 Jul (3 weeks), 29°58' Cancer back to 19°34' Cancer; shadow from 16 Jun to 11 Aug. Stations at 22:19 and 03:19 UT.
Retrograde 27 Oct – 16 Nov (3 weeks), 23°27' Scorpio back to 7°25' Scorpio; shadow from 08 Oct to 03 Dec. Stations at 18:52 and 23:17 UT.
♀︎Venus retrograde 1835· once this year
Retrograde 01 Dec 1834 – 11 Jan (6 weeks), 7°04' Capricorn back to 21°46' Sagittarius; shadow from 30 Oct 1834 to 11 Feb. Stations at 04:08 and 01:11 UT.
♂︎Mars retrograde 1835· once this year
Retrograde 23 Nov 1834 – 09 Feb (11 weeks), 21°32' Cancer back to 2°41' Cancer; shadow from 23 Sep 1834 to 17 Apr. 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 1835· twice this year
Retrograde 30 Sep 1834 – 26 Jan (17 weeks), 11°42' Gemini back to 1°39' Gemini; shadow from 07 Jul 1834 to 21 Apr. Stations at 17:22 and 15:25 UT.
Retrograde 03 Nov – 01 Mar 1836 (17 weeks), 15°55' Cancer back to 5°51' Cancer; shadow from 09 Aug to 27 May 1836. Stations at 12:28 and 16:15 UT.
♄︎Saturn retrograde 1835· once this year
Retrograde 01 Feb – 19 Jun (20 weeks), 23°09' Libra back to 16°24' Libra; shadow from 29 Oct 1834 to 26 Sep. Stations at 08:39 and 22:04 UT.
♅︎Uranus retrograde 1835· once this year
Retrograde 05 Jun – 06 Nov (22 weeks), 0°32' Pisces back to 26°37' Aquarius; shadow from 17 Feb to 20 Feb 1836. Stations at 07:30 and 12:17 UT.
♆︎Neptune retrograde 1835· once this year
Retrograde 06 May – 13 Oct (23 weeks), 3°48' Aquarius back to 1°01' Aquarius; shadow from 14 Jan to 01 Feb 1836. Stations at 15:37 and 19:09 UT.
♇︎Pluto retrograde 1835· once this year
Retrograde 15 Jul – 28 Dec (24 weeks), 14°51' Aries back to 12°49' Aries; shadow from 15 Mar to 26 Apr 1836. Stations at 18:16 and 01:46 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.