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 1836· 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 13 Feb – 06 Mar (3 weeks), 8°39' Pisces back to 23°54' Aquarius; shadow from 29 Jan to 26 Mar. Stations at 04:13 and 05:39 UT.
Retrograde 14 Jun – 08 Jul (3 weeks), 10°13' Cancer back to 1°02' Cancer; shadow from 29 May to 22 Jul. Stations at 03:19 and 05:54 UT.
Retrograde 10 Oct – 30 Oct (3 weeks), 7°27' Scorpio back to 21°43' Libra; shadow from 19 Sep to 15 Nov. Stations at 03:55 and 21:51 UT.
♀︎Venus retrograde 1836· once this year
Retrograde 04 Jul – 16 Aug (6 weeks), 11°09' Leo back to 24°42' Cancer; shadow from 31 May to 19 Sep. Stations at 12:29 and 15:46 UT.
♂︎Mars retrograde 1836· once this year
Retrograde 27 Dec – 18 Mar 1837 (12 weeks), 26°58' Leo back to 7°29' Leo; shadow from 23 Oct to 25 May 1837. Stations at 23:05 and 12:35 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 1836· twice this year
Retrograde 03 Nov 1835 – 01 Mar (17 weeks), 15°55' Cancer back to 5°51' Cancer; shadow from 09 Aug 1835 to 27 May. Stations at 12:28 and 16:15 UT.
Retrograde 04 Dec – 04 Apr 1837 (17 weeks), 18°07' Leo back to 8°04' Leo; shadow from 08 Sep to 01 Jul 1837. Stations at 05:13 and 00:23 UT.
♄︎Saturn retrograde 1836· once this year
Retrograde 13 Feb – 01 Jul (20 weeks), 5°16' Scorpio back to 28°33' Libra; shadow from 10 Nov 1835 to 08 Oct. Stations at 15:25 and 20:45 UT.
♅︎Uranus retrograde 1836· once this year
Retrograde 08 Jun – 09 Nov (22 weeks), 4°31' Pisces back to 0°36' Pisces; shadow from 21 Feb to 23 Feb 1837. Stations at 16:26 and 18:37 UT.
♆︎Neptune retrograde 1836· once this year
Retrograde 08 May – 15 Oct (23 weeks), 6°00' Aquarius back to 3°13' Aquarius; shadow from 17 Jan to 03 Feb 1837. Stations at 05:39 and 05:26 UT.
♇︎Pluto retrograde 1836· once this year
Retrograde 16 Jul – 28 Dec (24 weeks), 15°53' Aries back to 13°51' Aries; shadow from 15 Mar to 28 Apr 1837. Stations at 01:30 and 09:40 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.