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 1837· 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 26 Jan – 17 Feb (3 weeks), 22°17' Aquarius back to 6°46' Aquarius; shadow from 11 Jan to 09 Mar. Stations at 19:43 and 03:26 UT.
Retrograde 25 May – 18 Jun (3 weeks), 20°10' Gemini back to 11°35' Gemini; shadow from 10 May to 03 Jul. Stations at 19:47 and 19:01 UT.
Retrograde 23 Sep – 14 Oct (3 weeks), 21°14' Libra back to 5°55' Libra; shadow from 02 Sep to 30 Oct. Stations at 07:27 and 19:09 UT.
♀︎Venus retrograde 1837· not retrograde this year
Venus holds a straight course through 1837; no spell, no shadow, no station to mark.
♂︎Mars retrograde 1837· once this year
Retrograde 27 Dec 1836 – 18 Mar (12 weeks), 26°58' Leo back to 7°29' Leo; shadow from 23 Oct 1836 to 25 May. 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 1837· once this year
Retrograde 04 Dec 1836 – 04 Apr (17 weeks), 18°07' Leo back to 8°04' Leo; shadow from 08 Sep 1836 to 01 Jul. Stations at 05:13 and 00:23 UT.
♄︎Saturn retrograde 1837· once this year
Retrograde 24 Feb – 14 Jul (20 weeks), 17°08' Scorpio back to 10°28' Scorpio; shadow from 20 Nov 1836 to 20 Oct. Stations at 16:07 and 12:51 UT.
♅︎Uranus retrograde 1837· once this year
Retrograde 12 Jun – 14 Nov (22 weeks), 8°29' Pisces back to 4°34' Pisces; shadow from 24 Feb to 28 Feb 1838. Stations at 23:16 and 00:27 UT.
♆︎Neptune retrograde 1837· once this year
Retrograde 10 May – 17 Oct (23 weeks), 8°12' Aquarius back to 5°25' Aquarius; shadow from 18 Jan to 05 Feb 1838. Stations at 17:32 and 17:48 UT.
♇︎Pluto retrograde 1837· once this year
Retrograde 17 Jul – 29 Dec (24 weeks), 16°54' Aries back to 14°53' Aries; shadow from 16 Mar to 29 Apr 1838. Stations at 10:15 and 14:05 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.