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 1841· 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 11 Mar – 03 Apr (3 weeks), 5°18' Aries back to 22°25' Pisces; shadow from 25 Feb to 22 Apr. Stations at 08:45 and 11:59 UT.
Retrograde 14 Jul – 07 Aug (3 weeks), 11°06' Leo back to 29°54' Cancer; shadow from 26 Jun to 21 Aug. Stations at 04:27 and 07:42 UT.
Retrograde 05 Nov – 25 Nov (3 weeks), 2°40' Sagittarius back to 16°32' Scorpio; shadow from 17 Oct to 13 Dec. Stations at 22:28 and 21:45 UT.
♀︎Venus retrograde 1841· once this year
Retrograde 23 Apr – 05 Jun (6 weeks), 2°15' Gemini back to 15°45' Taurus; shadow from 21 Mar to 09 Jul. Stations at 17:04 and 12:43 UT.
♂︎Mars retrograde 1841· once this year
Retrograde 11 Mar – 28 May (11 weeks), 6°04' Scorpio back to 18°07' Libra; shadow from 06 Jan to 27 Jul. Stations at 18:24 and 17:19 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 1841· once this year
Retrograde 06 Apr – 06 Aug (18 weeks), 19°51' Sagittarius back to 10°01' Sagittarius; shadow from 09 Jan to 01 Nov. Stations at 00:27 and 22:53 UT.
♄︎Saturn retrograde 1841· once this year
Retrograde 12 Apr – 31 Aug (20 weeks), 3°04' Capricorn back to 26°28' Sagittarius; shadow from 04 Jan to 06 Dec. Stations at 01:11 and 09:35 UT.
♅︎Uranus retrograde 1841· once this year
Retrograde 29 Jun – 29 Nov (22 weeks), 24°20' Pisces back to 20°24' Pisces; shadow from 12 Mar to 16 Mar 1842. Stations at 07:48 and 20:33 UT.
♆︎Neptune retrograde 1841· once this year
Retrograde 19 May – 26 Oct (23 weeks), 17°03' Aquarius back to 14°16' Aquarius; shadow from 27 Jan to 14 Feb 1842. Stations at 20:26 and 15:34 UT.
♇︎Pluto retrograde 1841· twice this year
Retrograde 20 Jul 1840 – 01 Jan (24 weeks), 19°57' Aries back to 17°56' Aries; shadow from 18 Mar 1840 to 02 May. Stations at 02:40 and 10:59 UT.
Retrograde 21 Jul – 02 Jan 1842 (24 weeks), 20°57' Aries back to 18°56' Aries; shadow from 20 Mar to 04 May 1842. Stations at 08:56 and 18:46 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.