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 1842· 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 22 Feb – 16 Mar (3 weeks), 18°20' Pisces back to 4°10' Pisces; shadow from 08 Feb to 05 Apr. Stations at 09:43 and 21:14 UT.
Retrograde 25 Jun – 19 Jul (3 weeks), 21°44' Cancer back to 11°54' Cancer; shadow from 09 Jun to 03 Aug. Stations at 16:20 and 21:28 UT.
Retrograde 20 Oct – 09 Nov (3 weeks), 16°46' Scorpio back to 0°51' Scorpio; shadow from 30 Sep to 26 Nov. Stations at 10:13 and 20:01 UT.
♀︎Venus retrograde 1842· once this year
Retrograde 28 Nov – 08 Jan 1843 (6 weeks), 4°35' Capricorn back to 19°18' Sagittarius; shadow from 28 Oct to 08 Feb 1843. Stations at 15:40 and 13:00 UT.
♂︎Mars retrograde 1842· not retrograde this year
Mars holds a straight course through 1842; no spell, no shadow, no station to mark.
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 1842· once this year
Retrograde 10 May – 09 Sep (17 weeks), 22°40' Capricorn back to 12°50' Capricorn; shadow from 14 Feb to 02 Dec. Stations at 17:59 and 06:18 UT.
♄︎Saturn retrograde 1842· once this year
Retrograde 23 Apr – 12 Sep (20 weeks), 14°25' Capricorn back to 7°49' Capricorn; shadow from 16 Jan to 18 Dec. Stations at 21:19 and 05:58 UT.
♅︎Uranus retrograde 1842· once this year
Retrograde 03 Jul – 04 Dec (22 weeks), 28°18' Pisces back to 24°22' Pisces; shadow from 17 Mar to 20 Mar 1843. Stations at 17:11 and 01:21 UT.
♆︎Neptune retrograde 1842· once this year
Retrograde 22 May – 29 Oct (23 weeks), 19°16' Aquarius back to 16°29' Aquarius; shadow from 30 Jan to 16 Feb 1843. Stations at 08:23 and 03:41 UT.
♇︎Pluto retrograde 1842· twice this year
Retrograde 21 Jul 1841 – 02 Jan (24 weeks), 20°57' Aries back to 18°56' Aries; shadow from 20 Mar 1841 to 04 May. Stations at 08:56 and 18:46 UT.
Retrograde 22 Jul – 03 Jan 1843 (24 weeks), 21°58' Aries back to 19°57' Aries; shadow from 21 Mar to 05 May 1843. Stations at 17:56 and 22:28 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.