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 1843· 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 05 Feb – 27 Feb (3 weeks), 1°46' Pisces back to 16°39' Aquarius; shadow from 21 Jan to 19 Mar. Stations at 21:11 and 14:46 UT.
Retrograde 06 Jun – 30 Jun (3 weeks), 1°49' Cancer back to 22°59' Gemini; shadow from 22 May to 15 Jul. Stations at 15:55 and 17:03 UT.
Retrograde 03 Oct – 24 Oct (3 weeks), 0°42' Scorpio back to 15°07' Libra; shadow from 13 Sep to 09 Nov. Stations at 17:06 and 18:11 UT.
♀︎Venus retrograde 1843· once this year
Retrograde 28 Nov 1842 – 08 Jan (6 weeks), 4°35' Capricorn back to 19°18' Sagittarius; shadow from 28 Oct 1842 to 08 Feb. Stations at 15:40 and 13:00 UT.
♂︎Mars retrograde 1843· once this year
Retrograde 03 May – 13 Jul (10 weeks), 21°34' Sagittarius back to 7°11' Sagittarius; shadow from 09 Mar to 01 Sep. Stations at 22:31 and 05:19 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 1843· once this year
Retrograde 16 Jun – 14 Oct (17 weeks), 27°30' Aquarius back to 17°39' Aquarius; shadow from 23 Mar to 05 Jan 1844. Stations at 17:56 and 10:12 UT.
♄︎Saturn retrograde 1843· once this year
Retrograde 05 May – 24 Sep (20 weeks), 25°48' Capricorn back to 19°11' Capricorn; shadow from 28 Jan to 29 Dec. Stations at 21:40 and 03:58 UT.
♅︎Uranus retrograde 1843· once this year
Retrograde 08 Jul – 08 Dec (22 weeks), 2°16' Aries back to 28°21' Pisces; shadow from 21 Mar to 23 Mar 1844. Stations at 00:59 and 06:22 UT.
♆︎Neptune retrograde 1843· once this year
Retrograde 24 May – 31 Oct (23 weeks), 21°30' Aquarius back to 18°43' Aquarius; shadow from 01 Feb to 19 Feb 1844. Stations at 21:11 and 13:22 UT.
♇︎Pluto retrograde 1843· twice this year
Retrograde 22 Jul 1842 – 03 Jan (24 weeks), 21°58' Aries back to 19°57' Aries; shadow from 21 Mar 1842 to 05 May. Stations at 17:56 and 22:28 UT.
Retrograde 24 Jul – 05 Jan 1844 (24 weeks), 22°58' Aries back to 20°57' Aries; shadow from 22 Mar to 05 May 1844. Stations at 01:26 and 02:51 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.