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 1844· 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 20 Jan – 10 Feb (3 weeks), 15°30' Aquarius back to 29°45' Capricorn; shadow from 04 Jan to 01 Mar. Stations at 15:02 and 15:17 UT.
Retrograde 17 May – 10 Jun (3 weeks), 11°47' Gemini back to 3°13' Gemini; shadow from 02 May to 25 Jun. Stations at 06:04 and 03:04 UT.
Retrograde 15 Sep – 07 Oct (3 weeks), 14°20' Libra back to 29°16' Virgo; shadow from 26 Aug to 22 Oct. Stations at 18:29 and 14:10 UT.
♀︎Venus retrograde 1844· once this year
Retrograde 02 Jul – 14 Aug (6 weeks), 9°00' Leo back to 22°33' Cancer; shadow from 29 May to 16 Sep. Stations at 04:26 and 07:38 UT.
♂︎Mars retrograde 1844· not retrograde this year
Mars holds a straight course through 1844; 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 1844· once this year
Retrograde 23 Jul – 19 Nov (17 weeks), 3°58' Aries back to 24°03' Pisces; shadow from 29 Apr to 09 Feb 1845. Stations at 21:22 and 01:06 UT.
♄︎Saturn retrograde 1844· once this year
Retrograde 17 May – 05 Oct (20 weeks), 7°18' Aquarius back to 0°40' Aquarius; shadow from 09 Feb to 09 Jan 1845. Stations at 02:52 and 00:43 UT.
♅︎Uranus retrograde 1844· once this year
Retrograde 11 Jul – 11 Dec (22 weeks), 6°15' Aries back to 2°19' Aries; shadow from 24 Mar to 27 Mar 1845. Stations at 10:33 and 11:19 UT.
♆︎Neptune retrograde 1844· once this year
Retrograde 26 May – 02 Nov (23 weeks), 23°43' Aquarius back to 20°56' Aquarius; shadow from 04 Feb to 20 Feb 1845. Stations at 08:58 and 01:23 UT.
♇︎Pluto retrograde 1844· twice this year
Retrograde 24 Jul 1843 – 05 Jan (24 weeks), 22°58' Aries back to 20°57' Aries; shadow from 22 Mar 1843 to 05 May. Stations at 01:26 and 02:51 UT.
Retrograde 24 Jul – 05 Jan 1845 (24 weeks), 23°57' Aries back to 21°57' Aries; shadow from 22 Mar to 06 May 1845. Stations at 05:19 and 09:51 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.