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 1845· four 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 03 Jan – 23 Jan (3 weeks), 29°26' Capricorn back to 13°20' Capricorn; shadow from 17 Dec 1844 to 12 Feb. Stations at 12:06 and 21:46 UT.
Retrograde 27 Apr – 21 May (3 weeks), 22°12' Taurus back to 13°00' Taurus; shadow from 13 Apr to 06 Jun. Stations at 21:06 and 17:12 UT.
Retrograde 29 Aug – 21 Sep (3 weeks), 27°31' Virgo back to 13°13' Virgo; shadow from 09 Aug to 05 Oct. Stations at 13:46 and 05:11 UT.
Retrograde 18 Dec – 07 Jan 1846 (3 weeks), 13°31' Capricorn back to 27°14' Sagittarius; shadow from 01 Dec to 26 Jan 1846. Stations at 09:54 and 09:19 UT.
♀︎Venus retrograde 1845· not retrograde this year
Venus holds a straight course through 1845; no spell, no shadow, no station to mark.
♂︎Mars retrograde 1845· once this year
Retrograde 19 Jul – 17 Sep (9 weeks), 0°28' Pisces back to 20°31' Aquarius; shadow from 07 Jun to 28 Oct. Stations at 12:18 and 08:01 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 1845· once this year
Retrograde 30 Aug – 26 Dec (17 weeks), 10°50' Taurus back to 0°50' Taurus; shadow from 06 Jun to 19 Mar 1846. Stations at 15:42 and 05:11 UT.
♄︎Saturn retrograde 1845· once this year
Retrograde 29 May – 16 Oct (20 weeks), 18°57' Aquarius back to 12°18' Aquarius; shadow from 20 Feb to 20 Jan 1846. Stations at 13:05 and 23:25 UT.
♅︎Uranus retrograde 1845· once this year
Retrograde 15 Jul – 15 Dec (22 weeks), 10°14' Aries back to 6°18' Aries; shadow from 28 Mar to 01 Apr 1846. Stations at 18:47 and 16:44 UT.
♆︎Neptune retrograde 1845· once this year
Retrograde 28 May – 04 Nov (23 weeks), 25°56' Aquarius back to 23°09' Aquarius; shadow from 05 Feb to 23 Feb 1846. Stations at 23:08 and 11:44 UT.
♇︎Pluto retrograde 1845· twice this year
Retrograde 24 Jul 1844 – 05 Jan (24 weeks), 23°57' Aries back to 21°57' Aries; shadow from 22 Mar 1844 to 06 May. Stations at 05:19 and 09:51 UT.
Retrograde 25 Jul – 06 Jan 1846 (24 weeks), 24°57' Aries back to 22°57' Aries; shadow from 24 Mar to 08 May 1846. Stations at 10:33 and 17:01 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.