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 1846· 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 18 Dec 1845 – 07 Jan (3 weeks), 13°31' Capricorn back to 27°14' Sagittarius; shadow from 01 Dec 1845 to 26 Jan. Stations at 09:54 and 09:19 UT.
Retrograde 09 Apr – 02 May (3 weeks), 3°24' Taurus back to 22°54' Aries; shadow from 26 Mar to 20 May. Stations at 01:48 and 19:33 UT.
Retrograde 12 Aug – 04 Sep (3 weeks), 10°08' Virgo back to 26°50' Leo; shadow from 23 Jul to 18 Sep. Stations at 02:20 and 11:46 UT.
Retrograde 02 Dec – 22 Dec (3 weeks), 27°41' Sagittarius back to 11°23' Sagittarius; shadow from 14 Nov to 09 Jan 1847. Stations at 06:38 and 01:11 UT.
♀︎Venus retrograde 1846· once this year
Retrograde 09 Feb – 23 Mar (6 weeks), 20°04' Pisces back to 4°01' Pisces; shadow from 08 Jan to 25 Apr. Stations at 22:25 and 15:17 UT.
♂︎Mars retrograde 1846· not retrograde this year
Mars holds a straight course through 1846; 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 1846· once this year
Retrograde 05 Oct – 31 Jan 1847 (17 weeks), 16°39' Gemini back to 6°36' Gemini; shadow from 11 Jul to 26 Apr 1847. Stations at 12:16 and 13:19 UT.
♄︎Saturn retrograde 1846· once this year
Retrograde 11 Jun – 29 Oct (20 weeks), 0°49' Pisces back to 24°07' Aquarius; shadow from 05 Mar to 01 Feb 1847. Stations at 05:36 and 00:32 UT.
♅︎Uranus retrograde 1846· once this year
Retrograde 20 Jul – 19 Dec (22 weeks), 14°14' Aries back to 10°18' Aries; shadow from 02 Apr to 05 Apr 1847. Stations at 04:18 and 21:59 UT.
♆︎Neptune retrograde 1846· once this year
Retrograde 31 May – 07 Nov (23 weeks), 28°10' Aquarius back to 25°22' Aquarius; shadow from 08 Feb to 25 Feb 1847. Stations at 11:11 and 00:01 UT.
♇︎Pluto retrograde 1846· twice this year
Retrograde 25 Jul 1845 – 06 Jan (24 weeks), 24°57' Aries back to 22°57' Aries; shadow from 24 Mar 1845 to 08 May. Stations at 10:33 and 17:01 UT.
Retrograde 26 Jul – 08 Jan 1847 (24 weeks), 25°57' Aries back to 23°57' Aries; shadow from 25 Mar to 09 May 1847. Stations at 15:24 and 01:20 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.