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 1848· 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 03 Mar – 26 Mar (3 weeks), 28°07' Pisces back to 14°39' Pisces; shadow from 18 Feb to 14 Apr. Stations at 18:47 and 15:29 UT.
Retrograde 06 Jul – 30 Jul (3 weeks), 3°03' Leo back to 22°27' Cancer; shadow from 18 Jun to 13 Aug. Stations at 01:51 and 06:29 UT.
Retrograde 29 Oct – 18 Nov (3 weeks), 26°01' Scorpio back to 9°57' Scorpio; shadow from 09 Oct to 05 Dec. Stations at 15:15 and 18:07 UT.
♀︎Venus retrograde 1848· not retrograde this year
Venus holds a straight course through 1848; no spell, no shadow, no station to mark.
♂︎Mars retrograde 1848· not retrograde this year
Mars holds a straight course through 1848; 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 1848· twice this year
Retrograde 07 Nov 1847 – 06 Mar (17 weeks), 20°34' Cancer back to 10°30' Cancer; shadow from 13 Aug 1847 to 01 Jun. Stations at 23:09 and 08:50 UT.
Retrograde 08 Dec – 08 Apr 1849 (17 weeks), 22°32' Leo back to 12°30' Leo; shadow from 12 Sep to 06 Jul 1849. Stations at 10:52 and 10:22 UT.
♄︎Saturn retrograde 1848· once this year
Retrograde 06 Jul – 21 Nov (20 weeks), 25°18' Pisces back to 18°32' Pisces; shadow from 30 Mar to 24 Feb 1849. Stations at 08:25 and 18:33 UT.
♅︎Uranus retrograde 1848· once this year
Retrograde 27 Jul – 27 Dec (22 weeks), 22°15' Aries back to 18°18' Aries; shadow from 09 Apr to 12 Apr 1849. Stations at 22:35 and 09:17 UT.
♆︎Neptune retrograde 1848· once this year
Retrograde 04 Jun – 10 Nov (23 weeks), 2°36' Pisces back to 29°48' Aquarius; shadow from 13 Feb to 01 Mar 1849. Stations at 13:50 and 23:50 UT.
♇︎Pluto retrograde 1848· twice this year
Retrograde 27 Jul 1847 – 09 Jan (24 weeks), 26°56' Aries back to 24°56' Aries; shadow from 26 Mar 1847 to 10 May. Stations at 23:28 and 05:31 UT.
Retrograde 28 Jul – 09 Jan 1849 (24 weeks), 27°55' Aries back to 25°55' Aries; shadow from 26 Mar to 11 May 1849. Stations at 06:41 and 09:37 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.