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 1849· 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 15 Feb – 09 Mar (3 weeks), 11°19' Pisces back to 26°43' Aquarius; shadow from 31 Jan to 29 Mar. Stations at 00:35 and 04:48 UT.
Retrograde 17 Jun – 11 Jul (3 weeks), 13°23' Cancer back to 4°03' Cancer; shadow from 01 Jun to 25 Jul. Stations at 08:35 and 11:57 UT.
Retrograde 13 Oct – 02 Nov (3 weeks), 10°03' Scorpio back to 24°16' Libra; shadow from 22 Sep to 18 Nov. Stations at 01:00 and 16:43 UT.
♀︎Venus retrograde 1849· once this year
Retrograde 21 Apr – 03 Jun (6 weeks), 0°03' Gemini back to 13°34' Taurus; shadow from 19 Mar to 07 Jul. Stations at 09:16 and 04:46 UT.
♂︎Mars retrograde 1849· once this year
Retrograde 09 Nov – 24 Jan 1850 (11 weeks), 6°07' Cancer back to 17°53' Gemini; shadow from 11 Sep to 29 Mar 1850. Stations at 00:30 and 01:11 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 1849· once this year
Retrograde 08 Dec 1848 – 08 Apr (17 weeks), 22°32' Leo back to 12°30' Leo; shadow from 12 Sep 1848 to 06 Jul. Stations at 10:52 and 10:22 UT.
♄︎Saturn retrograde 1849· once this year
Retrograde 19 Jul – 04 Dec (20 weeks), 7°59' Aries back to 1°10' Aries; shadow from 13 Apr to 08 Mar 1850. Stations at 22:47 and 10:41 UT.
♅︎Uranus retrograde 1849· once this year
Retrograde 01 Aug – 31 Dec (22 weeks), 26°16' Aries back to 22°19' Aries; shadow from 14 Apr to 17 Apr 1850. Stations at 07:38 and 15:18 UT.
♆︎Neptune retrograde 1849· once this year
Retrograde 07 Jun – 13 Nov (23 weeks), 4°49' Pisces back to 2°02' Pisces; shadow from 14 Feb to 04 Mar 1850. Stations at 03:34 and 12:16 UT.
♇︎Pluto retrograde 1849· twice this year
Retrograde 28 Jul 1848 – 09 Jan (24 weeks), 27°55' Aries back to 25°55' Aries; shadow from 26 Mar 1848 to 11 May. Stations at 06:41 and 09:37 UT.
Retrograde 29 Jul – 10 Jan 1850 (24 weeks), 28°53' Aries back to 26°53' Aries; shadow from 27 Mar to 12 May 1850. Stations at 10:24 and 15:27 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.