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 1853· 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 01 Apr – 24 Apr (3 weeks), 25°45' Aries back to 14°36' Aries; shadow from 18 Mar to 12 May. Stations at 00:22 and 15:38 UT.
Retrograde 04 Aug – 27 Aug (3 weeks), 2°36' Virgo back to 19°49' Leo; shadow from 16 Jul to 11 Sep. Stations at 06:28 and 21:50 UT.
Retrograde 25 Nov – 14 Dec (3 weeks), 21°02' Sagittarius back to 4°46' Sagittarius; shadow from 06 Nov to 02 Jan 1854. Stations at 01:50 and 20:11 UT.
♀︎Venus retrograde 1853· not retrograde this year
Venus holds a straight course through 1853; no spell, no shadow, no station to mark.
♂︎Mars retrograde 1853· not retrograde this year
Mars holds a straight course through 1853; 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 1853· once this year
Retrograde 10 Apr – 11 Aug (18 weeks), 24°28' Sagittarius back to 14°37' Sagittarius; shadow from 14 Jan to 05 Nov. Stations at 17:13 and 11:46 UT.
♄︎Saturn retrograde 1853· twice this year
Retrograde 30 Aug 1852 – 12 Jan (19 weeks), 17°57' Taurus back to 11°01' Taurus; shadow from 25 May 1852 to 16 Apr. Stations at 06:21 and 06:44 UT.
Retrograde 13 Sep – 26 Jan 1854 (19 weeks), 1°49' Gemini back to 24°52' Taurus; shadow from 09 Jun to 30 Apr 1854. Stations at 18:13 and 03:47 UT.
♅︎Uranus retrograde 1853· twice this year
Retrograde 13 Aug 1852 – 12 Jan (22 weeks), 8°27' Taurus back to 4°28' Taurus; shadow from 26 Apr 1852 to 29 Apr. Stations at 14:51 and 09:50 UT.
Retrograde 18 Aug – 16 Jan 1854 (22 weeks), 12°33' Taurus back to 8°34' Taurus; shadow from 01 May to 03 May 1854. Stations at 02:08 and 17:09 UT.
♆︎Neptune retrograde 1853· once this year
Retrograde 16 Jun – 22 Nov (23 weeks), 13°43' Pisces back to 10°56' Pisces; shadow from 23 Feb to 12 Mar 1854. Stations at 05:31 and 08:37 UT.
♇︎Pluto retrograde 1853· twice this year
Retrograde 01 Aug 1852 – 13 Jan (24 weeks), 1°48' Taurus back to 29°48' Aries; shadow from 30 Mar 1852 to 15 May. Stations at 02:32 and 09:33 UT.
Retrograde 02 Aug – 14 Jan 1854 (24 weeks), 2°46' Taurus back to 0°47' Taurus; shadow from 31 Mar to 16 May 1854. Stations at 10:12 and 12:37 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.