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 1855· 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 25 Feb – 19 Mar (3 weeks), 21°01' Pisces back to 7°01' Pisces; shadow from 10 Feb to 08 Apr. Stations at 06:58 and 20:50 UT.
Retrograde 28 Jun – 23 Jul (3 weeks), 24°52' Cancer back to 14°50' Cancer; shadow from 12 Jun to 06 Aug. Stations at 20:40 and 01:58 UT.
Retrograde 23 Oct – 12 Nov (3 weeks), 19°21' Scorpio back to 3°23' Scorpio; shadow from 03 Oct to 29 Nov. Stations at 06:56 and 14:45 UT.
♀︎Venus retrograde 1855· once this year
Retrograde 10 Sep – 22 Oct (6 weeks), 15°22' Libra back to 29°29' Virgo; shadow from 08 Aug to 23 Nov. Stations at 06:15 and 10:24 UT.
♂︎Mars retrograde 1855· not retrograde this year
Mars holds a straight course through 1855; 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 1855· once this year
Retrograde 21 Jun – 19 Oct (17 weeks), 2°36' Pisces back to 22°44' Aquarius; shadow from 28 Mar to 10 Jan 1856. Stations at 22:18 and 09:40 UT.
♄︎Saturn retrograde 1855· twice this year
Retrograde 28 Sep 1854 – 09 Feb (19 weeks), 15°52' Gemini back to 8°55' Gemini; shadow from 24 Jun 1854 to 14 May. Stations at 07:47 and 06:57 UT.
Retrograde 12 Oct – 23 Feb 1856 (19 weeks), 0°02' Cancer back to 23°04' Gemini; shadow from 09 Jul to 28 May 1856. Stations at 21:16 and 14:20 UT.
♅︎Uranus retrograde 1855· twice this year
Retrograde 22 Aug 1854 – 21 Jan (22 weeks), 16°40' Taurus back to 12°41' Taurus; shadow from 05 May 1854 to 07 May. Stations at 14:02 and 00:13 UT.
Retrograde 27 Aug – 25 Jan 1856 (22 weeks), 20°49' Taurus back to 16°50' Taurus; shadow from 10 May to 10 May 1856. Stations at 02:41 and 08:39 UT.
♆︎Neptune retrograde 1855· once this year
Retrograde 21 Jun – 27 Nov (23 weeks), 18°12' Pisces back to 15°24' Pisces; shadow from 28 Feb to 16 Mar 1856. Stations at 08:10 and 05:44 UT.
♇︎Pluto retrograde 1855· twice this year
Retrograde 03 Aug 1854 – 15 Jan (24 weeks), 3°44' Taurus back to 1°45' Taurus; shadow from 01 Apr 1854 to 17 May. Stations at 14:42 and 17:09 UT.
Retrograde 04 Aug – 16 Jan 1856 (24 weeks), 4°41' Taurus back to 2°43' Taurus; shadow from 02 Apr to 18 May 1856. Stations at 19:21 and 22:35 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.