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 1862· 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 17 Feb – 12 Mar (3 weeks), 14°00' Pisces back to 29°32' Aquarius; shadow from 03 Feb to 01 Apr. Stations at 21:07 and 04:01 UT.
Retrograde 20 Jun – 14 Jul (3 weeks), 16°34' Cancer back to 7°04' Cancer; shadow from 04 Jun to 29 Jul. Stations at 13:34 and 17:43 UT.
Retrograde 15 Oct – 05 Nov (3 weeks), 12°39' Scorpio back to 26°49' Libra; shadow from 25 Sep to 21 Nov. Stations at 21:55 and 11:32 UT.
♀︎Venus retrograde 1862· once this year
Retrograde 05 Feb – 18 Mar (6 weeks), 15°20' Pisces back to 29°20' Aquarius; shadow from 04 Jan to 20 Apr. Stations at 04:46 and 19:28 UT.
♂︎Mars retrograde 1862· once this year
Retrograde 02 Sep – 05 Nov (9 weeks), 19°14' Aries back to 6°52' Aries; shadow from 19 Jul to 24 Dec. Stations at 11:47 and 14:02 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 1862· once this year
Retrograde 12 Jan – 14 May (18 weeks), 27°27' Virgo back to 17°29' Virgo; shadow from 16 Oct 1861 to 12 Aug. Stations at 00:50 and 14:06 UT.
♄︎Saturn retrograde 1862· once this year
Retrograde 02 Jan – 18 May (19 weeks), 22°41' Virgo back to 15°51' Virgo; shadow from 29 Sep 1861 to 23 Aug. Stations at 01:06 and 10:39 UT.
♅︎Uranus retrograde 1862· twice this year
Retrograde 21 Sep 1861 – 19 Feb (21 weeks), 16°20' Gemini back to 12°18' Gemini; shadow from 05 Jun 1861 to 05 Jun. Stations at 19:20 and 00:16 UT.
Retrograde 26 Sep – 23 Feb 1863 (21 weeks), 20°41' Gemini back to 16°38' Gemini; shadow from 10 Jun to 10 Jun 1863. Stations at 11:10 and 12:27 UT.
♆︎Neptune retrograde 1862· once this year
Retrograde 07 Jul – 12 Dec (23 weeks), 3°52' Aries back to 1°04' Aries; shadow from 15 Mar to 02 Apr 1863. Stations at 05:00 and 17:27 UT.
♇︎Pluto retrograde 1862· twice this year
Retrograde 09 Aug 1861 – 22 Jan (24 weeks), 10°27' Taurus back to 8°28' Taurus; shadow from 07 Apr 1861 to 24 May. Stations at 23:41 and 08:13 UT.
Retrograde 11 Aug – 23 Jan 1863 (24 weeks), 11°23' Taurus back to 9°25' Taurus; shadow from 08 Apr to 26 May 1863. Stations at 05:51 and 12:39 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.