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 1863· 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 Feb – 22 Feb (3 weeks), 27°33' Aquarius back to 12°13' Aquarius; shadow from 17 Jan to 15 Mar. Stations at 10:42 and 23:32 UT.
Retrograde 01 Jun – 25 Jun (3 weeks), 26°33' Gemini back to 17°53' Gemini; shadow from 17 May to 10 Jul. Stations at 09:22 and 09:46 UT.
Retrograde 29 Sep – 20 Oct (3 weeks), 26°31' Libra back to 11°03' Libra; shadow from 08 Sep to 04 Nov. Stations at 03:08 and 09:21 UT.
♀︎Venus retrograde 1863· once this year
Retrograde 07 Sep – 20 Oct (6 weeks), 13°04' Libra back to 27°10' Virgo; shadow from 05 Aug to 21 Nov. Stations at 19:19 and 00:57 UT.
♂︎Mars retrograde 1863· not retrograde this year
Mars holds a straight course through 1863; 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 1863· once this year
Retrograde 11 Feb – 14 Jun (18 weeks), 27°21' Libra back to 17°26' Libra; shadow from 16 Nov 1862 to 11 Sep. Stations at 06:32 and 16:09 UT.
♄︎Saturn retrograde 1863· once this year
Retrograde 14 Jan – 01 Jun (20 weeks), 5°31' Libra back to 28°44' Virgo; shadow from 12 Oct 1862 to 06 Sep. Stations at 21:46 and 02:12 UT.
♅︎Uranus retrograde 1863· twice this year
Retrograde 26 Sep 1862 – 23 Feb (21 weeks), 20°41' Gemini back to 16°38' Gemini; shadow from 10 Jun 1862 to 10 Jun. Stations at 11:10 and 12:27 UT.
Retrograde 01 Oct – 28 Feb 1864 (21 weeks), 25°04' Gemini back to 21°00' Gemini; shadow from 15 Jun to 13 Jun 1864. Stations at 05:29 and 02:58 UT.
♆︎Neptune retrograde 1863· once this year
Retrograde 09 Jul – 15 Dec (23 weeks), 6°06' Aries back to 3°18' Aries; shadow from 18 Mar to 04 Apr 1864. Stations at 18:30 and 03:08 UT.
♇︎Pluto retrograde 1863· twice this year
Retrograde 11 Aug 1862 – 23 Jan (24 weeks), 11°23' Taurus back to 9°25' Taurus; shadow from 08 Apr 1862 to 26 May. Stations at 05:51 and 12:39 UT.
Retrograde 12 Aug – 24 Jan 1864 (24 weeks), 12°20' Taurus back to 10°22' Taurus; shadow from 10 Apr to 26 May 1864. Stations at 12:48 and 15:48 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.