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 1865· four 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 30 Dec 1864 – 19 Jan (3 weeks), 25°20' Capricorn back to 9°09' Capricorn; shadow from 13 Dec 1864 to 08 Feb. Stations at 03:26 and 09:34 UT.
Retrograde 22 Apr – 16 May (3 weeks), 17°13' Taurus back to 7°43' Taurus; shadow from 08 Apr to 01 Jun. Stations at 16:41 and 12:12 UT.
Retrograde 24 Aug – 16 Sep (3 weeks), 23°05' Virgo back to 9°01' Virgo; shadow from 04 Aug to 01 Oct. Stations at 20:39 and 17:06 UT.
Retrograde 14 Dec – 02 Jan 1866 (3 weeks), 9°26' Capricorn back to 23°08' Sagittarius; shadow from 26 Nov to 22 Jan 1866. Stations at 01:07 and 22:31 UT.
♀︎Venus retrograde 1865· once this year
Retrograde 16 Apr – 29 May (6 weeks), 25°42' Taurus back to 9°14' Taurus; shadow from 14 Mar to 02 Jul. Stations at 17:12 and 11:34 UT.
♂︎Mars retrograde 1865· once this year
Retrograde 23 Oct 1864 – 05 Jan (11 weeks), 18°47' Gemini back to 1°32' Gemini; shadow from 28 Aug 1864 to 08 Mar. Stations at 21:14 and 11:52 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 1865· once this year
Retrograde 15 Apr – 16 Aug (18 weeks), 29°00' Sagittarius back to 19°10' Sagittarius; shadow from 19 Jan to 10 Nov. Stations at 09:27 and 01:31 UT.
♄︎Saturn retrograde 1865· once this year
Retrograde 07 Feb – 26 Jun (20 weeks), 0°19' Scorpio back to 23°36' Libra; shadow from 04 Nov 1864 to 02 Oct. Stations at 18:55 and 15:04 UT.
♅︎Uranus retrograde 1865· twice this year
Retrograde 04 Oct 1864 – 03 Mar (21 weeks), 29°29' Gemini back to 25°24' Gemini; shadow from 19 Jun 1864 to 18 Jun. Stations at 22:32 and 16:26 UT.
Retrograde 09 Oct – 08 Mar 1866 (21 weeks), 3°55' Cancer back to 29°50' Gemini; shadow from 24 Jun to 23 Jun 1866. Stations at 18:16 and 08:37 UT.
♆︎Neptune retrograde 1865· once this year
Retrograde 13 Jul – 19 Dec (23 weeks), 10°35' Aries back to 7°47' Aries; shadow from 22 Mar to 09 Apr 1866. Stations at 20:43 and 00:50 UT.
♇︎Pluto retrograde 1865· twice this year
Retrograde 12 Aug 1864 – 24 Jan (24 weeks), 13°17' Taurus back to 11°18' Taurus; shadow from 10 Apr 1864 to 27 May. Stations at 17:41 and 19:10 UT.
Retrograde 13 Aug – 25 Jan 1866 (24 weeks), 14°13' Taurus back to 12°15' Taurus; shadow from 11 Apr to 28 May 1866. Stations at 22:00 and 23:26 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.