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 1869· 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 10 Feb – 04 Mar (3 weeks), 7°03' Pisces back to 22°11' Aquarius; shadow from 26 Jan to 24 Mar. Stations at 13:11 and 12:12 UT.
Retrograde 12 Jun – 06 Jul (3 weeks), 8°10' Cancer back to 29°06' Gemini; shadow from 27 May to 20 Jul. Stations at 04:10 and 06:12 UT.
Retrograde 08 Oct – 29 Oct (3 weeks), 5°54' Scorpio back to 20°12' Libra; shadow from 18 Sep to 14 Nov. Stations at 12:01 and 07:58 UT.
♀︎Venus retrograde 1869· not retrograde this year
Venus holds a straight course through 1869; no spell, no shadow, no station to mark.
♂︎Mars retrograde 1869· once this year
Retrograde 04 Jan – 26 Mar (12 weeks), 4°47' Virgo back to 15°16' Leo; shadow from 30 Oct 1868 to 02 Jun. Stations at 14:45 and 10:38 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 1869· once this year
Retrograde 09 Sep – 05 Jan 1870 (17 weeks), 21°00' Taurus back to 10°59' Taurus; shadow from 16 Jun to 29 Mar 1870. Stations at 15:55 and 04:57 UT.
♄︎Saturn retrograde 1869· once this year
Retrograde 26 Mar – 14 Aug (20 weeks), 17°09' Sagittarius back to 10°31' Sagittarius; shadow from 19 Dec 1868 to 20 Nov. Stations at 13:12 and 16:14 UT.
♅︎Uranus retrograde 1869· twice this year
Retrograde 23 Oct 1868 – 21 Mar (21 weeks), 17°25' Cancer back to 13°19' Cancer; shadow from 08 Jul 1868 to 06 Jul. Stations at 04:44 and 10:25 UT.
Retrograde 28 Oct – 26 Mar 1870 (21 weeks), 21°59' Cancer back to 17°52' Cancer; shadow from 13 Jul to 10 Jul 1870. Stations at 02:54 and 06:42 UT.
♆︎Neptune retrograde 1869· once this year
Retrograde 23 Jul – 28 Dec (23 weeks), 19°34' Aries back to 16°46' Aries; shadow from 31 Mar to 18 Apr 1870. Stations at 04:44 and 01:06 UT.
♇︎Pluto retrograde 1869· twice this year
Retrograde 16 Aug 1868 – 28 Jan (24 weeks), 17°03' Taurus back to 15°05' Taurus; shadow from 14 Apr 1868 to 31 May. Stations at 13:58 and 14:02 UT.
Retrograde 17 Aug – 29 Jan 1870 (24 weeks), 17°59' Taurus back to 16°01' Taurus; shadow from 15 Apr to 01 Jun 1870. Stations at 19:46 and 16:57 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.