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 1874· 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 09 Mar – 01 Apr (3 weeks), 3°36' Aries back to 20°32' Pisces; shadow from 23 Feb to 20 Apr. Stations at 15:26 and 16:51 UT.
Retrograde 12 Jul – 05 Aug (3 weeks), 9°10' Leo back to 28°09' Cancer; shadow from 24 Jun to 19 Aug. Stations at 07:56 and 11:39 UT.
Retrograde 04 Nov – 24 Nov (3 weeks), 1°09' Sagittarius back to 15°02' Scorpio; shadow from 15 Oct to 11 Dec. Stations at 07:36 and 07:52 UT.
♀︎Venus retrograde 1874· once this year
Retrograde 18 Nov – 29 Dec (6 weeks), 24°39' Sagittarius back to 9°21' Sagittarius; shadow from 17 Oct to 29 Jan 1875. Stations at 16:06 and 14:00 UT.
♂︎Mars retrograde 1874· not retrograde this year
Mars holds a straight course through 1874; 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 1874· once this year
Retrograde 16 Jan – 18 May (18 weeks), 1°47' Libra back to 21°49' Virgo; shadow from 21 Oct 1873 to 16 Aug. Stations at 06:12 and 23:16 UT.
♄︎Saturn retrograde 1874· once this year
Retrograde 24 May – 12 Oct (20 weeks), 14°18' Aquarius back to 7°39' Aquarius; shadow from 15 Feb to 16 Jan 1875. Stations at 15:27 and 08:02 UT.
♅︎Uranus retrograde 1874· twice this year
Retrograde 15 Nov 1873 – 13 Apr (21 weeks), 10°33' Leo back to 6°25' Leo; shadow from 02 Aug 1873 to 29 Jul. Stations at 19:40 and 21:09 UT.
Retrograde 20 Nov – 18 Apr 1875 (21 weeks), 15°16' Leo back to 11°07' Leo; shadow from 07 Aug to 03 Aug 1875. Stations at 18:28 and 19:52 UT.
♆︎Neptune retrograde 1874· twice this year
Retrograde 01 Aug 1873 – 05 Jan (23 weeks), 28°34' Aries back to 25°45' Aries; shadow from 09 Apr 1873 to 27 Apr. Stations at 07:45 and 23:22 UT.
Retrograde 03 Aug – 08 Jan 1875 (23 weeks), 0°49' Taurus back to 28°00' Aries; shadow from 12 Apr to 29 Apr 1875. Stations at 21:22 and 10:02 UT.
♇︎Pluto retrograde 1874· twice this year
Retrograde 21 Aug 1873 – 02 Feb (24 weeks), 21°46' Taurus back to 19°48' Taurus; shadow from 19 Apr 1873 to 05 Jun. Stations at 14:16 and 13:11 UT.
Retrograde 22 Aug – 03 Feb 1875 (24 weeks), 22°42' Taurus back to 20°44' Taurus; shadow from 20 Apr to 06 Jun 1875. Stations at 19:59 and 15:54 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.