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 1875· 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 20 Feb – 15 Mar (3 weeks), 16°41' Pisces back to 2°23' Pisces; shadow from 06 Feb to 03 Apr. Stations at 17:56 and 03:21 UT.
Retrograde 23 Jun – 17 Jul (3 weeks), 19°43' Cancer back to 10°02' Cancer; shadow from 07 Jun to 01 Aug. Stations at 18:14 and 23:03 UT.
Retrograde 18 Oct – 08 Nov (3 weeks), 15°14' Scorpio back to 29°21' Libra; shadow from 28 Sep to 24 Nov. Stations at 18:43 and 06:16 UT.
♀︎Venus retrograde 1875· not retrograde this year
Venus holds a straight course through 1875; no spell, no shadow, no station to mark.
♂︎Mars retrograde 1875· once this year
Retrograde 18 May – 25 Jul (10 weeks), 4°32' Capricorn back to 21°21' Sagittarius; shadow from 27 Mar to 10 Sep. Stations at 22:18 and 14:32 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 1875· once this year
Retrograde 15 Feb – 18 Jun (18 weeks), 1°39' Scorpio back to 21°45' Libra; shadow from 20 Nov 1874 to 16 Sep. Stations at 12:01 and 23:27 UT.
♄︎Saturn retrograde 1875· once this year
Retrograde 06 Jun – 24 Oct (20 weeks), 26°05' Aquarius back to 19°24' Aquarius; shadow from 28 Feb to 28 Jan 1876. Stations at 05:48 and 09:04 UT.
♅︎Uranus retrograde 1875· twice this year
Retrograde 20 Nov 1874 – 18 Apr (21 weeks), 15°16' Leo back to 11°07' Leo; shadow from 07 Aug 1874 to 03 Aug. Stations at 18:28 and 19:52 UT.
Retrograde 25 Nov – 22 Apr 1876 (21 weeks), 19°59' Leo back to 15°50' Leo; shadow from 12 Aug to 07 Aug 1876. Stations at 18:39 and 20:38 UT.
♆︎Neptune retrograde 1875· twice this year
Retrograde 03 Aug 1874 – 08 Jan (23 weeks), 0°49' Taurus back to 28°00' Aries; shadow from 12 Apr 1874 to 29 Apr. Stations at 21:22 and 10:02 UT.
Retrograde 06 Aug – 10 Jan 1876 (22 weeks), 3°04' Taurus back to 0°15' Taurus; shadow from 14 Apr to 01 May 1876. Stations at 08:53 and 20:51 UT.
♇︎Pluto retrograde 1875· twice this year
Retrograde 22 Aug 1874 – 03 Feb (24 weeks), 22°42' Taurus back to 20°44' Taurus; shadow from 20 Apr 1874 to 06 Jun. Stations at 19:59 and 15:54 UT.
Retrograde 24 Aug – 04 Feb 1876 (24 weeks), 23°38' Taurus back to 21°41' Taurus; shadow from 21 Apr to 07 Jun 1876. Stations at 00:55 and 19:27 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.