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 1876· 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 04 Feb – 25 Feb (3 weeks), 0°11' Pisces back to 14°57' Aquarius; shadow from 20 Jan to 17 Mar. Stations at 06:27 and 21:48 UT.
Retrograde 03 Jun – 27 Jun (3 weeks), 29°45' Gemini back to 21°00' Gemini; shadow from 19 May to 12 Jul. Stations at 16:01 and 16:51 UT.
Retrograde 01 Oct – 22 Oct (3 weeks), 29°08' Libra back to 13°36' Libra; shadow from 10 Sep to 06 Nov. Stations at 00:51 and 04:17 UT.
♀︎Venus retrograde 1876· once this year
Retrograde 22 Jun – 05 Aug (6 weeks), 0°25' Leo back to 13°55' Cancer; shadow from 20 May to 07 Sep. Stations at 22:42 and 02:15 UT.
♂︎Mars retrograde 1876· not retrograde this year
Mars holds a straight course through 1876; 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 1876· once this year
Retrograde 17 Mar – 19 Jul (18 weeks), 2°00' Sagittarius back to 22°08' Scorpio; shadow from 22 Dec 1875 to 15 Oct. Stations at 21:10 and 07:12 UT.
♄︎Saturn retrograde 1876· once this year
Retrograde 18 Jun – 04 Nov (20 weeks), 8°05' Pisces back to 1°22' Pisces; shadow from 12 Mar to 07 Feb 1877. Stations at 02:21 and 12:01 UT.
♅︎Uranus retrograde 1876· twice this year
Retrograde 25 Nov 1875 – 22 Apr (21 weeks), 19°59' Leo back to 15°50' Leo; shadow from 12 Aug 1875 to 07 Aug. Stations at 18:39 and 20:38 UT.
Retrograde 29 Nov – 27 Apr 1877 (21 weeks), 24°43' Leo back to 20°34' Leo; shadow from 16 Aug to 12 Aug 1877. Stations at 18:23 and 20:43 UT.
♆︎Neptune retrograde 1876· twice this year
Retrograde 06 Aug 1875 – 10 Jan (22 weeks), 3°04' Taurus back to 0°15' Taurus; shadow from 14 Apr 1875 to 01 May. Stations at 08:53 and 20:51 UT.
Retrograde 07 Aug – 12 Jan 1877 (22 weeks), 5°19' Taurus back to 2°30' Taurus; shadow from 16 Apr to 03 May 1877. Stations at 23:06 and 08:39 UT.
♇︎Pluto retrograde 1876· twice this year
Retrograde 24 Aug 1875 – 04 Feb (24 weeks), 23°38' Taurus back to 21°41' Taurus; shadow from 21 Apr 1875 to 07 Jun. Stations at 00:55 and 19:27 UT.
Retrograde 24 Aug – 05 Feb 1877 (24 weeks), 24°35' Taurus back to 22°37' Taurus; shadow from 21 Apr to 08 Jun 1877. Stations at 02:21 and 02:46 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.