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 1880· 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 19 Mar – 11 Apr (3 weeks), 13°41' Aries back to 1°27' Aries; shadow from 05 Mar to 30 Apr. Stations at 07:22 and 15:42 UT.
Retrograde 22 Jul – 15 Aug (3 weeks), 20°08' Leo back to 8°18' Leo; shadow from 04 Jul to 29 Aug. Stations at 11:02 and 11:08 UT.
Retrograde 13 Nov – 03 Dec (3 weeks), 10°21' Sagittarius back to 24°09' Scorpio; shadow from 25 Oct to 21 Dec. Stations at 10:08 and 06:27 UT.
♀︎Venus retrograde 1880· not retrograde this year
Venus holds a straight course through 1880; no spell, no shadow, no station to mark.
♂︎Mars retrograde 1880· not retrograde this year
Mars holds a straight course through 1880; 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 1880· once this year
Retrograde 08 Aug – 04 Dec (17 weeks), 19°33' Aries back to 9°36' Aries; shadow from 15 May to 24 Feb 1881. Stations at 14:00 and 07:50 UT.
♄︎Saturn retrograde 1880· once this year
Retrograde 10 Aug – 24 Dec (19 weeks), 28°57' Aries back to 22°06' Aries; shadow from 05 May to 28 Mar 1881. Stations at 07:44 and 12:18 UT.
♅︎Uranus retrograde 1880· twice this year
Retrograde 14 Dec 1879 – 12 May (21 weeks), 9°00' Virgo back to 4°51' Virgo; shadow from 01 Sep 1879 to 26 Aug. Stations at 18:46 and 01:14 UT.
Retrograde 18 Dec – 17 May 1881 (21 weeks), 13°47' Virgo back to 9°37' Virgo; shadow from 05 Sep to 31 Aug 1881. Stations at 19:36 and 04:28 UT.
♆︎Neptune retrograde 1880· twice this year
Retrograde 15 Aug 1879 – 19 Jan (22 weeks), 12°04' Taurus back to 9°15' Taurus; shadow from 24 Apr 1879 to 10 May. Stations at 16:48 and 19:58 UT.
Retrograde 17 Aug – 21 Jan 1881 (22 weeks), 14°19' Taurus back to 11°31' Taurus; shadow from 25 Apr to 13 May 1881. Stations at 06:15 and 09:17 UT.
♇︎Pluto retrograde 1880· twice this year
Retrograde 27 Aug 1879 – 08 Feb (24 weeks), 27°25' Taurus back to 25°27' Taurus; shadow from 25 Apr 1879 to 10 Jun. Stations at 21:03 and 13:19 UT.
Retrograde 28 Aug – 08 Feb 1881 (24 weeks), 28°22' Taurus back to 26°24' Taurus; shadow from 25 Apr to 11 Jun 1881. Stations at 03:00 and 16:35 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.