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 1882· 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 13 Feb – 07 Mar (3 weeks), 9°43' Pisces back to 24°59' Aquarius; shadow from 29 Jan to 27 Mar. Stations at 09:22 and 11:14 UT.
Retrograde 15 Jun – 09 Jul (3 weeks), 11°21' Cancer back to 2°09' Cancer; shadow from 30 May to 23 Jul. Stations at 09:49 and 12:30 UT.
Retrograde 11 Oct – 01 Nov (3 weeks), 8°31' Scorpio back to 22°46' Libra; shadow from 21 Sep to 17 Nov. Stations at 09:13 and 02:52 UT.
♀︎Venus retrograde 1882· once this year
Retrograde 16 Nov – 27 Dec (6 weeks), 22°10' Sagittarius back to 6°52' Sagittarius; shadow from 15 Oct to 27 Jan 1883. Stations at 04:36 and 02:59 UT.
♂︎Mars retrograde 1882· once this year
Retrograde 17 Nov 1881 – 02 Feb (11 weeks), 15°33' Cancer back to 26°57' Gemini; shadow from 18 Sep 1881 to 09 Apr. Stations at 14:21 and 17:33 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 1882· twice this year
Retrograde 14 Sep 1881 – 10 Jan (17 weeks), 26°14' Taurus back to 16°12' Taurus; shadow from 21 Jun 1881 to 04 Apr. Stations at 20:11 and 09:21 UT.
Retrograde 19 Oct – 15 Feb 1883 (17 weeks), 1°25' Cancer back to 21°21' Gemini; shadow from 25 Jul to 12 May 1883. Stations at 18:01 and 05:13 UT.
♄︎Saturn retrograde 1882· twice this year
Retrograde 24 Aug 1881 – 06 Jan (19 weeks), 12°26' Taurus back to 5°33' Taurus; shadow from 20 May 1881 to 10 Apr. Stations at 13:46 and 21:58 UT.
Retrograde 08 Sep – 20 Jan 1883 (19 weeks), 26°10' Taurus back to 19°15' Taurus; shadow from 03 Jun to 24 Apr 1883. Stations at 00:39 and 14:38 UT.
♅︎Uranus retrograde 1882· twice this year
Retrograde 23 Dec 1881 – 22 May (21 weeks), 18°34' Virgo back to 14°25' Virgo; shadow from 10 Sep 1881 to 05 Sep. Stations at 19:00 and 07:06 UT.
Retrograde 28 Dec – 27 May 1883 (21 weeks), 23°21' Virgo back to 19°12' Virgo; shadow from 15 Sep to 10 Sep 1883. Stations at 20:07 and 11:43 UT.
♆︎Neptune retrograde 1882· twice this year
Retrograde 19 Aug 1881 – 23 Jan (22 weeks), 16°35' Taurus back to 13°46' Taurus; shadow from 28 Apr 1881 to 15 May. Stations at 20:25 and 20:24 UT.
Retrograde 22 Aug – 26 Jan 1883 (22 weeks), 18°50' Taurus back to 16°01' Taurus; shadow from 30 Apr to 18 May 1883. Stations at 08:15 and 08:45 UT.
♇︎Pluto retrograde 1882· twice this year
Retrograde 29 Aug 1881 – 09 Feb (24 weeks), 29°19' Taurus back to 27°20' Taurus; shadow from 26 Apr 1881 to 13 Jun. Stations at 04:54 and 23:58 UT.
Retrograde 30 Aug – 11 Feb 1883 (24 weeks), 0°16' Gemini back to 28°17' Taurus; shadow from 28 Apr to 14 Jun 1883. Stations at 09:47 and 05:27 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.