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 1891· four 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 Jan – 25 Jan (3 weeks), 0°28' Aquarius back to 14°22' Capricorn; shadow from 19 Dec 1890 to 14 Feb. Stations at 17:04 and 02:59 UT.
Retrograde 29 Apr – 22 May (3 weeks), 23°19' Taurus back to 14°08' Taurus; shadow from 15 Apr to 08 Jun. Stations at 03:41 and 23:47 UT.
Retrograde 30 Aug – 22 Sep (3 weeks), 28°36' Virgo back to 14°16' Virgo; shadow from 10 Aug to 07 Oct. Stations at 19:25 and 10:26 UT.
Retrograde 19 Dec – 08 Jan 1892 (3 weeks), 14°33' Capricorn back to 28°17' Sagittarius; shadow from 02 Dec to 27 Jan 1892. Stations at 14:52 and 14:25 UT.
♀︎Venus retrograde 1891· not retrograde this year
Venus holds a straight course through 1891; no spell, no shadow, no station to mark.
♂︎Mars retrograde 1891· not retrograde this year
Mars holds a straight course through 1891; 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 1891· once this year
Retrograde 07 Jul – 03 Nov (17 weeks), 18°01' Pisces back to 8°08' Pisces; shadow from 13 Apr to 25 Jan 1892. Stations at 18:31 and 12:40 UT.
♄︎Saturn retrograde 1891· once this year
Retrograde 27 Dec 1890 – 12 May (19 weeks), 17°11' Virgo back to 10°19' Virgo; shadow from 24 Sep 1890 to 18 Aug. Stations at 16:34 and 17:17 UT.
♅︎Uranus retrograde 1891· once this year
Retrograde 04 Feb – 05 Jul (22 weeks), 1°24' Scorpio back to 27°17' Libra; shadow from 24 Oct 1890 to 19 Oct. Stations at 16:01 and 17:38 UT.
♆︎Neptune retrograde 1891· twice this year
Retrograde 09 Sep 1890 – 13 Feb (22 weeks), 6°49' Gemini back to 4°00' Gemini; shadow from 18 May 1890 to 05 Jun. Stations at 15:14 and 06:41 UT.
Retrograde 12 Sep – 15 Feb 1892 (22 weeks), 9°03' Gemini back to 6°14' Gemini; shadow from 21 May to 07 Jun 1892. Stations at 03:33 and 19:04 UT.
♇︎Pluto retrograde 1891· twice this year
Retrograde 07 Sep 1890 – 18 Feb (23 weeks), 7°53' Gemini back to 5°54' Gemini; shadow from 05 May 1890 to 21 Jun. Stations at 08:09 and 14:28 UT.
Retrograde 08 Sep – 19 Feb 1892 (23 weeks), 8°51' Gemini back to 6°52' Gemini; shadow from 07 May to 21 Jun 1892. Stations at 11:16 and 21:19 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.