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 1892· 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 19 Dec 1891 – 08 Jan (3 weeks), 14°33' Capricorn back to 28°17' Sagittarius; shadow from 02 Dec 1891 to 27 Jan. Stations at 14:52 and 14:25 UT.
Retrograde 09 Apr – 03 May (3 weeks), 4°30' Taurus back to 24°02' Aries; shadow from 26 Mar to 20 May. Stations at 08:01 and 01:48 UT.
Retrograde 12 Aug – 04 Sep (3 weeks), 11°13' Virgo back to 27°54' Leo; shadow from 23 Jul to 18 Sep. Stations at 08:04 and 17:09 UT.
Retrograde 02 Dec – 22 Dec (3 weeks), 28°43' Sagittarius back to 12°25' Sagittarius; shadow from 14 Nov to 09 Jan 1893. Stations at 11:40 and 06:13 UT.
♀︎Venus retrograde 1892· once this year
Retrograde 18 Jun – 31 Jul (6 weeks), 26°08' Cancer back to 9°38' Cancer; shadow from 15 May to 03 Sep. Stations at 06:22 and 10:44 UT.
♂︎Mars retrograde 1892· once this year
Retrograde 05 Jul – 03 Sep (9 weeks), 17°14' Aquarius back to 7°04' Aquarius; shadow from 22 May to 15 Oct. Stations at 03:34 and 16:59 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 1892· once this year
Retrograde 14 Aug – 09 Dec (17 weeks), 24°56' Aries back to 14°58' Aries; shadow from 21 May to 02 Mar 1893. Stations at 00:54 and 15:56 UT.
♄︎Saturn retrograde 1892· once this year
Retrograde 09 Jan – 25 May (20 weeks), 0°09' Libra back to 23°19' Virgo; shadow from 06 Oct 1891 to 31 Aug. Stations at 14:21 and 12:45 UT.
♅︎Uranus retrograde 1892· once this year
Retrograde 09 Feb – 09 Jul (22 weeks), 6°04' Scorpio back to 1°58' Scorpio; shadow from 28 Oct 1891 to 23 Oct. Stations at 12:38 and 20:04 UT.
♆︎Neptune retrograde 1892· twice this year
Retrograde 12 Sep 1891 – 15 Feb (22 weeks), 9°03' Gemini back to 6°14' Gemini; shadow from 21 May 1891 to 07 Jun. Stations at 03:33 and 19:04 UT.
Retrograde 13 Sep – 17 Feb 1893 (22 weeks), 11°18' Gemini back to 8°29' Gemini; shadow from 23 May to 09 Jun 1893. Stations at 17:34 and 06:16 UT.
♇︎Pluto retrograde 1892· twice this year
Retrograde 08 Sep 1891 – 19 Feb (23 weeks), 8°51' Gemini back to 6°52' Gemini; shadow from 07 May 1891 to 21 Jun. Stations at 11:16 and 21:19 UT.
Retrograde 08 Sep – 20 Feb 1893 (23 weeks), 9°49' Gemini back to 7°50' Gemini; shadow from 07 May to 23 Jun 1893. Stations at 16:17 and 03:00 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.