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 1893· 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 22 Mar – 14 Apr (3 weeks), 16°29' Aries back to 4°29' Aries; shadow from 08 Mar to 03 May. Stations at 07:36 and 17:26 UT.
Retrograde 25 Jul – 18 Aug (3 weeks), 23°06' Leo back to 11°03' Leo; shadow from 07 Jul to 01 Sep. Stations at 12:54 and 11:21 UT.
Retrograde 16 Nov – 06 Dec (3 weeks), 12°54' Sagittarius back to 26°41' Scorpio; shadow from 28 Oct to 23 Dec. Stations at 05:54 and 01:28 UT.
♀︎Venus retrograde 1893· not retrograde this year
Venus holds a straight course through 1893; no spell, no shadow, no station to mark.
♂︎Mars retrograde 1893· not retrograde this year
Mars holds a straight course through 1893; 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 1893· once this year
Retrograde 19 Sep – 15 Jan 1894 (17 weeks), 1°27' Gemini back to 21°25' Taurus; shadow from 26 Jun to 09 Apr 1894. Stations at 21:27 and 12:54 UT.
♄︎Saturn retrograde 1893· once this year
Retrograde 21 Jan – 08 Jun (20 weeks), 12°48' Libra back to 6°00' Libra; shadow from 18 Oct 1892 to 14 Sep. Stations at 05:44 and 01:41 UT.
♅︎Uranus retrograde 1893· once this year
Retrograde 13 Feb – 14 Jul (22 weeks), 10°43' Scorpio back to 6°37' Scorpio; shadow from 01 Nov 1892 to 29 Oct. Stations at 09:43 and 22:40 UT.
♆︎Neptune retrograde 1893· twice this year
Retrograde 13 Sep 1892 – 17 Feb (22 weeks), 11°18' Gemini back to 8°29' Gemini; shadow from 23 May 1892 to 09 Jun. Stations at 17:34 and 06:16 UT.
Retrograde 16 Sep – 19 Feb 1894 (22 weeks), 13°33' Gemini back to 10°45' Gemini; shadow from 25 May to 12 Jun 1894. Stations at 04:46 and 17:17 UT.
♇︎Pluto retrograde 1893· twice this year
Retrograde 08 Sep 1892 – 20 Feb (23 weeks), 9°49' Gemini back to 7°50' Gemini; shadow from 07 May 1892 to 23 Jun. Stations at 16:17 and 03:00 UT.
Retrograde 09 Sep – 21 Feb 1894 (23 weeks), 10°48' Gemini back to 8°48' Gemini; shadow from 08 May to 24 Jun 1894. Stations at 22:35 and 08:19 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.