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 1894· 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 05 Mar – 27 Mar (3 weeks), 29°10' Pisces back to 15°44' Pisces; shadow from 18 Feb to 16 Apr. Stations at 00:09 and 21:12 UT.
Retrograde 07 Jul – 31 Jul (3 weeks), 4°11' Leo back to 23°33' Cancer; shadow from 19 Jun to 14 Aug. Stations at 08:06 and 12:39 UT.
Retrograde 30 Oct – 19 Nov (3 weeks), 27°04' Scorpio back to 11°00' Scorpio; shadow from 11 Oct to 06 Dec. Stations at 20:27 and 23:08 UT.
♀︎Venus retrograde 1894· once this year
Retrograde 26 Jan – 08 Mar (6 weeks), 5°45' Pisces back to 19°53' Aquarius; shadow from 25 Dec 1893 to 10 Apr. Stations at 12:52 and 23:57 UT.
♂︎Mars retrograde 1894· once this year
Retrograde 16 Sep – 21 Nov (10 weeks), 5°03' Taurus back to 21°20' Aries; shadow from 30 Jul to 12 Jan 1895. Stations at 00:16 and 14:27 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 1894· twice this year
Retrograde 19 Sep 1893 – 15 Jan (17 weeks), 1°27' Gemini back to 21°25' Taurus; shadow from 26 Jun 1893 to 09 Apr. Stations at 21:27 and 12:54 UT.
Retrograde 24 Oct – 20 Feb 1895 (17 weeks), 6°20' Cancer back to 26°15' Gemini; shadow from 30 Jul to 17 May 1895. Stations at 11:40 and 04:34 UT.
♄︎Saturn retrograde 1894· once this year
Retrograde 02 Feb – 21 Jun (20 weeks), 25°09' Libra back to 18°24' Libra; shadow from 30 Oct 1893 to 27 Sep. Stations at 17:00 and 05:53 UT.
♅︎Uranus retrograde 1894· once this year
Retrograde 18 Feb – 20 Jul (22 weeks), 15°20' Scorpio back to 11°15' Scorpio; shadow from 06 Nov 1893 to 03 Nov. Stations at 05:23 and 00:30 UT.
♆︎Neptune retrograde 1894· twice this year
Retrograde 16 Sep 1893 – 19 Feb (22 weeks), 13°33' Gemini back to 10°45' Gemini; shadow from 25 May 1893 to 12 Jun. Stations at 04:46 and 17:17 UT.
Retrograde 18 Sep – 22 Feb 1895 (22 weeks), 15°48' Gemini back to 13°00' Gemini; shadow from 28 May to 14 Jun 1895. Stations at 17:38 and 05:03 UT.
♇︎Pluto retrograde 1894· twice this year
Retrograde 09 Sep 1893 – 21 Feb (23 weeks), 10°48' Gemini back to 8°48' Gemini; shadow from 08 May 1893 to 24 Jun. Stations at 22:35 and 08:19 UT.
Retrograde 11 Sep – 22 Feb 1895 (23 weeks), 11°46' Gemini back to 9°47' Gemini; shadow from 10 May to 25 Jun 1895. Stations at 06:10 and 11:37 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.