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 1895· 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 16 Feb – 10 Mar (3 weeks), 12°23' Pisces back to 27°47' Aquarius; shadow from 01 Feb to 30 Mar. Stations at 05:44 and 10:21 UT.
Retrograde 18 Jun – 12 Jul (3 weeks), 14°32' Cancer back to 5°10' Cancer; shadow from 02 Jun to 27 Jul. Stations at 15:04 and 18:34 UT.
Retrograde 14 Oct – 03 Nov (3 weeks), 11°07' Scorpio back to 25°18' Libra; shadow from 24 Sep to 20 Nov. Stations at 06:15 and 21:43 UT.
♀︎Venus retrograde 1895· once this year
Retrograde 29 Aug – 10 Oct (6 weeks), 3°59' Libra back to 17°56' Virgo; shadow from 26 Jul to 12 Nov. Stations at 03:05 and 12:43 UT.
♂︎Mars retrograde 1895· not retrograde this year
Mars holds a straight course through 1895; 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 1895· twice this year
Retrograde 24 Oct 1894 – 20 Feb (17 weeks), 6°20' Cancer back to 26°15' Gemini; shadow from 30 Jul 1894 to 17 May. Stations at 11:40 and 04:34 UT.
Retrograde 25 Nov – 24 Mar 1896 (17 weeks), 9°08' Leo back to 29°05' Cancer; shadow from 31 Aug to 21 Jun 1896. Stations at 17:37 and 23:49 UT.
♄︎Saturn retrograde 1895· once this year
Retrograde 14 Feb – 04 Jul (20 weeks), 7°15' Scorpio back to 0°32' Scorpio; shadow from 11 Nov 1894 to 10 Oct. Stations at 21:36 and 03:51 UT.
♅︎Uranus retrograde 1895· once this year
Retrograde 23 Feb – 25 Jul (22 weeks), 19°56' Scorpio back to 15°51' Scorpio; shadow from 11 Nov 1894 to 08 Nov. Stations at 01:03 and 01:12 UT.
♆︎Neptune retrograde 1895· twice this year
Retrograde 18 Sep 1894 – 22 Feb (22 weeks), 15°48' Gemini back to 13°00' Gemini; shadow from 28 May 1894 to 14 Jun. Stations at 17:38 and 05:03 UT.
Retrograde 21 Sep – 24 Feb 1896 (22 weeks), 18°03' Gemini back to 15°14' Gemini; shadow from 30 May to 16 Jun 1896. Stations at 04:32 and 15:38 UT.
♇︎Pluto retrograde 1895· twice this year
Retrograde 11 Sep 1894 – 22 Feb (23 weeks), 11°46' Gemini back to 9°47' Gemini; shadow from 10 May 1894 to 25 Jun. Stations at 06:10 and 11:37 UT.
Retrograde 12 Sep – 23 Feb 1896 (23 weeks), 12°45' Gemini back to 10°46' Gemini; shadow from 11 May to 25 Jun 1896. Stations at 14:16 and 14:31 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.