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 1902· 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 09 Feb – 03 Mar (3 weeks), 5°28' Pisces back to 20°29' Aquarius; shadow from 26 Jan to 23 Mar. Stations at 22:15 and 18:53 UT.
Retrograde 11 Jun – 05 Jul (3 weeks), 6°08' Cancer back to 27°11' Gemini; shadow from 26 May to 19 Jul. Stations at 04:48 and 06:22 UT.
Retrograde 07 Oct – 28 Oct (3 weeks), 4°22' Scorpio back to 18°43' Libra; shadow from 17 Sep to 13 Nov. Stations at 20:01 and 18:07 UT.
♀︎Venus retrograde 1902· once this year
Retrograde 25 Jan – 07 Mar (6 weeks), 3°21' Pisces back to 17°31' Aquarius; shadow from 24 Dec 1901 to 09 Apr. Stations at 03:07 and 12:48 UT.
♂︎Mars retrograde 1902· not retrograde this year
Mars holds a straight course through 1902; 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 1902· once this year
Retrograde 06 Jun – 04 Oct (17 weeks), 17°15' Aquarius back to 7°24' Aquarius; shadow from 12 Mar to 26 Dec. Stations at 04:25 and 11:13 UT.
♄︎Saturn retrograde 1902· once this year
Retrograde 08 May – 26 Sep (20 weeks), 27°48' Capricorn back to 21°11' Capricorn; shadow from 30 Jan to 01 Jan 1903. Stations at 06:09 and 10:47 UT.
♅︎Uranus retrograde 1902· once this year
Retrograde 27 Mar – 27 Aug (22 weeks), 21°17' Sagittarius back to 17°16' Sagittarius; shadow from 12 Dec 1901 to 11 Dec. Stations at 03:42 and 10:27 UT.
♆︎Neptune retrograde 1902· twice this year
Retrograde 05 Oct 1901 – 10 Mar (22 weeks), 1°29' Cancer back to 28°40' Gemini; shadow from 13 Jun 1901 to 01 Jul. Stations at 07:18 and 18:19 UT.
Retrograde 07 Oct – 13 Mar 1903 (22 weeks), 3°43' Cancer back to 0°54' Cancer; shadow from 16 Jun to 04 Jul 1903. Stations at 18:10 and 05:34 UT.
♇︎Pluto retrograde 1902· twice this year
Retrograde 19 Sep 1901 – 02 Mar (23 weeks), 18°41' Gemini back to 16°40' Gemini; shadow from 18 May 1901 to 03 Jul. Stations at 01:06 and 00:38 UT.
Retrograde 20 Sep – 03 Mar 1903 (23 weeks), 19°41' Gemini back to 17°40' Gemini; shadow from 19 May to 04 Jul 1903. Stations at 06:37 and 07:07 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.