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 1904· 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 08 Jan – 28 Jan (3 weeks), 3°04' Aquarius back to 17°00' Capricorn; shadow from 23 Dec 1903 to 17 Feb. Stations at 11:54 and 23:51 UT.
Retrograde 02 May – 26 May (3 weeks), 26°24' Taurus back to 17°22' Taurus; shadow from 18 Apr to 11 Jun. Stations at 09:39 and 05:51 UT.
Retrograde 02 Sep – 25 Sep (3 weeks), 1°20' Libra back to 16°52' Virgo; shadow from 13 Aug to 09 Oct. Stations at 18:29 and 06:48 UT.
Retrograde 22 Dec – 11 Jan 1905 (3 weeks), 17°07' Capricorn back to 0°52' Capricorn; shadow from 05 Dec to 30 Jan 1905. Stations at 09:47 and 10:30 UT.
♀︎Venus retrograde 1904· not retrograde this year
Venus holds a straight course through 1904; no spell, no shadow, no station to mark.
♂︎Mars retrograde 1904· not retrograde this year
Mars holds a straight course through 1904; 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 1904· once this year
Retrograde 20 Aug – 15 Dec (17 weeks), 0°12' Taurus back to 20°14' Aries; shadow from 27 May to 08 Mar 1905. Stations at 05:27 and 19:59 UT.
♄︎Saturn retrograde 1904· once this year
Retrograde 31 May – 19 Oct (20 weeks), 21°00' Aquarius back to 14°20' Aquarius; shadow from 24 Feb to 23 Jan 1905. Stations at 23:32 and 06:53 UT.
♅︎Uranus retrograde 1904· once this year
Retrograde 04 Apr – 04 Sep (22 weeks), 29°57' Sagittarius back to 25°57' Sagittarius; shadow from 21 Dec 1903 to 19 Dec. Stations at 09:00 and 23:12 UT.
♆︎Neptune retrograde 1904· twice this year
Retrograde 10 Oct 1903 – 14 Mar (22 weeks), 5°57' Cancer back to 3°08' Cancer; shadow from 18 Jun 1903 to 05 Jul. Stations at 06:54 and 17:01 UT.
Retrograde 11 Oct – 17 Mar 1905 (22 weeks), 8°11' Cancer back to 5°22' Cancer; shadow from 20 Jun to 08 Jul 1905. Stations at 17:34 and 03:00 UT.
♇︎Pluto retrograde 1904· twice this year
Retrograde 21 Sep 1903 – 03 Mar (23 weeks), 20°42' Gemini back to 18°40' Gemini; shadow from 20 May 1903 to 04 Jul. Stations at 12:21 and 13:56 UT.
Retrograde 21 Sep – 04 Mar 1905 (23 weeks), 21°43' Gemini back to 19°41' Gemini; shadow from 21 May to 05 Jul 1905. Stations at 20:52 and 18:23 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.