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 1908· 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 20 Feb – 13 Mar (3 weeks), 15°03' Pisces back to 0°37' Pisces; shadow from 05 Feb to 02 Apr. Stations at 02:20 and 09:34 UT.
Retrograde 21 Jun – 16 Jul (3 weeks), 17°41' Cancer back to 8°10' Cancer; shadow from 05 Jun to 30 Jul. Stations at 19:55 and 00:14 UT.
Retrograde 17 Oct – 06 Nov (3 weeks), 13°42' Scorpio back to 27°51' Libra; shadow from 27 Sep to 23 Nov. Stations at 03:10 and 16:31 UT.
♀︎Venus retrograde 1908· once this year
Retrograde 14 Jun – 27 Jul (6 weeks), 21°51' Cancer back to 5°20' Cancer; shadow from 11 May to 30 Aug. Stations at 14:50 and 18:22 UT.
♂︎Mars retrograde 1908· not retrograde this year
Mars holds a straight course through 1908; 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 1908· twice this year
Retrograde 01 Dec 1907 – 30 Mar (17 weeks), 13°36' Leo back to 3°33' Leo; shadow from 05 Sep 1907 to 27 Jun. Stations at 01:21 and 13:13 UT.
Retrograde 30 Dec – 01 May 1909 (17 weeks), 14°31' Virgo back to 4°31' Virgo; shadow from 04 Oct to 30 Jul 1909. Stations at 14:26 and 14:51 UT.
♄︎Saturn retrograde 1908· once this year
Retrograde 22 Jul – 06 Dec (20 weeks), 10°10' Aries back to 3°22' Aries; shadow from 16 Apr to 11 Mar 1909. Stations at 12:43 and 21:05 UT.
♅︎Uranus retrograde 1908· once this year
Retrograde 21 Apr – 22 Sep (22 weeks), 16°54' Capricorn back to 12°56' Capricorn; shadow from 06 Jan to 06 Jan 1909. Stations at 12:03 and 13:26 UT.
♆︎Neptune retrograde 1908· twice this year
Retrograde 19 Oct 1907 – 23 Mar (22 weeks), 14°53' Cancer back to 12°04' Cancer; shadow from 27 Jun 1907 to 15 Jul. Stations at 04:39 and 14:49 UT.
Retrograde 20 Oct – 26 Mar 1909 (22 weeks), 17°07' Cancer back to 14°18' Cancer; shadow from 29 Jun to 17 Jul 1909. Stations at 17:19 and 02:31 UT.
♇︎Pluto retrograde 1908· twice this year
Retrograde 25 Sep 1907 – 07 Mar (23 weeks), 24°48' Gemini back to 22°46' Gemini; shadow from 25 May 1907 to 07 Jul. Stations at 20:58 and 11:20 UT.
Retrograde 26 Sep – 08 Mar 1909 (23 weeks), 25°50' Gemini back to 23°48' Gemini; shadow from 25 May to 09 Jul 1909. Stations at 02:17 and 19:44 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.