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 1909· 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 02 Feb – 24 Feb (3 weeks), 28°35' Aquarius back to 13°16' Aquarius; shadow from 18 Jan to 16 Mar. Stations at 15:48 and 04:58 UT.
Retrograde 02 Jun – 26 Jun (3 weeks), 27°41' Gemini back to 19°00' Gemini; shadow from 18 May to 11 Jul. Stations at 15:59 and 16:28 UT.
Retrograde 30 Sep – 21 Oct (3 weeks), 27°34' Libra back to 12°06' Libra; shadow from 10 Sep to 06 Nov. Stations at 08:32 and 14:21 UT.
♀︎Venus retrograde 1909· not retrograde this year
Venus holds a straight course through 1909; no spell, no shadow, no station to mark.
♂︎Mars retrograde 1909· once this year
Retrograde 23 Aug – 24 Oct (9 weeks), 6°47' Aries back to 25°26' Pisces; shadow from 10 Jul to 09 Dec. Stations at 02:24 and 07:19 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 1909· once this year
Retrograde 30 Dec 1908 – 01 May (17 weeks), 14°31' Virgo back to 4°31' Virgo; shadow from 04 Oct 1908 to 30 Jul. Stations at 14:26 and 14:51 UT.
♄︎Saturn retrograde 1909· once this year
Retrograde 05 Aug – 19 Dec (20 weeks), 23°13' Aries back to 16°22' Aries; shadow from 30 Apr to 24 Mar 1910. Stations at 09:32 and 21:48 UT.
♅︎Uranus retrograde 1909· once this year
Retrograde 25 Apr – 27 Sep (22 weeks), 21°04' Capricorn back to 17°06' Capricorn; shadow from 09 Jan to 10 Jan 1910. Stations at 22:25 and 01:47 UT.
♆︎Neptune retrograde 1909· twice this year
Retrograde 20 Oct 1908 – 26 Mar (22 weeks), 17°07' Cancer back to 14°18' Cancer; shadow from 29 Jun 1908 to 17 Jul. Stations at 17:19 and 02:31 UT.
Retrograde 23 Oct – 28 Mar 1910 (22 weeks), 19°20' Cancer back to 16°32' Cancer; shadow from 01 Jul to 20 Jul 1910. Stations at 04:37 and 15:56 UT.
♇︎Pluto retrograde 1909· twice this year
Retrograde 26 Sep 1908 – 08 Mar (23 weeks), 25°50' Gemini back to 23°48' Gemini; shadow from 25 May 1908 to 09 Jul. Stations at 02:17 and 19:44 UT.
Retrograde 27 Sep – 10 Mar 1910 (23 weeks), 26°53' Gemini back to 24°50' Gemini; shadow from 27 May to 10 Jul 1910. Stations at 10:16 and 01:51 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.