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 1910· 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 17 Jan – 07 Feb (3 weeks), 12°23' Aquarius back to 26°31' Capricorn; shadow from 01 Jan to 27 Feb. Stations at 10:50 and 06:54 UT.
Retrograde 14 May – 07 Jun (3 weeks), 7°44' Gemini back to 29°05' Taurus; shadow from 29 Apr to 22 Jun. Stations at 05:33 and 01:44 UT.
Retrograde 13 Sep – 05 Oct (3 weeks), 11°06' Libra back to 26°13' Virgo; shadow from 24 Aug to 20 Oct. Stations at 08:29 and 09:18 UT.
♀︎Venus retrograde 1910· once this year
Retrograde 22 Jan – 05 Mar (6 weeks), 0°55' Pisces back to 15°07' Aquarius; shadow from 21 Dec 1909 to 06 Apr. Stations at 17:26 and 01:53 UT.
♂︎Mars retrograde 1910· not retrograde this year
Mars holds a straight course through 1910; 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 1910· once this year
Retrograde 29 Jan – 01 Jun (18 weeks), 14°33' Libra back to 4°36' Libra; shadow from 03 Nov 1909 to 30 Aug. Stations at 18:13 and 21:17 UT.
♄︎Saturn retrograde 1910· once this year
Retrograde 19 Aug – 02 Jan 1911 (19 weeks), 6°35' Taurus back to 29°41' Aries; shadow from 14 May to 06 Apr 1911. Stations at 12:43 and 05:22 UT.
♅︎Uranus retrograde 1910· once this year
Retrograde 30 Apr – 01 Oct (22 weeks), 25°13' Capricorn back to 21°16' Capricorn; shadow from 14 Jan to 15 Jan 1911. Stations at 10:39 and 14:52 UT.
♆︎Neptune retrograde 1910· twice this year
Retrograde 23 Oct 1909 – 28 Mar (22 weeks), 19°20' Cancer back to 16°32' Cancer; shadow from 01 Jul 1909 to 20 Jul. Stations at 04:37 and 15:56 UT.
Retrograde 25 Oct – 31 Mar 1911 (22 weeks), 21°34' Cancer back to 18°46' Cancer; shadow from 04 Jul to 22 Jul 1911. Stations at 17:42 and 04:28 UT.
♇︎Pluto retrograde 1910· twice this year
Retrograde 27 Sep 1909 – 10 Mar (23 weeks), 26°53' Gemini back to 24°50' Gemini; shadow from 27 May 1909 to 10 Jul. Stations at 10:16 and 01:51 UT.
Retrograde 28 Sep – 11 Mar 1911 (23 weeks), 27°56' Gemini back to 25°53' Gemini; shadow from 28 May to 11 Jul 1911. Stations at 20:39 and 05:38 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.