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 1912· 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 16 Dec 1911 – 05 Jan (3 weeks), 10°29' Capricorn back to 24°11' Sagittarius; shadow from 28 Nov 1911 to 24 Jan. Stations at 06:05 and 03:38 UT.
Retrograde 05 Apr – 29 Apr (3 weeks), 29°44' Aries back to 18°52' Aries; shadow from 22 Mar to 16 May. Stations at 08:27 and 00:57 UT.
Retrograde 08 Aug – 01 Sep (3 weeks), 6°35' Virgo back to 23°36' Leo; shadow from 20 Jul to 15 Sep. Stations at 13:01 and 02:07 UT.
Retrograde 29 Nov – 18 Dec (3 weeks), 24°39' Sagittarius back to 8°22' Sagittarius; shadow from 10 Nov to 06 Jan 1913. Stations at 02:10 and 20:32 UT.
♀︎Venus retrograde 1912· not retrograde this year
Venus holds a straight course through 1912; no spell, no shadow, no station to mark.
♂︎Mars retrograde 1912· not retrograde this year
Mars holds a straight course through 1912; 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 1912· once this year
Retrograde 01 Apr – 02 Aug (18 weeks), 15°23' Sagittarius back to 5°32' Sagittarius; shadow from 06 Jan to 28 Oct. Stations at 12:16 and 14:56 UT.
♄︎Saturn retrograde 1912· twice this year
Retrograde 02 Sep 1911 – 15 Jan (19 weeks), 20°13' Taurus back to 13°18' Taurus; shadow from 29 May 1911 to 18 Apr. Stations at 21:04 and 20:22 UT.
Retrograde 16 Sep – 28 Jan 1913 (19 weeks), 4°06' Gemini back to 27°10' Taurus; shadow from 12 Jun to 02 May 1913. Stations at 08:33 and 18:20 UT.
♅︎Uranus retrograde 1912· once this year
Retrograde 08 May – 09 Oct (22 weeks), 3°27' Aquarius back to 29°30' Capricorn; shadow from 22 Jan to 23 Jan 1913. Stations at 07:36 and 13:28 UT.
♆︎Neptune retrograde 1912· twice this year
Retrograde 28 Oct 1911 – 01 Apr (22 weeks), 23°48' Cancer back to 20°59' Cancer; shadow from 06 Jul 1911 to 24 Jul. Stations at 04:17 and 16:32 UT.
Retrograde 29 Oct – 04 Apr 1913 (22 weeks), 26°01' Cancer back to 23°12' Cancer; shadow from 08 Jul to 26 Jul 1913. Stations at 16:36 and 04:52 UT.
♇︎Pluto retrograde 1912· twice this year
Retrograde 30 Sep 1911 – 11 Mar (23 weeks), 29°00' Gemini back to 26°56' Gemini; shadow from 30 May 1911 to 11 Jul. Stations at 04:55 and 12:30 UT.
Retrograde 30 Sep – 12 Mar 1913 (23 weeks), 0°04' Cancer back to 28°00' Gemini; shadow from 30 May to 13 Jul 1913. Stations at 13:25 and 19:45 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.