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 1922· 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 05 Feb – 27 Feb (3 weeks), 1°14' Pisces back to 16°01' Aquarius; shadow from 21 Jan to 19 Mar. Stations at 11:31 and 03:14 UT.
Retrograde 05 Jun – 29 Jun (3 weeks), 0°53' Cancer back to 22°07' Gemini; shadow from 21 May to 14 Jul. Stations at 22:36 and 23:28 UT.
Retrograde 03 Oct – 24 Oct (3 weeks), 0°11' Scorpio back to 14°39' Libra; shadow from 12 Sep to 09 Nov. Stations at 06:15 and 09:18 UT.
♀︎Venus retrograde 1922· once this year
Retrograde 04 Nov – 15 Dec (6 weeks), 9°50' Sagittarius back to 24°30' Scorpio; shadow from 03 Oct to 16 Jan 1923. Stations at 15:20 and 17:12 UT.
♂︎Mars retrograde 1922· once this year
Retrograde 08 May – 17 Jul (10 weeks), 25°16' Sagittarius back to 11°06' Sagittarius; shadow from 14 Mar to 04 Sep. Stations at 06:12 and 02:17 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 1922· once this year
Retrograde 02 Feb – 06 Jun (18 weeks), 18°53' Libra back to 8°58' Libra; shadow from 07 Nov 1921 to 03 Sep. Stations at 23:27 and 04:56 UT.
♄︎Saturn retrograde 1922· once this year
Retrograde 17 Jan – 03 Jun (20 weeks), 7°36' Libra back to 0°48' Libra; shadow from 14 Oct 1921 to 09 Sep. Stations at 05:57 and 13:11 UT.
♅︎Uranus retrograde 1922· once this year
Retrograde 18 Jun – 19 Nov (22 weeks), 13°35' Pisces back to 9°40' Pisces; shadow from 02 Mar to 06 Mar 1923. Stations at 19:45 and 18:14 UT.
♆︎Neptune retrograde 1922· twice this year
Retrograde 18 Nov 1921 – 24 Apr (22 weeks), 15°58' Leo back to 13°10' Leo; shadow from 29 Jul 1921 to 16 Aug. Stations at 21:02 and 15:43 UT.
Retrograde 21 Nov – 27 Apr 1923 (22 weeks), 18°11' Leo back to 15°23' Leo; shadow from 31 Jul to 19 Aug 1923. Stations at 06:53 and 02:49 UT.
♇︎Pluto retrograde 1922· twice this year
Retrograde 11 Oct 1921 – 22 Mar (23 weeks), 10°03' Cancer back to 7°56' Cancer; shadow from 11 Jun 1921 to 22 Jul. Stations at 01:36 and 17:56 UT.
Retrograde 12 Oct – 24 Mar 1923 (23 weeks), 11°13' Cancer back to 9°05' Cancer; shadow from 12 Jun to 23 Jul 1923. Stations at 14:28 and 01:22 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.