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 1924· 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 04 Jan – 24 Jan (3 weeks), 28°57' Capricorn back to 12°48' Capricorn; shadow from 18 Dec 1923 to 13 Feb. Stations at 03:13 and 11:27 UT.
Retrograde 27 Apr – 21 May (3 weeks), 21°22' Taurus back to 12°04' Taurus; shadow from 13 Apr to 06 Jun. Stations at 04:30 and 00:21 UT.
Retrograde 29 Aug – 20 Sep (3 weeks), 26°55' Virgo back to 12°42' Virgo; shadow from 09 Aug to 05 Oct. Stations at 01:45 and 19:05 UT.
Retrograde 18 Dec – 06 Jan 1925 (3 weeks), 13°02' Capricorn back to 26°45' Sagittarius; shadow from 30 Nov to 26 Jan 1925. Stations at 00:59 and 23:34 UT.
♀︎Venus retrograde 1924· once this year
Retrograde 10 Jun – 23 Jul (6 weeks), 17°34' Cancer back to 1°03' Cancer; shadow from 07 May to 26 Aug. Stations at 00:46 and 03:38 UT.
♂︎Mars retrograde 1924· once this year
Retrograde 24 Jul – 22 Sep (9 weeks), 5°18' Pisces back to 25°19' Aquarius; shadow from 12 Jun to 02 Nov. Stations at 11:11 and 09:16 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 1924· once this year
Retrograde 06 Apr – 07 Aug (18 weeks), 19°54' Sagittarius back to 10°03' Sagittarius; shadow from 10 Jan to 01 Nov. Stations at 01:27 and 02:10 UT.
♄︎Saturn retrograde 1924· once this year
Retrograde 11 Feb – 29 Jun (20 weeks), 2°20' Scorpio back to 25°37' Libra; shadow from 07 Nov 1923 to 05 Oct. Stations at 01:16 and 00:36 UT.
♅︎Uranus retrograde 1924· once this year
Retrograde 26 Jun – 27 Nov (22 weeks), 21°30' Pisces back to 17°35' Pisces; shadow from 09 Mar to 13 Mar 1925. Stations at 12:02 and 04:10 UT.
♆︎Neptune retrograde 1924· twice this year
Retrograde 23 Nov 1923 – 28 Apr (22 weeks), 20°23' Leo back to 17°35' Leo; shadow from 03 Aug 1923 to 20 Aug. Stations at 17:23 and 15:33 UT.
Retrograde 25 Nov – 01 May 1925 (22 weeks), 22°35' Leo back to 19°47' Leo; shadow from 04 Aug to 23 Aug 1925. Stations at 03:04 and 01:35 UT.
♇︎Pluto retrograde 1924· twice this year
Retrograde 13 Oct 1923 – 24 Mar (23 weeks), 12°23' Cancer back to 10°14' Cancer; shadow from 14 Jun 1923 to 23 Jul. Stations at 23:44 and 12:47 UT.
Retrograde 14 Oct – 25 Mar 1925 (23 weeks), 13°33' Cancer back to 11°24' Cancer; shadow from 14 Jun to 25 Jul 1925. Stations at 09:46 and 23:15 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.