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 1925· 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 18 Dec 1924 – 06 Jan (3 weeks), 13°02' Capricorn back to 26°45' Sagittarius; shadow from 30 Nov 1924 to 26 Jan. Stations at 00:59 and 23:34 UT.
Retrograde 08 Apr – 02 May (3 weeks), 2°39' Taurus back to 22°00' Aries; shadow from 25 Mar to 19 May. Stations at 11:02 and 04:21 UT.
Retrograde 11 Aug – 04 Sep (3 weeks), 9°27' Virgo back to 26°17' Leo; shadow from 23 Jul to 18 Sep. Stations at 13:29 and 00:29 UT.
Retrograde 01 Dec – 21 Dec (3 weeks), 27°12' Sagittarius back to 10°54' Sagittarius; shadow from 13 Nov to 09 Jan 1926. Stations at 21:25 and 15:52 UT.
♀︎Venus retrograde 1925· not retrograde this year
Venus holds a straight course through 1925; no spell, no shadow, no station to mark.
♂︎Mars retrograde 1925· not retrograde this year
Mars holds a straight course through 1925; 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 1925· once this year
Retrograde 10 May – 09 Sep (17 weeks), 22°31' Capricorn back to 12°41' Capricorn; shadow from 13 Feb to 03 Dec. Stations at 15:23 and 07:14 UT.
♄︎Saturn retrograde 1925· once this year
Retrograde 22 Feb – 11 Jul (20 weeks), 14°18' Scorpio back to 7°37' Scorpio; shadow from 18 Nov 1924 to 18 Oct. Stations at 04:50 and 21:15 UT.
♅︎Uranus retrograde 1925· once this year
Retrograde 30 Jun – 01 Dec (22 weeks), 25°28' Pisces back to 21°33' Pisces; shadow from 14 Mar to 17 Mar 1926. Stations at 19:31 and 08:53 UT.
♆︎Neptune retrograde 1925· twice this year
Retrograde 25 Nov 1924 – 01 May (22 weeks), 22°35' Leo back to 19°47' Leo; shadow from 04 Aug 1924 to 23 Aug. Stations at 03:04 and 01:35 UT.
Retrograde 27 Nov – 03 May 1926 (22 weeks), 24°47' Leo back to 21°59' Leo; shadow from 06 Aug to 25 Aug 1926. Stations at 12:24 and 13:45 UT.
♇︎Pluto retrograde 1925· twice this year
Retrograde 14 Oct 1924 – 25 Mar (23 weeks), 13°33' Cancer back to 11°24' Cancer; shadow from 14 Jun 1924 to 25 Jul. Stations at 09:46 and 23:15 UT.
Retrograde 15 Oct – 27 Mar 1926 (23 weeks), 14°44' Cancer back to 12°35' Cancer; shadow from 16 Jun to 26 Jul 1926. Stations at 20:14 and 08:23 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.