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 1927· 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 04 Mar – 27 Mar (3 weeks), 27°30' Pisces back to 13°54' Pisces; shadow from 18 Feb to 15 Apr. Stations at 07:34 and 02:31 UT.
Retrograde 06 Jul – 30 Jul (3 weeks), 2°13' Leo back to 21°45' Cancer; shadow from 19 Jun to 13 Aug. Stations at 10:46 and 15:43 UT.
Retrograde 30 Oct – 19 Nov (3 weeks), 25°32' Scorpio back to 9°30' Scorpio; shadow from 10 Oct to 06 Dec. Stations at 05:16 and 09:17 UT.
♀︎Venus retrograde 1927· once this year
Retrograde 20 Aug – 02 Oct (6 weeks), 24°59' Virgo back to 8°51' Virgo; shadow from 18 Jul to 03 Nov. Stations at 11:37 and 02:50 UT.
♂︎Mars retrograde 1927· not retrograde this year
Mars holds a straight course through 1927; 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 1927· once this year
Retrograde 24 Jul – 19 Nov (17 weeks), 3°31' Aries back to 23°36' Pisces; shadow from 30 Apr to 10 Feb 1928. Stations at 13:11 and 18:48 UT.
♄︎Saturn retrograde 1927· once this year
Retrograde 18 Mar – 05 Aug (20 weeks), 7°40' Sagittarius back to 1°01' Sagittarius; shadow from 11 Dec 1926 to 11 Nov. Stations at 00:53 and 18:50 UT.
♅︎Uranus retrograde 1927· once this year
Retrograde 09 Jul – 09 Dec (22 weeks), 3°24' Aries back to 29°29' Pisces; shadow from 22 Mar to 25 Mar 1928. Stations at 12:50 and 18:36 UT.
♆︎Neptune retrograde 1927· twice this year
Retrograde 29 Nov 1926 – 06 May (22 weeks), 26°59' Leo back to 24°11' Leo; shadow from 09 Aug 1926 to 28 Aug. Stations at 23:10 and 00:04 UT.
Retrograde 02 Dec – 07 May 1928 (22 weeks), 29°11' Leo back to 26°23' Leo; shadow from 11 Aug to 29 Aug 1928. Stations at 08:47 and 12:12 UT.
♇︎Pluto retrograde 1927· twice this year
Retrograde 17 Oct 1926 – 28 Mar (23 weeks), 15°56' Cancer back to 13°46' Cancer; shadow from 18 Jun 1926 to 27 Jul. Stations at 08:20 and 17:03 UT.
Retrograde 18 Oct – 29 Mar 1928 (23 weeks), 17°09' Cancer back to 14°58' Cancer; shadow from 19 Jun to 27 Jul 1928. Stations at 23:31 and 00:03 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.