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 1937· 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 05 Jan – 26 Jan (3 weeks), 1°32' Aquarius back to 15°26' Capricorn; shadow from 20 Dec 1936 to 15 Feb. Stations at 22:02 and 08:14 UT.
Retrograde 30 Apr – 24 May (3 weeks), 24°26' Taurus back to 15°17' Taurus; shadow from 16 Apr to 09 Jun. Stations at 10:09 and 06:15 UT.
Retrograde 01 Sep – 23 Sep (3 weeks), 29°41' Virgo back to 15°20' Virgo; shadow from 11 Aug to 08 Oct. Stations at 01:01 and 15:39 UT.
Retrograde 20 Dec – 09 Jan 1938 (3 weeks), 15°36' Capricorn back to 29°20' Sagittarius; shadow from 03 Dec to 29 Jan 1938. Stations at 19:51 and 19:33 UT.
♀︎Venus retrograde 1937· once this year
Retrograde 27 Mar – 09 May (6 weeks), 5°50' Taurus back to 19°26' Aries; shadow from 22 Feb to 11 Jun. Stations at 19:05 and 06:00 UT.
♂︎Mars retrograde 1937· once this year
Retrograde 14 Apr – 27 Jun (11 weeks), 5°32' Sagittarius back to 19°31' Scorpio; shadow from 13 Feb to 20 Aug. Stations at 14:43 and 10:09 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 1937· once this year
Retrograde 15 May – 13 Sep (17 weeks), 27°19' Capricorn back to 17°28' Capricorn; shadow from 18 Feb to 07 Dec. Stations at 13:04 and 23:15 UT.
♄︎Saturn retrograde 1937· once this year
Retrograde 17 Jul – 01 Dec (20 weeks), 5°07' Aries back to 28°20' Pisces; shadow from 10 Apr to 06 Mar 1938. Stations at 05:12 and 23:02 UT.
♅︎Uranus retrograde 1937· twice this year
Retrograde 15 Aug 1936 – 13 Jan (22 weeks), 9°35' Taurus back to 5°37' Taurus; shadow from 28 Apr 1936 to 30 Apr. Stations at 02:52 and 21:34 UT.
Retrograde 19 Aug – 18 Jan 1938 (22 weeks), 13°41' Taurus back to 9°42' Taurus; shadow from 02 May to 04 May 1938. Stations at 13:56 and 04:42 UT.
♆︎Neptune retrograde 1937· twice this year
Retrograde 21 Dec 1936 – 27 May (23 weeks), 18°58' Virgo back to 16°10' Virgo; shadow from 31 Aug 1936 to 19 Sep. Stations at 05:56 and 22:58 UT.
Retrograde 23 Dec – 30 May 1938 (23 weeks), 21°09' Virgo back to 18°21' Virgo; shadow from 02 Sep to 21 Sep 1938. Stations at 17:05 and 10:43 UT.
♇︎Pluto retrograde 1937· twice this year
Retrograde 30 Oct 1936 – 09 Apr (23 weeks), 28°45' Cancer back to 26°29' Cancer; shadow from 02 Jul 1936 to 07 Aug. Stations at 04:47 and 13:45 UT.
Retrograde 31 Oct – 11 Apr 1938 (23 weeks), 0°07' Leo back to 27°50' Cancer; shadow from 04 Jul to 08 Aug 1938. Stations at 19:56 and 01:37 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.