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 1943· 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 15 Jan – 05 Feb (3 weeks), 10°50' Aquarius back to 24°55' Capricorn; shadow from 30 Dec 1942 to 25 Feb. Stations at 20:44 and 14:53 UT.
Retrograde 12 May – 05 Jun (3 weeks), 5°43' Gemini back to 27°00' Taurus; shadow from 27 Apr to 20 Jun. Stations at 05:19 and 01:21 UT.
Retrograde 11 Sep – 03 Oct (3 weeks), 9°29' Libra back to 24°41' Virgo; shadow from 22 Aug to 18 Oct. Stations at 15:16 and 18:44 UT.
Retrograde 30 Dec – 19 Jan 1944 (3 weeks), 24°50' Capricorn back to 8°38' Capricorn; shadow from 13 Dec to 08 Feb 1944. Stations at 18:29 and 23:22 UT.
♀︎Venus retrograde 1943· once this year
Retrograde 15 Aug – 27 Sep (6 weeks), 20°33' Virgo back to 4°21' Virgo; shadow from 13 Jul to 30 Oct. Stations at 16:37 and 09:14 UT.
♂︎Mars retrograde 1943· once this year
Retrograde 28 Oct – 10 Jan 1944 (11 weeks), 22°13' Gemini back to 4°51' Gemini; shadow from 01 Sep to 12 Mar 1944. Stations at 05:15 and 04:35 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 1943· twice this year
Retrograde 12 Nov 1942 – 12 Mar (17 weeks), 25°14' Cancer back to 15°10' Cancer; shadow from 18 Aug 1942 to 07 Jun. Stations at 14:27 and 02:12 UT.
Retrograde 13 Dec – 13 Apr 1944 (17 weeks), 27°03' Leo back to 17°02' Leo; shadow from 18 Sep to 11 Jul 1944. Stations at 23:31 and 02:12 UT.
♄︎Saturn retrograde 1943· twice this year
Retrograde 25 Sep 1942 – 06 Feb (19 weeks), 12°31' Gemini back to 5°35' Gemini; shadow from 21 Jun 1942 to 11 May. Stations at 05:31 and 07:57 UT.
Retrograde 09 Oct – 20 Feb 1944 (19 weeks), 26°37' Gemini back to 19°40' Gemini; shadow from 06 Jul to 24 May 1944. Stations at 18:05 and 13:23 UT.
♅︎Uranus retrograde 1943· twice this year
Retrograde 10 Sep 1942 – 08 Feb (22 weeks), 4°35' Gemini back to 0°34' Gemini; shadow from 25 May 1942 to 25 May. Stations at 07:30 and 00:56 UT.
Retrograde 14 Sep – 12 Feb 1944 (22 weeks), 8°50' Gemini back to 4°49' Gemini; shadow from 29 May to 29 May 1944. Stations at 22:34 and 12:18 UT.
♆︎Neptune retrograde 1943· once this year
Retrograde 03 Jan – 10 Jun (23 weeks), 2°03' Libra back to 29°16' Virgo; shadow from 14 Sep 1942 to 02 Oct. Stations at 21:21 and 22:22 UT.
♇︎Pluto retrograde 1943· twice this year
Retrograde 08 Nov 1942 – 18 Apr (23 weeks), 7°15' Leo back to 4°55' Leo; shadow from 13 Jul 1942 to 14 Aug. Stations at 14:55 and 03:18 UT.
Retrograde 10 Nov – 18 Apr 1944 (23 weeks), 8°45' Leo back to 6°24' Leo; shadow from 15 Jul to 14 Aug 1944. Stations at 08:56 and 19:53 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.