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 1944· 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 30 Dec 1943 – 19 Jan (3 weeks), 24°50' Capricorn back to 8°38' Capricorn; shadow from 13 Dec 1943 to 08 Feb. Stations at 18:29 and 23:22 UT.
Retrograde 22 Apr – 15 May (3 weeks), 16°24' Taurus back to 6°46' Taurus; shadow from 08 Apr to 01 Jun. Stations at 00:31 and 19:42 UT.
Retrograde 24 Aug – 16 Sep (3 weeks), 22°28' Virgo back to 8°30' Virgo; shadow from 04 Aug to 30 Sep. Stations at 08:22 and 06:45 UT.
Retrograde 13 Dec – 02 Jan 1945 (3 weeks), 8°57' Capricorn back to 22°39' Sagittarius; shadow from 25 Nov to 21 Jan 1945. Stations at 16:06 and 12:51 UT.
♀︎Venus retrograde 1944· not retrograde this year
Venus holds a straight course through 1944; no spell, no shadow, no station to mark.
♂︎Mars retrograde 1944· once this year
Retrograde 28 Oct 1943 – 10 Jan (11 weeks), 22°13' Gemini back to 4°51' Gemini; shadow from 01 Sep 1943 to 12 Mar. 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 1944· once this year
Retrograde 13 Dec 1943 – 13 Apr (17 weeks), 27°03' Leo back to 17°02' Leo; shadow from 18 Sep 1943 to 11 Jul. Stations at 23:31 and 02:12 UT.
♄︎Saturn retrograde 1944· twice this year
Retrograde 09 Oct 1943 – 20 Feb (19 weeks), 26°37' Gemini back to 19°40' Gemini; shadow from 06 Jul 1943 to 24 May. Stations at 18:05 and 13:23 UT.
Retrograde 23 Oct – 05 Mar 1945 (19 weeks), 10°47' Cancer back to 3°49' Cancer; shadow from 20 Jul to 08 Jun 1945. Stations at 05:32 and 22:29 UT.
♅︎Uranus retrograde 1944· twice this year
Retrograde 14 Sep 1943 – 12 Feb (22 weeks), 8°50' Gemini back to 4°49' Gemini; shadow from 29 May 1943 to 29 May. Stations at 22:34 and 12:18 UT.
Retrograde 18 Sep – 15 Feb 1945 (21 weeks), 13°08' Gemini back to 9°06' Gemini; shadow from 02 Jun to 02 Jun 1945. Stations at 13:33 and 23:23 UT.
♆︎Neptune retrograde 1944· once this year
Retrograde 06 Jan – 12 Jun (23 weeks), 4°14' Libra back to 1°27' Libra; shadow from 16 Sep 1943 to 04 Oct. Stations at 06:21 and 10:40 UT.
♇︎Pluto retrograde 1944· twice this year
Retrograde 10 Nov 1943 – 18 Apr (23 weeks), 8°45' Leo back to 6°24' Leo; shadow from 15 Jul 1943 to 14 Aug. Stations at 08:56 and 19:53 UT.
Retrograde 11 Nov – 20 Apr 1945 (23 weeks), 10°16' Leo back to 7°54' Leo; shadow from 16 Jul to 16 Aug 1945. Stations at 05:08 and 10:11 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.