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 1945· 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 13 Dec 1944 – 02 Jan (3 weeks), 8°57' Capricorn back to 22°39' Sagittarius; shadow from 25 Nov 1944 to 21 Jan. Stations at 16:06 and 12:51 UT.
Retrograde 03 Apr – 27 Apr (3 weeks), 27°55' Aries back to 16°51' Aries; shadow from 20 Mar to 14 May. Stations at 12:13 and 03:46 UT.
Retrograde 06 Aug – 30 Aug (3 weeks), 4°48' Virgo back to 21°58' Leo; shadow from 18 Jul to 13 Sep. Stations at 18:12 and 08:56 UT.
Retrograde 27 Nov – 17 Dec (3 weeks), 23°08' Sagittarius back to 6°51' Sagittarius; shadow from 08 Nov to 04 Jan 1946. Stations at 11:55 and 06:18 UT.
♀︎Venus retrograde 1945· once this year
Retrograde 25 Mar – 06 May (6 weeks), 3°34' Taurus back to 17°11' Aries; shadow from 20 Feb to 09 Jun. Stations at 11:23 and 21:03 UT.
♂︎Mars retrograde 1945· once this year
Retrograde 04 Dec – 21 Feb 1946 (11 weeks), 3°13' Leo back to 14°06' Cancer; shadow from 03 Oct to 29 Apr 1946. Stations at 22:48 and 21:12 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 1945· once this year
Retrograde 12 Jan – 14 May (18 weeks), 27°29' Virgo back to 17°31' Virgo; shadow from 17 Oct 1944 to 12 Aug. Stations at 04:51 and 17:34 UT.
♄︎Saturn retrograde 1945· twice this year
Retrograde 23 Oct 1944 – 05 Mar (19 weeks), 10°47' Cancer back to 3°49' Cancer; shadow from 20 Jul 1944 to 08 Jun. Stations at 05:32 and 22:29 UT.
Retrograde 06 Nov – 20 Mar 1946 (19 weeks), 24°54' Cancer back to 17°56' Cancer; shadow from 03 Aug to 23 Jun 1946. Stations at 13:10 and 09:22 UT.
♅︎Uranus retrograde 1945· twice this year
Retrograde 18 Sep 1944 – 15 Feb (21 weeks), 13°08' Gemini back to 9°06' Gemini; shadow from 02 Jun 1944 to 02 Jun. Stations at 13:33 and 23:23 UT.
Retrograde 23 Sep – 20 Feb 1946 (21 weeks), 17°27' Gemini back to 13°24' Gemini; shadow from 07 Jun to 07 Jun 1946. Stations at 06:01 and 12:10 UT.
♆︎Neptune retrograde 1945· once this year
Retrograde 07 Jan – 14 Jun (23 weeks), 6°25' Libra back to 3°39' Libra; shadow from 18 Sep 1944 to 06 Oct. Stations at 16:52 and 20:42 UT.
♇︎Pluto retrograde 1945· twice this year
Retrograde 11 Nov 1944 – 20 Apr (23 weeks), 10°16' Leo back to 7°54' Leo; shadow from 16 Jul 1944 to 16 Aug. Stations at 05:08 and 10:11 UT.
Retrograde 13 Nov – 22 Apr 1946 (23 weeks), 11°48' Leo back to 9°26' Leo; shadow from 18 Jul to 17 Aug 1946. Stations at 01:18 and 03:40 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.