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 1950· 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 08 Jan – 29 Jan (3 weeks), 4°07' Aquarius back to 18°03' Capricorn; shadow from 23 Dec 1949 to 18 Feb. Stations at 16:51 and 05:04 UT.
Retrograde 03 May – 27 May (3 weeks), 27°31' Taurus back to 18°30' Taurus; shadow from 19 Apr to 12 Jun. Stations at 16:13 and 12:23 UT.
Retrograde 04 Sep – 26 Sep (3 weeks), 2°25' Libra back to 17°56' Virgo; shadow from 14 Aug to 11 Oct. Stations at 00:07 and 12:00 UT.
Retrograde 23 Dec – 12 Jan 1951 (3 weeks), 18°10' Capricorn back to 1°54' Capricorn; shadow from 06 Dec to 01 Feb 1951. Stations at 14:44 and 15:36 UT.
♀︎Venus retrograde 1950· once this year
Retrograde 10 Jan – 20 Feb (6 weeks), 18°44' Aquarius back to 3°06' Aquarius; shadow from 09 Dec 1949 to 24 Mar. Stations at 13:40 and 18:06 UT.
♂︎Mars retrograde 1950· once this year
Retrograde 12 Feb – 03 May (11 weeks), 11°02' Libra back to 22°00' Virgo; shadow from 07 Dec 1949 to 07 Jul. Stations at 05:44 and 15:54 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 1950· once this year
Retrograde 27 Jun – 24 Oct (17 weeks), 7°27' Pisces back to 27°35' Aquarius; shadow from 02 Apr to 14 Jan 1951. Stations at 00:10 and 06:30 UT.
♄︎Saturn retrograde 1950· once this year
Retrograde 30 Dec 1949 – 15 May (19 weeks), 19°26' Virgo back to 12°34' Virgo; shadow from 26 Sep 1949 to 20 Aug. Stations at 04:08 and 09:18 UT.
♅︎Uranus retrograde 1950· twice this year
Retrograde 11 Oct 1949 – 09 Mar (21 weeks), 5°01' Cancer back to 0°56' Cancer; shadow from 25 Jun 1949 to 24 Jun. Stations at 05:30 and 19:43 UT.
Retrograde 15 Oct – 14 Mar 1951 (21 weeks), 9°29' Cancer back to 5°24' Cancer; shadow from 30 Jun to 29 Jun 1951. Stations at 23:52 and 10:36 UT.
♆︎Neptune retrograde 1950· once this year
Retrograde 18 Jan – 26 Jun (23 weeks), 17°21' Libra back to 14°34' Libra; shadow from 29 Sep 1949 to 18 Oct. Stations at 19:16 and 08:11 UT.
♇︎Pluto retrograde 1950· twice this year
Retrograde 19 Nov 1949 – 28 Apr (23 weeks), 18°12' Leo back to 15°46' Leo; shadow from 26 Jul 1949 to 23 Aug. Stations at 17:58 and 08:40 UT.
Retrograde 21 Nov – 30 Apr 1951 (23 weeks), 19°51' Leo back to 17°24' Leo; shadow from 28 Jul to 24 Aug 1951. Stations at 16:01 and 04:56 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.