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 1952· three 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 26 Mar – 19 Apr (3 weeks), 20°25' Aries back to 8°40' Aries; shadow from 12 Mar to 07 May. Stations at 14:00 and 01:32 UT.
Retrograde 29 Jul – 22 Aug (3 weeks), 27°09' Leo back to 14°53' Leo; shadow from 11 Jul to 05 Sep. Stations at 20:32 and 16:51 UT.
Retrograde 20 Nov – 10 Dec (3 weeks), 16°31' Sagittarius back to 0°16' Sagittarius; shadow from 01 Nov to 28 Dec. Stations at 06:38 and 01:35 UT.
♀︎Venus retrograde 1952· not retrograde this year
Venus holds a straight course through 1952; no spell, no shadow, no station to mark.
♂︎Mars retrograde 1952· once this year
Retrograde 25 Mar – 10 Jun (11 weeks), 18°28' Scorpio back to 1°09' Scorpio; shadow from 22 Jan to 07 Aug. Stations at 11:08 and 02:45 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 1952· once this year
Retrograde 09 Sep – 05 Jan 1953 (17 weeks), 20°59' Taurus back to 10°58' Taurus; shadow from 16 Jun to 30 Mar 1953. Stations at 19:36 and 07:51 UT.
♄︎Saturn retrograde 1952· once this year
Retrograde 24 Jan – 10 Jun (20 weeks), 14°58' Libra back to 8°11' Libra; shadow from 21 Oct 1951 to 16 Sep. Stations at 17:42 and 13:29 UT.
♅︎Uranus retrograde 1952· twice this year
Retrograde 20 Oct 1951 – 18 Mar (21 weeks), 13°59' Cancer back to 9°54' Cancer; shadow from 05 Jul 1951 to 02 Jul. Stations at 21:03 and 04:27 UT.
Retrograde 24 Oct – 22 Mar 1953 (21 weeks), 18°32' Cancer back to 14°26' Cancer; shadow from 10 Jul to 07 Jul 1953. Stations at 16:31 and 21:18 UT.
♆︎Neptune retrograde 1952· once this year
Retrograde 23 Jan – 30 Jun (23 weeks), 21°42' Libra back to 18°55' Libra; shadow from 04 Oct 1951 to 21 Oct. Stations at 15:49 and 09:02 UT.
♇︎Pluto retrograde 1952· twice this year
Retrograde 23 Nov 1951 – 30 Apr (23 weeks), 21°33' Leo back to 19°05' Leo; shadow from 30 Jul 1951 to 25 Aug. Stations at 16:39 and 23:03 UT.
Retrograde 24 Nov – 02 May 1953 (23 weeks), 23°16' Leo back to 20°47' Leo; shadow from 01 Aug to 27 Aug 1953. Stations at 17:20 and 20:37 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.