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 1960· 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 01 Mar – 24 Mar (3 weeks), 25°52' Pisces back to 12°05' Pisces; shadow from 16 Feb to 12 Apr. Stations at 15:11 and 08:06 UT.
Retrograde 03 Jul – 27 Jul (3 weeks), 0°14' Leo back to 19°57' Cancer; shadow from 16 Jun to 10 Aug. Stations at 13:13 and 18:25 UT.
Retrograde 27 Oct – 16 Nov (3 weeks), 24°01' Scorpio back to 8°00' Scorpio; shadow from 07 Oct to 03 Dec. Stations at 13:59 and 19:26 UT.
♀︎Venus retrograde 1960· not retrograde this year
Venus holds a straight course through 1960; no spell, no shadow, no station to mark.
♂︎Mars retrograde 1960· once this year
Retrograde 20 Nov – 06 Feb 1961 (11 weeks), 18°39' Cancer back to 29°59' Gemini; shadow from 21 Sep to 12 Apr 1961. Stations at 17:09 and 02:54 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 1960· once this year
Retrograde 20 Apr – 20 Aug (17 weeks), 3°37' Capricorn back to 23°46' Sagittarius; shadow from 25 Jan to 14 Nov. Stations at 04:59 and 16:45 UT.
♄︎Saturn retrograde 1960· once this year
Retrograde 27 Apr – 15 Sep (20 weeks), 18°25' Capricorn back to 11°49' Capricorn; shadow from 21 Jan to 22 Dec. Stations at 14:07 and 22:38 UT.
♅︎Uranus retrograde 1960· twice this year
Retrograde 27 Nov 1959 – 24 Apr (21 weeks), 21°04' Leo back to 16°55' Leo; shadow from 13 Aug 1959 to 08 Aug. Stations at 04:45 and 08:00 UT.
Retrograde 01 Dec – 29 Apr 1961 (21 weeks), 25°48' Leo back to 21°39' Leo; shadow from 18 Aug to 13 Aug 1961. Stations at 04:17 and 07:50 UT.
♆︎Neptune retrograde 1960· once this year
Retrograde 10 Feb – 18 Jul (23 weeks), 9°08' Scorpio back to 6°21' Scorpio; shadow from 22 Oct 1959 to 08 Nov. Stations at 00:21 and 06:48 UT.
♇︎Pluto retrograde 1960· twice this year
Retrograde 08 Dec 1959 – 15 May (23 weeks), 6°10' Virgo back to 3°35' Virgo; shadow from 17 Aug 1959 to 06 Sep. Stations at 20:09 and 00:57 UT.
Retrograde 10 Dec – 17 May 1961 (23 weeks), 8°08' Virgo back to 5°32' Virgo; shadow from 19 Aug to 08 Sep 1961. Stations at 04:19 and 04:04 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.