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 1964· 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 26 Dec 1963 – 15 Jan (3 weeks), 20°44' Capricorn back to 4°29' Capricorn; shadow from 09 Dec 1963 to 04 Feb. Stations at 09:38 and 11:46 UT.
Retrograde 16 Apr – 10 May (3 weeks), 11°31' Taurus back to 1°31' Taurus; shadow from 03 Apr to 27 May. Stations at 21:46 and 16:14 UT.
Retrograde 19 Aug – 11 Sep (3 weeks), 17°57' Virgo back to 4°17' Virgo; shadow from 30 Jul to 26 Sep. Stations at 14:14 and 17:46 UT.
Retrograde 09 Dec – 29 Dec (3 weeks), 4°53' Capricorn back to 18°34' Sagittarius; shadow from 21 Nov to 17 Jan 1965. Stations at 07:02 and 02:23 UT.
♀︎Venus retrograde 1964· once this year
Retrograde 29 May – 11 Jul (6 weeks), 6°52' Cancer back to 20°21' Gemini; shadow from 25 Apr to 14 Aug. Stations at 10:28 and 13:02 UT.
♂︎Mars retrograde 1964· not retrograde this year
Mars holds a straight course through 1964; no spell, no shadow, no station to mark.
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 1964· once this year
Retrograde 14 Sep – 10 Jan 1965 (17 weeks), 26°07' Taurus back to 16°06' Taurus; shadow from 21 Jun to 04 Apr 1965. Stations at 19:02 and 09:25 UT.
♄︎Saturn retrograde 1964· once this year
Retrograde 15 Jun – 01 Nov (20 weeks), 5°02' Pisces back to 28°20' Aquarius; shadow from 09 Mar to 05 Feb 1965. Stations at 03:28 and 20:42 UT.
♅︎Uranus retrograde 1964· twice this year
Retrograde 16 Dec 1963 – 13 May (21 weeks), 10°04' Virgo back to 5°54' Virgo; shadow from 02 Sep 1963 to 27 Aug. Stations at 05:23 and 11:46 UT.
Retrograde 20 Dec – 18 May 1965 (21 weeks), 14°50' Virgo back to 10°41' Virgo; shadow from 06 Sep to 02 Sep 1965. Stations at 06:14 and 14:27 UT.
♆︎Neptune retrograde 1964· once this year
Retrograde 18 Feb – 27 Jul (23 weeks), 17°49' Scorpio back to 15°03' Scorpio; shadow from 30 Oct 1963 to 17 Nov. Stations at 14:42 and 07:12 UT.
♇︎Pluto retrograde 1964· twice this year
Retrograde 17 Dec 1963 – 22 May (23 weeks), 14°13' Virgo back to 11°35' Virgo; shadow from 27 Aug 1963 to 13 Sep. Stations at 07:18 and 21:27 UT.
Retrograde 18 Dec – 25 May 1965 (22 weeks), 16°19' Virgo back to 13°40' Virgo; shadow from 28 Aug to 15 Sep 1965. Stations at 18:01 and 05:24 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.