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 1985· 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 24 Mar – 17 Apr (3 weeks), 18°39' Aries back to 6°43' Aries; shadow from 10 Mar to 05 May. Stations at 19:05 and 05:20 UT.
Retrograde 28 Jul – 20 Aug (3 weeks), 25°18' Leo back to 13°12' Leo; shadow from 09 Jul to 04 Sep. Stations at 00:51 and 22:44 UT.
Retrograde 18 Nov – 08 Dec (3 weeks), 15°00' Sagittarius back to 28°46' Scorpio; shadow from 30 Oct to 26 Dec. Stations at 16:04 and 11:29 UT.
♀︎Venus retrograde 1985· once this year
Retrograde 13 Mar – 25 Apr (6 weeks), 22°17' Aries back to 6°00' Aries; shadow from 09 Feb to 28 May. Stations at 18:18 and 00:14 UT.
♂︎Mars retrograde 1985· not retrograde this year
Mars holds a straight course through 1985; 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 1985· once this year
Retrograde 04 Jun – 03 Oct (17 weeks), 16°57' Aquarius back to 7°07' Aquarius; shadow from 11 Mar to 25 Dec. Stations at 22:18 and 08:09 UT.
♄︎Saturn retrograde 1985· once this year
Retrograde 07 Mar – 25 Jul (20 weeks), 28°07' Scorpio back to 21°28' Scorpio; shadow from 01 Dec 1984 to 01 Nov. Stations at 12:42 and 19:33 UT.
♅︎Uranus retrograde 1985· once this year
Retrograde 22 Mar – 23 Aug (22 weeks), 17°59' Sagittarius back to 13°57' Sagittarius; shadow from 08 Dec 1984 to 06 Dec. Stations at 22:07 and 00:31 UT.
♆︎Neptune retrograde 1985· once this year
Retrograde 05 Apr – 12 Sep (23 weeks), 3°36' Capricorn back to 0°50' Capricorn; shadow from 15 Dec 1984 to 01 Jan 1986. Stations at 01:39 and 09:42 UT.
♇︎Pluto retrograde 1985· once this year
Retrograde 05 Feb – 12 Jul (22 weeks), 4°44' Scorpio back to 1°55' Scorpio; shadow from 21 Oct 1984 to 29 Oct. Stations at 23:36 and 08:21 UT.
All times Universal Time (UT), from the same engine as the sky. 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.