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 1993· 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 27 Feb – 22 Mar (3 weeks), 24°12' Pisces back to 10°17' Pisces; shadow from 13 Feb to 11 Apr. Stations at 22:53 and 13:45 UT.
Retrograde 01 Jul – 25 Jul (3 weeks), 28°15' Cancer back to 18°08' Cancer; shadow from 14 Jun to 09 Aug. Stations at 15:30 and 20:49 UT.
Retrograde 25 Oct – 15 Nov (3 weeks), 22°30' Scorpio back to 6°31' Scorpio; shadow from 06 Oct to 01 Dec. Stations at 22:39 and 05:41 UT.
♀︎Venus retrograde 1993· once this year
Retrograde 11 Mar – 22 Apr (6 weeks), 20°01' Aries back to 3°44' Aries; shadow from 06 Feb to 26 May. Stations at 09:27 and 14:12 UT.
♂︎Mars retrograde 1993· once this year
Retrograde 28 Nov 1992 – 15 Feb (11 weeks), 27°37' Cancer back to 8°40' Cancer; shadow from 28 Sep 1992 to 22 Apr. Stations at 23:29 and 07:42 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 1993· once this year
Retrograde 28 Jan – 01 Jun (18 weeks), 14°41' Libra back to 4°45' Libra; shadow from 02 Nov 1992 to 29 Aug. Stations at 23:07 and 01:14 UT.
♄︎Saturn retrograde 1993· once this year
Retrograde 10 Jun – 28 Oct (20 weeks), 0°19' Pisces back to 23°37' Aquarius; shadow from 04 Mar to 31 Jan 1994. Stations at 05:34 and 03:41 UT.
♅︎Uranus retrograde 1993· once this year
Retrograde 26 Apr – 27 Sep (22 weeks), 22°11' Capricorn back to 18°13' Capricorn; shadow from 10 Jan to 11 Jan 1994. Stations at 10:01 and 12:10 UT.
♆︎Neptune retrograde 1993· once this year
Retrograde 22 Apr – 30 Sep (23 weeks), 21°09' Capricorn back to 18°22' Capricorn; shadow from 01 Jan to 19 Jan 1994. Stations at 22:41 and 06:10 UT.
♇︎Pluto retrograde 1993· once this year
Retrograde 26 Feb – 02 Aug (22 weeks), 25°31' Scorpio back to 22°43' Scorpio; shadow from 11 Nov 1992 to 20 Nov. Stations at 14:40 and 19:02 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.