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 1994· 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 11 Feb – 05 Mar (3 weeks), 7°34' Pisces back to 22°37' Aquarius; shadow from 27 Jan to 25 Mar. Stations at 08:28 and 05:53 UT.
Retrograde 12 Jun – 06 Jul (3 weeks), 8°24' Cancer back to 29°25' Gemini; shadow from 28 May to 21 Jul. Stations at 17:53 and 19:36 UT.
Retrograde 09 Oct – 30 Oct (3 weeks), 6°28' Scorpio back to 20°48' Libra; shadow from 19 Sep to 15 Nov. Stations at 06:43 and 04:06 UT.
♀︎Venus retrograde 1994· once this year
Retrograde 13 Oct – 23 Nov (6 weeks), 18°00' Scorpio back to 2°28' Scorpio; shadow from 10 Sep to 25 Dec. Stations at 05:43 and 16:54 UT.
♂︎Mars retrograde 1994· not retrograde this year
Mars holds a straight course through 1994; 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 1994· once this year
Retrograde 28 Feb – 02 Jul (18 weeks), 14°39' Scorpio back to 4°46' Scorpio; shadow from 03 Dec 1993 to 28 Sep. Stations at 13:47 and 03:34 UT.
♄︎Saturn retrograde 1994· once this year
Retrograde 23 Jun – 09 Nov (20 weeks), 12°24' Pisces back to 5°40' Pisces; shadow from 17 Mar to 12 Feb 1995. Stations at 03:50 and 08:28 UT.
♅︎Uranus retrograde 1994· once this year
Retrograde 30 Apr – 02 Oct (22 weeks), 26°20' Capricorn back to 22°23' Capricorn; shadow from 14 Jan to 15 Jan 1995. Stations at 22:26 and 01:49 UT.
♆︎Neptune retrograde 1994· once this year
Retrograde 25 Apr – 02 Oct (23 weeks), 23°21' Capricorn back to 20°34' Capricorn; shadow from 04 Jan to 21 Jan 1995. Stations at 10:19 and 17:53 UT.
♇︎Pluto retrograde 1994· once this year
Retrograde 01 Mar – 05 Aug (22 weeks), 28°04' Scorpio back to 25°16' Scorpio; shadow from 14 Nov 1993 to 23 Nov. Stations at 09:41 and 17:07 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.