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 2011· 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 30 Mar – 23 Apr (3 weeks), 24°21' Aries back to 12°53' Aries; shadow from 17 Mar to 11 May. Stations at 20:51 and 10:03 UT.
Retrograde 03 Aug – 26 Aug (3 weeks), 1°12' Virgo back to 18°41' Leo; shadow from 15 Jul to 10 Sep. Stations at 03:52 and 21:58 UT.
Retrograde 24 Nov – 14 Dec (3 weeks), 20°07' Sagittarius back to 3°51' Sagittarius; shadow from 05 Nov to 01 Jan 2012. Stations at 07:12 and 01:48 UT.
♀︎Venus retrograde 2011· not retrograde this year
Venus holds a straight course through 2011; no spell, no shadow, no station to mark.
♂︎Mars retrograde 2011· not retrograde this year
Mars holds a straight course through 2011; 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 2011· once this year
Retrograde 30 Aug – 25 Dec (17 weeks), 10°21' Taurus back to 0°21' Taurus; shadow from 06 Jun to 18 Mar 2012. Stations at 09:19 and 22:07 UT.
♄︎Saturn retrograde 2011· once this year
Retrograde 26 Jan – 13 Jun (20 weeks), 17°13' Libra back to 10°26' Libra; shadow from 23 Oct 2010 to 19 Sep. Stations at 06:01 and 03:59 UT.
♅︎Uranus retrograde 2011· once this year
Retrograde 10 Jul – 10 Dec (22 weeks), 4°33' Aries back to 0°38' Aries; shadow from 23 Mar to 25 Mar 2012. Stations at 00:14 and 06:55 UT.
♆︎Neptune retrograde 2011· once this year
Retrograde 03 Jun – 09 Nov (23 weeks), 0°55' Pisces back to 28°08' Aquarius; shadow from 10 Feb to 28 Feb 2012. Stations at 07:37 and 19:01 UT.
♇︎Pluto retrograde 2011· once this year
Retrograde 09 Apr – 16 Sep (23 weeks), 7°30' Capricorn back to 4°53' Capricorn; shadow from 19 Dec 2010 to 06 Jan 2012. Stations at 08:55 and 18:19 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.