POST/api/astro/mundane/stations/1 credit

Retrograde stations

When each planet turns retrograde, and when it turns direct again. The moment of station is where the planet's apparent motion passes through zero, solved to within a second. Each event gives the sign and degree it stations at. The Sun and Moon never station and the mean node is always retrograde, so those three are simply absent rather than reported as having none.

https://yogataraapi.prahlad.app/api/astro/mundane/stations/

Test Request

Authentication

Send your key in the X-API-Key header. Keys are server-side credentials — never put one in browser JavaScript or a mobile app.

X-API-Key: yt_live_a1b2c3d4_…
Content-Type: application/json

Request fields

Field	Type	Required	Notes
date_time	string (date-time)	required	The moment to calculate for, ISO 8601. ALWAYS include an offset or a trailing Z - a value with no zone is read as Asia/Kolkata (UTC+05:30), not UTC, and can return the previous day's result with a 200. '2026-09-01T06:00:00Z' and '2026-09-01 06:00:00' are different instants and give different answers.
end_date_time	string (date-time)	required	End of the window.
bodies	array	optional	Defaults to all eleven. Narrow it to keep responses small.
keys	array	optional	Which calculations to return, as a list of names. See the key table for this endpoint; an unrecognised name rejects the whole request. One call costs one credit however many keys you ask for, so request everything you need at once rather than making several calls.
latitude	number (double)	optional	Latitude of the place, in decimal degrees. Positive is north, negative is south. Example: 26.9124 for Jaipur, 40.7128 for New York. Minutes and seconds are not accepted - convert first.
longitude	number (double)	optional	Longitude of the place, in decimal degrees. Positive is east, negative is west. Example: 75.7873 for Jaipur, -74.0060 for New York. Note the sign: a missing minus puts New York in China.
timezone_as_float	number (double)	optional	UTC offset of the place, in hours, as a decimal. Example: 5.5 for India (UTC+05:30), -5 for New York in winter, 5.75 for Nepal. This is NOT validated against date_time - if the two disagree you get a successful response for the wrong moment, so derive both from the same source. Use the offset in force on that date, not today's: a summer birth in a country with daylight saving needs the summer offset. min -12 · max 14

Example request

curl -X POST https://yogataraapi.prahlad.app/api/astro/mundane/stations/ \
  -H "X-API-Key: $OCCULT_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"date_time":"2026-01-01T00:00:00+00:00","end_date_time":"2026-12-31T23:59:59+00:00","timezone_as_float":0,"bodies":["mercury","mars"]}'

Response

{
  "data": {
    "count": 6,
    "stations": [
      {
        "type": "station",
        "body": "mercury",
        "station": "retrograde",
        "datetime_utc": "2026-02-26T06:48:10Z",
        "julian_day_ut": 2461097.78344903,
        "sign": "Pisces",
        "sign_index": 12,
        "degree_in_sign": 22.5653
      },
      {
        "type": "station",
        "body": "mercury",
        "station": "direct",
        "datetime_utc": "2026-03-20T19:32:50Z",
        "julian_day_ut": 2461120.31446844,
        "sign": "Pisces",
        "sign_index": 12,
        "degree_in_sign": 8.4908
      },
      {
        "type": "station",
        "body": "mercury",
        "station": "retrograde",
        "datetime_utc": "2026-06-29T17:35:55Z",
        "julian_day_ut": 2461221.23327872,
        "sign": "Cancer",
        "sign_index": 4,
        "degree_in_sign": 26.2574
      },
      {
        "type": "station",
        "body": "mercury",
        "station": "direct",
        "datetime_utc": "2026-07-23T22:57:52Z",
        "julian_day_ut": 2461245.45684821,
        "sign": "Cancer",
        "sign_index": 4,
        "degree_in_sign": 16.3165
      },
      {
        "type": "station",
        "body": "mercury",
        "station": "retrograde",
        "datetime_utc": "2026-10-24T07:12:43Z",
        "julian_day_ut": 2461337.80049678,
        "sign": "Scorpio",
        "sign_index": 8,
        "degree_in_sign": 20.979
      },
      {
        "type": "station",
        "body": "mercury",
        "station": "direct",
        "datetime_utc": "2026-11-13T15:53:53Z",
        "julian_day_ut": 2461358.16241616,
        "sign": "Scorpio",
        "sign_index": 8,
        "degree_in_sign": 5.0335
      }
    ],
    "from": "2026-01-01T00:00:00Z",
    "to": "2026-12-31T23:59:59Z",
    "window_days": 365
  },
  "status": 200,
  "is_error": false,
  "message": "successful"
}

Captured from a real call using the exact request above. Results sit under data.

Errors

Metering errors return { "error": "…", "message": "<code>", "is_error": true }. Show error to people and branch on message. See the error reference.