Retrograde Calendar
About 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.
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☿︎Mercury retrograde 1700· four 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 07 Jan – 27 Jan (3 weeks), 3°01' Aquarius back to 17°00' Capricorn; shadow from 21 Dec 1699 to 16 Feb. Stations at 00:51 and 15:31 UT.
Retrograde 02 May – 26 May (3 weeks), 26°59' Taurus back to 18°06' Taurus; shadow from 18 Apr to 11 Jun. Stations at 13:13 and 09:37 UT.
Retrograde 02 Sep – 24 Sep (3 weeks), 1°26' Libra back to 16°48' Virgo; shadow from 13 Aug to 09 Oct. Stations at 12:30 and 21:11 UT.
Retrograde 21 Dec – 11 Jan 1701 (3 weeks), 17°03' Capricorn back to 0°49' Capricorn; shadow from 04 Dec to 30 Jan 1701. Stations at 22:45 and 01:08 UT.
♀︎Venus retrograde 1700· once this year
Retrograde 12 Aug – 24 Sep (6 weeks), 18°17' Virgo back to 2°07' Virgo; shadow from 10 Jul to 27 Oct. Stations at 16:04 and 08:17 UT.
♂︎Mars retrograde 1700· once this year
Retrograde 03 Apr – 17 Jun (11 weeks), 25°29' Scorpio back to 9°01' Scorpio; shadow from 01 Feb to 11 Aug. Stations at 05:36 and 00:16 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 1700· once this year
Retrograde 20 May – 18 Sep (17 weeks), 2°11' Aquarius back to 22°21' Capricorn; shadow from 23 Feb to 11 Dec. Stations at 11:44 and 09:51 UT.
♄︎Saturn retrograde 1700· once this year
Retrograde 25 Jun – 11 Nov (20 weeks), 14°21' Pisces back to 7°38' Pisces; shadow from 19 Mar to 14 Feb 1701. Stations at 02:29 and 01:29 UT.
♅︎Uranus retrograde 1700· twice this year
Retrograde 16 Oct 1699 – 14 Mar (21 weeks), 10°50' Cancer back to 6°44' Cancer; shadow from 01 Jul 1699 to 29 Jun. Stations at 14:31 and 23:14 UT.
Retrograde 21 Oct – 19 Mar 1701 (21 weeks), 15°22' Cancer back to 11°16' Cancer; shadow from 06 Jul to 04 Jul 1701. Stations at 09:33 and 16:20 UT.
♆︎Neptune retrograde 1700· once this year
Retrograde 11 Jul – 16 Dec (23 weeks), 7°46' Aries back to 4°57' Aries; shadow from 19 Mar to 06 Apr 1701. Stations at 02:41 and 05:54 UT.
♇︎Pluto retrograde 1700· twice this year
Retrograde 12 Nov 1699 – 20 Apr (23 weeks), 11°17' Leo back to 8°53' Leo; shadow from 18 Jul 1699 to 16 Aug. Stations at 02:26 and 22:40 UT.
Retrograde 13 Nov – 22 Apr 1701 (23 weeks), 12°53' Leo back to 10°28' Leo; shadow from 20 Jul to 18 Aug 1701. Stations at 23:50 and 18:43 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.