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.
☿︎Mercury retrograde 1701· 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 21 Dec 1700 – 11 Jan (3 weeks), 17°03' Capricorn back to 0°49' Capricorn; shadow from 04 Dec 1700 to 30 Jan. Stations at 22:45 and 01:08 UT.
Retrograde 13 Apr – 07 May (3 weeks), 7°53' Taurus back to 27°55' Aries; shadow from 30 Mar to 24 May. Stations at 12:14 and 07:04 UT.
Retrograde 16 Aug – 08 Sep (3 weeks), 14°16' Virgo back to 0°34' Virgo; shadow from 27 Jul to 22 Sep. Stations at 03:48 and 07:06 UT.
Retrograde 05 Dec – 25 Dec (3 weeks), 1°11' Capricorn back to 14°52' Sagittarius; shadow from 17 Nov to 13 Jan 1702. Stations at 20:07 and 15:33 UT.
♀︎Venus retrograde 1701· not retrograde this year
Venus holds a straight course through 1701; no spell, no shadow, no station to mark.
♂︎Mars retrograde 1701· not retrograde this year
Mars holds a straight course through 1701; 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 1701· once this year
Retrograde 27 Jun – 24 Oct (17 weeks), 7°41' Pisces back to 27°48' Aquarius; shadow from 03 Apr to 14 Jan 1702. Stations at 02:20 and 04:08 UT.
♄︎Saturn retrograde 1701· once this year
Retrograde 08 Jul – 23 Nov (20 weeks), 26°48' Pisces back to 20°02' Pisces; shadow from 01 Apr to 26 Feb 1702. Stations at 10:42 and 14:00 UT.
♅︎Uranus retrograde 1701· twice this year
Retrograde 21 Oct 1700 – 19 Mar (21 weeks), 15°22' Cancer back to 11°16' Cancer; shadow from 06 Jul 1700 to 04 Jul. Stations at 09:33 and 16:20 UT.
Retrograde 26 Oct – 24 Mar 1702 (21 weeks), 19°56' Cancer back to 15°49' Cancer; shadow from 11 Jul to 09 Jul 1702. Stations at 07:20 and 12:42 UT.
♆︎Neptune retrograde 1701· once this year
Retrograde 13 Jul – 18 Dec (23 weeks), 10°00' Aries back to 7°12' Aries; shadow from 22 Mar to 08 Apr 1702. Stations at 14:33 and 17:21 UT.
♇︎Pluto retrograde 1701· twice this year
Retrograde 13 Nov 1700 – 22 Apr (23 weeks), 12°53' Leo back to 10°28' Leo; shadow from 20 Jul 1700 to 18 Aug. Stations at 23:50 and 18:43 UT.
Retrograde 15 Nov – 24 Apr 1702 (23 weeks), 14°31' Leo back to 12°05' Leo; shadow from 22 Jul to 19 Aug 1702. Stations at 22:27 and 15:11 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.