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 1703· 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 08 Mar – 31 Mar (3 weeks), 2°05' Aries back to 19°06' Pisces; shadow from 22 Feb to 19 Apr. Stations at 16:11 and 18:32 UT.
Retrograde 11 Jul – 04 Aug (3 weeks), 7°45' Leo back to 26°38' Cancer; shadow from 23 Jun to 18 Aug. Stations at 10:21 and 13:47 UT.
Retrograde 03 Nov – 23 Nov (3 weeks), 29°31' Scorpio back to 13°24' Scorpio; shadow from 14 Oct to 10 Dec. Stations at 07:05 and 06:46 UT.
♀︎Venus retrograde 1703· once this year
Retrograde 26 Oct – 06 Dec (6 weeks), 0°26' Sagittarius back to 15°05' Scorpio; shadow from 24 Sep to 06 Jan 1704. Stations at 04:26 and 08:18 UT.
♂︎Mars retrograde 1703· not retrograde this year
Mars holds a straight course through 1703; 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 1703· once this year
Retrograde 10 Sep – 06 Jan 1704 (17 weeks), 21°13' Taurus back to 11°12' Taurus; shadow from 17 Jun to 30 Mar 1704. Stations at 15:23 and 05:04 UT.
♄︎Saturn retrograde 1703· once this year
Retrograde 05 Aug – 19 Dec (19 weeks), 22°40' Aries back to 15°49' Aries; shadow from 30 Apr to 22 Mar 1704. Stations at 01:40 and 08:01 UT.
♅︎Uranus retrograde 1703· twice this year
Retrograde 31 Oct 1702 – 29 Mar (21 weeks), 24°32' Cancer back to 20°25' Cancer; shadow from 17 Jul 1702 to 13 Jul. Stations at 03:53 and 07:48 UT.
Retrograde 05 Nov – 02 Apr 1704 (21 weeks), 29°10' Cancer back to 25°02' Cancer; shadow from 22 Jul to 17 Jul 1704. Stations at 02:51 and 05:37 UT.
♆︎Neptune retrograde 1703· once this year
Retrograde 18 Jul – 23 Dec (23 weeks), 14°30' Aries back to 11°42' Aries; shadow from 27 Mar to 12 Apr 1704. Stations at 17:14 and 15:11 UT.
♇︎Pluto retrograde 1703· twice this year
Retrograde 17 Nov 1702 – 26 Apr (23 weeks), 16°10' Leo back to 13°43' Leo; shadow from 24 Jul 1702 to 21 Aug. Stations at 20:55 and 09:30 UT.
Retrograde 19 Nov – 27 Apr 1704 (23 weeks), 17°51' Leo back to 15°24' Leo; shadow from 27 Jul to 21 Aug 1704. Stations at 20:06 and 05:41 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.