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 1705· 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 02 Feb – 23 Feb (3 weeks), 28°36' Aquarius back to 13°26' Aquarius; shadow from 18 Jan to 16 Mar. Stations at 05:51 and 22:23 UT.
Retrograde 02 Jun – 26 Jun (3 weeks), 28°23' Gemini back to 19°36' Gemini; shadow from 18 May to 11 Jul. Stations at 19:59 and 20:59 UT.
Retrograde 30 Sep – 21 Oct (3 weeks), 27°32' Libra back to 11°58' Libra; shadow from 09 Sep to 05 Nov. Stations at 00:58 and 03:11 UT.
♀︎Venus retrograde 1705· once this year
Retrograde 31 May – 14 Jul (6 weeks), 8°50' Cancer back to 22°19' Gemini; shadow from 28 Apr to 16 Aug. Stations at 22:51 and 01:19 UT.
♂︎Mars retrograde 1705· not retrograde this year
Mars holds a straight course through 1705; 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 1705· twice this year
Retrograde 14 Oct 1704 – 10 Feb (17 weeks), 26°29' Gemini back to 16°25' Gemini; shadow from 20 Jul 1704 to 07 May. Stations at 17:38 and 03:29 UT.
Retrograde 16 Nov – 16 Mar 1706 (17 weeks), 29°42' Cancer back to 19°38' Cancer; shadow from 21 Aug to 12 Jun 1706. Stations at 09:35 and 08:24 UT.
♄︎Saturn retrograde 1705· once this year
Retrograde 01 Sep – 14 Jan 1706 (19 weeks), 19°48' Taurus back to 12°53' Taurus; shadow from 28 May to 18 Apr 1706. Stations at 15:49 and 09:28 UT.
♅︎Uranus retrograde 1705· twice this year
Retrograde 09 Nov 1704 – 07 Apr (21 weeks), 3°49' Leo back to 29°41' Cancer; shadow from 26 Jul 1704 to 22 Jul. Stations at 01:12 and 02:41 UT.
Retrograde 14 Nov – 12 Apr 1706 (21 weeks), 8°30' Leo back to 4°22' Leo; shadow from 31 Jul to 27 Jul 1706. Stations at 01:01 and 01:54 UT.
♆︎Neptune retrograde 1705· once this year
Retrograde 22 Jul – 27 Dec (23 weeks), 19°01' Aries back to 16°12' Aries; shadow from 31 Mar to 17 Apr 1706. Stations at 20:59 and 15:06 UT.
♇︎Pluto retrograde 1705· twice this year
Retrograde 20 Nov 1704 – 29 Apr (23 weeks), 19°34' Leo back to 17°06' Leo; shadow from 28 Jul 1704 to 23 Aug. Stations at 22:19 and 00:42 UT.
Retrograde 22 Nov – 30 Apr 1706 (23 weeks), 21°19' Leo back to 18°50' Leo; shadow from 30 Jul to 24 Aug 1706. Stations at 23:59 and 23:23 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.