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 1706· 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 17 Jan – 06 Feb (3 weeks), 12°21' Aquarius back to 26°34' Capricorn; shadow from 01 Jan to 27 Feb. Stations at 00:03 and 23:18 UT.
Retrograde 14 May – 07 Jun (3 weeks), 8°23' Gemini back to 29°48' Taurus; shadow from 29 Apr to 22 Jun. Stations at 09:54 and 06:41 UT.
Retrograde 13 Sep – 04 Oct (3 weeks), 11°08' Libra back to 26°07' Virgo; shadow from 23 Aug to 20 Oct. Stations at 01:58 and 22:55 UT.
Retrograde 31 Dec – 21 Jan 1707 (3 weeks), 26°18' Capricorn back to 10°10' Capricorn; shadow from 15 Dec to 10 Feb 1707. Stations at 21:15 and 06:06 UT.
♀︎Venus retrograde 1706· not retrograde this year
Venus holds a straight course through 1706; no spell, no shadow, no station to mark.
♂︎Mars retrograde 1706· once this year
Retrograde 18 Oct – 30 Dec (10 weeks), 11°52' Gemini back to 24°53' Taurus; shadow from 23 Aug to 01 Mar 1707. Stations at 01:05 and 04:44 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 1706· twice this year
Retrograde 16 Nov 1705 – 16 Mar (17 weeks), 29°42' Cancer back to 19°38' Cancer; shadow from 21 Aug 1705 to 12 Jun. Stations at 09:35 and 08:24 UT.
Retrograde 17 Dec – 17 Apr 1707 (17 weeks), 1°04' Virgo back to 21°03' Leo; shadow from 21 Sep to 16 Jul 1707. Stations at 08:15 and 21:11 UT.
♄︎Saturn retrograde 1706· twice this year
Retrograde 01 Sep 1705 – 14 Jan (19 weeks), 19°48' Taurus back to 12°53' Taurus; shadow from 28 May 1705 to 18 Apr. Stations at 15:49 and 09:28 UT.
Retrograde 16 Sep – 28 Jan 1707 (19 weeks), 3°45' Gemini back to 26°49' Taurus; shadow from 12 Jun to 02 May 1707. Stations at 04:55 and 09:02 UT.
♅︎Uranus retrograde 1706· twice this year
Retrograde 14 Nov 1705 – 12 Apr (21 weeks), 8°30' Leo back to 4°22' Leo; shadow from 31 Jul 1705 to 27 Jul. Stations at 01:01 and 01:54 UT.
Retrograde 19 Nov – 17 Apr 1707 (21 weeks), 13°12' Leo back to 9°04' Leo; shadow from 05 Aug to 01 Aug 1707. Stations at 00:44 and 00:46 UT.
♆︎Neptune retrograde 1706· once this year
Retrograde 25 Jul – 30 Dec (23 weeks), 21°16' Aries back to 18°27' Aries; shadow from 02 Apr to 20 Apr 1707. Stations at 11:11 and 04:31 UT.
♇︎Pluto retrograde 1706· twice this year
Retrograde 22 Nov 1705 – 30 Apr (23 weeks), 21°19' Leo back to 18°50' Leo; shadow from 30 Jul 1705 to 24 Aug. Stations at 23:59 and 23:23 UT.
Retrograde 25 Nov – 02 May 1707 (23 weeks), 23°06' Leo back to 20°36' Leo; shadow from 02 Aug to 26 Aug 1707. Stations at 04:42 and 22:54 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.