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 1707· 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 31 Dec 1706 – 21 Jan (3 weeks), 26°18' Capricorn back to 10°10' Capricorn; shadow from 15 Dec 1706 to 10 Feb. Stations at 21:15 and 06:06 UT.
Retrograde 25 Apr – 18 May (3 weeks), 18°51' Taurus back to 9°35' Taurus; shadow from 11 Apr to 04 Jun. Stations at 01:32 and 21:36 UT.
Retrograde 26 Aug – 18 Sep (3 weeks), 24°18' Virgo back to 10°02' Virgo; shadow from 06 Aug to 03 Oct. Stations at 20:57 and 13:31 UT.
Retrograde 15 Dec – 04 Jan 1708 (3 weeks), 10°23' Capricorn back to 24°06' Sagittarius; shadow from 28 Nov to 24 Jan 1708. Stations at 19:01 and 17:58 UT.
♀︎Venus retrograde 1707· once this year
Retrograde 08 Jan – 18 Feb (6 weeks), 16°44' Aquarius back to 1°04' Aquarius; shadow from 07 Dec 1706 to 23 Mar. Stations at 15:18 and 19:44 UT.
♂︎Mars retrograde 1707· not retrograde this year
Mars holds a straight course through 1707; 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 1707· once this year
Retrograde 17 Dec 1706 – 17 Apr (17 weeks), 1°04' Virgo back to 21°03' Leo; shadow from 21 Sep 1706 to 16 Jul. Stations at 08:15 and 21:11 UT.
♄︎Saturn retrograde 1707· twice this year
Retrograde 16 Sep 1706 – 28 Jan (19 weeks), 3°45' Gemini back to 26°49' Taurus; shadow from 12 Jun 1706 to 02 May. Stations at 04:55 and 09:02 UT.
Retrograde 30 Sep – 11 Feb 1708 (19 weeks), 17°53' Gemini back to 10°55' Gemini; shadow from 27 Jun to 15 May 1708. Stations at 18:53 and 14:28 UT.
♅︎Uranus retrograde 1707· twice this year
Retrograde 19 Nov 1706 – 17 Apr (21 weeks), 13°12' Leo back to 9°04' Leo; shadow from 05 Aug 1706 to 01 Aug. Stations at 00:44 and 00:46 UT.
Retrograde 24 Nov – 21 Apr 1708 (21 weeks), 17°56' Leo back to 13°48' Leo; shadow from 10 Aug to 05 Aug 1708. Stations at 00:46 and 01:01 UT.
♆︎Neptune retrograde 1707· once this year
Retrograde 28 Jul – 01 Jan 1708 (23 weeks), 23°30' Aries back to 20°42' Aries; shadow from 05 Apr to 22 Apr 1708. Stations at 00:40 and 15:50 UT.
♇︎Pluto retrograde 1707· twice this year
Retrograde 25 Nov 1706 – 02 May (23 weeks), 23°06' Leo back to 20°36' Leo; shadow from 02 Aug 1706 to 26 Aug. Stations at 04:42 and 22:54 UT.
Retrograde 27 Nov – 03 May 1708 (23 weeks), 24°54' Leo back to 22°23' Leo; shadow from 04 Aug to 27 Aug 1708. Stations at 07:37 and 23:34 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.