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 1708· 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 15 Dec 1707 – 04 Jan (3 weeks), 10°23' Capricorn back to 24°06' Sagittarius; shadow from 28 Nov 1707 to 24 Jan. Stations at 19:01 and 17:58 UT.
Retrograde 05 Apr – 29 Apr (3 weeks), 0°07' Taurus back to 19°31' Aries; shadow from 22 Mar to 16 May. Stations at 07:25 and 01:06 UT.
Retrograde 08 Aug – 31 Aug (3 weeks), 6°52' Virgo back to 23°38' Leo; shadow from 19 Jul to 15 Sep. Stations at 09:01 and 19:26 UT.
Retrograde 28 Nov – 18 Dec (3 weeks), 24°33' Sagittarius back to 8°15' Sagittarius; shadow from 10 Nov to 06 Jan 1709. Stations at 15:37 and 10:04 UT.
♀︎Venus retrograde 1708· once this year
Retrograde 10 Aug – 21 Sep (6 weeks), 16°04' Virgo back to 29°53' Leo; shadow from 07 Jul to 24 Oct. Stations at 06:11 and 23:33 UT.
♂︎Mars retrograde 1708· once this year
Retrograde 25 Nov – 12 Feb 1709 (11 weeks), 24°17' Cancer back to 5°17' Cancer; shadow from 24 Sep to 19 Apr 1709. Stations at 18:32 and 05:10 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 1708· once this year
Retrograde 16 Jan – 18 May (18 weeks), 1°16' Libra back to 21°19' Virgo; shadow from 21 Oct 1707 to 16 Aug. Stations at 11:44 and 07:43 UT.
♄︎Saturn retrograde 1708· twice this year
Retrograde 30 Sep 1707 – 11 Feb (19 weeks), 17°53' Gemini back to 10°55' Gemini; shadow from 27 Jun 1707 to 15 May. Stations at 18:53 and 14:28 UT.
Retrograde 14 Oct – 24 Feb 1709 (19 weeks), 2°05' Cancer back to 25°07' Gemini; shadow from 11 Jul to 30 May 1709. Stations at 07:55 and 23:16 UT.
♅︎Uranus retrograde 1708· twice this year
Retrograde 24 Nov 1707 – 21 Apr (21 weeks), 17°56' Leo back to 13°48' Leo; shadow from 10 Aug 1707 to 05 Aug. Stations at 00:46 and 01:01 UT.
Retrograde 28 Nov – 26 Apr 1709 (21 weeks), 22°41' Leo back to 18°32' Leo; shadow from 15 Aug to 10 Aug 1709. Stations at 01:02 and 01:36 UT.
♆︎Neptune retrograde 1708· twice this year
Retrograde 28 Jul 1707 – 01 Jan (23 weeks), 23°30' Aries back to 20°42' Aries; shadow from 05 Apr 1707 to 22 Apr. Stations at 00:40 and 15:50 UT.
Retrograde 29 Jul – 03 Jan 1709 (23 weeks), 25°45' Aries back to 22°56' Aries; shadow from 06 Apr to 24 Apr 1709. Stations at 13:38 and 04:54 UT.
♇︎Pluto retrograde 1708· twice this year
Retrograde 27 Nov 1707 – 03 May (23 weeks), 24°54' Leo back to 22°23' Leo; shadow from 04 Aug 1707 to 27 Aug. Stations at 07:37 and 23:34 UT.
Retrograde 28 Nov – 06 May 1709 (23 weeks), 26°45' Leo back to 24°13' Leo; shadow from 06 Aug to 29 Aug 1709. Stations at 11:44 and 01:25 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.