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 1711· 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 12 Feb – 06 Mar (3 weeks), 8°10' Pisces back to 23°29' Aquarius; shadow from 28 Jan to 26 Mar. Stations at 09:05 and 12:09 UT.
Retrograde 14 Jun – 08 Jul (3 weeks), 10°00' Cancer back to 0°43' Cancer; shadow from 29 May to 23 Jul. Stations at 13:18 and 16:14 UT.
Retrograde 10 Oct – 31 Oct (3 weeks), 6°54' Scorpio back to 21°08' Libra; shadow from 20 Sep to 16 Nov. Stations at 09:07 and 01:42 UT.
♀︎Venus retrograde 1711· once this year
Retrograde 23 Oct – 03 Dec (6 weeks), 28°01' Scorpio back to 12°38' Scorpio; shadow from 21 Sep to 04 Jan 1712. Stations at 16:53 and 21:32 UT.
♂︎Mars retrograde 1711· once this year
Retrograde 30 Dec 1710 – 21 Mar (12 weeks), 29°08' Leo back to 9°38' Leo; shadow from 25 Oct 1710 to 28 May. Stations at 13:31 and 09:16 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 1711· once this year
Retrograde 20 Apr – 21 Aug (17 weeks), 3°27' Capricorn back to 23°37' Sagittarius; shadow from 24 Jan to 14 Nov. Stations at 20:32 and 03:58 UT.
♄︎Saturn retrograde 1711· twice this year
Retrograde 12 Nov 1710 – 25 Mar (19 weeks), 0°22' Leo back to 23°25' Cancer; shadow from 09 Aug 1710 to 29 Jun. Stations at 00:31 and 22:13 UT.
Retrograde 25 Nov – 08 Apr 1712 (19 weeks), 14°17' Leo back to 7°21' Leo; shadow from 23 Aug to 13 Jul 1712. Stations at 23:20 and 09:41 UT.
♅︎Uranus retrograde 1711· twice this year
Retrograde 08 Dec 1710 – 06 May (21 weeks), 2°12' Virgo back to 28°03' Leo; shadow from 25 Aug 1710 to 20 Aug. Stations at 01:04 and 05:13 UT.
Retrograde 13 Dec – 10 May 1712 (21 weeks), 6°58' Virgo back to 2°49' Virgo; shadow from 30 Aug to 24 Aug 1712. Stations at 00:02 and 07:06 UT.
♆︎Neptune retrograde 1711· twice this year
Retrograde 03 Aug 1710 – 08 Jan (23 weeks), 0°15' Taurus back to 27°26' Aries; shadow from 11 Apr 1710 to 29 Apr. Stations at 14:53 and 03:04 UT.
Retrograde 06 Aug – 10 Jan 1712 (22 weeks), 2°30' Taurus back to 29°41' Aries; shadow from 14 Apr to 01 May 1712. Stations at 04:38 and 13:20 UT.
♇︎Pluto retrograde 1711· twice this year
Retrograde 02 Dec 1710 – 10 May (23 weeks), 0°31' Virgo back to 27°57' Leo; shadow from 11 Aug 1710 to 01 Sep. Stations at 18:58 and 03:53 UT.
Retrograde 05 Dec – 11 May 1712 (23 weeks), 2°27' Virgo back to 29°52' Leo; shadow from 13 Aug to 02 Sep 1712. Stations at 00:54 and 04:34 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.