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 1713· 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 09 Jan – 30 Jan (3 weeks), 5°37' Aquarius back to 19°39' Capricorn; shadow from 24 Dec 1712 to 19 Feb. Stations at 19:49 and 12:33 UT.
Retrograde 05 May – 29 May (3 weeks), 0°06' Gemini back to 21°20' Taurus; shadow from 21 Apr to 14 Jun. Stations at 19:53 and 16:12 UT.
Retrograde 05 Sep – 27 Sep (3 weeks), 4°09' Libra back to 19°25' Virgo; shadow from 16 Aug to 12 Oct. Stations at 11:23 and 17:05 UT.
Retrograde 24 Dec – 13 Jan 1714 (3 weeks), 19°38' Capricorn back to 3°25' Capricorn; shadow from 07 Dec to 02 Feb 1714. Stations at 17:38 and 21:28 UT.
♀︎Venus retrograde 1713· once this year
Retrograde 29 May – 11 Jul (6 weeks), 6°42' Cancer back to 20°11' Gemini; shadow from 26 Apr to 14 Aug. Stations at 15:49 and 18:14 UT.
♂︎Mars retrograde 1713· once this year
Retrograde 02 Feb – 24 Apr (12 weeks), 2°27' Libra back to 13°19' Virgo; shadow from 28 Nov 1712 to 28 Jun. Stations at 19:32 and 12:26 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 1713· once this year
Retrograde 02 Jul – 29 Oct (17 weeks), 13°02' Pisces back to 3°09' Pisces; shadow from 08 Apr to 19 Jan 1714. Stations at 12:54 and 09:01 UT.
♄︎Saturn retrograde 1713· twice this year
Retrograde 08 Dec 1712 – 22 Apr (19 weeks), 27°57' Leo back to 21°02' Leo; shadow from 05 Sep 1712 to 28 Jul. Stations at 14:07 and 18:01 UT.
Retrograde 21 Dec – 06 May 1714 (19 weeks), 11°19' Virgo back to 4°27' Virgo; shadow from 18 Sep to 12 Aug 1714. Stations at 22:19 and 20:28 UT.
♅︎Uranus retrograde 1713· twice this year
Retrograde 17 Dec 1712 – 15 May (21 weeks), 11°45' Virgo back to 7°35' Virgo; shadow from 03 Sep 1712 to 29 Aug. Stations at 00:39 and 11:11 UT.
Retrograde 21 Dec – 20 May 1714 (21 weeks), 16°31' Virgo back to 12°22' Virgo; shadow from 08 Sep to 04 Sep 1714. Stations at 23:19 and 13:44 UT.
♆︎Neptune retrograde 1713· twice this year
Retrograde 07 Aug 1712 – 12 Jan (22 weeks), 4°45' Taurus back to 1°56' Taurus; shadow from 16 Apr 1712 to 03 May. Stations at 16:10 and 00:15 UT.
Retrograde 10 Aug – 14 Jan 1714 (22 weeks), 7°00' Taurus back to 4°11' Taurus; shadow from 18 Apr to 06 May 1714. Stations at 06:22 and 11:51 UT.
♇︎Pluto retrograde 1713· twice this year
Retrograde 06 Dec 1712 – 13 May (23 weeks), 4°25' Virgo back to 1°49' Virgo; shadow from 15 Aug 1712 to 04 Sep. Stations at 06:33 and 08:27 UT.
Retrograde 08 Dec – 15 May 1714 (23 weeks), 6°24' Virgo back to 3°48' Virgo; shadow from 17 Aug to 06 Sep 1714. Stations at 15:42 and 12:40 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.