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 1714· 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 24 Dec 1713 – 13 Jan (3 weeks), 19°38' Capricorn back to 3°25' Capricorn; shadow from 07 Dec 1713 to 02 Feb. Stations at 17:38 and 21:28 UT.
Retrograde 16 Apr – 10 May (3 weeks), 10°53' Taurus back to 1°06' Taurus; shadow from 02 Apr to 27 May. Stations at 16:38 and 11:45 UT.
Retrograde 19 Aug – 11 Sep (3 weeks), 17°04' Virgo back to 3°13' Virgo; shadow from 30 Jul to 25 Sep. Stations at 03:47 and 04:17 UT.
Retrograde 08 Dec – 28 Dec (3 weeks), 3°45' Capricorn back to 17°26' Sagittarius; shadow from 20 Nov to 16 Jan 1715. Stations at 15:12 and 11:19 UT.
♀︎Venus retrograde 1714· not retrograde this year
Venus holds a straight course through 1714; no spell, no shadow, no station to mark.
♂︎Mars retrograde 1714· not retrograde this year
Mars holds a straight course through 1714; 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 1714· once this year
Retrograde 09 Aug – 05 Dec (17 weeks), 19°55' Aries back to 9°57' Aries; shadow from 16 May to 26 Feb 1715. Stations at 18:43 and 11:40 UT.
♄︎Saturn retrograde 1714· once this year
Retrograde 21 Dec 1713 – 06 May (19 weeks), 11°19' Virgo back to 4°27' Virgo; shadow from 18 Sep 1713 to 12 Aug. Stations at 22:19 and 20:28 UT.
♅︎Uranus retrograde 1714· twice this year
Retrograde 21 Dec 1713 – 20 May (21 weeks), 16°31' Virgo back to 12°22' Virgo; shadow from 08 Sep 1713 to 04 Sep. Stations at 23:19 and 13:44 UT.
Retrograde 27 Dec – 25 May 1715 (21 weeks), 21°18' Virgo back to 17°09' Virgo; shadow from 13 Sep to 09 Sep 1715. Stations at 00:15 and 18:34 UT.
♆︎Neptune retrograde 1714· twice this year
Retrograde 10 Aug 1713 – 14 Jan (22 weeks), 7°00' Taurus back to 4°11' Taurus; shadow from 18 Apr 1713 to 06 May. Stations at 06:22 and 11:51 UT.
Retrograde 12 Aug – 16 Jan 1715 (22 weeks), 9°15' Taurus back to 6°26' Taurus; shadow from 21 Apr to 08 May 1715. Stations at 19:00 and 22:57 UT.
♇︎Pluto retrograde 1714· twice this year
Retrograde 08 Dec 1713 – 15 May (23 weeks), 6°24' Virgo back to 3°48' Virgo; shadow from 17 Aug 1713 to 06 Sep. Stations at 15:42 and 12:40 UT.
Retrograde 11 Dec – 17 May 1715 (23 weeks), 8°26' Virgo back to 5°49' Virgo; shadow from 20 Aug to 08 Sep 1715. Stations at 00:07 and 18:21 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.