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 1716· 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 10 Mar – 02 Apr (3 weeks), 4°51' Aries back to 22°06' Pisces; shadow from 25 Feb to 21 Apr. Stations at 15:09 and 19:31 UT.
Retrograde 13 Jul – 06 Aug (3 weeks), 10°48' Leo back to 29°28' Cancer; shadow from 25 Jun to 20 Aug. Stations at 12:47 and 15:36 UT.
Retrograde 05 Nov – 25 Nov (3 weeks), 2°06' Sagittarius back to 15°56' Scorpio; shadow from 16 Oct to 12 Dec. Stations at 03:03 and 01:40 UT.
♀︎Venus retrograde 1716· once this year
Retrograde 07 Aug – 19 Sep (6 weeks), 13°51' Virgo back to 27°38' Leo; shadow from 05 Jul to 22 Oct. Stations at 20:23 and 14:42 UT.
♂︎Mars retrograde 1716· not retrograde this year
Mars holds a straight course through 1716; 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 1716· twice this year
Retrograde 15 Sep 1715 – 11 Jan (17 weeks), 26°27' Taurus back to 16°25' Taurus; shadow from 22 Jun 1715 to 04 Apr. Stations at 18:27 and 09:39 UT.
Retrograde 19 Oct – 15 Feb 1717 (17 weeks), 1°24' Cancer back to 21°20' Gemini; shadow from 25 Jul to 12 May 1717. Stations at 09:54 and 01:36 UT.
♄︎Saturn retrograde 1716· once this year
Retrograde 16 Jan – 02 Jun (20 weeks), 7°07' Libra back to 0°19' Libra; shadow from 13 Oct 1715 to 08 Sep. Stations at 17:51 and 06:16 UT.
♅︎Uranus retrograde 1716· once this year
Retrograde 31 Dec 1715 – 29 May (21 weeks), 26°04' Virgo back to 21°55' Virgo; shadow from 19 Sep 1715 to 13 Sep. Stations at 23:07 and 21:03 UT.
♆︎Neptune retrograde 1716· twice this year
Retrograde 15 Aug 1715 – 19 Jan (22 weeks), 11°30' Taurus back to 8°41' Taurus; shadow from 23 Apr 1715 to 10 May. Stations at 09:08 and 12:13 UT.
Retrograde 16 Aug – 20 Jan 1717 (22 weeks), 13°46' Taurus back to 10°57' Taurus; shadow from 25 Apr to 12 May 1717. Stations at 22:46 and 23:45 UT.
♇︎Pluto retrograde 1716· twice this year
Retrograde 13 Dec 1715 – 19 May (23 weeks), 10°30' Virgo back to 7°52' Virgo; shadow from 23 Aug 1715 to 09 Sep. Stations at 11:11 and 01:42 UT.
Retrograde 14 Dec – 21 May 1717 (22 weeks), 12°36' Virgo back to 9°57' Virgo; shadow from 25 Aug to 11 Sep 1717. Stations at 21:21 and 08:00 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.