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 1717· 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 21 Feb – 16 Mar (3 weeks), 17°50' Pisces back to 3°46' Pisces; shadow from 07 Feb to 04 Apr. Stations at 15:03 and 03:59 UT.
Retrograde 25 Jun – 19 Jul (3 weeks), 21°28' Cancer back to 11°32' Cancer; shadow from 08 Jun to 02 Aug. Stations at 01:43 and 06:56 UT.
Retrograde 19 Oct – 08 Nov (3 weeks), 16°12' Scorpio back to 0°15' Scorpio; shadow from 29 Sep to 25 Nov. Stations at 15:13 and 23:48 UT.
♀︎Venus retrograde 1717· not retrograde this year
Venus holds a straight course through 1717; no spell, no shadow, no station to mark.
♂︎Mars retrograde 1717· once this year
Retrograde 09 May – 17 Jul (10 weeks), 26°48' Sagittarius back to 13°09' Sagittarius; shadow from 17 Mar to 04 Sep. Stations at 23:33 and 15:14 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 1717· twice this year
Retrograde 19 Oct 1716 – 15 Feb (17 weeks), 1°24' Cancer back to 21°20' Gemini; shadow from 25 Jul 1716 to 12 May. Stations at 09:54 and 01:36 UT.
Retrograde 20 Nov – 21 Mar 1718 (17 weeks), 4°18' Leo back to 24°15' Cancer; shadow from 26 Aug to 17 Jun 1718. Stations at 20:13 and 00:02 UT.
♄︎Saturn retrograde 1717· once this year
Retrograde 28 Jan – 15 Jun (20 weeks), 19°33' Libra back to 12°48' Libra; shadow from 25 Oct 1716 to 21 Sep. Stations at 05:00 and 13:35 UT.
♅︎Uranus retrograde 1717· once this year
Retrograde 05 Jan – 04 Jun (21 weeks), 0°51' Libra back to 26°42' Virgo; shadow from 23 Sep 1716 to 18 Sep. Stations at 00:19 and 01:47 UT.
♆︎Neptune retrograde 1717· twice this year
Retrograde 16 Aug 1716 – 20 Jan (22 weeks), 13°46' Taurus back to 10°57' Taurus; shadow from 25 Apr 1716 to 12 May. Stations at 22:46 and 23:45 UT.
Retrograde 19 Aug – 23 Jan 1718 (22 weeks), 16°01' Taurus back to 13°12' Taurus; shadow from 27 Apr to 15 May 1718. Stations at 12:13 and 13:36 UT.
♇︎Pluto retrograde 1717· twice this year
Retrograde 14 Dec 1716 – 21 May (22 weeks), 12°36' Virgo back to 9°57' Virgo; shadow from 25 Aug 1716 to 11 Sep. Stations at 21:21 and 08:00 UT.
Retrograde 17 Dec – 23 May 1718 (22 weeks), 14°44' Virgo back to 12°05' Virgo; shadow from 27 Aug to 13 Sep 1718. Stations at 08:38 and 16:47 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.