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 1718· 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 05 Feb – 26 Feb (3 weeks), 1°15' Pisces back to 16°12' Aquarius; shadow from 21 Jan to 18 Mar. Stations at 01:45 and 20:55 UT.
Retrograde 06 Jun – 30 Jun (3 weeks), 1°35' Cancer back to 22°41' Gemini; shadow from 21 May to 14 Jul. Stations at 02:21 and 03:41 UT.
Retrograde 02 Oct – 23 Oct (3 weeks), 0°09' Scorpio back to 14°32' Libra; shadow from 12 Sep to 08 Nov. Stations at 22:35 and 22:06 UT.
♀︎Venus retrograde 1718· once this year
Retrograde 18 Mar – 30 Apr (6 weeks), 26°54' Aries back to 10°32' Aries; shadow from 13 Feb to 02 Jun. Stations at 16:33 and 01:56 UT.
♂︎Mars retrograde 1718· not retrograde this year
Mars holds a straight course through 1718; 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 1718· twice this year
Retrograde 20 Nov 1717 – 21 Mar (17 weeks), 4°18' Leo back to 24°15' Cancer; shadow from 26 Aug 1717 to 17 Jun. Stations at 20:13 and 00:02 UT.
Retrograde 21 Dec – 22 Apr 1719 (17 weeks), 5°28' Virgo back to 25°27' Leo; shadow from 25 Sep to 20 Jul 1719. Stations at 13:54 and 07:39 UT.
♄︎Saturn retrograde 1718· once this year
Retrograde 09 Feb – 28 Jun (20 weeks), 1°41' Scorpio back to 24°59' Libra; shadow from 06 Nov 1717 to 04 Oct. Stations at 10:18 and 14:01 UT.
♅︎Uranus retrograde 1718· once this year
Retrograde 09 Jan – 09 Jun (21 weeks), 5°37' Libra back to 1°29' Libra; shadow from 28 Sep 1717 to 23 Sep. Stations at 23:28 and 04:02 UT.
♆︎Neptune retrograde 1718· twice this year
Retrograde 19 Aug 1717 – 23 Jan (22 weeks), 16°01' Taurus back to 13°12' Taurus; shadow from 27 Apr 1717 to 15 May. Stations at 12:13 and 13:36 UT.
Retrograde 22 Aug – 26 Jan 1719 (22 weeks), 18°16' Taurus back to 15°26' Taurus; shadow from 30 Apr to 18 May 1719. Stations at 01:58 and 01:00 UT.
♇︎Pluto retrograde 1718· twice this year
Retrograde 17 Dec 1717 – 23 May (22 weeks), 14°44' Virgo back to 12°05' Virgo; shadow from 27 Aug 1717 to 13 Sep. Stations at 08:38 and 16:47 UT.
Retrograde 19 Dec – 25 May 1719 (22 weeks), 16°55' Virgo back to 14°14' Virgo; shadow from 30 Aug to 15 Sep 1719. Stations at 20:15 and 23:43 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.