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 1719· 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 19 Jan – 09 Feb (3 weeks), 14°58' Aquarius back to 29°15' Capricorn; shadow from 04 Jan to 02 Mar. Stations at 19:12 and 20:58 UT.
Retrograde 17 May – 10 Jun (3 weeks), 11°33' Gemini back to 2°59' Gemini; shadow from 03 May to 25 Jun. Stations at 16:49 and 14:13 UT.
Retrograde 16 Sep – 07 Oct (3 weeks), 13°48' Libra back to 28°41' Virgo; shadow from 26 Aug to 22 Oct. Stations at 00:22 and 18:23 UT.
♀︎Venus retrograde 1719· once this year
Retrograde 21 Oct – 01 Dec (6 weeks), 25°35' Scorpio back to 10°10' Scorpio; shadow from 18 Sep to 01 Jan 1720. Stations at 05:42 and 11:19 UT.
♂︎Mars retrograde 1719· once this year
Retrograde 28 Jul – 26 Sep (9 weeks), 9°08' Pisces back to 29°01' Aquarius; shadow from 16 Jun to 07 Nov. Stations at 09:17 and 08:57 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 1719· once this year
Retrograde 21 Dec 1718 – 22 Apr (17 weeks), 5°28' Virgo back to 25°27' Leo; shadow from 25 Sep 1718 to 20 Jul. Stations at 13:54 and 07:39 UT.
♄︎Saturn retrograde 1719· once this year
Retrograde 21 Feb – 11 Jul (20 weeks), 13°35' Scorpio back to 6°54' Scorpio; shadow from 17 Nov 1718 to 17 Oct. Stations at 10:48 and 08:52 UT.
♅︎Uranus retrograde 1719· once this year
Retrograde 15 Jan – 14 Jun (21 weeks), 10°22' Libra back to 6°15' Libra; shadow from 03 Oct 1718 to 28 Sep. Stations at 00:33 and 08:25 UT.
♆︎Neptune retrograde 1719· twice this year
Retrograde 22 Aug 1718 – 26 Jan (22 weeks), 18°16' Taurus back to 15°26' Taurus; shadow from 30 Apr 1718 to 18 May. Stations at 01:58 and 01:00 UT.
Retrograde 24 Aug – 28 Jan 1720 (22 weeks), 20°30' Taurus back to 17°41' Taurus; shadow from 02 May to 19 May 1720. Stations at 13:45 and 13:34 UT.
♇︎Pluto retrograde 1719· twice this year
Retrograde 19 Dec 1718 – 25 May (22 weeks), 16°55' Virgo back to 14°14' Virgo; shadow from 30 Aug 1718 to 15 Sep. Stations at 20:15 and 23:43 UT.
Retrograde 22 Dec – 27 May 1720 (22 weeks), 19°07' Virgo back to 16°26' Virgo; shadow from 02 Sep to 16 Sep 1720. Stations at 07:39 and 09:37 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.