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 1722· 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 Mar – 13 Apr (3 weeks), 15°00' Aries back to 3°06' Aries; shadow from 07 Mar to 02 May. Stations at 09:08 and 19:44 UT.
Retrograde 24 Jul – 17 Aug (3 weeks), 21°38' Leo back to 9°30' Leo; shadow from 06 Jul to 31 Aug. Stations at 14:46 and 12:31 UT.
Retrograde 15 Nov – 05 Dec (3 weeks), 11°17' Sagittarius back to 25°03' Scorpio; shadow from 27 Oct to 22 Dec. Stations at 05:16 and 00:30 UT.
♀︎Venus retrograde 1722· not retrograde this year
Venus holds a straight course through 1722; no spell, no shadow, no station to mark.
♂︎Mars retrograde 1722· not retrograde this year
Mars holds a straight course through 1722; 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 1722· once this year
Retrograde 22 Mar – 24 Jul (18 weeks), 6°08' Sagittarius back to 26°17' Scorpio; shadow from 26 Dec 1721 to 19 Oct. Stations at 22:17 and 03:25 UT.
♄︎Saturn retrograde 1722· once this year
Retrograde 27 Mar – 16 Aug (20 weeks), 18°08' Sagittarius back to 11°32' Sagittarius; shadow from 21 Dec 1721 to 22 Nov. Stations at 22:15 and 05:12 UT.
♅︎Uranus retrograde 1722· once this year
Retrograde 28 Jan – 28 Jun (22 weeks), 24°34' Libra back to 20°28' Libra; shadow from 17 Oct 1721 to 12 Oct. Stations at 21:08 and 17:54 UT.
♆︎Neptune retrograde 1722· twice this year
Retrograde 28 Aug 1721 – 01 Feb (22 weeks), 25°00' Taurus back to 22°11' Taurus; shadow from 06 May 1721 to 24 May. Stations at 13:56 and 11:25 UT.
Retrograde 31 Aug – 03 Feb 1723 (22 weeks), 27°14' Taurus back to 24°25' Taurus; shadow from 09 May to 27 May 1723. Stations at 03:15 and 22:40 UT.
♇︎Pluto retrograde 1722· twice this year
Retrograde 26 Dec 1721 – 01 Jun (22 weeks), 23°39' Virgo back to 20°56' Virgo; shadow from 07 Sep 1721 to 21 Sep. Stations at 09:51 and 06:37 UT.
Retrograde 29 Dec – 03 Jun 1723 (22 weeks), 25°57' Virgo back to 23°13' Virgo; shadow from 10 Sep to 23 Sep 1723. Stations at 01:41 and 19:15 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.