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 1723· 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 04 Mar – 26 Mar (3 weeks), 27°39' Pisces back to 14°18' Pisces; shadow from 17 Feb to 15 Apr. Stations at 00:42 and 22:47 UT.
Retrograde 06 Jul – 30 Jul (3 weeks), 2°46' Leo back to 22°02' Cancer; shadow from 19 Jun to 13 Aug. Stations at 10:41 and 15:02 UT.
Retrograde 29 Oct – 18 Nov (3 weeks), 25°26' Scorpio back to 9°22' Scorpio; shadow from 10 Oct to 05 Dec. Stations at 20:00 and 21:59 UT.
♀︎Venus retrograde 1723· once this year
Retrograde 03 Jan – 13 Feb (6 weeks), 11°50' Aquarius back to 26°14' Capricorn; shadow from 03 Dec 1722 to 17 Mar. Stations at 17:55 and 21:05 UT.
♂︎Mars retrograde 1723· once this year
Retrograde 12 Nov – 28 Jan 1724 (11 weeks), 9°18' Cancer back to 20°50' Gemini; shadow from 13 Sep to 02 Apr 1724. Stations at 06:57 and 01:00 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 1723· once this year
Retrograde 25 Apr – 25 Aug (17 weeks), 8°15' Capricorn back to 28°25' Sagittarius; shadow from 29 Jan to 19 Nov. Stations at 20:40 and 22:45 UT.
♄︎Saturn retrograde 1723· once this year
Retrograde 08 Apr – 28 Aug (20 weeks), 29°27' Sagittarius back to 22°51' Sagittarius; shadow from 01 Jan to 03 Dec. Stations at 16:48 and 04:06 UT.
♅︎Uranus retrograde 1723· once this year
Retrograde 02 Feb – 03 Jul (22 weeks), 29°16' Libra back to 25°10' Libra; shadow from 22 Oct 1722 to 17 Oct. Stations at 19:19 and 21:24 UT.
♆︎Neptune retrograde 1723· twice this year
Retrograde 31 Aug 1722 – 03 Feb (22 weeks), 27°14' Taurus back to 24°25' Taurus; shadow from 09 May 1722 to 27 May. Stations at 03:15 and 22:40 UT.
Retrograde 02 Sep – 06 Feb 1724 (22 weeks), 29°29' Taurus back to 26°40' Taurus; shadow from 11 May to 28 May 1724. Stations at 14:39 and 08:58 UT.
♇︎Pluto retrograde 1723· twice this year
Retrograde 29 Dec 1722 – 03 Jun (22 weeks), 25°57' Virgo back to 23°13' Virgo; shadow from 10 Sep 1722 to 23 Sep. Stations at 01:41 and 19:15 UT.
Retrograde 31 Dec – 05 Jun 1724 (22 weeks), 28°18' Virgo back to 25°33' Virgo; shadow from 12 Sep to 25 Sep 1724. Stations at 16:19 and 08:51 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.