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 1724· 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 15 Feb – 08 Mar (3 weeks), 10°50' Pisces back to 26°18' Aquarius; shadow from 31 Jan to 28 Mar. Stations at 05:32 and 11:19 UT.
Retrograde 16 Jun – 10 Jul (3 weeks), 13°10' Cancer back to 3°44' Cancer; shadow from 31 May to 25 Jul. Stations at 18:26 and 22:10 UT.
Retrograde 12 Oct – 01 Nov (3 weeks), 9°29' Scorpio back to 23°40' Libra; shadow from 22 Sep to 18 Nov. Stations at 06:06 and 20:32 UT.
♀︎Venus retrograde 1724· once this year
Retrograde 05 Aug – 17 Sep (6 weeks), 11°38' Virgo back to 25°24' Leo; shadow from 02 Jul to 20 Oct. Stations at 11:20 and 06:07 UT.
♂︎Mars retrograde 1724· once this year
Retrograde 12 Nov 1723 – 28 Jan (11 weeks), 9°18' Cancer back to 20°50' Gemini; shadow from 13 Sep 1723 to 02 Apr. 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 1724· once this year
Retrograde 30 May – 28 Sep (17 weeks), 12°20' Aquarius back to 2°30' Aquarius; shadow from 06 Mar to 20 Dec. Stations at 23:57 and 09:15 UT.
♄︎Saturn retrograde 1724· once this year
Retrograde 19 Apr – 08 Sep (20 weeks), 10°46' Capricorn back to 4°10' Capricorn; shadow from 13 Jan to 14 Dec. Stations at 13:33 and 00:56 UT.
♅︎Uranus retrograde 1724· once this year
Retrograde 07 Feb – 08 Jul (22 weeks), 3°56' Scorpio back to 29°50' Libra; shadow from 27 Oct 1723 to 22 Oct. Stations at 15:57 and 00:33 UT.
♆︎Neptune retrograde 1724· twice this year
Retrograde 02 Sep 1723 – 06 Feb (22 weeks), 29°29' Taurus back to 26°40' Taurus; shadow from 11 May 1723 to 28 May. Stations at 14:39 and 08:58 UT.
Retrograde 04 Sep – 07 Feb 1725 (22 weeks), 1°44' Gemini back to 28°55' Taurus; shadow from 13 May to 31 May 1725. Stations at 04:08 and 21:20 UT.
♇︎Pluto retrograde 1724· once this year
Retrograde 31 Dec 1723 – 05 Jun (22 weeks), 28°18' Virgo back to 25°33' Virgo; shadow from 12 Sep 1723 to 25 Sep. 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.