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 1725· 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 28 Jan – 19 Feb (3 weeks), 24°23' Aquarius back to 9°01' Aquarius; shadow from 13 Jan to 11 Mar. Stations at 19:31 and 07:20 UT.
Retrograde 28 May – 21 Jun (3 weeks), 23°09' Gemini back to 14°30' Gemini; shadow from 13 May to 06 Jul. Stations at 13:23 and 13:38 UT.
Retrograde 25 Sep – 16 Oct (3 weeks), 23°20' Libra back to 7°54' Libra; shadow from 05 Sep to 01 Nov. Stations at 10:54 and 18:17 UT.
♀︎Venus retrograde 1725· not retrograde this year
Venus holds a straight course through 1725; no spell, no shadow, no station to mark.
♂︎Mars retrograde 1725· once this year
Retrograde 17 Dec – 07 Mar 1726 (11 weeks), 16°12' Leo back to 26°47' Cancer; shadow from 13 Oct to 14 May 1726. Stations at 06:27 and 10:24 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 1725· once this year
Retrograde 07 Jul – 03 Nov (17 weeks), 18°18' Pisces back to 8°24' Pisces; shadow from 13 Apr to 25 Jan 1726. Stations at 22:26 and 14:35 UT.
♄︎Saturn retrograde 1725· once this year
Retrograde 01 May – 19 Sep (20 weeks), 22°07' Capricorn back to 15°30' Capricorn; shadow from 23 Jan to 25 Dec. Stations at 13:50 and 20:08 UT.
♅︎Uranus retrograde 1725· once this year
Retrograde 11 Feb – 13 Jul (22 weeks), 8°35' Scorpio back to 4°29' Scorpio; shadow from 30 Oct 1724 to 27 Oct. Stations at 12:13 and 02:50 UT.
♆︎Neptune retrograde 1725· twice this year
Retrograde 04 Sep 1724 – 07 Feb (22 weeks), 1°44' Gemini back to 28°55' Taurus; shadow from 13 May 1724 to 31 May. Stations at 04:08 and 21:20 UT.
Retrograde 06 Sep – 10 Feb 1726 (22 weeks), 3°59' Gemini back to 1°10' Gemini; shadow from 16 May to 02 Jun 1726. Stations at 17:17 and 08:15 UT.
♇︎Pluto retrograde 1725· once this year
Retrograde 02 Jan – 08 Jun (22 weeks), 0°40' Libra back to 27°54' Virgo; shadow from 14 Sep 1724 to 27 Sep. Stations at 09:45 and 00:29 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.