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 1726· four 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 12 Jan – 02 Feb (3 weeks), 8°12' Aquarius back to 22°18' Capricorn; shadow from 27 Dec 1725 to 22 Feb. Stations at 14:51 and 09:44 UT.
Retrograde 09 May – 01 Jun (3 weeks), 3°13' Gemini back to 24°32' Taurus; shadow from 24 Apr to 17 Jun. Stations at 02:44 and 22:59 UT.
Retrograde 08 Sep – 30 Sep (3 weeks), 6°51' Libra back to 22°00' Virgo; shadow from 19 Aug to 15 Oct. Stations at 10:14 and 12:51 UT.
Retrograde 27 Dec – 16 Jan 1727 (3 weeks), 22°12' Capricorn back to 6°00' Capricorn; shadow from 10 Dec to 05 Feb 1727. Stations at 12:31 and 17:57 UT.
♀︎Venus retrograde 1726· once this year
Retrograde 16 Mar – 27 Apr (6 weeks), 24°40' Aries back to 8°18' Aries; shadow from 11 Feb to 31 May. Stations at 08:49 and 16:50 UT.
♂︎Mars retrograde 1726· once this year
Retrograde 17 Dec 1725 – 07 Mar (11 weeks), 16°12' Leo back to 26°47' Cancer; shadow from 13 Oct 1725 to 14 May. 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 1726· once this year
Retrograde 15 Aug – 10 Dec (17 weeks), 25°10' Aries back to 15°12' Aries; shadow from 21 May to 03 Mar 1727. Stations at 00:34 and 15:31 UT.
♄︎Saturn retrograde 1726· once this year
Retrograde 13 May – 01 Oct (20 weeks), 3°34' Aquarius back to 26°56' Capricorn; shadow from 04 Feb to 06 Jan 1727. Stations at 15:44 and 15:39 UT.
♅︎Uranus retrograde 1726· once this year
Retrograde 16 Feb – 18 Jul (22 weeks), 13°12' Scorpio back to 9°06' Scorpio; shadow from 04 Nov 1725 to 01 Nov. Stations at 07:54 and 05:08 UT.
♆︎Neptune retrograde 1726· twice this year
Retrograde 06 Sep 1725 – 10 Feb (22 weeks), 3°59' Gemini back to 1°10' Gemini; shadow from 16 May 1725 to 02 Jun. Stations at 17:17 and 08:15 UT.
Retrograde 09 Sep – 12 Feb 1727 (22 weeks), 6°14' Gemini back to 3°25' Gemini; shadow from 18 May to 05 Jun 1727. Stations at 06:45 and 21:42 UT.
♇︎Pluto retrograde 1726· once this year
Retrograde 05 Jan – 10 Jun (22 weeks), 3°03' Libra back to 0°18' Libra; shadow from 17 Sep 1725 to 29 Sep. Stations at 02:23 and 15:04 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.