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 1729· 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 13 Mar – 05 Apr (3 weeks), 7°39' Aries back to 25°06' Pisces; shadow from 27 Feb to 24 Apr. Stations at 14:32 and 20:42 UT.
Retrograde 16 Jul – 09 Aug (3 weeks), 13°48' Leo back to 2°16' Leo; shadow from 28 Jun to 23 Aug. Stations at 14:59 and 16:53 UT.
Retrograde 07 Nov – 27 Nov (3 weeks), 4°40' Sagittarius back to 18°29' Scorpio; shadow from 19 Oct to 15 Dec. Stations at 22:58 and 20:33 UT.
♀︎Venus retrograde 1729· once this year
Retrograde 25 May – 07 Jul (6 weeks), 2°24' Cancer back to 15°53' Gemini; shadow from 21 Apr to 10 Aug. Stations at 00:34 and 03:18 UT.
♂︎Mars retrograde 1729· not retrograde this year
Mars holds a straight course through 1729; 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 1729· twice this year
Retrograde 24 Oct 1728 – 19 Feb (17 weeks), 6°10' Cancer back to 26°06' Gemini; shadow from 29 Jul 1728 to 17 May. Stations at 00:54 and 20:23 UT.
Retrograde 25 Nov – 25 Mar 1730 (17 weeks), 8°49' Leo back to 28°46' Cancer; shadow from 30 Aug to 22 Jun 1730. Stations at 02:49 and 11:34 UT.
♄︎Saturn retrograde 1729· once this year
Retrograde 19 Jun – 05 Nov (20 weeks), 9°00' Pisces back to 2°16' Pisces; shadow from 13 Mar to 09 Feb 1730. Stations at 12:09 and 18:55 UT.
♅︎Uranus retrograde 1729· once this year
Retrograde 01 Mar – 01 Aug (22 weeks), 26°51' Scorpio back to 22°47' Scorpio; shadow from 17 Nov 1728 to 15 Nov. Stations at 15:22 and 03:42 UT.
♆︎Neptune retrograde 1729· twice this year
Retrograde 13 Sep 1728 – 16 Feb (22 weeks), 10°44' Gemini back to 7°55' Gemini; shadow from 22 May 1728 to 09 Jun. Stations at 09:23 and 22:24 UT.
Retrograde 15 Sep – 19 Feb 1730 (22 weeks), 12°59' Gemini back to 10°10' Gemini; shadow from 25 May to 12 Jun 1730. Stations at 23:09 and 10:08 UT.
♇︎Pluto retrograde 1729· once this year
Retrograde 12 Jan – 17 Jun (22 weeks), 10°25' Libra back to 7°38' Libra; shadow from 25 Sep 1728 to 06 Oct. Stations at 09:21 and 17:29 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.