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 1733· 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 05 Jan – 25 Jan (3 weeks), 1°29' Aquarius back to 15°26' Capricorn; shadow from 20 Dec 1732 to 14 Feb. Stations at 10:56 and 23:50 UT.
Retrograde 30 Apr – 24 May (3 weeks), 25°01' Taurus back to 16°02' Taurus; shadow from 16 Apr to 09 Jun. Stations at 13:26 and 09:50 UT.
Retrograde 31 Aug – 23 Sep (3 weeks), 29°47' Virgo back to 15°16' Virgo; shadow from 11 Aug to 07 Oct. Stations at 19:07 and 06:14 UT.
Retrograde 20 Dec – 09 Jan 1734 (3 weeks), 15°32' Capricorn back to 29°17' Sagittarius; shadow from 03 Dec to 28 Jan 1734. Stations at 08:49 and 10:06 UT.
♀︎Venus retrograde 1733· not retrograde this year
Venus holds a straight course through 1733; no spell, no shadow, no station to mark.
♂︎Mars retrograde 1733· not retrograde this year
Mars holds a straight course through 1733; 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 1733· once this year
Retrograde 23 Feb – 27 Jun (18 weeks), 9°53' Scorpio back to 0°00' Scorpio; shadow from 28 Nov 1732 to 23 Sep. Stations at 12:27 and 00:22 UT.
♄︎Saturn retrograde 1733· once this year
Retrograde 12 Aug – 26 Dec (19 weeks), 0°12' Taurus back to 23°19' Aries; shadow from 07 May to 30 Mar 1734. Stations at 02:03 and 00:24 UT.
♅︎Uranus retrograde 1733· once this year
Retrograde 19 Mar – 19 Aug (22 weeks), 14°40' Sagittarius back to 10°38' Sagittarius; shadow from 04 Dec 1732 to 03 Dec. Stations at 11:55 and 15:10 UT.
♆︎Neptune retrograde 1733· twice this year
Retrograde 22 Sep 1732 – 25 Feb (22 weeks), 19°43' Gemini back to 16°54' Gemini; shadow from 31 May 1732 to 18 Jun. Stations at 08:59 and 20:27 UT.
Retrograde 24 Sep – 28 Feb 1734 (22 weeks), 21°57' Gemini back to 19°08' Gemini; shadow from 03 Jun to 21 Jun 1734. Stations at 21:01 and 08:56 UT.
♇︎Pluto retrograde 1733· once this year
Retrograde 22 Jan – 27 Jun (22 weeks), 20°35' Libra back to 17°46' Libra; shadow from 06 Oct 1732 to 15 Oct. Stations at 14:13 and 19:31 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.