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 1734· 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 20 Dec 1733 – 09 Jan (3 weeks), 15°32' Capricorn back to 29°17' Sagittarius; shadow from 03 Dec 1733 to 28 Jan. Stations at 08:49 and 10:06 UT.
Retrograde 11 Apr – 05 May (3 weeks), 6°01' Taurus back to 25°52' Aries; shadow from 28 Mar to 22 May. Stations at 14:22 and 08:54 UT.
Retrograde 14 Aug – 06 Sep (3 weeks), 12°32' Virgo back to 28°59' Leo; shadow from 25 Jul to 20 Sep. Stations at 09:28 and 15:03 UT.
Retrograde 04 Dec – 24 Dec (3 weeks), 29°40' Sagittarius back to 13°22' Sagittarius; shadow from 16 Nov to 11 Jan 1735. Stations at 06:01 and 01:00 UT.
♀︎Venus retrograde 1734· once this year
Retrograde 14 Mar – 25 Apr (6 weeks), 22°25' Aries back to 6°03' Aries; shadow from 09 Feb to 28 May. Stations at 01:14 and 08:10 UT.
♂︎Mars retrograde 1734· once this year
Retrograde 26 Jun – 26 Aug (9 weeks), 7°59' Aquarius back to 27°34' Capricorn; shadow from 12 May to 07 Oct. Stations at 02:27 and 11:18 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 1734· once this year
Retrograde 27 Mar – 28 Jul (18 weeks), 10°41' Sagittarius back to 0°50' Sagittarius; shadow from 31 Dec 1733 to 23 Oct. Stations at 14:24 and 17:07 UT.
♄︎Saturn retrograde 1734· once this year
Retrograde 26 Aug – 08 Jan 1735 (19 weeks), 13°48' Taurus back to 6°53' Taurus; shadow from 22 May to 12 Apr 1735. Stations at 11:16 and 12:18 UT.
♅︎Uranus retrograde 1734· once this year
Retrograde 24 Mar – 24 Aug (22 weeks), 19°02' Sagittarius back to 15°01' Sagittarius; shadow from 09 Dec 1733 to 08 Dec. Stations at 04:49 and 11:38 UT.
♆︎Neptune retrograde 1734· twice this year
Retrograde 24 Sep 1733 – 28 Feb (22 weeks), 21°57' Gemini back to 19°08' Gemini; shadow from 03 Jun 1733 to 21 Jun. Stations at 21:01 and 08:56 UT.
Retrograde 27 Sep – 02 Mar 1735 (22 weeks), 24°11' Gemini back to 21°22' Gemini; shadow from 05 Jun to 23 Jun 1735. Stations at 08:25 and 19:33 UT.
♇︎Pluto retrograde 1734· once this year
Retrograde 25 Jan – 30 Jun (22 weeks), 23°10' Libra back to 20°21' Libra; shadow from 09 Oct 1733 to 18 Oct. Stations at 11:25 and 16:35 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.