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 1735· 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 24 Mar – 16 Apr (3 weeks), 17°51' Aries back to 6°10' Aries; shadow from 10 Mar to 05 May. Stations at 09:54 and 21:58 UT.
Retrograde 27 Jul – 20 Aug (3 weeks), 24°35' Leo back to 12°15' Leo; shadow from 08 Jul to 03 Sep. Stations at 16:24 and 12:16 UT.
Retrograde 18 Nov – 07 Dec (3 weeks), 13°51' Sagittarius back to 27°36' Scorpio; shadow from 30 Oct to 25 Dec. Stations at 00:53 and 19:38 UT.
♀︎Venus retrograde 1735· once this year
Retrograde 16 Oct – 26 Nov (6 weeks), 20°43' Scorpio back to 5°17' Scorpio; shadow from 13 Sep to 28 Dec. Stations at 06:10 and 14:30 UT.
♂︎Mars retrograde 1735· not retrograde this year
Mars holds a straight course through 1735; 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 1735· once this year
Retrograde 30 Apr – 30 Aug (17 weeks), 13°02' Capricorn back to 3°12' Capricorn; shadow from 03 Feb to 23 Nov. Stations at 17:16 and 15:17 UT.
♄︎Saturn retrograde 1735· twice this year
Retrograde 26 Aug 1734 – 08 Jan (19 weeks), 13°48' Taurus back to 6°53' Taurus; shadow from 22 May 1734 to 12 Apr. Stations at 11:16 and 12:18 UT.
Retrograde 10 Sep – 22 Jan 1736 (19 weeks), 27°39' Taurus back to 20°43' Taurus; shadow from 05 Jun to 25 Apr 1736. Stations at 00:18 and 08:33 UT.
♅︎Uranus retrograde 1735· once this year
Retrograde 28 Mar – 29 Aug (22 weeks), 23°23' Sagittarius back to 19°23' Sagittarius; shadow from 13 Dec 1734 to 13 Dec. Stations at 18:48 and 05:14 UT.
♆︎Neptune retrograde 1735· twice this year
Retrograde 27 Sep 1734 – 02 Mar (22 weeks), 24°11' Gemini back to 21°22' Gemini; shadow from 05 Jun 1734 to 23 Jun. Stations at 08:25 and 19:33 UT.
Retrograde 29 Sep – 04 Mar 1736 (22 weeks), 26°25' Gemini back to 23°36' Gemini; shadow from 08 Jun to 25 Jun 1736. Stations at 20:40 and 08:43 UT.
♇︎Pluto retrograde 1735· once this year
Retrograde 28 Jan – 03 Jul (22 weeks), 25°45' Libra back to 22°56' Libra; shadow from 12 Oct 1734 to 21 Oct. Stations at 06:38 and 13:36 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.