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 1736· 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 05 Mar – 28 Mar (3 weeks), 0°24' Aries back to 17°15' Pisces; shadow from 20 Feb to 17 Apr. Stations at 23:05 and 23:31 UT.
Retrograde 08 Jul – 01 Aug (3 weeks), 5°50' Leo back to 24°54' Cancer; shadow from 20 Jun to 15 Aug. Stations at 13:43 and 17:37 UT.
Retrograde 31 Oct – 20 Nov (3 weeks), 28°00' Scorpio back to 11°54' Scorpio; shadow from 12 Oct to 07 Dec. Stations at 16:09 and 16:52 UT.
♀︎Venus retrograde 1736· not retrograde this year
Venus holds a straight course through 1736; no spell, no shadow, no station to mark.
♂︎Mars retrograde 1736· once this year
Retrograde 07 Sep – 12 Nov (9 weeks), 26°32' Aries back to 13°19' Aries; shadow from 23 Jul to 02 Jan 1737. Stations at 20:50 and 13:24 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 1736· once this year
Retrograde 05 Jun – 03 Oct (17 weeks), 17°22' Aquarius back to 7°32' Aquarius; shadow from 11 Mar to 25 Dec. Stations at 05:05 and 09:27 UT.
♄︎Saturn retrograde 1736· twice this year
Retrograde 10 Sep 1735 – 22 Jan (19 weeks), 27°39' Taurus back to 20°43' Taurus; shadow from 05 Jun 1735 to 25 Apr. Stations at 00:18 and 08:33 UT.
Retrograde 23 Sep – 04 Feb 1737 (19 weeks), 11°44' Gemini back to 4°46' Gemini; shadow from 20 Jun to 09 May 1737. Stations at 14:33 and 12:04 UT.
♅︎Uranus retrograde 1736· once this year
Retrograde 01 Apr – 02 Sep (22 weeks), 27°42' Sagittarius back to 23°42' Sagittarius; shadow from 18 Dec 1735 to 16 Dec. Stations at 10:07 and 00:15 UT.
♆︎Neptune retrograde 1736· twice this year
Retrograde 29 Sep 1735 – 04 Mar (22 weeks), 26°25' Gemini back to 23°36' Gemini; shadow from 08 Jun 1735 to 25 Jun. Stations at 20:40 and 08:43 UT.
Retrograde 01 Oct – 06 Mar 1737 (22 weeks), 28°39' Gemini back to 25°50' Gemini; shadow from 09 Jun to 28 Jun 1737. Stations at 09:58 and 20:07 UT.
♇︎Pluto retrograde 1736· once this year
Retrograde 31 Jan – 05 Jul (22 weeks), 28°21' Libra back to 25°32' Libra; shadow from 15 Oct 1735 to 23 Oct. Stations at 04:01 and 12:28 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.