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 1737· 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 17 Feb – 11 Mar (3 weeks), 13°31' Pisces back to 29°08' Aquarius; shadow from 02 Feb to 31 Mar. Stations at 02:13 and 10:36 UT.
Retrograde 19 Jun – 14 Jul (3 weeks), 16°19' Cancer back to 6°43' Cancer; shadow from 03 Jun to 28 Jul. Stations at 23:11 and 03:40 UT.
Retrograde 15 Oct – 04 Nov (3 weeks), 12°05' Scorpio back to 26°13' Libra; shadow from 25 Sep to 21 Nov. Stations at 02:58 and 15:20 UT.
♀︎Venus retrograde 1737· once this year
Retrograde 22 May – 04 Jul (6 weeks), 0°16' Cancer back to 13°45' Gemini; shadow from 19 Apr to 07 Aug. Stations at 16:44 and 19:27 UT.
♂︎Mars retrograde 1737· not retrograde this year
Mars holds a straight course through 1737; 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 1737· once this year
Retrograde 13 Jul – 08 Nov (17 weeks), 23°30' Pisces back to 13°36' Pisces; shadow from 19 Apr to 30 Jan 1738. Stations at 05:49 and 16:26 UT.
♄︎Saturn retrograde 1737· twice this year
Retrograde 23 Sep 1736 – 04 Feb (19 weeks), 11°44' Gemini back to 4°46' Gemini; shadow from 20 Jun 1736 to 09 May. Stations at 14:33 and 12:04 UT.
Retrograde 08 Oct – 18 Feb 1738 (19 weeks), 25°56' Gemini back to 18°58' Gemini; shadow from 05 Jul to 24 May 1738. Stations at 04:35 and 20:12 UT.
♅︎Uranus retrograde 1737· once this year
Retrograde 05 Apr – 06 Sep (22 weeks), 1°59' Capricorn back to 27°59' Sagittarius; shadow from 21 Dec 1736 to 21 Dec. Stations at 22:32 and 16:28 UT.
♆︎Neptune retrograde 1737· twice this year
Retrograde 01 Oct 1736 – 06 Mar (22 weeks), 28°39' Gemini back to 25°50' Gemini; shadow from 09 Jun 1736 to 28 Jun. Stations at 09:58 and 20:07 UT.
Retrograde 03 Oct – 09 Mar 1738 (22 weeks), 0°54' Cancer back to 28°05' Gemini; shadow from 12 Jun to 30 Jun 1738. Stations at 22:09 and 09:09 UT.
♇︎Pluto retrograde 1737· once this year
Retrograde 02 Feb – 08 Jul (22 weeks), 0°58' Scorpio back to 28°08' Libra; shadow from 17 Oct 1736 to 26 Oct. Stations at 00:05 and 10:02 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.