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 1738· 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 31 Jan – 22 Feb (3 weeks), 27°01' Aquarius back to 11°45' Aquarius; shadow from 16 Jan to 14 Mar. Stations at 15:09 and 05:30 UT.
Retrograde 31 May – 24 Jun (3 weeks), 26°20' Gemini back to 17°37' Gemini; shadow from 16 May to 09 Jul. Stations at 20:02 and 20:45 UT.
Retrograde 28 Sep – 19 Oct (3 weeks), 25°58' Libra back to 10°28' Libra; shadow from 08 Sep to 04 Nov. Stations at 08:40 and 13:16 UT.
♀︎Venus retrograde 1738· once this year
Retrograde 29 Dec – 08 Feb 1739 (6 weeks), 6°54' Aquarius back to 21°21' Capricorn; shadow from 28 Nov to 12 Mar 1739. Stations at 19:12 and 20:46 UT.
♂︎Mars retrograde 1738· once this year
Retrograde 27 Oct – 10 Jan 1739 (11 weeks), 22°43' Gemini back to 5°06' Gemini; shadow from 31 Aug to 13 Mar 1739. Stations at 16:21 and 06:09 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 1738· once this year
Retrograde 20 Aug – 15 Dec (17 weeks), 0°23' Taurus back to 20°24' Aries; shadow from 27 May to 08 Mar 1739. Stations at 04:09 and 18:50 UT.
♄︎Saturn retrograde 1738· twice this year
Retrograde 08 Oct 1737 – 18 Feb (19 weeks), 25°56' Gemini back to 18°58' Gemini; shadow from 05 Jul 1737 to 24 May. Stations at 04:35 and 20:12 UT.
Retrograde 22 Oct – 05 Mar 1739 (19 weeks), 10°10' Cancer back to 3°12' Cancer; shadow from 19 Jul to 08 Jun 1739. Stations at 16:59 and 07:31 UT.
♅︎Uranus retrograde 1738· once this year
Retrograde 10 Apr – 11 Sep (22 weeks), 6°14' Capricorn back to 2°15' Capricorn; shadow from 25 Dec 1737 to 26 Dec. Stations at 12:31 and 09:36 UT.
♆︎Neptune retrograde 1738· twice this year
Retrograde 03 Oct 1737 – 09 Mar (22 weeks), 0°54' Cancer back to 28°05' Gemini; shadow from 12 Jun 1737 to 30 Jun. Stations at 22:09 and 09:09 UT.
Retrograde 06 Oct – 11 Mar 1739 (22 weeks), 3°08' Cancer back to 0°19' Cancer; shadow from 15 Jun to 03 Jul 1739. Stations at 12:08 and 20:54 UT.
♇︎Pluto retrograde 1738· once this year
Retrograde 04 Feb – 11 Jul (22 weeks), 3°34' Scorpio back to 0°44' Scorpio; shadow from 20 Oct 1737 to 28 Oct. Stations at 21:27 and 09:57 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.