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 1739· 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 15 Jan – 05 Feb (3 weeks), 10°48' Aquarius back to 24°57' Capricorn; shadow from 30 Dec 1738 to 25 Feb. Stations at 09:55 and 07:04 UT.
Retrograde 12 May – 05 Jun (3 weeks), 6°22' Gemini back to 27°44' Taurus; shadow from 28 Apr to 20 Jun. Stations at 09:43 and 06:06 UT.
Retrograde 11 Sep – 03 Oct (3 weeks), 9°32' Libra back to 24°35' Virgo; shadow from 22 Aug to 18 Oct. Stations at 08:56 and 08:29 UT.
Retrograde 30 Dec – 19 Jan 1740 (3 weeks), 24°46' Capricorn back to 8°36' Capricorn; shadow from 13 Dec to 08 Feb 1740. Stations at 07:22 and 14:34 UT.
♀︎Venus retrograde 1739· once this year
Retrograde 29 Dec 1738 – 08 Feb (6 weeks), 6°54' Aquarius back to 21°21' Capricorn; shadow from 28 Nov 1738 to 12 Mar. Stations at 19:12 and 20:46 UT.
♂︎Mars retrograde 1739· once this year
Retrograde 27 Oct 1738 – 10 Jan (11 weeks), 22°43' Gemini back to 5°06' Gemini; shadow from 31 Aug 1738 to 13 Mar. 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 1739· once this year
Retrograde 25 Sep – 21 Jan 1740 (17 weeks), 6°34' Gemini back to 26°31' Taurus; shadow from 02 Jul to 15 Apr 1740. Stations at 14:59 and 11:02 UT.
♄︎Saturn retrograde 1739· twice this year
Retrograde 22 Oct 1738 – 05 Mar (19 weeks), 10°10' Cancer back to 3°12' Cancer; shadow from 19 Jul 1738 to 08 Jun. Stations at 16:59 and 07:31 UT.
Retrograde 06 Nov – 18 Mar 1740 (19 weeks), 24°20' Cancer back to 17°23' Cancer; shadow from 03 Aug to 22 Jun 1740. Stations at 01:42 and 20:15 UT.
♅︎Uranus retrograde 1739· once this year
Retrograde 14 Apr – 15 Sep (22 weeks), 10°27' Capricorn back to 6°28' Capricorn; shadow from 30 Dec 1738 to 30 Dec. Stations at 23:24 and 23:57 UT.
♆︎Neptune retrograde 1739· twice this year
Retrograde 06 Oct 1738 – 11 Mar (22 weeks), 3°08' Cancer back to 0°19' Cancer; shadow from 15 Jun 1738 to 03 Jul. Stations at 12:08 and 20:54 UT.
Retrograde 08 Oct – 13 Mar 1740 (22 weeks), 5°22' Cancer back to 2°33' Cancer; shadow from 17 Jun to 04 Jul 1740. Stations at 23:35 and 08:48 UT.
♇︎Pluto retrograde 1739· once this year
Retrograde 07 Feb – 14 Jul (22 weeks), 6°11' Scorpio back to 3°21' Scorpio; shadow from 23 Oct 1738 to 31 Oct. Stations at 18:20 and 07:30 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.