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 1740· 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 30 Dec 1739 – 19 Jan (3 weeks), 24°46' Capricorn back to 8°36' Capricorn; shadow from 13 Dec 1739 to 08 Feb. Stations at 07:22 and 14:34 UT.
Retrograde 22 Apr – 15 May (3 weeks), 16°54' Taurus back to 7°30' Taurus; shadow from 08 Apr to 01 Jun. Stations at 02:33 and 22:18 UT.
Retrograde 24 Aug – 15 Sep (3 weeks), 22°37' Virgo back to 8°28' Virgo; shadow from 04 Aug to 30 Sep. Stations at 03:11 and 22:06 UT.
Retrograde 13 Dec – 02 Jan 1741 (3 weeks), 8°52' Capricorn back to 22°34' Sagittarius; shadow from 25 Nov to 21 Jan 1741. Stations at 05:06 and 03:06 UT.
♀︎Venus retrograde 1740· once this year
Retrograde 31 Jul – 12 Sep (6 weeks), 7°14' Virgo back to 20°57' Leo; shadow from 28 Jun to 15 Oct. Stations at 18:20 and 14:08 UT.
♂︎Mars retrograde 1740· once this year
Retrograde 03 Dec – 20 Feb 1741 (11 weeks), 2°46' Leo back to 13°34' Cancer; shadow from 01 Oct to 29 Apr 1741. Stations at 18:04 and 21:05 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 1740· twice this year
Retrograde 25 Sep 1739 – 21 Jan (17 weeks), 6°34' Gemini back to 26°31' Taurus; shadow from 02 Jul 1739 to 15 Apr. Stations at 14:59 and 11:02 UT.
Retrograde 28 Oct – 24 Feb 1741 (17 weeks), 10°59' Cancer back to 0°54' Cancer; shadow from 03 Aug to 22 May 1741. Stations at 14:50 and 14:30 UT.
♄︎Saturn retrograde 1740· twice this year
Retrograde 06 Nov 1739 – 18 Mar (19 weeks), 24°20' Cancer back to 17°23' Cancer; shadow from 03 Aug 1739 to 22 Jun. Stations at 01:42 and 20:15 UT.
Retrograde 19 Nov – 02 Apr 1741 (19 weeks), 8°21' Leo back to 1°25' Leo; shadow from 16 Aug to 07 Jul 1741. Stations at 04:31 and 08:16 UT.
♅︎Uranus retrograde 1740· once this year
Retrograde 18 Apr – 19 Sep (22 weeks), 14°39' Capricorn back to 10°40' Capricorn; shadow from 03 Jan to 03 Jan 1741. Stations at 12:08 and 14:46 UT.
♆︎Neptune retrograde 1740· twice this year
Retrograde 08 Oct 1739 – 13 Mar (22 weeks), 5°22' Cancer back to 2°33' Cancer; shadow from 17 Jun 1739 to 04 Jul. Stations at 23:35 and 08:48 UT.
Retrograde 10 Oct – 15 Mar 1741 (22 weeks), 7°36' Cancer back to 4°48' Cancer; shadow from 19 Jun to 07 Jul 1741. Stations at 12:48 and 20:45 UT.
♇︎Pluto retrograde 1740· once this year
Retrograde 10 Feb – 16 Jul (22 weeks), 8°47' Scorpio back to 5°57' Scorpio; shadow from 26 Oct 1739 to 02 Nov. Stations at 15:18 and 07:26 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.