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 1741· 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 13 Dec 1740 – 02 Jan (3 weeks), 8°52' Capricorn back to 22°34' Sagittarius; shadow from 25 Nov 1740 to 21 Jan. Stations at 05:06 and 03:06 UT.
Retrograde 03 Apr – 27 Apr (3 weeks), 28°17' Aries back to 17°30' Aries; shadow from 20 Mar to 14 May. Stations at 10:44 and 03:46 UT.
Retrograde 06 Aug – 30 Aug (3 weeks), 5°05' Virgo back to 22°01' Leo; shadow from 18 Jul to 13 Sep. Stations at 14:23 and 02:36 UT.
Retrograde 27 Nov – 16 Dec (3 weeks), 23°02' Sagittarius back to 6°44' Sagittarius; shadow from 08 Nov to 04 Jan 1742. Stations at 01:21 and 19:43 UT.
♀︎Venus retrograde 1741· not retrograde this year
Venus holds a straight course through 1741; no spell, no shadow, no station to mark.
♂︎Mars retrograde 1741· once this year
Retrograde 03 Dec 1740 – 20 Feb (11 weeks), 2°46' Leo back to 13°34' Cancer; shadow from 01 Oct 1740 to 29 Apr. 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 1741· twice this year
Retrograde 28 Oct 1740 – 24 Feb (17 weeks), 10°59' Cancer back to 0°54' Cancer; shadow from 03 Aug 1740 to 22 May. Stations at 14:50 and 14:30 UT.
Retrograde 29 Nov – 30 Mar 1742 (17 weeks), 13°24' Leo back to 3°21' Leo; shadow from 03 Sep to 26 Jun 1742. Stations at 13:46 and 03:34 UT.
♄︎Saturn retrograde 1741· twice this year
Retrograde 19 Nov 1740 – 02 Apr (19 weeks), 8°21' Leo back to 1°25' Leo; shadow from 16 Aug 1740 to 07 Jul. Stations at 04:31 and 08:16 UT.
Retrograde 03 Dec – 16 Apr 1742 (19 weeks), 22°09' Leo back to 15°14' Leo; shadow from 30 Aug to 22 Jul 1742. Stations at 00:12 and 17:32 UT.
♅︎Uranus retrograde 1741· once this year
Retrograde 22 Apr – 24 Sep (22 weeks), 18°48' Capricorn back to 14°50' Capricorn; shadow from 06 Jan to 08 Jan 1742. Stations at 21:59 and 03:22 UT.
♆︎Neptune retrograde 1741· twice this year
Retrograde 10 Oct 1740 – 15 Mar (22 weeks), 7°36' Cancer back to 4°48' Cancer; shadow from 19 Jun 1740 to 07 Jul. Stations at 12:48 and 20:45 UT.
Retrograde 12 Oct – 18 Mar 1742 (22 weeks), 9°50' Cancer back to 7°02' Cancer; shadow from 21 Jun to 09 Jul 1742. Stations at 23:20 and 07:27 UT.
♇︎Pluto retrograde 1741· once this year
Retrograde 12 Feb – 19 Jul (22 weeks), 11°23' Scorpio back to 8°34' Scorpio; shadow from 28 Oct 1740 to 05 Nov. Stations at 12:30 and 04:58 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.