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 1742· 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 16 Mar – 08 Apr (3 weeks), 10°26' Aries back to 28°07' Pisces; shadow from 02 Mar to 27 Apr. Stations at 14:16 and 22:03 UT.
Retrograde 19 Jul – 12 Aug (3 weeks), 16°48' Leo back to 5°03' Leo; shadow from 01 Jul to 26 Aug. Stations at 17:04 and 17:45 UT.
Retrograde 10 Nov – 30 Nov (3 weeks), 7°13' Sagittarius back to 21°01' Scorpio; shadow from 22 Oct to 18 Dec. Stations at 18:50 and 15:29 UT.
♀︎Venus retrograde 1742· once this year
Retrograde 11 Mar – 22 Apr (6 weeks), 20°08' Aries back to 3°48' Aries; shadow from 07 Feb to 26 May. Stations at 17:21 and 23:28 UT.
♂︎Mars retrograde 1742· not retrograde this year
Mars holds a straight course through 1742; 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 1742· twice this year
Retrograde 29 Nov 1741 – 30 Mar (17 weeks), 13°24' Leo back to 3°21' Leo; shadow from 03 Sep 1741 to 26 Jun. Stations at 13:46 and 03:34 UT.
Retrograde 30 Dec – 01 May 1743 (17 weeks), 14°14' Virgo back to 4°15' Virgo; shadow from 04 Oct to 29 Jul 1743. Stations at 01:20 and 03:30 UT.
♄︎Saturn retrograde 1742· twice this year
Retrograde 03 Dec 1741 – 16 Apr (19 weeks), 22°09' Leo back to 15°14' Leo; shadow from 30 Aug 1741 to 22 Jul. Stations at 00:12 and 17:32 UT.
Retrograde 16 Dec – 30 Apr 1743 (19 weeks), 5°40' Virgo back to 28°48' Leo; shadow from 13 Sep to 05 Aug 1743. Stations at 12:48 and 22:13 UT.
♅︎Uranus retrograde 1742· once this year
Retrograde 27 Apr – 28 Sep (22 weeks), 22°57' Capricorn back to 18°59' Capricorn; shadow from 11 Jan to 12 Jan 1743. Stations at 09:52 and 15:54 UT.
♆︎Neptune retrograde 1742· twice this year
Retrograde 12 Oct 1741 – 18 Mar (22 weeks), 9°50' Cancer back to 7°02' Cancer; shadow from 21 Jun 1741 to 09 Jul. Stations at 23:20 and 07:27 UT.
Retrograde 15 Oct – 20 Mar 1743 (22 weeks), 12°05' Cancer back to 9°16' Cancer; shadow from 24 Jun to 12 Jul 1743. Stations at 10:56 and 19:51 UT.
♇︎Pluto retrograde 1742· once this year
Retrograde 15 Feb – 22 Jul (22 weeks), 14°00' Scorpio back to 11°10' Scorpio; shadow from 31 Oct 1741 to 08 Nov. Stations at 08:22 and 04:16 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.