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 1743· 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 27 Feb – 22 Mar (3 weeks), 23°15' Pisces back to 9°32' Pisces; shadow from 13 Feb to 10 Apr. Stations at 10:05 and 03:42 UT.
Retrograde 01 Jul – 25 Jul (3 weeks), 27°42' Cancer back to 17°22' Cancer; shadow from 14 Jun to 08 Aug. Stations at 09:47 and 14:51 UT.
Retrograde 25 Oct – 14 Nov (3 weeks), 21°21' Scorpio back to 5°20' Scorpio; shadow from 05 Oct to 01 Dec. Stations at 08:29 and 13:20 UT.
♀︎Venus retrograde 1743· once this year
Retrograde 13 Oct – 24 Nov (6 weeks), 18°18' Scorpio back to 2°51' Scorpio; shadow from 11 Sep to 25 Dec. Stations at 17:59 and 03:43 UT.
♂︎Mars retrograde 1743· once this year
Retrograde 07 Jan – 29 Mar (12 weeks), 6°53' Virgo back to 17°24' Leo; shadow from 02 Nov 1742 to 04 Jun. Stations at 06:02 and 05:36 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 1743· once this year
Retrograde 30 Dec 1742 – 01 May (17 weeks), 14°14' Virgo back to 4°15' Virgo; shadow from 04 Oct 1742 to 29 Jul. Stations at 01:20 and 03:30 UT.
♄︎Saturn retrograde 1743· twice this year
Retrograde 16 Dec 1742 – 30 Apr (19 weeks), 5°40' Virgo back to 28°48' Leo; shadow from 13 Sep 1742 to 05 Aug. Stations at 12:48 and 22:13 UT.
Retrograde 29 Dec – 13 May 1744 (19 weeks), 18°53' Virgo back to 12°03' Virgo; shadow from 26 Sep to 19 Aug 1744. Stations at 17:11 and 22:15 UT.
♅︎Uranus retrograde 1743· once this year
Retrograde 01 May – 03 Oct (22 weeks), 27°04' Capricorn back to 23°07' Capricorn; shadow from 15 Jan to 17 Jan 1744. Stations at 19:05 and 02:45 UT.
♆︎Neptune retrograde 1743· twice this year
Retrograde 15 Oct 1742 – 20 Mar (22 weeks), 12°05' Cancer back to 9°16' Cancer; shadow from 24 Jun 1742 to 12 Jul. Stations at 10:56 and 19:51 UT.
Retrograde 17 Oct – 22 Mar 1744 (22 weeks), 14°19' Cancer back to 11°30' Cancer; shadow from 26 Jun to 13 Jul 1744. Stations at 21:25 and 06:15 UT.
♇︎Pluto retrograde 1743· once this year
Retrograde 18 Feb – 25 Jul (22 weeks), 16°35' Scorpio back to 13°46' Scorpio; shadow from 02 Nov 1742 to 11 Nov. Stations at 05:13 and 01:46 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.