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 1744· 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 10 Feb – 03 Mar (3 weeks), 6°33' Pisces back to 21°45' Aquarius; shadow from 26 Jan to 23 Mar. Stations at 17:57 and 18:36 UT.
Retrograde 11 Jun – 05 Jul (3 weeks), 7°57' Cancer back to 28°48' Gemini; shadow from 26 May to 20 Jul. Stations at 14:20 and 16:41 UT.
Retrograde 07 Oct – 28 Oct (3 weeks), 5°21' Scorpio back to 19°37' Libra; shadow from 17 Sep to 13 Nov. Stations at 17:18 and 11:50 UT.
♀︎Venus retrograde 1744· not retrograde this year
Venus holds a straight course through 1744; no spell, no shadow, no station to mark.
♂︎Mars retrograde 1744· not retrograde this year
Mars holds a straight course through 1744; 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 1744· once this year
Retrograde 29 Jan – 31 May (18 weeks), 14°14' Libra back to 4°18' Libra; shadow from 03 Nov 1743 to 28 Aug. Stations at 04:30 and 08:54 UT.
♄︎Saturn retrograde 1744· once this year
Retrograde 29 Dec 1743 – 13 May (19 weeks), 18°53' Virgo back to 12°03' Virgo; shadow from 26 Sep 1743 to 19 Aug. Stations at 17:11 and 22:15 UT.
♅︎Uranus retrograde 1744· once this year
Retrograde 05 May – 06 Oct (22 weeks), 1°10' Aquarius back to 27°13' Capricorn; shadow from 19 Jan to 20 Jan 1745. Stations at 06:14 and 13:32 UT.
♆︎Neptune retrograde 1744· twice this year
Retrograde 17 Oct 1743 – 22 Mar (22 weeks), 14°19' Cancer back to 11°30' Cancer; shadow from 26 Jun 1743 to 13 Jul. Stations at 21:25 and 06:15 UT.
Retrograde 19 Oct – 24 Mar 1745 (22 weeks), 16°32' Cancer back to 13°44' Cancer; shadow from 28 Jun to 16 Jul 1745. Stations at 08:23 and 19:28 UT.
♇︎Pluto retrograde 1744· once this year
Retrograde 20 Feb – 27 Jul (22 weeks), 19°10' Scorpio back to 16°22' Scorpio; shadow from 05 Nov 1743 to 13 Nov. Stations at 23:26 and 00:13 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.