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 1746· 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 08 Jan – 28 Jan (3 weeks), 4°04' Aquarius back to 18°04' Capricorn; shadow from 23 Dec 1745 to 17 Feb. Stations at 05:51 and 20:48 UT.
Retrograde 03 May – 27 May (3 weeks), 28°06' Taurus back to 19°14' Taurus; shadow from 19 Apr to 12 Jun. Stations at 19:48 and 16:10 UT.
Retrograde 03 Sep – 26 Sep (3 weeks), 2°30' Libra back to 17°52' Virgo; shadow from 14 Aug to 10 Oct. Stations at 18:03 and 02:18 UT.
Retrograde 23 Dec – 12 Jan 1747 (3 weeks), 18°06' Capricorn back to 1°52' Capricorn; shadow from 06 Dec to 31 Jan 1747. Stations at 03:43 and 06:18 UT.
♀︎Venus retrograde 1746· once this year
Retrograde 27 Dec – 06 Feb 1747 (6 weeks), 4°27' Aquarius back to 18°55' Capricorn; shadow from 25 Nov to 10 Mar 1747. Stations at 08:36 and 09:04 UT.
♂︎Mars retrograde 1746· not retrograde this year
Mars holds a straight course through 1746; 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 1746· once this year
Retrograde 01 Apr – 02 Aug (18 weeks), 15°08' Sagittarius back to 5°17' Sagittarius; shadow from 04 Jan to 28 Oct. Stations at 01:34 and 03:35 UT.
♄︎Saturn retrograde 1746· once this year
Retrograde 23 Jan – 10 Jun (20 weeks), 14°23' Libra back to 7°37' Libra; shadow from 20 Oct 1745 to 16 Sep. Stations at 04:24 and 04:00 UT.
♅︎Uranus retrograde 1746· once this year
Retrograde 14 May – 15 Oct (22 weeks), 9°18' Aquarius back to 5°22' Aquarius; shadow from 27 Jan to 29 Jan 1747. Stations at 01:43 and 08:36 UT.
♆︎Neptune retrograde 1746· twice this year
Retrograde 21 Oct 1745 – 27 Mar (22 weeks), 18°46' Cancer back to 15°57' Cancer; shadow from 30 Jun 1745 to 18 Jul. Stations at 20:13 and 06:53 UT.
Retrograde 24 Oct – 29 Mar 1747 (22 weeks), 20°59' Cancer back to 18°11' Cancer; shadow from 03 Jul to 21 Jul 1747. Stations at 07:13 and 20:10 UT.
♇︎Pluto retrograde 1746· once this year
Retrograde 25 Feb – 01 Aug (22 weeks), 24°18' Scorpio back to 21°30' Scorpio; shadow from 10 Nov 1745 to 19 Nov. Stations at 12:18 and 19:37 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.