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 1747· 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 23 Dec 1746 – 12 Jan (3 weeks), 18°06' Capricorn back to 1°52' Capricorn; shadow from 06 Dec 1746 to 31 Jan. Stations at 03:43 and 06:18 UT.
Retrograde 14 Apr – 08 May (3 weeks), 9°00' Taurus back to 29°03' Aries; shadow from 31 Mar to 25 May. Stations at 18:30 and 13:19 UT.
Retrograde 17 Aug – 09 Sep (3 weeks), 15°21' Virgo back to 1°38' Virgo; shadow from 28 Jul to 23 Sep. Stations at 09:34 and 12:27 UT.
Retrograde 07 Dec – 26 Dec (3 weeks), 2°13' Capricorn back to 15°55' Sagittarius; shadow from 19 Nov to 14 Jan 1748. Stations at 01:07 and 20:38 UT.
♀︎Venus retrograde 1747· once this year
Retrograde 27 Dec 1746 – 06 Feb (6 weeks), 4°27' Aquarius back to 18°55' Capricorn; shadow from 25 Nov 1746 to 10 Mar. Stations at 08:36 and 09:04 UT.
♂︎Mars retrograde 1747· once this year
Retrograde 26 Mar – 10 Jun (11 weeks), 18°38' Scorpio back to 1°35' Scorpio; shadow from 23 Jan to 06 Aug. Stations at 13:31 and 13:56 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 1747· once this year
Retrograde 05 May – 04 Sep (17 weeks), 17°39' Capricorn back to 7°49' Capricorn; shadow from 08 Feb to 28 Nov. Stations at 12:00 and 06:30 UT.
♄︎Saturn retrograde 1747· once this year
Retrograde 04 Feb – 23 Jun (20 weeks), 26°41' Libra back to 19°57' Libra; shadow from 01 Nov 1746 to 29 Sep. Stations at 14:00 and 06:51 UT.
♅︎Uranus retrograde 1747· once this year
Retrograde 18 May – 19 Oct (22 weeks), 13°21' Aquarius back to 9°26' Aquarius; shadow from 31 Jan to 02 Feb 1748. Stations at 09:53 and 17:14 UT.
♆︎Neptune retrograde 1747· twice this year
Retrograde 24 Oct 1746 – 29 Mar (22 weeks), 20°59' Cancer back to 18°11' Cancer; shadow from 03 Jul 1746 to 21 Jul. Stations at 07:13 and 20:10 UT.
Retrograde 26 Oct – 31 Mar 1748 (22 weeks), 23°13' Cancer back to 20°24' Cancer; shadow from 05 Jul to 23 Jul 1748. Stations at 20:08 and 08:18 UT.
♇︎Pluto retrograde 1747· once this year
Retrograde 28 Feb – 04 Aug (22 weeks), 26°50' Scorpio back to 24°03' Scorpio; shadow from 12 Nov 1746 to 22 Nov. Stations at 06:45 and 17:30 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.