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 1748· 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 26 Mar – 19 Apr (3 weeks), 20°42' Aries back to 9°16' Aries; shadow from 12 Mar to 07 May. Stations at 11:02 and 00:33 UT.
Retrograde 29 Jul – 22 Aug (3 weeks), 27°31' Leo back to 14°59' Leo; shadow from 10 Jul to 05 Sep. Stations at 17:44 and 11:39 UT.
Retrograde 19 Nov – 09 Dec (3 weeks), 16°24' Sagittarius back to 0°08' Sagittarius; shadow from 01 Nov to 27 Dec. Stations at 20:22 and 14:50 UT.
♀︎Venus retrograde 1748· once this year
Retrograde 29 Jul – 10 Sep (6 weeks), 5°02' Virgo back to 18°44' Leo; shadow from 25 Jun to 13 Oct. Stations at 09:45 and 06:34 UT.
♂︎Mars retrograde 1748· not retrograde this year
Mars holds a straight course through 1748; 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 1748· once this year
Retrograde 10 Jun – 08 Oct (17 weeks), 22°14' Aquarius back to 12°23' Aquarius; shadow from 16 Mar to 30 Dec. Stations at 05:31 and 03:13 UT.
♄︎Saturn retrograde 1748· once this year
Retrograde 16 Feb – 05 Jul (20 weeks), 8°43' Scorpio back to 2°01' Scorpio; shadow from 13 Nov 1747 to 11 Oct. Stations at 16:31 and 04:29 UT.
♅︎Uranus retrograde 1748· once this year
Retrograde 21 May – 23 Oct (22 weeks), 17°23' Aquarius back to 13°28' Aquarius; shadow from 04 Feb to 05 Feb 1749. Stations at 19:57 and 01:35 UT.
♆︎Neptune retrograde 1748· twice this year
Retrograde 26 Oct 1747 – 31 Mar (22 weeks), 23°13' Cancer back to 20°24' Cancer; shadow from 05 Jul 1747 to 23 Jul. Stations at 20:08 and 08:18 UT.
Retrograde 28 Oct – 02 Apr 1749 (22 weeks), 25°26' Cancer back to 22°37' Cancer; shadow from 07 Jul to 25 Jul 1749. Stations at 06:56 and 20:34 UT.
♇︎Pluto retrograde 1748· once this year
Retrograde 01 Mar – 06 Aug (23 weeks), 29°21' Scorpio back to 26°34' Scorpio; shadow from 15 Nov 1747 to 24 Nov. Stations at 22:56 and 14:04 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.