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 1749· 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 08 Mar – 01 Apr (3 weeks), 3°10' Aries back to 20°13' Pisces; shadow from 22 Feb to 20 Apr. Stations at 21:45 and 00:23 UT.
Retrograde 11 Jul – 04 Aug (3 weeks), 8°52' Leo back to 27°44' Cancer; shadow from 23 Jun to 18 Aug. Stations at 16:22 and 19:45 UT.
Retrograde 03 Nov – 23 Nov (3 weeks), 0°34' Sagittarius back to 14°27' Scorpio; shadow from 15 Oct to 10 Dec. Stations at 12:12 and 11:45 UT.
♀︎Venus retrograde 1749· not retrograde this year
Venus holds a straight course through 1749; no spell, no shadow, no station to mark.
♂︎Mars retrograde 1749· once this year
Retrograde 25 May – 30 Jul (9 weeks), 10°36' Capricorn back to 28°12' Sagittarius; shadow from 05 Apr to 14 Sep. Stations at 18:19 and 16:31 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 1749· once this year
Retrograde 18 Jul – 13 Nov (17 weeks), 28°34' Pisces back to 18°39' Pisces; shadow from 24 Apr to 04 Feb 1750. Stations at 08:06 and 14:46 UT.
♄︎Saturn retrograde 1749· once this year
Retrograde 27 Feb – 17 Jul (20 weeks), 20°30' Scorpio back to 13°50' Scorpio; shadow from 23 Nov 1748 to 24 Oct. Stations at 15:33 and 20:21 UT.
♅︎Uranus retrograde 1749· once this year
Retrograde 26 May – 27 Oct (22 weeks), 21°25' Aquarius back to 17°29' Aquarius; shadow from 07 Feb to 10 Feb 1750. Stations at 03:41 and 09:32 UT.
♆︎Neptune retrograde 1749· twice this year
Retrograde 28 Oct 1748 – 02 Apr (22 weeks), 25°26' Cancer back to 22°37' Cancer; shadow from 07 Jul 1748 to 25 Jul. Stations at 06:56 and 20:34 UT.
Retrograde 30 Oct – 05 Apr 1750 (22 weeks), 27°39' Cancer back to 24°50' Cancer; shadow from 09 Jul to 28 Jul 1750. Stations at 19:47 and 08:54 UT.
♇︎Pluto retrograde 1749· once this year
Retrograde 04 Mar – 09 Aug (23 weeks), 1°51' Sagittarius back to 29°04' Scorpio; shadow from 16 Nov 1748 to 27 Nov. Stations at 15:57 and 12:11 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.