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 1750· 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 19 Feb – 14 Mar (3 weeks), 16°12' Pisces back to 1°59' Pisces; shadow from 05 Feb to 03 Apr. Stations at 23:08 and 09:59 UT.
Retrograde 23 Jun – 17 Jul (3 weeks), 19°28' Cancer back to 9°42' Cancer; shadow from 06 Jun to 31 Jul. Stations at 03:44 and 08:43 UT.
Retrograde 17 Oct – 07 Nov (3 weeks), 14°40' Scorpio back to 28°46' Libra; shadow from 28 Sep to 23 Nov. Stations at 23:45 and 10:05 UT.
♀︎Venus retrograde 1750· once this year
Retrograde 09 Mar – 20 Apr (6 weeks), 17°52' Aries back to 1°33' Aries; shadow from 04 Feb to 24 May. Stations at 09:08 and 14:38 UT.
♂︎Mars retrograde 1750· not retrograde this year
Mars holds a straight course through 1750; 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 1750· once this year
Retrograde 25 Aug – 20 Dec (17 weeks), 5°30' Taurus back to 25°31' Aries; shadow from 01 Jun to 13 Mar 1751. Stations at 08:01 and 19:51 UT.
♄︎Saturn retrograde 1750· once this year
Retrograde 11 Mar – 30 Jul (20 weeks), 2°05' Sagittarius back to 25°26' Scorpio; shadow from 05 Dec 1749 to 05 Nov. Stations at 11:03 and 05:51 UT.
♅︎Uranus retrograde 1750· once this year
Retrograde 30 May – 31 Oct (22 weeks), 25°25' Aquarius back to 21°30' Aquarius; shadow from 11 Feb to 14 Feb 1751. Stations at 13:03 and 16:50 UT.
♆︎Neptune retrograde 1750· twice this year
Retrograde 30 Oct 1749 – 05 Apr (22 weeks), 27°39' Cancer back to 24°50' Cancer; shadow from 09 Jul 1749 to 28 Jul. Stations at 19:47 and 08:54 UT.
Retrograde 02 Nov – 07 Apr 1751 (22 weeks), 29°52' Cancer back to 27°04' Cancer; shadow from 12 Jul to 30 Jul 1751. Stations at 06:04 and 19:36 UT.
♇︎Pluto retrograde 1750· once this year
Retrograde 07 Mar – 12 Aug (23 weeks), 4°19' Sagittarius back to 1°33' Sagittarius; shadow from 19 Nov 1749 to 30 Nov. Stations at 08:06 and 07:50 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.