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 1751· 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 03 Feb – 25 Feb (3 weeks), 29°39' Aquarius back to 14°30' Aquarius; shadow from 19 Jan to 17 Mar. Stations at 10:56 and 03:49 UT.
Retrograde 04 Jun – 28 Jun (3 weeks), 29°32' Gemini back to 20°44' Gemini; shadow from 19 May to 12 Jul. Stations at 02:38 and 03:39 UT.
Retrograde 01 Oct – 22 Oct (3 weeks), 28°35' Libra back to 13°02' Libra; shadow from 10 Sep to 07 Nov. Stations at 06:21 and 08:11 UT.
♀︎Venus retrograde 1751· once this year
Retrograde 11 Oct – 21 Nov (6 weeks), 15°54' Scorpio back to 0°25' Scorpio; shadow from 08 Sep to 23 Dec. Stations at 05:32 and 16:29 UT.
♂︎Mars retrograde 1751· once this year
Retrograde 14 Aug – 14 Oct (9 weeks), 27°23' Pisces back to 16°27' Pisces; shadow from 02 Jul to 28 Nov. Stations at 03:09 and 15:03 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 1751· once this year
Retrograde 30 Sep – 26 Jan 1752 (17 weeks), 11°35' Gemini back to 1°32' Gemini; shadow from 06 Jul to 20 Apr 1752. Stations at 11:23 and 08:09 UT.
♄︎Saturn retrograde 1751· once this year
Retrograde 23 Mar – 11 Aug (20 weeks), 13°32' Sagittarius back to 6°54' Sagittarius; shadow from 16 Dec 1750 to 17 Nov. Stations at 06:44 and 10:59 UT.
♅︎Uranus retrograde 1751· once this year
Retrograde 03 Jun – 04 Nov (22 weeks), 29°25' Aquarius back to 25°29' Aquarius; shadow from 16 Feb to 19 Feb 1752. Stations at 20:15 and 23:55 UT.
♆︎Neptune retrograde 1751· twice this year
Retrograde 02 Nov 1750 – 07 Apr (22 weeks), 29°52' Cancer back to 27°04' Cancer; shadow from 12 Jul 1750 to 30 Jul. Stations at 06:04 and 19:36 UT.
Retrograde 04 Nov – 09 Apr 1752 (22 weeks), 2°05' Leo back to 29°17' Cancer; shadow from 14 Jul to 01 Aug 1752. Stations at 17:33 and 07:37 UT.
♇︎Pluto retrograde 1751· once this year
Retrograde 09 Mar – 15 Aug (23 weeks), 6°45' Sagittarius back to 4°00' Sagittarius; shadow from 21 Nov 1750 to 03 Dec. Stations at 23:46 and 05:20 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.