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 1752· 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 18 Jan – 08 Feb (3 weeks), 13°24' Aquarius back to 27°38' Capricorn; shadow from 02 Jan to 28 Feb. Stations at 05:03 and 04:37 UT.
Retrograde 14 May – 07 Jun (3 weeks), 9°32' Gemini back to 0°57' Gemini; shadow from 30 Apr to 22 Jun. Stations at 16:40 and 13:29 UT.
Retrograde 13 Sep – 05 Oct (3 weeks), 12°12' Libra back to 27°10' Virgo; shadow from 23 Aug to 20 Oct. Stations at 07:28 and 04:01 UT.
♀︎Venus retrograde 1752· not retrograde this year
Venus holds a straight course through 1752; no spell, no shadow, no station to mark.
♂︎Mars retrograde 1752· not retrograde this year
Mars holds a straight course through 1752; 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 1752· twice this year
Retrograde 30 Sep 1751 – 26 Jan (17 weeks), 11°35' Gemini back to 1°32' Gemini; shadow from 06 Jul 1751 to 20 Apr. Stations at 11:23 and 08:09 UT.
Retrograde 02 Nov – 01 Mar 1753 (17 weeks), 15°47' Cancer back to 5°43' Cancer; shadow from 08 Aug to 27 May 1753. Stations at 06:32 and 10:53 UT.
♄︎Saturn retrograde 1752· once this year
Retrograde 03 Apr – 22 Aug (20 weeks), 24°53' Sagittarius back to 18°15' Sagittarius; shadow from 27 Dec 1751 to 28 Nov. Stations at 01:30 and 10:06 UT.
♅︎Uranus retrograde 1752· once this year
Retrograde 07 Jun – 08 Nov (22 weeks), 3°24' Pisces back to 29°28' Aquarius; shadow from 20 Feb to 22 Feb 1753. Stations at 05:03 and 06:21 UT.
♆︎Neptune retrograde 1752· twice this year
Retrograde 04 Nov 1751 – 09 Apr (22 weeks), 2°05' Leo back to 29°17' Cancer; shadow from 14 Jul 1751 to 01 Aug. Stations at 17:33 and 07:37 UT.
Retrograde 06 Nov – 11 Apr 1753 (22 weeks), 4°18' Leo back to 1°30' Leo; shadow from 16 Jul to 03 Aug 1753. Stations at 03:48 and 17:34 UT.
♇︎Pluto retrograde 1752· once this year
Retrograde 11 Mar – 16 Aug (23 weeks), 9°10' Sagittarius back to 6°25' Sagittarius; shadow from 24 Nov 1751 to 04 Dec. Stations at 15:33 and 23:52 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.