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 1753· four 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 01 Jan – 21 Jan (3 weeks), 27°21' Capricorn back to 11°14' Capricorn; shadow from 15 Dec 1752 to 10 Feb. Stations at 02:12 and 11:19 UT.
Retrograde 25 Apr – 19 May (3 weeks), 19°58' Taurus back to 10°43' Taurus; shadow from 11 Apr to 04 Jun. Stations at 08:02 and 04:08 UT.
Retrograde 27 Aug – 18 Sep (3 weeks), 25°23' Virgo back to 11°06' Virgo; shadow from 07 Aug to 03 Oct. Stations at 02:33 and 18:44 UT.
Retrograde 15 Dec – 04 Jan 1754 (3 weeks), 11°26' Capricorn back to 25°09' Sagittarius; shadow from 28 Nov to 24 Jan 1754. Stations at 23:59 and 23:06 UT.
♀︎Venus retrograde 1753· once this year
Retrograde 18 May – 30 Jun (6 weeks), 25°59' Gemini back to 9°28' Gemini; shadow from 14 Apr to 03 Aug. Stations at 01:26 and 02:44 UT.
♂︎Mars retrograde 1753· once this year
Retrograde 10 Oct – 21 Dec (10 weeks), 3°47' Gemini back to 17°26' Taurus; shadow from 17 Aug to 18 Feb 1754. Stations at 08:44 and 03:01 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 1753· twice this year
Retrograde 02 Nov 1752 – 01 Mar (17 weeks), 15°47' Cancer back to 5°43' Cancer; shadow from 08 Aug 1752 to 27 May. Stations at 06:32 and 10:53 UT.
Retrograde 03 Dec – 03 Apr 1754 (17 weeks), 17°59' Leo back to 7°57' Leo; shadow from 08 Sep to 01 Jul 1754. Stations at 21:53 and 17:16 UT.
♄︎Saturn retrograde 1753· once this year
Retrograde 14 Apr – 03 Sep (20 weeks), 6°11' Capricorn back to 29°34' Sagittarius; shadow from 07 Jan to 09 Dec. Stations at 19:44 and 07:56 UT.
♅︎Uranus retrograde 1753· once this year
Retrograde 11 Jun – 12 Nov (22 weeks), 7°22' Pisces back to 3°27' Pisces; shadow from 23 Feb to 26 Feb 1754. Stations at 12:04 and 12:33 UT.
♆︎Neptune retrograde 1753· twice this year
Retrograde 06 Nov 1752 – 11 Apr (22 weeks), 4°18' Leo back to 1°30' Leo; shadow from 16 Jul 1752 to 03 Aug. Stations at 03:48 and 17:34 UT.
Retrograde 08 Nov – 14 Apr 1754 (22 weeks), 6°31' Leo back to 3°43' Leo; shadow from 18 Jul to 06 Aug 1754. Stations at 14:09 and 06:12 UT.
♇︎Pluto retrograde 1753· once this year
Retrograde 14 Mar – 19 Aug (23 weeks), 11°33' Sagittarius back to 8°48' Sagittarius; shadow from 25 Nov 1752 to 07 Dec. Stations at 05:30 and 19:58 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.