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 1754· 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 15 Dec 1753 – 04 Jan (3 weeks), 11°26' Capricorn back to 25°09' Sagittarius; shadow from 28 Nov 1753 to 24 Jan. Stations at 23:59 and 23:06 UT.
Retrograde 06 Apr – 30 Apr (3 weeks), 1°12' Taurus back to 20°39' Aries; shadow from 23 Mar to 17 May. Stations at 13:31 and 07:16 UT.
Retrograde 09 Aug – 02 Sep (3 weeks), 7°57' Virgo back to 24°42' Leo; shadow from 21 Jul to 16 Sep. Stations at 14:46 and 00:51 UT.
Retrograde 29 Nov – 19 Dec (3 weeks), 25°35' Sagittarius back to 9°18' Sagittarius; shadow from 11 Nov to 07 Jan 1755. Stations at 20:36 and 15:06 UT.
♀︎Venus retrograde 1754· once this year
Retrograde 24 Dec – 03 Feb 1755 (6 weeks), 1°58' Aquarius back to 16°28' Capricorn; shadow from 23 Nov to 07 Mar 1755. Stations at 21:55 and 21:41 UT.
♂︎Mars retrograde 1754· not retrograde this year
Mars holds a straight course through 1754; 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 1754· once this year
Retrograde 03 Dec 1753 – 03 Apr (17 weeks), 17°59' Leo back to 7°57' Leo; shadow from 08 Sep 1753 to 01 Jul. Stations at 21:53 and 17:16 UT.
♄︎Saturn retrograde 1754· once this year
Retrograde 26 Apr – 15 Sep (20 weeks), 17°31' Capricorn back to 10°54' Capricorn; shadow from 19 Jan to 21 Dec. Stations at 18:07 and 05:17 UT.
♅︎Uranus retrograde 1754· once this year
Retrograde 15 Jun – 16 Nov (22 weeks), 11°20' Pisces back to 7°24' Pisces; shadow from 27 Feb to 03 Mar 1755. Stations at 20:49 and 18:03 UT.
♆︎Neptune retrograde 1754· twice this year
Retrograde 08 Nov 1753 – 14 Apr (22 weeks), 6°31' Leo back to 3°43' Leo; shadow from 18 Jul 1753 to 06 Aug. Stations at 14:09 and 06:12 UT.
Retrograde 11 Nov – 16 Apr 1755 (22 weeks), 8°44' Leo back to 5°56' Leo; shadow from 21 Jul to 08 Aug 1755. Stations at 01:25 and 17:07 UT.
♇︎Pluto retrograde 1754· once this year
Retrograde 16 Mar – 22 Aug (23 weeks), 13°54' Sagittarius back to 11°10' Sagittarius; shadow from 28 Nov 1753 to 10 Dec. Stations at 20:29 and 13:26 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.