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 1755· 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 Mar – 11 Apr (3 weeks), 13°15' Aries back to 1°09' Aries; shadow from 05 Mar to 30 Apr. Stations at 14:24 and 23:40 UT.
Retrograde 22 Jul – 15 Aug (3 weeks), 19°47' Leo back to 7°49' Leo; shadow from 04 Jul to 29 Aug. Stations at 19:00 and 18:13 UT.
Retrograde 13 Nov – 03 Dec (3 weeks), 9°47' Sagittarius back to 23°33' Scorpio; shadow from 25 Oct to 21 Dec. Stations at 14:37 and 10:27 UT.
♀︎Venus retrograde 1755· once this year
Retrograde 24 Dec 1754 – 03 Feb (6 weeks), 1°58' Aquarius back to 16°28' Capricorn; shadow from 23 Nov 1754 to 07 Mar. Stations at 21:55 and 21:41 UT.
♂︎Mars retrograde 1755· once this year
Retrograde 20 Nov – 06 Feb 1756 (11 weeks), 18°30' Cancer back to 29°43' Gemini; shadow from 20 Sep to 12 Apr 1756. Stations at 17:44 and 10:41 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 1755· once this year
Retrograde 03 Jan – 05 May (17 weeks), 18°38' Virgo back to 8°40' Virgo; shadow from 08 Oct 1754 to 03 Aug. Stations at 08:22 and 15:57 UT.
♄︎Saturn retrograde 1755· once this year
Retrograde 08 May – 27 Sep (20 weeks), 28°55' Capricorn back to 22°17' Capricorn; shadow from 31 Jan to 01 Jan 1756. Stations at 19:25 and 00:22 UT.
♅︎Uranus retrograde 1755· once this year
Retrograde 20 Jun – 20 Nov (22 weeks), 15°17' Pisces back to 11°22' Pisces; shadow from 03 Mar to 06 Mar 1756. Stations at 03:54 and 23:31 UT.
♆︎Neptune retrograde 1755· twice this year
Retrograde 11 Nov 1754 – 16 Apr (22 weeks), 8°44' Leo back to 5°56' Leo; shadow from 21 Jul 1754 to 08 Aug. Stations at 01:25 and 17:07 UT.
Retrograde 13 Nov – 18 Apr 1756 (22 weeks), 10°57' Leo back to 8°09' Leo; shadow from 23 Jul to 10 Aug 1756. Stations at 11:31 and 06:17 UT.
♇︎Pluto retrograde 1755· once this year
Retrograde 19 Mar – 25 Aug (23 weeks), 16°14' Sagittarius back to 13°31' Sagittarius; shadow from 30 Nov 1754 to 13 Dec. Stations at 08:14 and 07:24 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.