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 1756· 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 01 Mar – 24 Mar (3 weeks), 25°59' Pisces back to 12°27' Pisces; shadow from 16 Feb to 12 Apr. Stations at 07:58 and 03:59 UT.
Retrograde 03 Jul – 27 Jul (3 weeks), 0°48' Leo back to 20°15' Cancer; shadow from 16 Jun to 10 Aug. Stations at 13:27 and 18:11 UT.
Retrograde 27 Oct – 16 Nov (3 weeks), 23°55' Scorpio back to 7°52' Scorpio; shadow from 07 Oct to 03 Dec. Stations at 04:55 and 08:08 UT.
♀︎Venus retrograde 1756· once this year
Retrograde 27 Jul – 07 Sep (6 weeks), 2°50' Virgo back to 16°31' Leo; shadow from 23 Jun to 11 Oct. Stations at 00:56 and 22:52 UT.
♂︎Mars retrograde 1756· once this year
Retrograde 20 Nov 1755 – 06 Feb (11 weeks), 18°30' Cancer back to 29°43' Gemini; shadow from 20 Sep 1755 to 12 Apr. 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 1756· once this year
Retrograde 02 Feb – 04 Jun (18 weeks), 18°34' Libra back to 8°38' Libra; shadow from 07 Nov 1755 to 02 Sep. Stations at 09:46 and 17:18 UT.
♄︎Saturn retrograde 1756· once this year
Retrograde 20 May – 07 Oct (20 weeks), 10°26' Aquarius back to 3°47' Aquarius; shadow from 12 Feb to 12 Jan 1757. Stations at 02:33 and 21:07 UT.
♅︎Uranus retrograde 1756· once this year
Retrograde 23 Jun – 24 Nov (22 weeks), 19°15' Pisces back to 15°19' Pisces; shadow from 06 Mar to 10 Mar 1757. Stations at 12:52 and 04:17 UT.
♆︎Neptune retrograde 1756· twice this year
Retrograde 13 Nov 1755 – 18 Apr (22 weeks), 10°57' Leo back to 8°09' Leo; shadow from 23 Jul 1755 to 10 Aug. Stations at 11:31 and 06:17 UT.
Retrograde 14 Nov – 20 Apr 1757 (22 weeks), 13°10' Leo back to 10°22' Leo; shadow from 25 Jul to 12 Aug 1757. Stations at 23:41 and 18:31 UT.
♇︎Pluto retrograde 1756· once this year
Retrograde 20 Mar – 26 Aug (23 weeks), 18°32' Sagittarius back to 15°50' Sagittarius; shadow from 02 Dec 1755 to 15 Dec. Stations at 21:13 and 23:38 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.