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 1757· 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 12 Feb – 06 Mar (3 weeks), 9°13' Pisces back to 24°34' Aquarius; shadow from 28 Jan to 26 Mar. Stations at 14:15 and 17:43 UT.
Retrograde 14 Jun – 08 Jul (3 weeks), 11°07' Cancer back to 1°49' Cancer; shadow from 29 May to 23 Jul. Stations at 19:43 and 22:49 UT.
Retrograde 10 Oct – 31 Oct (3 weeks), 7°57' Scorpio back to 22°10' Libra; shadow from 20 Sep to 16 Nov. Stations at 14:24 and 06:41 UT.
♀︎Venus retrograde 1757· not retrograde this year
Venus holds a straight course through 1757; no spell, no shadow, no station to mark.
♂︎Mars retrograde 1757· once this year
Retrograde 24 Dec – 15 Mar 1758 (12 weeks), 24°08' Leo back to 4°39' Leo; shadow from 20 Oct to 22 May 1758. Stations at 22:55 and 11:29 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 1757· once this year
Retrograde 04 Mar – 05 Jul (18 weeks), 18°37' Scorpio back to 8°44' Scorpio; shadow from 07 Dec 1756 to 02 Oct. Stations at 06:13 and 20:19 UT.
♄︎Saturn retrograde 1757· once this year
Retrograde 01 Jun – 19 Oct (20 weeks), 22°08' Aquarius back to 15°28' Aquarius; shadow from 23 Feb to 23 Jan 1758. Stations at 14:04 and 19:05 UT.
♅︎Uranus retrograde 1757· once this year
Retrograde 27 Jun – 28 Nov (22 weeks), 23°12' Pisces back to 19°17' Pisces; shadow from 11 Mar to 14 Mar 1758. Stations at 20:36 and 09:25 UT.
♆︎Neptune retrograde 1757· twice this year
Retrograde 14 Nov 1756 – 20 Apr (22 weeks), 13°10' Leo back to 10°22' Leo; shadow from 25 Jul 1756 to 12 Aug. Stations at 23:41 and 18:31 UT.
Retrograde 17 Nov – 23 Apr 1758 (22 weeks), 15°22' Leo back to 12°34' Leo; shadow from 27 Jul to 15 Aug 1758. Stations at 09:55 and 07:18 UT.
♇︎Pluto retrograde 1757· once this year
Retrograde 23 Mar – 29 Aug (23 weeks), 20°48' Sagittarius back to 18°07' Sagittarius; shadow from 04 Dec 1756 to 18 Dec. Stations at 07:05 and 15:05 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.