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 1758· 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 27 Jan – 17 Feb (3 weeks), 22°49' Aquarius back to 7°21' Aquarius; shadow from 11 Jan to 09 Mar. Stations at 05:03 and 14:40 UT.
Retrograde 26 May – 19 Jun (3 weeks), 21°05' Gemini back to 12°29' Gemini; shadow from 11 May to 04 Jul. Stations at 13:17 and 12:59 UT.
Retrograde 23 Sep – 15 Oct (3 weeks), 21°45' Libra back to 6°23' Libra; shadow from 03 Sep to 30 Oct. Stations at 18:30 and 04:15 UT.
♀︎Venus retrograde 1758· once this year
Retrograde 07 Mar – 18 Apr (6 weeks), 15°35' Aries back to 29°18' Pisces; shadow from 02 Feb to 21 May. Stations at 00:24 and 05:21 UT.
♂︎Mars retrograde 1758· once this year
Retrograde 24 Dec 1757 – 15 Mar (12 weeks), 24°08' Leo back to 4°39' Leo; shadow from 20 Oct 1757 to 22 May. 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 1758· once this year
Retrograde 05 Apr – 06 Aug (18 weeks), 19°41' Sagittarius back to 9°50' Sagittarius; shadow from 09 Jan to 01 Nov. Stations at 17:46 and 16:42 UT.
♄︎Saturn retrograde 1758· once this year
Retrograde 14 Jun – 31 Oct (20 weeks), 4°03' Pisces back to 27°21' Aquarius; shadow from 08 Mar to 04 Feb 1759. Stations at 06:57 and 22:28 UT.
♅︎Uranus retrograde 1758· once this year
Retrograde 02 Jul – 02 Dec (22 weeks), 27°10' Pisces back to 23°15' Pisces; shadow from 15 Mar to 18 Mar 1759. Stations at 05:51 and 13:53 UT.
♆︎Neptune retrograde 1758· twice this year
Retrograde 17 Nov 1757 – 23 Apr (22 weeks), 15°22' Leo back to 12°34' Leo; shadow from 27 Jul 1757 to 15 Aug. Stations at 09:55 and 07:18 UT.
Retrograde 19 Nov – 25 Apr 1759 (22 weeks), 17°35' Leo back to 14°46' Leo; shadow from 30 Jul to 17 Aug 1759. Stations at 22:08 and 20:13 UT.
♇︎Pluto retrograde 1758· once this year
Retrograde 25 Mar – 01 Sep (23 weeks), 23°03' Sagittarius back to 20°22' Sagittarius; shadow from 06 Dec 1757 to 20 Dec. Stations at 18:03 and 05:59 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.