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 1759· 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 11 Jan – 31 Jan (3 weeks), 6°39' Aquarius back to 20°42' Capricorn; shadow from 25 Dec 1758 to 20 Feb. Stations at 00:49 and 17:51 UT.
Retrograde 07 May – 30 May (3 weeks), 1°13' Gemini back to 22°27' Taurus; shadow from 22 Apr to 15 Jun. Stations at 02:31 and 22:46 UT.
Retrograde 06 Sep – 28 Sep (3 weeks), 5°12' Libra back to 20°27' Virgo; shadow from 17 Aug to 13 Oct. Stations at 16:57 and 22:13 UT.
Retrograde 25 Dec – 15 Jan 1760 (3 weeks), 20°40' Capricorn back to 4°27' Capricorn; shadow from 09 Dec to 03 Feb 1760. Stations at 22:37 and 02:38 UT.
♀︎Venus retrograde 1759· once this year
Retrograde 08 Oct – 19 Nov (6 weeks), 13°30' Scorpio back to 27°59' Libra; shadow from 06 Sep to 20 Dec. Stations at 17:38 and 05:38 UT.
♂︎Mars retrograde 1759· not retrograde this year
Mars holds a straight course through 1759; 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 1759· once this year
Retrograde 10 May – 09 Sep (17 weeks), 22°29' Capricorn back to 12°39' Capricorn; shadow from 13 Feb to 02 Dec. Stations at 12:15 and 00:32 UT.
♄︎Saturn retrograde 1759· once this year
Retrograde 27 Jun – 13 Nov (20 weeks), 16°14' Pisces back to 9°30' Pisces; shadow from 21 Mar to 16 Feb 1760. Stations at 08:49 and 05:57 UT.
♅︎Uranus retrograde 1759· once this year
Retrograde 06 Jul – 06 Dec (22 weeks), 1°09' Aries back to 27°13' Pisces; shadow from 19 Mar to 22 Mar 1760. Stations at 14:06 and 19:00 UT.
♆︎Neptune retrograde 1759· twice this year
Retrograde 19 Nov 1758 – 25 Apr (22 weeks), 17°35' Leo back to 14°46' Leo; shadow from 30 Jul 1758 to 17 Aug. Stations at 22:08 and 20:13 UT.
Retrograde 22 Nov – 27 Apr 1760 (22 weeks), 19°47' Leo back to 16°58' Leo; shadow from 01 Aug to 19 Aug 1760. Stations at 08:10 and 07:26 UT.
♇︎Pluto retrograde 1759· once this year
Retrograde 28 Mar – 03 Sep (23 weeks), 25°16' Sagittarius back to 22°36' Sagittarius; shadow from 08 Dec 1758 to 23 Dec. Stations at 03:39 and 19:01 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.