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 1760· 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 25 Dec 1759 – 15 Jan (3 weeks), 20°40' Capricorn back to 4°27' Capricorn; shadow from 09 Dec 1759 to 03 Feb. Stations at 22:37 and 02:38 UT.
Retrograde 16 Apr – 10 May (3 weeks), 11°59' Taurus back to 2°14' Taurus; shadow from 03 Apr to 27 May. Stations at 23:03 and 18:10 UT.
Retrograde 19 Aug – 11 Sep (3 weeks), 18°09' Virgo back to 4°16' Virgo; shadow from 30 Jul to 25 Sep. Stations at 09:31 and 09:36 UT.
Retrograde 08 Dec – 28 Dec (3 weeks), 4°46' Capricorn back to 18°28' Sagittarius; shadow from 21 Nov to 16 Jan 1761. Stations at 20:10 and 16:24 UT.
♀︎Venus retrograde 1760· not retrograde this year
Venus holds a straight course through 1760; no spell, no shadow, no station to mark.
♂︎Mars retrograde 1760· once this year
Retrograde 28 Jan – 18 Apr (12 weeks), 27°23' Virgo back to 8°07' Virgo; shadow from 23 Nov 1759 to 23 Jun. Stations at 18:31 and 15:19 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 1760· once this year
Retrograde 15 Jun – 13 Oct (17 weeks), 27°22' Aquarius back to 17°30' Aquarius; shadow from 22 Mar to 04 Jan 1761. Stations at 12:17 and 03:40 UT.
♄︎Saturn retrograde 1760· once this year
Retrograde 09 Jul – 24 Nov (20 weeks), 28°43' Pisces back to 21°57' Pisces; shadow from 03 Apr to 27 Feb 1761. Stations at 18:07 and 17:20 UT.
♅︎Uranus retrograde 1760· once this year
Retrograde 09 Jul – 09 Dec (22 weeks), 5°08' Aries back to 1°12' Aries; shadow from 23 Mar to 26 Mar 1761. Stations at 23:38 and 23:43 UT.
♆︎Neptune retrograde 1760· twice this year
Retrograde 22 Nov 1759 – 27 Apr (22 weeks), 19°47' Leo back to 16°58' Leo; shadow from 01 Aug 1759 to 19 Aug. Stations at 08:10 and 07:26 UT.
Retrograde 23 Nov – 29 Apr 1761 (22 weeks), 21°59' Leo back to 19°11' Leo; shadow from 03 Aug to 21 Aug 1761. Stations at 19:12 and 19:53 UT.
♇︎Pluto retrograde 1760· once this year
Retrograde 29 Mar – 05 Sep (23 weeks), 27°27' Sagittarius back to 24°48' Sagittarius; shadow from 10 Dec 1759 to 25 Dec. Stations at 12:57 and 09:21 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.