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 1761· 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 29 Mar – 22 Apr (3 weeks), 23°34' Aries back to 12°22' Aries; shadow from 15 Mar to 09 May. Stations at 12:32 and 03:26 UT.
Retrograde 01 Aug – 25 Aug (3 weeks), 0°25' Virgo back to 17°41' Leo; shadow from 13 Jul to 08 Sep. Stations at 18:48 and 10:44 UT.
Retrograde 22 Nov – 12 Dec (3 weeks), 18°57' Sagittarius back to 2°41' Sagittarius; shadow from 04 Nov to 30 Dec. Stations at 15:47 and 10:08 UT.
♀︎Venus retrograde 1761· once this year
Retrograde 15 May – 27 Jun (6 weeks), 23°50' Gemini back to 7°19' Gemini; shadow from 12 Apr to 31 Jul. Stations at 18:30 and 19:04 UT.
♂︎Mars retrograde 1761· not retrograde this year
Mars holds a straight course through 1761; 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 1761· once this year
Retrograde 23 Jul – 18 Nov (17 weeks), 3°53' Aries back to 23°58' Pisces; shadow from 29 Apr to 09 Feb 1762. Stations at 19:27 and 21:05 UT.
♄︎Saturn retrograde 1761· once this year
Retrograde 23 Jul – 07 Dec (20 weeks), 11°30' Aries back to 4°42' Aries; shadow from 17 Apr to 11 Mar 1762. Stations at 09:43 and 12:07 UT.
♅︎Uranus retrograde 1761· once this year
Retrograde 14 Jul – 14 Dec (22 weeks), 9°07' Aries back to 5°11' Aries; shadow from 27 Mar to 30 Mar 1762. Stations at 08:21 and 05:10 UT.
♆︎Neptune retrograde 1761· twice this year
Retrograde 23 Nov 1760 – 29 Apr (22 weeks), 21°59' Leo back to 19°11' Leo; shadow from 03 Aug 1760 to 21 Aug. Stations at 19:12 and 19:53 UT.
Retrograde 26 Nov – 02 May 1762 (22 weeks), 24°11' Leo back to 21°23' Leo; shadow from 05 Aug to 24 Aug 1762. Stations at 05:03 and 05:37 UT.
♇︎Pluto retrograde 1761· once this year
Retrograde 31 Mar – 07 Sep (23 weeks), 29°36' Sagittarius back to 26°58' Sagittarius; shadow from 11 Dec 1760 to 27 Dec. Stations at 22:37 and 21:10 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.