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 1762· 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 11 Mar – 04 Apr (3 weeks), 5°55' Aries back to 23°12' Pisces; shadow from 25 Feb to 22 Apr. Stations at 20:43 and 01:21 UT.
Retrograde 14 Jul – 07 Aug (3 weeks), 11°54' Leo back to 0°32' Leo; shadow from 26 Jun to 21 Aug. Stations at 18:46 and 21:28 UT.
Retrograde 06 Nov – 26 Nov (3 weeks), 3°08' Sagittarius back to 16°59' Scorpio; shadow from 18 Oct to 13 Dec. Stations at 08:10 and 06:39 UT.
♀︎Venus retrograde 1762· once this year
Retrograde 22 Dec – 01 Feb 1763 (6 weeks), 29°29' Capricorn back to 14°00' Capricorn; shadow from 20 Nov to 05 Mar 1763. Stations at 11:22 and 10:37 UT.
♂︎Mars retrograde 1762· once this year
Retrograde 08 Mar – 25 May (11 weeks), 3°01' Scorpio back to 15°00' Libra; shadow from 02 Jan to 24 Jul. Stations at 08:24 and 13:28 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 1762· once this year
Retrograde 30 Aug – 26 Dec (17 weeks), 10°49' Taurus back to 0°49' Taurus; shadow from 06 Jun to 19 Mar 1763. Stations at 13:39 and 00:29 UT.
♄︎Saturn retrograde 1762· once this year
Retrograde 06 Aug – 20 Dec (19 weeks), 24°37' Aries back to 17°47' Aries; shadow from 01 May to 24 Mar 1763. Stations at 08:23 and 14:05 UT.
♅︎Uranus retrograde 1762· once this year
Retrograde 18 Jul – 18 Dec (22 weeks), 13°07' Aries back to 9°11' Aries; shadow from 31 Mar to 03 Apr 1763. Stations at 18:05 and 10:17 UT.
♆︎Neptune retrograde 1762· twice this year
Retrograde 26 Nov 1761 – 02 May (22 weeks), 24°11' Leo back to 21°23' Leo; shadow from 05 Aug 1761 to 24 Aug. Stations at 05:03 and 05:37 UT.
Retrograde 28 Nov – 04 May 1763 (22 weeks), 26°23' Leo back to 23°35' Leo; shadow from 08 Aug to 26 Aug 1763. Stations at 14:53 and 17:29 UT.
♇︎Pluto retrograde 1762· once this year
Retrograde 03 Apr – 10 Sep (23 weeks), 1°44' Capricorn back to 29°06' Sagittarius; shadow from 13 Dec 1761 to 30 Dec. Stations at 06:12 and 10:56 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.