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 1763· 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 22 Feb – 17 Mar (3 weeks), 18°53' Pisces back to 4°51' Pisces; shadow from 08 Feb to 06 Apr. Stations at 20:19 and 09:33 UT.
Retrograde 26 Jun – 20 Jul (3 weeks), 22°36' Cancer back to 12°38' Cancer; shadow from 09 Jun to 03 Aug. Stations at 08:04 and 13:20 UT.
Retrograde 20 Oct – 10 Nov (3 weeks), 17°15' Scorpio back to 1°18' Scorpio; shadow from 30 Sep to 26 Nov. Stations at 20:27 and 04:47 UT.
♀︎Venus retrograde 1763· once this year
Retrograde 22 Dec 1762 – 01 Feb (6 weeks), 29°29' Capricorn back to 14°00' Capricorn; shadow from 20 Nov 1762 to 05 Mar. Stations at 11:22 and 10:37 UT.
♂︎Mars retrograde 1763· not retrograde this year
Mars holds a straight course through 1763; 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 1763· once this year
Retrograde 05 Oct – 31 Jan 1764 (17 weeks), 16°40' Gemini back to 6°36' Gemini; shadow from 11 Jul to 25 Apr 1764. Stations at 09:31 and 11:04 UT.
♄︎Saturn retrograde 1763· once this year
Retrograde 20 Aug – 02 Jan 1764 (19 weeks), 8°03' Taurus back to 1°10' Taurus; shadow from 15 May to 05 Apr 1764. Stations at 13:13 and 23:22 UT.
♅︎Uranus retrograde 1763· once this year
Retrograde 23 Jul – 22 Dec (22 weeks), 17°08' Aries back to 13°12' Aries; shadow from 05 Apr to 07 Apr 1764. Stations at 02:57 and 16:19 UT.
♆︎Neptune retrograde 1763· twice this year
Retrograde 28 Nov 1762 – 04 May (22 weeks), 26°23' Leo back to 23°35' Leo; shadow from 08 Aug 1762 to 26 Aug. Stations at 14:53 and 17:29 UT.
Retrograde 01 Dec – 06 May 1764 (22 weeks), 28°35' Leo back to 25°47' Leo; shadow from 10 Aug to 28 Aug 1764. Stations at 01:43 and 03:24 UT.
♇︎Pluto retrograde 1763· once this year
Retrograde 05 Apr – 12 Sep (23 weeks), 3°49' Capricorn back to 1°12' Capricorn; shadow from 15 Dec 1762 to 02 Jan 1764. Stations at 14:45 and 21:55 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.