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 1764· 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 06 Feb – 28 Feb (3 weeks), 2°18' Pisces back to 17°15' Aquarius; shadow from 22 Jan to 19 Mar. Stations at 06:51 and 02:22 UT.
Retrograde 06 Jun – 30 Jun (3 weeks), 2°43' Cancer back to 23°49' Gemini; shadow from 21 May to 14 Jul. Stations at 09:00 and 10:22 UT.
Retrograde 03 Oct – 24 Oct (3 weeks), 1°12' Scorpio back to 15°34' Libra; shadow from 12 Sep to 08 Nov. Stations at 03:55 and 03:04 UT.
♀︎Venus retrograde 1764· once this year
Retrograde 24 Jul – 05 Sep (6 weeks), 0°39' Virgo back to 14°19' Leo; shadow from 20 Jun to 08 Oct. Stations at 15:48 and 14:49 UT.
♂︎Mars retrograde 1764· once this year
Retrograde 28 Apr – 08 Jul (10 weeks), 17°55' Sagittarius back to 3°20' Sagittarius; shadow from 03 Mar to 28 Aug. Stations at 19:02 and 11:06 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 1764· twice this year
Retrograde 05 Oct 1763 – 31 Jan (17 weeks), 16°40' Gemini back to 6°36' Gemini; shadow from 11 Jul 1763 to 25 Apr. Stations at 09:31 and 11:04 UT.
Retrograde 06 Nov – 06 Mar 1765 (17 weeks), 20°33' Cancer back to 10°29' Cancer; shadow from 12 Aug to 01 Jun 1765. Stations at 19:15 and 05:13 UT.
♄︎Saturn retrograde 1764· twice this year
Retrograde 20 Aug 1763 – 02 Jan (19 weeks), 8°03' Taurus back to 1°10' Taurus; shadow from 15 May 1763 to 05 Apr. Stations at 13:13 and 23:22 UT.
Retrograde 02 Sep – 15 Jan 1765 (19 weeks), 21°46' Taurus back to 14°52' Taurus; shadow from 29 May to 19 Apr 1765. Stations at 22:31 and 16:35 UT.
♅︎Uranus retrograde 1764· once this year
Retrograde 26 Jul – 25 Dec (22 weeks), 21°10' Aries back to 17°13' Aries; shadow from 08 Apr to 11 Apr 1765. Stations at 12:42 and 21:49 UT.
♆︎Neptune retrograde 1764· twice this year
Retrograde 01 Dec 1763 – 06 May (22 weeks), 28°35' Leo back to 25°47' Leo; shadow from 10 Aug 1763 to 28 Aug. Stations at 01:43 and 03:24 UT.
Retrograde 02 Dec – 08 May 1765 (22 weeks), 0°47' Virgo back to 27°59' Leo; shadow from 12 Aug to 30 Aug 1765. Stations at 11:21 and 15:34 UT.
♇︎Pluto retrograde 1764· once this year
Retrograde 06 Apr – 14 Sep (23 weeks), 5°52' Capricorn back to 3°16' Capricorn; shadow from 17 Dec 1763 to 03 Jan 1765. Stations at 19:58 and 10:06 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.