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 1766· 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 03 Jan – 24 Jan (3 weeks), 29°56' Capricorn back to 13°51' Capricorn; shadow from 18 Dec 1765 to 13 Feb. Stations at 21:01 and 08:08 UT.
Retrograde 28 Apr – 22 May (3 weeks), 23°02' Taurus back to 13°56' Taurus; shadow from 14 Apr to 07 Jun. Stations at 13:50 and 10:08 UT.
Retrograde 30 Aug – 21 Sep (3 weeks), 28°07' Virgo back to 13°43' Virgo; shadow from 09 Aug to 06 Oct. Stations at 01:44 and 15:12 UT.
Retrograde 18 Dec – 07 Jan 1767 (3 weeks), 14°00' Capricorn back to 27°44' Sagittarius; shadow from 01 Dec to 27 Jan 1767. Stations at 18:52 and 19:08 UT.
♀︎Venus retrograde 1766· once this year
Retrograde 04 Mar – 15 Apr (6 weeks), 13°18' Aries back to 27°02' Pisces; shadow from 31 Jan to 19 May. Stations at 15:22 and 19:23 UT.
♂︎Mars retrograde 1766· once this year
Retrograde 14 Jul – 12 Sep (9 weeks), 25°40' Aquarius back to 15°42' Aquarius; shadow from 02 Jun to 23 Oct. Stations at 09:59 and 09:25 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 1766· once this year
Retrograde 08 Dec 1765 – 08 Apr (17 weeks), 22°26' Leo back to 12°24' Leo; shadow from 12 Sep 1765 to 06 Jul. Stations at 05:06 and 06:53 UT.
♄︎Saturn retrograde 1766· twice this year
Retrograde 17 Sep 1765 – 29 Jan (19 weeks), 5°43' Gemini back to 28°47' Taurus; shadow from 13 Jun 1765 to 03 May. Stations at 11:03 and 15:49 UT.
Retrograde 02 Oct – 12 Feb 1767 (19 weeks), 19°50' Gemini back to 12°53' Gemini; shadow from 28 Jun to 18 May 1767. Stations at 01:07 and 19:49 UT.
♅︎Uranus retrograde 1766· once this year
Retrograde 04 Aug – 03 Jan 1767 (22 weeks), 29°15' Aries back to 25°17' Aries; shadow from 17 Apr to 20 Apr 1767. Stations at 07:58 and 10:18 UT.
♆︎Neptune retrograde 1766· twice this year
Retrograde 04 Dec 1765 – 11 May (22 weeks), 2°59' Virgo back to 0°12' Virgo; shadow from 14 Aug 1765 to 02 Sep. Stations at 23:21 and 03:13 UT.
Retrograde 07 Dec – 13 May 1767 (22 weeks), 5°12' Virgo back to 2°24' Virgo; shadow from 17 Aug to 04 Sep 1767. Stations at 09:21 and 15:51 UT.
♇︎Pluto retrograde 1766· once this year
Retrograde 11 Apr – 19 Sep (23 weeks), 9°54' Capricorn back to 7°19' Capricorn; shadow from 20 Dec 1765 to 09 Jan 1767. Stations at 05:23 and 05:13 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.