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 1767· 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 18 Dec 1766 – 07 Jan (3 weeks), 14°00' Capricorn back to 27°44' Sagittarius; shadow from 01 Dec 1766 to 27 Jan. Stations at 18:52 and 19:08 UT.
Retrograde 09 Apr – 03 May (3 weeks), 4°09' Taurus back to 23°49' Aries; shadow from 26 Mar to 20 May. Stations at 16:49 and 11:00 UT.
Retrograde 12 Aug – 04 Sep (3 weeks), 10°48' Virgo back to 27°23' Leo; shadow from 24 Jul to 19 Sep. Stations at 15:03 and 22:47 UT.
Retrograde 02 Dec – 22 Dec (3 weeks), 28°09' Sagittarius back to 11°51' Sagittarius; shadow from 14 Nov to 10 Jan 1768. Stations at 15:50 and 10:32 UT.
♀︎Venus retrograde 1767· once this year
Retrograde 06 Oct – 16 Nov (6 weeks), 11°08' Scorpio back to 25°35' Libra; shadow from 03 Sep to 18 Dec. Stations at 06:30 and 19:28 UT.
♂︎Mars retrograde 1767· not retrograde this year
Mars holds a straight course through 1767; 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 1767· once this year
Retrograde 07 Jan – 09 May (18 weeks), 22°55' Virgo back to 12°57' Virgo; shadow from 12 Oct 1766 to 07 Aug. Stations at 10:30 and 22:38 UT.
♄︎Saturn retrograde 1767· twice this year
Retrograde 02 Oct 1766 – 12 Feb (19 weeks), 19°50' Gemini back to 12°53' Gemini; shadow from 28 Jun 1766 to 18 May. Stations at 01:07 and 19:49 UT.
Retrograde 16 Oct – 27 Feb 1768 (19 weeks), 4°02' Cancer back to 27°04' Gemini; shadow from 13 Jul to 31 May 1768. Stations at 14:34 and 04:18 UT.
♅︎Uranus retrograde 1767· twice this year
Retrograde 04 Aug 1766 – 03 Jan (22 weeks), 29°15' Aries back to 25°17' Aries; shadow from 17 Apr 1766 to 20 Apr. Stations at 07:58 and 10:18 UT.
Retrograde 08 Aug – 07 Jan 1768 (22 weeks), 3°19' Taurus back to 29°21' Aries; shadow from 21 Apr to 23 Apr 1768. Stations at 18:05 and 17:20 UT.
♆︎Neptune retrograde 1767· twice this year
Retrograde 07 Dec 1766 – 13 May (22 weeks), 5°12' Virgo back to 2°24' Virgo; shadow from 17 Aug 1766 to 04 Sep. Stations at 09:21 and 15:51 UT.
Retrograde 09 Dec – 15 May 1768 (22 weeks), 7°24' Virgo back to 4°36' Virgo; shadow from 19 Aug to 06 Sep 1768. Stations at 21:26 and 05:04 UT.
♇︎Pluto retrograde 1767· once this year
Retrograde 13 Apr – 21 Sep (23 weeks), 11°53' Capricorn back to 9°18' Capricorn; shadow from 22 Dec 1766 to 11 Jan 1768. Stations at 09:24 and 13:21 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.