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 1768· 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 21 Mar – 14 Apr (3 weeks), 16°05' Aries back to 4°13' Aries; shadow from 07 Mar to 02 May. Stations at 14:55 and 01:40 UT.
Retrograde 24 Jul – 17 Aug (3 weeks), 22°45' Leo back to 10°35' Leo; shadow from 06 Jul to 31 Aug. Stations at 20:45 and 18:13 UT.
Retrograde 15 Nov – 05 Dec (3 weeks), 12°20' Sagittarius back to 26°06' Scorpio; shadow from 27 Oct to 23 Dec. Stations at 10:21 and 05:31 UT.
♀︎Venus retrograde 1768· not retrograde this year
Venus holds a straight course through 1768; no spell, no shadow, no station to mark.
♂︎Mars retrograde 1768· once this year
Retrograde 20 Sep – 27 Nov (10 weeks), 11°25' Taurus back to 26°56' Aries; shadow from 02 Aug to 20 Jan 1769. Stations at 13:08 and 13:55 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 1768· once this year
Retrograde 06 Feb – 09 Jun (18 weeks), 22°48' Libra back to 12°53' Libra; shadow from 11 Nov 1767 to 06 Sep. Stations at 15:05 and 00:44 UT.
♄︎Saturn retrograde 1768· twice this year
Retrograde 16 Oct 1767 – 27 Feb (19 weeks), 4°02' Cancer back to 27°04' Gemini; shadow from 13 Jul 1767 to 31 May. Stations at 14:34 and 04:18 UT.
Retrograde 30 Oct – 12 Mar 1769 (19 weeks), 18°12' Cancer back to 11°14' Cancer; shadow from 27 Jul to 15 Jun 1769. Stations at 00:24 and 16:15 UT.
♅︎Uranus retrograde 1768· twice this year
Retrograde 08 Aug 1767 – 07 Jan (22 weeks), 3°19' Taurus back to 29°21' Aries; shadow from 21 Apr 1767 to 23 Apr. Stations at 18:05 and 17:20 UT.
Retrograde 12 Aug – 10 Jan 1769 (22 weeks), 7°24' Taurus back to 3°25' Taurus; shadow from 25 Apr to 27 Apr 1769. Stations at 04:44 and 23:45 UT.
♆︎Neptune retrograde 1768· twice this year
Retrograde 09 Dec 1767 – 15 May (22 weeks), 7°24' Virgo back to 4°36' Virgo; shadow from 19 Aug 1767 to 06 Sep. Stations at 21:26 and 05:04 UT.
Retrograde 11 Dec – 17 May 1769 (22 weeks), 9°36' Virgo back to 6°48' Virgo; shadow from 21 Aug to 08 Sep 1769. Stations at 07:28 and 17:16 UT.
♇︎Pluto retrograde 1768· once this year
Retrograde 14 Apr – 22 Sep (23 weeks), 13°49' Capricorn back to 11°16' Capricorn; shadow from 24 Dec 1767 to 12 Jan 1769. Stations at 13:18 and 19:06 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.