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 1769· 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 04 Mar – 27 Mar (3 weeks), 28°43' Pisces back to 15°24' Pisces; shadow from 18 Feb to 15 Apr. Stations at 06:07 and 04:33 UT.
Retrograde 06 Jul – 30 Jul (3 weeks), 3°53' Leo back to 23°08' Cancer; shadow from 19 Jun to 13 Aug. Stations at 16:46 and 21:05 UT.
Retrograde 30 Oct – 19 Nov (3 weeks), 26°30' Scorpio back to 10°25' Scorpio; shadow from 10 Oct to 06 Dec. Stations at 01:12 and 02:59 UT.
♀︎Venus retrograde 1769· once this year
Retrograde 13 May – 25 Jun (6 weeks), 21°42' Gemini back to 5°10' Gemini; shadow from 09 Apr to 29 Jul. Stations at 11:41 and 11:42 UT.
♂︎Mars retrograde 1769· not retrograde this year
Mars holds a straight course through 1769; 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 1769· once this year
Retrograde 08 Mar – 10 Jul (18 weeks), 22°58' Scorpio back to 13°06' Scorpio; shadow from 11 Dec 1768 to 06 Oct. Stations at 15:18 and 03:30 UT.
♄︎Saturn retrograde 1769· twice this year
Retrograde 30 Oct 1768 – 12 Mar (19 weeks), 18°12' Cancer back to 11°14' Cancer; shadow from 27 Jul 1768 to 15 Jun. Stations at 00:24 and 16:15 UT.
Retrograde 13 Nov – 27 Mar 1770 (19 weeks), 2°16' Leo back to 25°18' Cancer; shadow from 10 Aug to 30 Jun 1770. Stations at 03:57 and 05:00 UT.
♅︎Uranus retrograde 1769· twice this year
Retrograde 12 Aug 1768 – 10 Jan (22 weeks), 7°24' Taurus back to 3°25' Taurus; shadow from 25 Apr 1768 to 27 Apr. Stations at 04:44 and 23:45 UT.
Retrograde 16 Aug – 15 Jan 1770 (22 weeks), 11°30' Taurus back to 7°31' Taurus; shadow from 29 Apr to 01 May 1770. Stations at 16:04 and 07:27 UT.
♆︎Neptune retrograde 1769· twice this year
Retrograde 11 Dec 1768 – 17 May (22 weeks), 9°36' Virgo back to 6°48' Virgo; shadow from 21 Aug 1768 to 08 Sep. Stations at 07:28 and 17:16 UT.
Retrograde 13 Dec – 20 May 1770 (23 weeks), 11°47' Virgo back to 9°00' Virgo; shadow from 23 Aug to 11 Sep 1770. Stations at 18:04 and 06:47 UT.
♇︎Pluto retrograde 1769· once this year
Retrograde 16 Apr – 25 Sep (23 weeks), 15°44' Capricorn back to 13°12' Capricorn; shadow from 25 Dec 1768 to 15 Jan 1770. Stations at 16:39 and 02:01 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.