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 1770· 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 15 Feb – 09 Mar (3 weeks), 11°54' Pisces back to 27°23' Aquarius; shadow from 31 Jan to 29 Mar. Stations at 10:44 and 16:55 UT.
Retrograde 18 Jun – 12 Jul (3 weeks), 14°17' Cancer back to 4°50' Cancer; shadow from 01 Jun to 26 Jul. Stations at 00:45 and 04:39 UT.
Retrograde 13 Oct – 03 Nov (3 weeks), 10°33' Scorpio back to 24°43' Libra; shadow from 23 Sep to 19 Nov. Stations at 11:21 and 01:31 UT.
♀︎Venus retrograde 1770· once this year
Retrograde 20 Dec – 29 Jan 1771 (6 weeks), 27°00' Capricorn back to 11°34' Capricorn; shadow from 18 Nov to 02 Mar 1771. Stations at 00:34 and 23:24 UT.
♂︎Mars retrograde 1770· once this year
Retrograde 05 Nov – 20 Jan 1771 (11 weeks), 2°52' Cancer back to 14°44' Gemini; shadow from 08 Sep to 25 Mar 1771. Stations at 19:07 and 14:27 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 1770· once this year
Retrograde 10 Apr – 11 Aug (18 weeks), 24°17' Sagittarius back to 14°27' Sagittarius; shadow from 14 Jan to 05 Nov. Stations at 11:55 and 06:07 UT.
♄︎Saturn retrograde 1770· twice this year
Retrograde 13 Nov 1769 – 27 Mar (19 weeks), 2°16' Leo back to 25°18' Cancer; shadow from 10 Aug 1769 to 30 Jun. Stations at 03:57 and 05:00 UT.
Retrograde 27 Nov – 10 Apr 1771 (19 weeks), 16°08' Leo back to 9°12' Leo; shadow from 24 Aug to 15 Jul 1771. Stations at 01:20 and 15:20 UT.
♅︎Uranus retrograde 1770· twice this year
Retrograde 16 Aug 1769 – 15 Jan (22 weeks), 11°30' Taurus back to 7°31' Taurus; shadow from 29 Apr 1769 to 01 May. Stations at 16:04 and 07:27 UT.
Retrograde 21 Aug – 19 Jan 1771 (22 weeks), 15°38' Taurus back to 11°38' Taurus; shadow from 04 May to 06 May 1771. Stations at 03:49 and 14:31 UT.
♆︎Neptune retrograde 1770· twice this year
Retrograde 13 Dec 1769 – 20 May (23 weeks), 11°47' Virgo back to 9°00' Virgo; shadow from 23 Aug 1769 to 11 Sep. Stations at 18:04 and 06:47 UT.
Retrograde 16 Dec – 22 May 1771 (23 weeks), 13°59' Virgo back to 11°11' Virgo; shadow from 26 Aug to 13 Sep 1771. Stations at 03:38 and 17:29 UT.
♇︎Pluto retrograde 1770· once this year
Retrograde 18 Apr – 27 Sep (23 weeks), 17°38' Capricorn back to 15°06' Capricorn; shadow from 27 Dec 1769 to 17 Jan 1771. Stations at 21:21 and 06:30 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.