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 1771· 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 30 Jan – 20 Feb (3 weeks), 25°27' Aquarius back to 10°05' Aquarius; shadow from 14 Jan to 12 Mar. Stations at 00:35 and 12:44 UT.
Retrograde 29 May – 22 Jun (3 weeks), 24°17' Gemini back to 15°38' Gemini; shadow from 14 May to 07 Jul. Stations at 20:03 and 20:22 UT.
Retrograde 26 Sep – 17 Oct (3 weeks), 24°24' Libra back to 8°57' Libra; shadow from 06 Sep to 02 Nov. Stations at 16:18 and 23:18 UT.
♀︎Venus retrograde 1771· once this year
Retrograde 20 Dec 1770 – 29 Jan (6 weeks), 27°00' Capricorn back to 11°34' Capricorn; shadow from 18 Nov 1770 to 02 Mar. Stations at 00:34 and 23:24 UT.
♂︎Mars retrograde 1771· once this year
Retrograde 05 Nov 1770 – 20 Jan (11 weeks), 2°52' Cancer back to 14°44' Gemini; shadow from 08 Sep 1770 to 25 Mar. 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 1771· once this year
Retrograde 15 May – 13 Sep (17 weeks), 27°26' Capricorn back to 17°36' Capricorn; shadow from 19 Feb to 07 Dec. Stations at 15:16 and 20:16 UT.
♄︎Saturn retrograde 1771· twice this year
Retrograde 27 Nov 1770 – 10 Apr (19 weeks), 16°08' Leo back to 9°12' Leo; shadow from 24 Aug 1770 to 15 Jul. Stations at 01:20 and 15:20 UT.
Retrograde 10 Dec – 23 Apr 1772 (19 weeks), 29°46' Leo back to 22°52' Leo; shadow from 07 Sep to 29 Jul 1772. Stations at 16:55 and 21:35 UT.
♅︎Uranus retrograde 1771· twice this year
Retrograde 21 Aug 1770 – 19 Jan (22 weeks), 15°38' Taurus back to 11°38' Taurus; shadow from 04 May 1770 to 06 May. Stations at 03:49 and 14:31 UT.
Retrograde 25 Aug – 23 Jan 1772 (22 weeks), 19°47' Taurus back to 15°47' Taurus; shadow from 08 May to 09 May 1772. Stations at 16:35 and 23:15 UT.
♆︎Neptune retrograde 1771· twice this year
Retrograde 16 Dec 1770 – 22 May (23 weeks), 13°59' Virgo back to 11°11' Virgo; shadow from 26 Aug 1770 to 13 Sep. Stations at 03:38 and 17:29 UT.
Retrograde 18 Dec – 24 May 1772 (23 weeks), 16°10' Virgo back to 13°23' Virgo; shadow from 28 Aug to 15 Sep 1772. Stations at 12:34 and 06:06 UT.
♇︎Pluto retrograde 1771· once this year
Retrograde 20 Apr – 29 Sep (23 weeks), 19°30' Capricorn back to 16°59' Capricorn; shadow from 29 Dec 1770 to 20 Jan 1772. Stations at 23:10 and 13:09 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.