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 1772· 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 13 Jan – 03 Feb (3 weeks), 9°15' Aquarius back to 23°21' Capricorn; shadow from 28 Dec 1771 to 23 Feb. Stations at 19:50 and 15:00 UT.
Retrograde 09 May – 02 Jun (3 weeks), 4°22' Gemini back to 25°41' Taurus; shadow from 25 Apr to 17 Jun. Stations at 09:27 and 05:41 UT.
Retrograde 08 Sep – 30 Sep (3 weeks), 7°54' Libra back to 23°03' Virgo; shadow from 19 Aug to 15 Oct. Stations at 15:46 and 17:57 UT.
Retrograde 27 Dec – 16 Jan 1773 (3 weeks), 23°14' Capricorn back to 7°03' Capricorn; shadow from 10 Dec to 05 Feb 1773. Stations at 17:29 and 23:08 UT.
♀︎Venus retrograde 1772· once this year
Retrograde 22 Jul – 03 Sep (6 weeks), 28°28' Leo back to 12°08' Leo; shadow from 18 Jun to 06 Oct. Stations at 06:38 and 06:27 UT.
♂︎Mars retrograde 1772· once this year
Retrograde 11 Dec – 01 Mar 1773 (11 weeks), 11°02' Leo back to 21°41' Cancer; shadow from 08 Oct to 07 May 1773. Stations at 14:07 and 07:12 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 1772· once this year
Retrograde 20 Jun – 18 Oct (17 weeks), 2°38' Pisces back to 22°46' Aquarius; shadow from 27 Mar to 09 Jan 1773. Stations at 23:32 and 08:04 UT.
♄︎Saturn retrograde 1772· twice this year
Retrograde 10 Dec 1771 – 23 Apr (19 weeks), 29°46' Leo back to 22°52' Leo; shadow from 07 Sep 1771 to 29 Jul. Stations at 16:55 and 21:35 UT.
Retrograde 23 Dec – 07 May 1773 (19 weeks), 13°07' Virgo back to 6°15' Virgo; shadow from 19 Sep to 13 Aug 1773. Stations at 01:17 and 23:04 UT.
♅︎Uranus retrograde 1772· twice this year
Retrograde 25 Aug 1771 – 23 Jan (22 weeks), 19°47' Taurus back to 15°47' Taurus; shadow from 08 May 1771 to 09 May. Stations at 16:35 and 23:15 UT.
Retrograde 29 Aug – 27 Jan 1773 (22 weeks), 23°58' Taurus back to 19°58' Taurus; shadow from 12 May to 13 May 1773. Stations at 05:31 and 07:15 UT.
♆︎Neptune retrograde 1772· twice this year
Retrograde 18 Dec 1771 – 24 May (23 weeks), 16°10' Virgo back to 13°23' Virgo; shadow from 28 Aug 1771 to 15 Sep. Stations at 12:34 and 06:06 UT.
Retrograde 19 Dec – 26 May 1773 (23 weeks), 18°21' Virgo back to 15°34' Virgo; shadow from 29 Aug to 17 Sep 1773. Stations at 22:30 and 16:05 UT.
♇︎Pluto retrograde 1772· once this year
Retrograde 22 Apr – 30 Sep (23 weeks), 21°21' Capricorn back to 18°50' Capricorn; shadow from 31 Dec 1771 to 21 Jan 1773. Stations at 01:55 and 18:08 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.