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 1773· 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 27 Dec 1772 – 16 Jan (3 weeks), 23°14' Capricorn back to 7°03' Capricorn; shadow from 10 Dec 1772 to 05 Feb. Stations at 17:29 and 23:08 UT.
Retrograde 20 Apr – 13 May (3 weeks), 15°00' Taurus back to 5°26' Taurus; shadow from 06 Apr to 30 May. Stations at 03:52 and 23:20 UT.
Retrograde 22 Aug – 14 Sep (3 weeks), 20°56' Virgo back to 6°54' Virgo; shadow from 02 Aug to 28 Sep. Stations at 09:16 and 06:32 UT.
Retrograde 11 Dec – 31 Dec (3 weeks), 7°20' Capricorn back to 21°03' Sagittarius; shadow from 24 Nov to 19 Jan 1774. Stations at 15:09 and 12:17 UT.
♀︎Venus retrograde 1773· not retrograde this year
Venus holds a straight course through 1773; no spell, no shadow, no station to mark.
♂︎Mars retrograde 1773· once this year
Retrograde 11 Dec 1772 – 01 Mar (11 weeks), 11°02' Leo back to 21°41' Cancer; shadow from 08 Oct 1772 to 07 May. 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 1773· once this year
Retrograde 29 Jul – 24 Nov (17 weeks), 9°19' Aries back to 29°23' Pisces; shadow from 05 May to 14 Feb 1774. Stations at 05:43 and 03:56 UT.
♄︎Saturn retrograde 1773· once this year
Retrograde 23 Dec 1772 – 07 May (19 weeks), 13°07' Virgo back to 6°15' Virgo; shadow from 19 Sep 1772 to 13 Aug. Stations at 01:17 and 23:04 UT.
♅︎Uranus retrograde 1773· twice this year
Retrograde 29 Aug 1772 – 27 Jan (22 weeks), 23°58' Taurus back to 19°58' Taurus; shadow from 12 May 1772 to 13 May. Stations at 05:31 and 07:15 UT.
Retrograde 02 Sep – 31 Jan 1774 (22 weeks), 28°10' Taurus back to 24°10' Taurus; shadow from 17 May to 18 May 1774. Stations at 20:03 and 17:19 UT.
♆︎Neptune retrograde 1773· twice this year
Retrograde 19 Dec 1772 – 26 May (23 weeks), 18°21' Virgo back to 15°34' Virgo; shadow from 29 Aug 1772 to 17 Sep. Stations at 22:30 and 16:05 UT.
Retrograde 22 Dec – 29 May 1774 (23 weeks), 20°32' Virgo back to 17°45' Virgo; shadow from 01 Sep to 20 Sep 1774. Stations at 07:10 and 03:53 UT.
♇︎Pluto retrograde 1773· once this year
Retrograde 24 Apr – 03 Oct (23 weeks), 23°10' Capricorn back to 20°40' Capricorn; shadow from 31 Dec 1772 to 23 Jan 1774. Stations at 01:00 and 00:02 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.