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 1774· 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 01 Apr – 25 Apr (3 weeks), 26°27' Aries back to 15°29' Aries; shadow from 18 Mar to 12 May. Stations at 14:24 and 06:31 UT.
Retrograde 04 Aug – 28 Aug (3 weeks), 3°18' Virgo back to 20°23' Leo; shadow from 16 Jul to 11 Sep. Stations at 19:38 and 09:35 UT.
Retrograde 25 Nov – 15 Dec (3 weeks), 21°31' Sagittarius back to 5°14' Sagittarius; shadow from 07 Nov to 02 Jan 1775. Stations at 11:06 and 05:26 UT.
♀︎Venus retrograde 1774· once this year
Retrograde 02 Mar – 13 Apr (6 weeks), 11°00' Aries back to 24°45' Pisces; shadow from 28 Jan to 16 May. Stations at 06:22 and 09:12 UT.
♂︎Mars retrograde 1774· not retrograde this year
Mars holds a straight course through 1774; 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 1774· once this year
Retrograde 04 Sep – 31 Dec (17 weeks), 16°08' Taurus back to 6°07' Taurus; shadow from 11 Jun to 24 Mar 1775. Stations at 18:26 and 07:38 UT.
♄︎Saturn retrograde 1774· once this year
Retrograde 05 Jan – 21 May (20 weeks), 26°09' Virgo back to 19°19' Virgo; shadow from 02 Oct 1773 to 27 Aug. Stations at 01:30 and 19:12 UT.
♅︎Uranus retrograde 1774· twice this year
Retrograde 02 Sep 1773 – 31 Jan (22 weeks), 28°10' Taurus back to 24°10' Taurus; shadow from 17 May 1773 to 18 May. Stations at 20:03 and 17:19 UT.
Retrograde 07 Sep – 05 Feb 1775 (22 weeks), 2°25' Gemini back to 28°24' Taurus; shadow from 22 May to 22 May 1775. Stations at 10:07 and 02:38 UT.
♆︎Neptune retrograde 1774· twice this year
Retrograde 22 Dec 1773 – 29 May (23 weeks), 20°32' Virgo back to 17°45' Virgo; shadow from 01 Sep 1773 to 20 Sep. Stations at 07:10 and 03:53 UT.
Retrograde 24 Dec – 31 May 1775 (23 weeks), 22°44' Virgo back to 19°56' Virgo; shadow from 03 Sep to 22 Sep 1775. Stations at 18:23 and 14:39 UT.
♇︎Pluto retrograde 1774· once this year
Retrograde 26 Apr – 05 Oct (23 weeks), 24°57' Capricorn back to 22°28' Capricorn; shadow from 02 Jan to 26 Jan 1775. Stations at 00:10 and 04:30 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.