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 1775· 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 14 Mar – 07 Apr (3 weeks), 8°43' Aries back to 26°12' Pisces; shadow from 28 Feb to 25 Apr. Stations at 20:06 and 02:29 UT.
Retrograde 17 Jul – 10 Aug (3 weeks), 14°55' Leo back to 3°21' Leo; shadow from 29 Jun to 24 Aug. Stations at 21:00 and 22:46 UT.
Retrograde 09 Nov – 29 Nov (3 weeks), 5°42' Sagittarius back to 19°31' Scorpio; shadow from 20 Oct to 16 Dec. Stations at 04:04 and 01:33 UT.
♀︎Venus retrograde 1775· once this year
Retrograde 03 Oct – 14 Nov (6 weeks), 8°44' Scorpio back to 23°09' Libra; shadow from 01 Sep to 16 Dec. Stations at 19:34 and 09:37 UT.
♂︎Mars retrograde 1775· once this year
Retrograde 15 Jan – 06 Apr (12 weeks), 14°38' Virgo back to 25°11' Leo; shadow from 09 Nov 1774 to 12 Jun. Stations at 00:00 and 00:36 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 1775· once this year
Retrograde 10 Oct – 05 Feb 1776 (17 weeks), 21°41' Gemini back to 11°37' Gemini; shadow from 16 Jul to 01 May 1776. Stations at 05:55 and 11:13 UT.
♄︎Saturn retrograde 1775· once this year
Retrograde 17 Jan – 04 Jun (20 weeks), 8°52' Libra back to 2°04' Libra; shadow from 14 Oct 1774 to 10 Sep. Stations at 18:50 and 08:39 UT.
♅︎Uranus retrograde 1775· twice this year
Retrograde 07 Sep 1774 – 05 Feb (22 weeks), 2°25' Gemini back to 28°24' Taurus; shadow from 22 May 1774 to 22 May. Stations at 10:07 and 02:38 UT.
Retrograde 12 Sep – 09 Feb 1776 (22 weeks), 6°41' Gemini back to 2°39' Gemini; shadow from 26 May to 26 May 1776. Stations at 02:12 and 14:13 UT.
♆︎Neptune retrograde 1775· twice this year
Retrograde 24 Dec 1774 – 31 May (23 weeks), 22°44' Virgo back to 19°56' Virgo; shadow from 03 Sep 1774 to 22 Sep. Stations at 18:23 and 14:39 UT.
Retrograde 27 Dec – 02 Jun 1776 (23 weeks), 24°55' Virgo back to 22°07' Virgo; shadow from 06 Sep to 24 Sep 1776. Stations at 04:02 and 02:14 UT.
♇︎Pluto retrograde 1775· once this year
Retrograde 27 Apr – 07 Oct (23 weeks), 26°43' Capricorn back to 24°14' Capricorn; shadow from 04 Jan to 28 Jan 1776. Stations at 22:50 and 06:54 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.