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 1776· 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 25 Feb – 19 Mar (3 weeks), 21°36' Pisces back to 7°44' Pisces; shadow from 11 Feb to 07 Apr. Stations at 17:47 and 09:23 UT.
Retrograde 28 Jun – 22 Jul (3 weeks), 25°44' Cancer back to 15°34' Cancer; shadow from 11 Jun to 05 Aug. Stations at 12:10 and 17:25 UT.
Retrograde 22 Oct – 11 Nov (3 weeks), 19°49' Scorpio back to 3°50' Scorpio; shadow from 02 Oct to 28 Nov. Stations at 17:06 and 23:31 UT.
♀︎Venus retrograde 1776· not retrograde this year
Venus holds a straight course through 1776; no spell, no shadow, no station to mark.
♂︎Mars retrograde 1776· not retrograde this year
Mars holds a straight course through 1776; 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 1776· twice this year
Retrograde 10 Oct 1775 – 05 Feb (17 weeks), 21°41' Gemini back to 11°37' Gemini; shadow from 16 Jul 1775 to 01 May. Stations at 05:55 and 11:13 UT.
Retrograde 11 Nov – 10 Mar 1777 (17 weeks), 25°14' Cancer back to 15°10' Cancer; shadow from 16 Aug to 06 Jun 1777. Stations at 06:54 and 23:20 UT.
♄︎Saturn retrograde 1776· once this year
Retrograde 30 Jan – 16 Jun (20 weeks), 21°16' Libra back to 14°31' Libra; shadow from 27 Oct 1775 to 22 Sep. Stations at 05:10 and 15:21 UT.
♅︎Uranus retrograde 1776· twice this year
Retrograde 12 Sep 1775 – 09 Feb (22 weeks), 6°41' Gemini back to 2°39' Gemini; shadow from 26 May 1775 to 26 May. Stations at 02:12 and 14:13 UT.
Retrograde 15 Sep – 13 Feb 1777 (21 weeks), 10°59' Gemini back to 6°57' Gemini; shadow from 30 May to 30 May 1777. Stations at 17:23 and 01:03 UT.
♆︎Neptune retrograde 1776· twice this year
Retrograde 27 Dec 1775 – 02 Jun (23 weeks), 24°55' Virgo back to 22°07' Virgo; shadow from 06 Sep 1775 to 24 Sep. Stations at 04:02 and 02:14 UT.
Retrograde 28 Dec – 04 Jun 1777 (23 weeks), 27°06' Virgo back to 24°19' Virgo; shadow from 08 Sep to 26 Sep 1777. Stations at 16:11 and 14:48 UT.
♇︎Pluto retrograde 1776· once this year
Retrograde 28 Apr – 08 Oct (23 weeks), 28°27' Capricorn back to 25°59' Capricorn; shadow from 06 Jan to 29 Jan 1777. Stations at 21:13 and 09:07 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.