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 1777· 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 08 Feb – 02 Mar (3 weeks), 4°57' Pisces back to 20°02' Aquarius; shadow from 24 Jan to 22 Mar. Stations at 02:55 and 01:09 UT.
Retrograde 09 Jun – 03 Jul (3 weeks), 5°54' Cancer back to 26°52' Gemini; shadow from 24 May to 18 Jul. Stations at 15:02 and 16:53 UT.
Retrograde 06 Oct – 26 Oct (3 weeks), 3°48' Scorpio back to 18°07' Libra; shadow from 15 Sep to 11 Nov. Stations at 01:22 and 21:58 UT.
♀︎Venus retrograde 1777· once this year
Retrograde 11 May – 23 Jun (6 weeks), 19°32' Gemini back to 3°00' Gemini; shadow from 07 Apr to 27 Jul. Stations at 04:31 and 04:17 UT.
♂︎Mars retrograde 1777· once this year
Retrograde 19 Feb – 10 May (11 weeks), 18°42' Libra back to 0°01' Libra; shadow from 16 Dec 1776 to 12 Jul. Stations at 23:10 and 15:43 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 1777· twice this year
Retrograde 11 Nov 1776 – 10 Mar (17 weeks), 25°14' Cancer back to 15°10' Cancer; shadow from 16 Aug 1776 to 06 Jun. Stations at 06:54 and 23:20 UT.
Retrograde 12 Dec – 12 Apr 1778 (17 weeks), 26°53' Leo back to 16°51' Leo; shadow from 16 Sep to 10 Jul 1778. Stations at 11:17 and 17:59 UT.
♄︎Saturn retrograde 1777· once this year
Retrograde 10 Feb – 29 Jun (20 weeks), 3°24' Scorpio back to 26°42' Libra; shadow from 07 Nov 1776 to 05 Oct. Stations at 10:11 and 16:31 UT.
♅︎Uranus retrograde 1777· twice this year
Retrograde 15 Sep 1776 – 13 Feb (21 weeks), 10°59' Gemini back to 6°57' Gemini; shadow from 30 May 1776 to 30 May. Stations at 17:23 and 01:03 UT.
Retrograde 20 Sep – 17 Feb 1778 (21 weeks), 15°18' Gemini back to 11°16' Gemini; shadow from 04 Jun to 04 Jun 1778. Stations at 10:46 and 14:18 UT.
♆︎Neptune retrograde 1777· twice this year
Retrograde 28 Dec 1776 – 04 Jun (23 weeks), 27°06' Virgo back to 24°19' Virgo; shadow from 08 Sep 1776 to 26 Sep. Stations at 16:11 and 14:48 UT.
Retrograde 31 Dec – 07 Jun 1778 (23 weeks), 29°17' Virgo back to 26°30' Virgo; shadow from 10 Sep to 28 Sep 1778. Stations at 02:41 and 02:34 UT.
♇︎Pluto retrograde 1777· once this year
Retrograde 30 Apr – 10 Oct (23 weeks), 0°10' Aquarius back to 27°42' Capricorn; shadow from 06 Jan to 01 Feb 1778. Stations at 21:46 and 08:10 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.