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 1779· 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 06 Jan – 27 Jan (3 weeks), 2°31' Aquarius back to 16°28' Capricorn; shadow from 21 Dec 1778 to 16 Feb. Stations at 15:52 and 05:03 UT.
Retrograde 01 May – 25 May (3 weeks), 26°07' Taurus back to 17°09' Taurus; shadow from 17 Apr to 10 Jun. Stations at 20:01 and 16:21 UT.
Retrograde 02 Sep – 24 Sep (3 weeks), 0°51' Libra back to 16°19' Virgo; shadow from 12 Aug to 09 Oct. Stations at 00:44 and 11:27 UT.
Retrograde 21 Dec – 10 Jan 1780 (3 weeks), 16°34' Capricorn back to 0°19' Capricorn; shadow from 04 Dec to 30 Jan 1780. Stations at 13:46 and 15:13 UT.
♀︎Venus retrograde 1779· once this year
Retrograde 17 Dec 1778 – 27 Jan (6 weeks), 24°30' Capricorn back to 9°05' Capricorn; shadow from 15 Nov 1778 to 28 Feb. Stations at 12:56 and 11:34 UT.
♂︎Mars retrograde 1779· once this year
Retrograde 07 Apr – 20 Jun (11 weeks), 28°47' Scorpio back to 12°27' Scorpio; shadow from 05 Feb to 14 Aug. Stations at 00:18 and 09:34 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 1779· once this year
Retrograde 11 Jan – 14 May (18 weeks), 27°13' Virgo back to 17°15' Virgo; shadow from 16 Oct 1778 to 12 Aug. Stations at 16:25 and 07:56 UT.
♄︎Saturn retrograde 1779· once this year
Retrograde 06 Mar – 24 Jul (20 weeks), 26°58' Scorpio back to 20°19' Scorpio; shadow from 30 Nov 1778 to 31 Oct. Stations at 10:18 and 20:08 UT.
♅︎Uranus retrograde 1779· twice this year
Retrograde 25 Sep 1778 – 22 Feb (21 weeks), 19°40' Gemini back to 15°36' Gemini; shadow from 09 Jun 1778 to 08 Jun. Stations at 02:50 and 02:29 UT.
Retrograde 29 Sep – 26 Feb 1780 (21 weeks), 24°03' Gemini back to 19°59' Gemini; shadow from 14 Jun to 12 Jun 1780. Stations at 21:22 and 17:22 UT.
♆︎Neptune retrograde 1779· once this year
Retrograde 02 Jan – 09 Jun (23 weeks), 1°29' Libra back to 28°42' Virgo; shadow from 13 Sep 1778 to 01 Oct. Stations at 13:49 and 16:00 UT.
♇︎Pluto retrograde 1779· once this year
Retrograde 04 May – 14 Oct (23 weeks), 3°31' Aquarius back to 1°06' Aquarius; shadow from 10 Jan to 05 Feb 1780. Stations at 19:22 and 08:27 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.