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 1782· 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 07 Mar – 30 Mar (3 weeks), 1°28' Aries back to 18°21' Pisces; shadow from 21 Feb to 18 Apr. Stations at 04:31 and 05:17 UT.
Retrograde 09 Jul – 02 Aug (3 weeks), 6°57' Leo back to 25°59' Cancer; shadow from 22 Jun to 17 Aug. Stations at 19:47 and 23:37 UT.
Retrograde 01 Nov – 21 Nov (3 weeks), 29°03' Scorpio back to 12°57' Scorpio; shadow from 13 Oct to 09 Dec. Stations at 21:18 and 21:52 UT.
♀︎Venus retrograde 1782· once this year
Retrograde 27 Feb – 10 Apr (6 weeks), 8°43' Aries back to 22°29' Pisces; shadow from 26 Jan to 14 May. Stations at 21:58 and 23:28 UT.
♂︎Mars retrograde 1782· not retrograde this year
Mars holds a straight course through 1782; 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 1782· once this year
Retrograde 15 Apr – 15 Aug (18 weeks), 28°59' Sagittarius back to 19°08' Sagittarius; shadow from 19 Jan to 09 Nov. Stations at 07:27 and 20:16 UT.
♄︎Saturn retrograde 1782· once this year
Retrograde 09 Apr – 29 Aug (20 weeks), 1°13' Capricorn back to 24°37' Sagittarius; shadow from 02 Jan to 04 Dec. Stations at 19:21 and 05:48 UT.
♅︎Uranus retrograde 1782· twice this year
Retrograde 08 Oct 1781 – 06 Mar (21 weeks), 2°54' Cancer back to 28°49' Gemini; shadow from 23 Jun 1781 to 21 Jun. Stations at 10:00 and 23:25 UT.
Retrograde 13 Oct – 11 Mar 1783 (21 weeks), 7°23' Cancer back to 3°17' Cancer; shadow from 28 Jun to 26 Jun 1783. Stations at 03:50 and 14:31 UT.
♆︎Neptune retrograde 1782· once this year
Retrograde 08 Jan – 16 Jun (23 weeks), 8°03' Libra back to 5°16' Libra; shadow from 19 Sep 1781 to 07 Oct. Stations at 19:12 and 02:53 UT.
♇︎Pluto retrograde 1782· once this year
Retrograde 09 May – 19 Oct (23 weeks), 8°25' Aquarius back to 6°02' Aquarius; shadow from 14 Jan to 10 Feb 1783. Stations at 07:09 and 07:56 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.