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 1783· 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 18 Feb – 12 Mar (3 weeks), 14°34' Pisces back to 0°13' Pisces; shadow from 03 Feb to 01 Apr. Stations at 07:27 and 16:11 UT.
Retrograde 21 Jun – 15 Jul (3 weeks), 17°27' Cancer back to 7°50' Cancer; shadow from 04 Jun to 29 Jul. Stations at 05:33 and 10:07 UT.
Retrograde 16 Oct – 05 Nov (3 weeks), 13°08' Scorpio back to 27°16' Libra; shadow from 26 Sep to 22 Nov. Stations at 08:12 and 20:19 UT.
♀︎Venus retrograde 1783· once this year
Retrograde 01 Oct – 12 Nov (6 weeks), 6°22' Scorpio back to 20°45' Libra; shadow from 29 Aug to 13 Dec. Stations at 08:40 and 00:07 UT.
♂︎Mars retrograde 1783· once this year
Retrograde 29 Aug – 31 Oct (9 weeks), 14°46' Aries back to 2°37' Aries; shadow from 15 Jul to 18 Dec. Stations at 05:09 and 22:25 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 1783· once this year
Retrograde 20 May – 18 Sep (17 weeks), 2°25' Aquarius back to 22°35' Capricorn; shadow from 24 Feb to 11 Dec. Stations at 20:30 and 18:56 UT.
♄︎Saturn retrograde 1783· once this year
Retrograde 21 Apr – 10 Sep (20 weeks), 12°32' Capricorn back to 5°56' Capricorn; shadow from 14 Jan to 16 Dec. Stations at 17:31 and 02:18 UT.
♅︎Uranus retrograde 1783· twice this year
Retrograde 13 Oct 1782 – 11 Mar (21 weeks), 7°23' Cancer back to 3°17' Cancer; shadow from 28 Jun 1782 to 26 Jun. Stations at 03:50 and 14:31 UT.
Retrograde 18 Oct – 15 Mar 1784 (21 weeks), 11°53' Cancer back to 7°47' Cancer; shadow from 03 Jul to 30 Jun 1784. Stations at 00:38 and 08:48 UT.
♆︎Neptune retrograde 1783· once this year
Retrograde 11 Jan – 18 Jun (23 weeks), 10°14' Libra back to 7°27' Libra; shadow from 21 Sep 1782 to 10 Oct. Stations at 03:09 and 15:02 UT.
♇︎Pluto retrograde 1783· once this year
Retrograde 11 May – 21 Oct (23 weeks), 10°01' Aquarius back to 7°38' Aquarius; shadow from 15 Jan to 12 Feb 1784. Stations at 02:28 and 06:21 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.