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 1784· 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 01 Feb – 23 Feb (3 weeks), 28°04' Aquarius back to 12°49' Aquarius; shadow from 17 Jan to 14 Mar. Stations at 20:16 and 10:56 UT.
Retrograde 01 Jun – 25 Jun (3 weeks), 27°29' Gemini back to 18°46' Gemini; shadow from 16 May to 09 Jul. Stations at 02:44 and 03:30 UT.
Retrograde 28 Sep – 19 Oct (3 weeks), 27°01' Libra back to 11°31' Libra; shadow from 08 Sep to 04 Nov. Stations at 14:02 and 18:16 UT.
♀︎Venus retrograde 1784· not retrograde this year
Venus holds a straight course through 1784; no spell, no shadow, no station to mark.
♂︎Mars retrograde 1784· not retrograde this year
Mars holds a straight course through 1784; 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 1784· once this year
Retrograde 26 Jun – 23 Oct (17 weeks), 7°52' Pisces back to 28°00' Aquarius; shadow from 02 Apr to 14 Jan 1785. Stations at 06:55 and 10:35 UT.
♄︎Saturn retrograde 1784· once this year
Retrograde 02 May – 20 Sep (20 weeks), 23°55' Capricorn back to 17°18' Capricorn; shadow from 26 Jan to 26 Dec. Stations at 15:53 and 21:44 UT.
♅︎Uranus retrograde 1784· twice this year
Retrograde 18 Oct 1783 – 15 Mar (21 weeks), 11°53' Cancer back to 7°47' Cancer; shadow from 03 Jul 1783 to 30 Jun. Stations at 00:38 and 08:48 UT.
Retrograde 21 Oct – 20 Mar 1785 (21 weeks), 16°25' Cancer back to 12°19' Cancer; shadow from 07 Jul to 04 Jul 1785. Stations at 19:45 and 01:49 UT.
♆︎Neptune retrograde 1784· once this year
Retrograde 13 Jan – 20 Jun (23 weeks), 12°24' Libra back to 9°37' Libra; shadow from 24 Sep 1783 to 11 Oct. Stations at 13:31 and 01:45 UT.
♇︎Pluto retrograde 1784· once this year
Retrograde 12 May – 22 Oct (23 weeks), 11°36' Aquarius back to 9°13' Aquarius; shadow from 17 Jan to 13 Feb 1785. Stations at 00:04 and 01:44 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.