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 1785· 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 15 Jan – 05 Feb (3 weeks), 11°51' Aquarius back to 26°01' Capricorn; shadow from 30 Dec 1784 to 25 Feb. Stations at 14:55 and 12:22 UT.
Retrograde 12 May – 05 Jun (3 weeks), 7°30' Gemini back to 28°53' Taurus; shadow from 28 Apr to 20 Jun. Stations at 16:25 and 12:52 UT.
Retrograde 11 Sep – 03 Oct (3 weeks), 10°36' Libra back to 25°38' Virgo; shadow from 22 Aug to 18 Oct. Stations at 14:28 and 13:34 UT.
Retrograde 30 Dec – 19 Jan 1786 (3 weeks), 25°49' Capricorn back to 9°40' Capricorn; shadow from 13 Dec to 08 Feb 1786. Stations at 12:20 and 19:48 UT.
♀︎Venus retrograde 1785· once this year
Retrograde 08 May – 20 Jun (6 weeks), 17°24' Gemini back to 0°53' Gemini; shadow from 05 Apr to 24 Jul. Stations at 21:15 and 21:01 UT.
♂︎Mars retrograde 1785· once this year
Retrograde 20 Oct – 01 Jan 1786 (10 weeks), 15°20' Gemini back to 28°13' Taurus; shadow from 25 Aug to 04 Mar 1786. Stations at 12:04 and 20:47 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 1785· once this year
Retrograde 03 Aug – 29 Nov (17 weeks), 14°36' Aries back to 4°40' Aries; shadow from 10 May to 20 Feb 1786. Stations at 13:16 and 09:55 UT.
♄︎Saturn retrograde 1785· once this year
Retrograde 14 May – 02 Oct (20 weeks), 5°23' Aquarius back to 28°45' Capricorn; shadow from 06 Feb to 07 Jan 1786. Stations at 20:01 and 19:58 UT.
♅︎Uranus retrograde 1785· twice this year
Retrograde 21 Oct 1784 – 20 Mar (21 weeks), 16°25' Cancer back to 12°19' Cancer; shadow from 07 Jul 1784 to 04 Jul. Stations at 19:45 and 01:49 UT.
Retrograde 26 Oct – 24 Mar 1786 (21 weeks), 20°59' Cancer back to 16°53' Cancer; shadow from 12 Jul to 09 Jul 1786. Stations at 17:36 and 22:09 UT.
♆︎Neptune retrograde 1785· once this year
Retrograde 14 Jan – 22 Jun (23 weeks), 14°35' Libra back to 11°48' Libra; shadow from 25 Sep 1784 to 14 Oct. Stations at 22:24 and 13:18 UT.
♇︎Pluto retrograde 1785· once this year
Retrograde 13 May – 23 Oct (23 weeks), 13°09' Aquarius back to 10°48' Aquarius; shadow from 18 Jan to 15 Feb 1786. Stations at 19:04 and 23:14 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.