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 1789· 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 27 Feb – 22 Mar (3 weeks), 24°19' Pisces back to 10°38' Pisces; shadow from 13 Feb to 10 Apr. Stations at 15:28 and 09:26 UT.
Retrograde 01 Jul – 25 Jul (3 weeks), 28°50' Cancer back to 18°28' Cancer; shadow from 14 Jun to 09 Aug. Stations at 16:00 and 21:03 UT.
Retrograde 25 Oct – 14 Nov (3 weeks), 22°24' Scorpio back to 6°23' Scorpio; shadow from 05 Oct to 01 Dec. Stations at 13:40 and 18:18 UT.
♀︎Venus retrograde 1789· not retrograde this year
Venus holds a straight course through 1789; no spell, no shadow, no station to mark.
♂︎Mars retrograde 1789· not retrograde this year
Mars holds a straight course through 1789; 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 1789· twice this year
Retrograde 15 Nov 1788 – 15 Mar (17 weeks), 29°49' Cancer back to 19°45' Cancer; shadow from 21 Aug 1788 to 11 Jun. Stations at 16:51 and 13:26 UT.
Retrograde 16 Dec – 17 Apr 1790 (17 weeks), 1°15' Virgo back to 21°14' Leo; shadow from 20 Sep to 15 Jul 1790. Stations at 16:35 and 03:29 UT.
♄︎Saturn retrograde 1789· once this year
Retrograde 03 Jul – 19 Nov (20 weeks), 23°15' Pisces back to 16°29' Pisces; shadow from 28 Mar to 22 Feb 1790. Stations at 23:32 and 09:30 UT.
♅︎Uranus retrograde 1789· twice this year
Retrograde 09 Nov 1788 – 07 Apr (21 weeks), 4°53' Leo back to 0°45' Leo; shadow from 26 Jul 1788 to 23 Jul. Stations at 10:58 and 12:32 UT.
Retrograde 14 Nov – 12 Apr 1790 (21 weeks), 9°33' Leo back to 5°26' Leo; shadow from 31 Jul to 27 Jul 1790. Stations at 10:49 and 12:13 UT.
♆︎Neptune retrograde 1789· once this year
Retrograde 23 Jan – 01 Jul (23 weeks), 23°17' Libra back to 20°31' Libra; shadow from 04 Oct 1788 to 23 Oct. Stations at 17:19 and 13:26 UT.
♇︎Pluto retrograde 1789· once this year
Retrograde 19 May – 30 Oct (23 weeks), 19°12' Aquarius back to 16°52' Aquarius; shadow from 23 Jan to 22 Feb 1790. Stations at 15:27 and 09:48 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.