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 1791· 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 25 Jan – 15 Feb (3 weeks), 21°14' Aquarius back to 5°42' Aquarius; shadow from 10 Jan to 08 Mar. Stations at 14:40 and 22:03 UT.
Retrograde 24 May – 17 Jun (3 weeks), 19°02' Gemini back to 10°28' Gemini; shadow from 09 May to 02 Jul. Stations at 13:08 and 12:13 UT.
Retrograde 22 Sep – 13 Oct (3 weeks), 20°11' Libra back to 4°53' Libra; shadow from 01 Sep to 28 Oct. Stations at 02:02 and 14:07 UT.
♀︎Venus retrograde 1791· once this year
Retrograde 28 Sep – 09 Nov (6 weeks), 4°00' Scorpio back to 18°22' Libra; shadow from 27 Aug to 11 Dec. Stations at 21:29 and 14:34 UT.
♂︎Mars retrograde 1791· not retrograde this year
Mars holds a straight course through 1791; 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 1791· once this year
Retrograde 15 Jan – 18 May (18 weeks), 1°31' Libra back to 21°34' Virgo; shadow from 20 Oct 1790 to 16 Aug. Stations at 20:42 and 14:46 UT.
♄︎Saturn retrograde 1791· once this year
Retrograde 31 Jul – 15 Dec (20 weeks), 18°53' Aries back to 12°02' Aries; shadow from 25 Apr to 18 Mar 1792. Stations at 07:51 and 01:02 UT.
♅︎Uranus retrograde 1791· twice this year
Retrograde 19 Nov 1790 – 17 Apr (21 weeks), 14°16' Leo back to 10°07' Leo; shadow from 06 Aug 1790 to 01 Aug. Stations at 09:59 and 11:07 UT.
Retrograde 24 Nov – 21 Apr 1792 (21 weeks), 18°59' Leo back to 14°50' Leo; shadow from 11 Aug to 05 Aug 1792. Stations at 10:06 and 11:32 UT.
♆︎Neptune retrograde 1791· once this year
Retrograde 28 Jan – 06 Jul (23 weeks), 27°39' Libra back to 24°52' Libra; shadow from 09 Oct 1790 to 27 Oct. Stations at 13:26 and 13:18 UT.
♇︎Pluto retrograde 1791· once this year
Retrograde 23 May – 02 Nov (23 weeks), 22°06' Aquarius back to 19°47' Aquarius; shadow from 26 Jan to 26 Feb 1792. Stations at 03:02 and 20:07 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.