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 1796· 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 21 Feb – 14 Mar (3 weeks), 17°15' Pisces back to 3°04' Pisces; shadow from 06 Feb to 03 Apr. Stations at 04:25 and 15:35 UT.
Retrograde 23 Jun – 17 Jul (3 weeks), 20°36' Cancer back to 10°47' Cancer; shadow from 06 Jun to 31 Jul. Stations at 10:03 and 15:08 UT.
Retrograde 18 Oct – 07 Nov (3 weeks), 15°43' Scorpio back to 29°48' Libra; shadow from 28 Sep to 24 Nov. Stations at 04:58 and 15:02 UT.
♀︎Venus retrograde 1796· once this year
Retrograde 15 Jul – 27 Aug (6 weeks), 21°57' Leo back to 5°33' Leo; shadow from 11 Jun to 29 Sep. Stations at 05:42 and 06:02 UT.
♂︎Mars retrograde 1796· once this year
Retrograde 13 May – 20 Jul (10 weeks), 0°39' Capricorn back to 17°14' Sagittarius; shadow from 21 Mar to 06 Sep. Stations at 09:14 and 13:42 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 1796· once this year
Retrograde 01 Jul – 28 Oct (17 weeks), 13°01' Pisces back to 3°09' Pisces; shadow from 07 Apr to 19 Jan 1797. Stations at 14:40 and 13:37 UT.
♄︎Saturn retrograde 1796· twice this year
Retrograde 25 Sep 1795 – 06 Feb (19 weeks), 13°43' Gemini back to 6°45' Gemini; shadow from 22 Jun 1795 to 10 May. Stations at 20:36 and 19:31 UT.
Retrograde 09 Oct – 20 Feb 1797 (19 weeks), 27°54' Gemini back to 20°56' Gemini; shadow from 06 Jul to 25 May 1797. Stations at 10:51 and 03:05 UT.
♅︎Uranus retrograde 1796· twice this year
Retrograde 13 Dec 1795 – 10 May (21 weeks), 8°00' Virgo back to 3°51' Virgo; shadow from 30 Aug 1795 to 25 Aug. Stations at 09:58 and 16:47 UT.
Retrograde 17 Dec – 15 May 1797 (21 weeks), 12°46' Virgo back to 8°37' Virgo; shadow from 04 Sep to 30 Aug 1797. Stations at 10:39 and 20:19 UT.
♆︎Neptune retrograde 1796· once this year
Retrograde 08 Feb – 16 Jul (23 weeks), 8°32' Scorpio back to 5°45' Scorpio; shadow from 20 Oct 1795 to 07 Nov. Stations at 14:37 and 22:34 UT.
♇︎Pluto retrograde 1796· once this year
Retrograde 29 May – 09 Nov (23 weeks), 29°07' Aquarius back to 26°52' Aquarius; shadow from 01 Feb to 05 Mar 1797. Stations at 07:45 and 10:42 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.