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 1797· 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 03 Feb – 25 Feb (3 weeks), 0°42' Pisces back to 15°34' Aquarius; shadow from 19 Jan to 17 Mar. Stations at 16:03 and 09:17 UT.
Retrograde 04 Jun – 28 Jun (3 weeks), 0°40' Cancer back to 21°51' Gemini; shadow from 19 May to 13 Jul. Stations at 09:14 and 10:21 UT.
Retrograde 01 Oct – 22 Oct (3 weeks), 29°38' Libra back to 14°04' Libra; shadow from 11 Sep to 07 Nov. Stations at 11:43 and 13:10 UT.
♀︎Venus retrograde 1797· not retrograde this year
Venus holds a straight course through 1797; no spell, no shadow, no station to mark.
♂︎Mars retrograde 1797· not retrograde this year
Mars holds a straight course through 1797; 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 1797· once this year
Retrograde 08 Aug – 04 Dec (17 weeks), 19°50' Aries back to 9°52' Aries; shadow from 15 May to 25 Feb 1798. Stations at 19:17 and 12:24 UT.
♄︎Saturn retrograde 1797· twice this year
Retrograde 09 Oct 1796 – 20 Feb (19 weeks), 27°54' Gemini back to 20°56' Gemini; shadow from 06 Jul 1796 to 25 May. Stations at 10:51 and 03:05 UT.
Retrograde 23 Oct – 06 Mar 1798 (19 weeks), 12°06' Cancer back to 5°08' Cancer; shadow from 21 Jul to 09 Jun 1798. Stations at 22:56 and 14:11 UT.
♅︎Uranus retrograde 1797· twice this year
Retrograde 17 Dec 1796 – 15 May (21 weeks), 12°46' Virgo back to 8°37' Virgo; shadow from 04 Sep 1796 to 30 Aug. Stations at 10:39 and 20:19 UT.
Retrograde 22 Dec – 20 May 1798 (21 weeks), 17°33' Virgo back to 13°24' Virgo; shadow from 09 Sep to 04 Sep 1798. Stations at 09:45 and 22:47 UT.
♆︎Neptune retrograde 1797· once this year
Retrograde 10 Feb – 19 Jul (23 weeks), 10°42' Scorpio back to 7°56' Scorpio; shadow from 22 Oct 1796 to 09 Nov. Stations at 01:17 and 11:52 UT.
♇︎Pluto retrograde 1797· once this year
Retrograde 30 May – 11 Nov (23 weeks), 0°29' Pisces back to 28°14' Aquarius; shadow from 02 Feb to 07 Mar 1798. Stations at 22:43 and 02:34 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.