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 1798· 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 18 Jan – 08 Feb (3 weeks), 14°27' Aquarius back to 28°41' Capricorn; shadow from 02 Jan to 28 Feb. Stations at 10:02 and 09:57 UT.
Retrograde 15 May – 08 Jun (3 weeks), 10°39' Gemini back to 2°04' Gemini; shadow from 01 May to 24 Jun. Stations at 23:20 and 20:13 UT.
Retrograde 14 Sep – 06 Oct (3 weeks), 13°16' Libra back to 28°13' Virgo; shadow from 25 Aug to 21 Oct. Stations at 13:00 and 09:06 UT.
♀︎Venus retrograde 1798· once this year
Retrograde 23 Feb – 06 Apr (6 weeks), 4°05' Aries back to 17°53' Pisces; shadow from 21 Jan to 09 May. Stations at 05:26 and 04:26 UT.
♂︎Mars retrograde 1798· once this year
Retrograde 01 Aug – 30 Sep (9 weeks), 14°01' Pisces back to 3°47' Pisces; shadow from 20 Jun to 11 Nov. Stations at 06:48 and 11:46 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 1798· once this year
Retrograde 14 Sep – 10 Jan 1799 (17 weeks), 26°23' Taurus back to 16°21' Taurus; shadow from 21 Jun to 04 Apr 1799. Stations at 18:49 and 10:42 UT.
♄︎Saturn retrograde 1798· twice this year
Retrograde 23 Oct 1797 – 06 Mar (19 weeks), 12°06' Cancer back to 5°08' Cancer; shadow from 21 Jul 1797 to 09 Jun. Stations at 22:56 and 14:11 UT.
Retrograde 07 Nov – 21 Mar 1799 (19 weeks), 26°15' Cancer back to 19°18' Cancer; shadow from 04 Aug to 24 Jun 1799. Stations at 06:40 and 02:06 UT.
♅︎Uranus retrograde 1798· twice this year
Retrograde 22 Dec 1797 – 20 May (21 weeks), 17°33' Virgo back to 13°24' Virgo; shadow from 09 Sep 1797 to 04 Sep. Stations at 09:45 and 22:47 UT.
Retrograde 27 Dec – 26 May 1799 (21 weeks), 22°20' Virgo back to 18°11' Virgo; shadow from 14 Sep to 09 Sep 1799. Stations at 10:45 and 03:32 UT.
♆︎Neptune retrograde 1798· once this year
Retrograde 12 Feb – 21 Jul (23 weeks), 12°53' Scorpio back to 10°06' Scorpio; shadow from 24 Oct 1797 to 12 Nov. Stations at 12:19 and 23:02 UT.
♇︎Pluto retrograde 1798· once this year
Retrograde 01 Jun – 12 Nov (23 weeks), 1°50' Pisces back to 29°35' Aquarius; shadow from 03 Feb to 09 Mar 1799. Stations at 14:58 and 16:01 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.