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 1799· four 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 02 Jan – 22 Jan (3 weeks), 28°23' Capricorn back to 12°16' Capricorn; shadow from 16 Dec 1798 to 11 Feb. Stations at 07:08 and 16:33 UT.
Retrograde 26 Apr – 20 May (3 weeks), 21°04' Taurus back to 11°51' Taurus; shadow from 12 Apr to 05 Jun. Stations at 14:32 and 10:35 UT.
Retrograde 28 Aug – 19 Sep (3 weeks), 26°27' Virgo back to 12°09' Virgo; shadow from 08 Aug to 04 Oct. Stations at 08:10 and 23:59 UT.
Retrograde 17 Dec – 06 Jan 1800 (3 weeks), 12°28' Capricorn back to 26°12' Sagittarius; shadow from 29 Nov to 25 Jan 1800. Stations at 04:57 and 04:12 UT.
♀︎Venus retrograde 1799· once this year
Retrograde 26 Sep – 07 Nov (6 weeks), 1°38' Scorpio back to 15°58' Libra; shadow from 24 Aug to 08 Dec. Stations at 09:44 and 04:34 UT.
♂︎Mars retrograde 1799· not retrograde this year
Mars holds a straight course through 1799; 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 1799· twice this year
Retrograde 14 Sep 1798 – 10 Jan (17 weeks), 26°23' Taurus back to 16°21' Taurus; shadow from 21 Jun 1798 to 04 Apr. Stations at 18:49 and 10:42 UT.
Retrograde 19 Oct – 15 Feb 1800 (17 weeks), 1°25' Cancer back to 21°21' Gemini; shadow from 25 Jul to 12 May 1800. Stations at 15:35 and 04:45 UT.
♄︎Saturn retrograde 1799· twice this year
Retrograde 07 Nov 1798 – 21 Mar (19 weeks), 26°15' Cancer back to 19°18' Cancer; shadow from 04 Aug 1798 to 24 Jun. Stations at 06:40 and 02:06 UT.
Retrograde 21 Nov – 04 Apr 1800 (19 weeks), 10°15' Leo back to 3°19' Leo; shadow from 18 Aug to 09 Jul 1800. Stations at 08:57 and 12:55 UT.
♅︎Uranus retrograde 1799· once this year
Retrograde 27 Dec 1798 – 26 May (21 weeks), 22°20' Virgo back to 18°11' Virgo; shadow from 14 Sep 1798 to 09 Sep. Stations at 10:45 and 03:32 UT.
♆︎Neptune retrograde 1799· once this year
Retrograde 14 Feb – 24 Jul (23 weeks), 15°03' Scorpio back to 12°17' Scorpio; shadow from 26 Oct 1798 to 14 Nov. Stations at 21:55 and 12:26 UT.
♇︎Pluto retrograde 1799· once this year
Retrograde 03 Jun – 14 Nov (23 weeks), 3°11' Pisces back to 0°56' Pisces; shadow from 04 Feb to 11 Mar 1800. Stations at 04:00 and 07:59 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.