Jupiter retrograde 1917

1 period, 92 days inside the year — 25.3% of 1917. Station times below are UTC and computed to the minute.

118 days · retreats 10.05° · crosses the year boundary

30 September → 26 January 1918 in Gemini

Stations retrograde 30 Sep 1917, 14:15 UTC at 12.61° Gemini

Stations direct 26 Jan 1918, 11:13 UTC at 2.56° Gemini

Shadow opens 7 Jul 1917 (86 days before)

Shadow closes 21 Apr 1918 (85 days after)

Full window including shadows 288 days

Read against Gemini, and see that sign’s horoscope for the period.

Computed from the actual motion

The nearest Jupiter retrogrades either side of 1917

1916 Ended 20 December 1916 after 118 days, moving back 9.99° through the zodiac.

1918 Begins 22 November 1917 and runs 65 days.

Gap across 1917

0.9 years between the two — long enough for a whole calendar year to fall inside it with nothing to report.

Both dates are computed from the planet’s apparent motion, not taken from a table. A retrograde begins the moment its daily movement against the stars turns negative, and that moment is findable to the hour.

← 1916 Jupiter retrograde in 1916. All Jupiter retrogrades Averages, shadow periods and the sign distribution over fifty years. 1918 → Jupiter retrograde in 1918.