Jupiter retrograde 1988

1 period, 98 days inside the year — 26.9% of 1988. Station times below are UTC and computed to the minute.

118 days · retreats 10.05° · crosses the year boundary

24 September → 20 January 1989 in Gemini

Stations retrograde 24 Sep 1988, 15:39 UTC at 6.4° Gemini

Stations direct 20 Jan 1989, 09:34 UTC at 26.35° Taurus

Shadow opens 1 Jul 1988 (85 days before)

Shadow closes 14 Apr 1989 (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 1988

1987 Ended 15 December 1987 after 118 days, moving back 9.97° through the zodiac.

1989 Begins 22 November 1988 and runs 59 days.

Gap across 1988

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.

← 1987 Jupiter retrograde in 1987. All Jupiter retrogrades Averages, shadow periods and the sign distribution over fifty years. 1989 → Jupiter retrograde in 1989.