Saturn retrograde 1916

2 periods, 121 days inside the year — 32.9% of 1916. Station times below are UTC and computed to the minute.

111 days · retreats 6.48° · crosses the year boundary

22 November → 11 March 1916 in Cancer

Stations retrograde 22 Nov 1915, 00:00 UTC at 17.36° Cancer
Stations direct 11 Mar 1916, 18:25 UTC at 10.88° Cancer

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

90 days · retreats 5.28° · crosses the year boundary

12 November → 9 February 1917 in Leo

Stations retrograde 12 Nov 1916, 05:38 UTC at 1.91° Leo
Stations direct 9 Feb 1917, 23:59 UTC at 26.63° Cancer
Shadow opens 23 Aug 1916 (81 days before)

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

Computed from the actual motion

The nearest Saturn retrogrades either side of 1916

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1915 Ended 9 February 1916 after 103 days, moving back 6.11° through the zodiac.

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1917 Begins 22 November 1916 and runs 124 days.

Gap across 1916

0.8 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.

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