Saturn retrograde 1917

2 periods, 120 days inside the year — 32.9% of 1917. Station times below are UTC and computed to the minute.

124 days · retreats 6.87° · crosses the year boundary

22 November → 26 March 1917 in Leo

Stations retrograde 22 Nov 1916, 00:00 UTC at 1.82° Leo
Stations direct 26 Mar 1917, 05:27 UTC at 24.95° Cancer

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

76 days · retreats 4.19° · crosses the year boundary

26 November → 9 February 1918 in Leo

Stations retrograde 26 Nov 1917, 05:19 UTC at 15.81° Leo
Stations direct 9 Feb 1918, 23:59 UTC at 11.61° Leo
Shadow opens 16 Sep 1917 (71 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 1917

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1916 Ended 9 February 1917 after 90 days, moving back 5.28° through the zodiac.

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1918 Begins 26 November 1917 and runs 134 days.

Gap across 1917

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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