Saturn retrograde 1918

2 periods, 121 days inside the year — 33.1% of 1918. Station times below are UTC and computed to the minute.

134 days · retreats 6.94° · crosses the year boundary

26 November → 9 April 1918 in Leo

Stations retrograde 26 Nov 1917, 05:19 UTC at 15.81° Leo
Stations direct 9 Apr 1918, 15:30 UTC at 8.87° Leo

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

62 days · retreats 3.05° · crosses the year boundary

9 December → 9 February 1919 in Leo

Stations retrograde 9 Dec 1918, 22:14 UTC at 29.48° Leo
Stations direct 9 Feb 1919, 23:59 UTC at 26.43° Leo
Shadow opens 11 Oct 1918 (59 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 1918

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1917 Ended 9 February 1918 after 76 days, moving back 4.19° through the zodiac.

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1919 Begins 9 December 1918 and runs 135 days.

Gap across 1918

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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