Saturn retrograde 1939

1 period, 136 days inside the year — 37.3% of 1939. Station times below are UTC and computed to the minute.

136 days · retreats 6.87°

13 August → 27 December 1939 in Taurus

Stations retrograde 13 Aug 1939, 21:30 UTC at 2.06° Taurus

Stations direct 27 Dec 1939, 23:32 UTC at 25.18° Aries

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

Computed from the actual motion

The nearest Saturn retrogrades either side of 1939

1938 Ended 14 December 1938 after 137 days, moving back 6.84° through the zodiac.

1940 Begins 27 August 1940 and runs 135 days.

Gap across 1939

1.7 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.

← 1938 Saturn retrograde in 1938. All Saturn retrogrades Averages, shadow periods and the sign distribution over fifty years. 1940 → Saturn retrograde in 1940.