Saturn retrograde 1940

1 period, 127 days inside the year — 34.7% of 1940. Station times below are UTC and computed to the minute.

135 days · retreats 6.91° · crosses the year boundary

27 August → 9 January 1941 in Taurus

Stations retrograde 27 Aug 1940, 03:58 UTC at 15.56° Taurus

Stations direct 9 Jan 1941, 11:13 UTC at 8.66° Taurus

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

Computed from the actual motion

The nearest Saturn retrogrades either side of 1940

1939 Ended 27 December 1939 after 136 days, moving back 6.87° through the zodiac.

1941 Begins 22 November 1940 and runs 48 days.

Gap across 1940

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.

← 1939 Saturn retrograde in 1939. All Saturn retrogrades Averages, shadow periods and the sign distribution over fifty years. 1941 → Saturn retrograde in 1941.