Saturn retrograde 1942

2 periods, 120 days inside the year — 32.9% of 1942. Station times below are UTC and computed to the minute.

62 days · retreats 3.09° · crosses the year boundary

22 November → 23 January 1942 in Taurus

Stations retrograde 22 Nov 1941, 00:00 UTC at 25.49° Taurus
Stations direct 23 Jan 1942, 05:44 UTC at 22.4° Taurus
Shadow closes 23 Mar 1942 (60 days after)

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

134 days · retreats 6.96° · crosses the year boundary

25 September → 6 February 1943 in Gemini

Stations retrograde 25 Sep 1942, 03:09 UTC at 13.3° Gemini
Stations direct 6 Feb 1943, 06:20 UTC at 6.34° Gemini

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

Computed from the actual motion

The nearest Saturn retrogrades either side of 1942

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1941 Ended 23 January 1942 after 135 days, moving back 6.94° through the zodiac.

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1943 Begins 22 November 1942 and runs 76 days.

Gap across 1942

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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