Saturn retrograde 1946

2 periods, 120 days inside the year — 32.8% of 1946. Station times below are UTC and computed to the minute.

118 days · retreats 6.74° · crosses the year boundary

22 November → 20 March 1946 in Cancer

Stations retrograde 22 Nov 1945, 00:00 UTC at 25.41° Cancer
Stations direct 20 Mar 1946, 07:42 UTC at 18.67° Cancer

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

81 days · retreats 4.65° · crosses the year boundary

20 November → 9 February 1947 in Leo

Stations retrograde 20 Nov 1946, 13:03 UTC at 9.61° Leo
Stations direct 9 Feb 1947, 23:59 UTC at 4.96° Leo
Shadow opens 6 Sep 1946 (75 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 1946

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1945 Ended 9 February 1946 after 96 days, moving back 5.67° through the zodiac.

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1947 Begins 22 November 1946 and runs 133 days.

Gap across 1946

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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