Saturn retrograde 1949

2 periods, 122 days inside the year — 33.5% of 1949. Station times below are UTC and computed to the minute.

135 days · retreats 6.9° · crosses the year boundary

16 December → 1 May 1949 in Virgo

Stations retrograde 16 Dec 1948, 21:48 UTC at 6.91° Virgo
Stations direct 1 May 1949, 07:53 UTC at 0.02° Virgo

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

42 days · retreats 1.5° · crosses the year boundary

30 December → 9 February 1950 in Virgo

Stations retrograde 30 Dec 1949, 03:17 UTC at 20.15° Virgo
Stations direct 9 Feb 1950, 23:59 UTC at 18.65° Virgo
Shadow opens 19 Nov 1949 (41 days before)

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

Computed from the actual motion

The nearest Saturn retrogrades either side of 1949

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1948 Ended 9 February 1949 after 55 days, moving back 2.48° through the zodiac.

Next

1950 Begins 30 December 1949 and runs 136 days.

Gap across 1949

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.

← 1948 Saturn retrograde in 1948. All Saturn retrogrades Averages, shadow periods and the sign distribution over fifty years. 1950 → Saturn retrograde in 1950.