Saturn retrograde 1950

1 period, 134 days inside the year — 36.8% of 1950. Station times below are UTC and computed to the minute.

136 days · retreats 6.86° · crosses the year boundary

30 December → 15 May 1950 in Virgo

Stations retrograde 30 Dec 1949, 03:17 UTC at 20.15° Virgo

Stations direct 15 May 1950, 07:58 UTC at 13.29° Virgo

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

Computed from the actual motion

The nearest Saturn retrogrades either side of 1950

1949 Ended 9 February 1950 after 42 days, moving back 1.5° through the zodiac.

1951 Begins 12 January 1951 and runs 137 days.

Gap across 1950

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.

← 1949 Saturn retrograde in 1949. All Saturn retrogrades Averages, shadow periods and the sign distribution over fifty years. 1951 → Saturn retrograde in 1951.