Saturn retrograde 1972

2 periods, 121 days inside the year — 33% of 1972. Station times below are UTC and computed to the minute.

71 days · retreats 3.78° · crosses the year boundary

22 November → 31 January 1972 in Gemini

Stations retrograde 22 Nov 1971, 00:00 UTC at 3.88° Gemini
Stations direct 31 Jan 1972, 12:49 UTC at 0.1° Gemini
Shadow closes 6 Apr 1972 (66 days after)

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

130 days · retreats 6.95° · crosses the year boundary

2 October → 9 February 1973 in Gemini

Stations retrograde 2 Oct 1972, 17:37 UTC at 21.1° Gemini
Stations direct 9 Feb 1973, 23:59 UTC at 14.15° 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 1972

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1971 Ended 31 January 1972 after 134 days, moving back 6.95° through the zodiac.

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1973 Begins 22 November 1972 and runs 84 days.

Gap across 1972

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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