Saturn retrograde 1973

2 periods, 119 days inside the year — 32.7% of 1973. Station times below are UTC and computed to the minute.

84 days · retreats 4.84° · crosses the year boundary

22 November → 13 February 1973 in Gemini

Stations retrograde 22 Nov 1972, 00:00 UTC at 18.98° Gemini
Stations direct 13 Feb 1973, 16:17 UTC at 14.13° Gemini
Shadow closes 1 May 1973 (76 days after)

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

116 days · retreats 6.67° · crosses the year boundary

17 October → 9 February 1974 in Cancer

Stations retrograde 17 Oct 1973, 05:43 UTC at 5.23° Cancer
Stations direct 9 Feb 1974, 23:59 UTC at 28.56° Gemini

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

Computed from the actual motion

The nearest Saturn retrogrades either side of 1973

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1972 Ended 9 February 1973 after 130 days, moving back 6.95° through the zodiac.

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1974 Begins 22 November 1973 and runs 98 days.

Gap across 1973

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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