Saturn retrograde 1976

2 periods, 121 days inside the year — 33.1% of 1976. Station times below are UTC and computed to the minute.

127 days · retreats 6.91° · crosses the year boundary

22 November → 27 March 1976 in Leo

Stations retrograde 22 Nov 1975, 00:00 UTC at 3.34° Leo
Stations direct 27 Mar 1976, 20:46 UTC at 26.43° Cancer

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

74 days · retreats 4.06° · crosses the year boundary

27 November → 9 February 1977 in Leo

Stations retrograde 27 Nov 1976, 18:23 UTC at 17.25° Leo
Stations direct 9 Feb 1977, 23:59 UTC at 13.19° Leo
Shadow opens 19 Sep 1976 (70 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 1976

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1975 Ended 9 February 1976 after 87 days, moving back 5.09° through the zodiac.

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1977 Begins 27 November 1976 and runs 134 days.

Gap across 1976

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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