Saturn retrograde 1978

2 periods, 122 days inside the year — 33.4% of 1978. Station times below are UTC and computed to the minute.

135 days · retreats 6.91° · crosses the year boundary

11 December → 25 April 1978 in Virgo

Stations retrograde 11 Dec 1977, 10:19 UTC at 0.89° Virgo
Stations direct 25 Apr 1978, 13:00 UTC at 23.98° Leo

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

47 days · retreats 1.88° · crosses the year boundary

24 December → 9 February 1979 in Virgo

Stations retrograde 24 Dec 1978, 19:00 UTC at 14.25° Virgo
Stations direct 9 Feb 1979, 23:59 UTC at 12.38° Virgo
Shadow opens 8 Nov 1978 (46 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 1978

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1977 Ended 9 February 1978 after 61 days, moving back 2.93° through the zodiac.

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1979 Begins 24 December 1978 and runs 136 days.

Gap across 1978

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.

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