Saturn retrograde 1980

1 period, 137 days inside the year — 37.3% of 1980. Station times below are UTC and computed to the minute.

137 days · retreats 6.84°

6 January → 22 May 1980 in Virgo

Stations retrograde 6 Jan 1980, 20:22 UTC at 27.32° Virgo

Stations direct 22 May 1980, 12:04 UTC at 20.47° 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 1980

1979 Ended 9 May 1979 after 136 days, moving back 6.88° through the zodiac.

1981 Begins 18 January 1981 and runs 137 days.

Gap across 1980

1.7 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.

← 1979 Saturn retrograde in 1979. All Saturn retrogrades Averages, shadow periods and the sign distribution over fifty years. 1981 → Saturn retrograde in 1981.