Saturn retrograde 1985

1 period, 140 days inside the year — 38.5% of 1985. Station times below are UTC and computed to the minute.

140 days · retreats 6.67°

7 March → 25 July 1985 in Scorpio

Stations retrograde 7 Mar 1985, 10:08 UTC at 28.33° Scorpio
Stations direct 25 Jul 1985, 19:36 UTC at 21.65° Scorpio

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

Computed from the actual motion

The nearest Saturn retrogrades either side of 1985

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1984 Ended 13 July 1984 after 140 days, moving back 6.7° through the zodiac.

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1986 Begins 19 March 1986 and runs 141 days.

Gap across 1985

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.