Saturn retrograde 1996

1 period, 138 days inside the year — 37.6% of 1996. Station times below are UTC and computed to the minute.

138 days · retreats 6.8°

18 July → 3 December 1996 in Aries

Stations retrograde 18 Jul 1996, 15:47 UTC at 7.32° Aries

Stations direct 3 Dec 1996, 08:43 UTC at 0.52° Aries

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

Computed from the actual motion

The nearest Saturn retrogrades either side of 1996

1995 Ended 21 November 1995 after 139 days, moving back 6.76° through the zodiac.

1997 Begins 1 August 1997 and runs 137 days.

Gap across 1996

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.

← 1995 Saturn retrograde in 1995. All Saturn retrogrades Averages, shadow periods and the sign distribution over fifty years. 1997 → Saturn retrograde in 1997.