Saturn retrograde 1998

1 period, 136 days inside the year — 37.3% of 1998. Station times below are UTC and computed to the minute.

136 days · retreats 6.88°

15 August → 29 December 1998 in Taurus

Stations retrograde 15 Aug 1998, 12:41 UTC at 3.51° Taurus

Stations direct 29 Dec 1998, 12:43 UTC at 26.63° Aries

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

Computed from the actual motion

The nearest Saturn retrogrades either side of 1998

1997 Ended 16 December 1997 after 137 days, moving back 6.84° through the zodiac.

1999 Begins 29 August 1999 and runs 135 days.

Gap across 1998

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.

← 1997 Saturn retrograde in 1997. All Saturn retrogrades Averages, shadow periods and the sign distribution over fifty years. 1999 → Saturn retrograde in 1999.