Saturn retrograde 1999

1 period, 124 days inside the year — 34% of 1999. Station times below are UTC and computed to the minute.

135 days · retreats 6.91° · crosses the year boundary

29 August → 12 January 2000 in Taurus

Stations retrograde 29 Aug 1999, 19:37 UTC at 17.05° Taurus

Stations direct 12 Jan 2000, 01:13 UTC at 10.14° Taurus

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

Computed from the actual motion

The nearest Saturn retrogrades either side of 1999

1998 Ended 29 December 1998 after 136 days, moving back 6.88° through the zodiac.

2000 Begins 22 November 1999 and runs 51 days.

Gap across 1999

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.

← 1998 Saturn retrograde in 1998. All Saturn retrogrades Averages, shadow periods and the sign distribution over fifty years. 2000 → Saturn retrograde in 2000.