Saturn retrograde 2005

2 periods, 120 days inside the year — 32.8% of 2005. Station times below are UTC and computed to the minute.

120 days · retreats 6.78° · crosses the year boundary

22 November → 21 March 2005 in Cancer

Stations retrograde 22 Nov 2004, 00:00 UTC at 26.95° Cancer
Stations direct 21 Mar 2005, 23:09 UTC at 20.16° Cancer

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

80 days · retreats 4.53° · crosses the year boundary

22 November → 9 February 2006 in Leo

Stations retrograde 22 Nov 2005, 02:32 UTC at 11.07° Leo
Stations direct 9 Feb 2006, 23:59 UTC at 6.55° Leo
Shadow opens 9 Sep 2005 (74 days before)

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

Computed from the actual motion

The nearest Saturn retrogrades either side of 2005

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2004 Ended 9 February 2005 after 94 days, moving back 5.56° through the zodiac.

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2006 Begins 22 November 2005 and runs 134 days.

Gap across 2005

0.8 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.

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