Saturn retrograde 2009

1 period, 136 days inside the year — 37.2% of 2009. Station times below are UTC and computed to the minute.

136 days · retreats 6.86° · crosses the year boundary

31 December → 16 May 2009 in Virgo

Stations retrograde 31 Dec 2008, 13:52 UTC at 21.49° Virgo

Stations direct 16 May 2009, 20:50 UTC at 14.64° Virgo

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

Computed from the actual motion

The nearest Saturn retrogrades either side of 2009

2008 Ended 9 February 2009 after 40 days, moving back 1.4° through the zodiac.

2010 Begins 13 January 2010 and runs 137 days.

Gap across 2009

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.

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