Saturn retrograde 2010

1 period, 137 days inside the year — 37.6% of 2010. Station times below are UTC and computed to the minute.

137 days · retreats 6.82°

13 January → 30 May 2010 in Libra

Stations retrograde 13 Jan 2010, 11:15 UTC at 4.38° Libra

Stations direct 30 May 2010, 14:07 UTC at 27.56° Virgo

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

Computed from the actual motion

The nearest Saturn retrogrades either side of 2010

2009 Ended 16 May 2009 after 136 days, moving back 6.86° through the zodiac.

2011 Begins 26 January 2011 and runs 138 days.

Gap across 2010

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.

← 2009 Saturn retrograde in 2009. All Saturn retrogrades Averages, shadow periods and the sign distribution over fifty years. 2011 → Saturn retrograde in 2011.