Saturn retrograde 2015

1 period, 141 days inside the year — 38.5% of 2015. Station times below are UTC and computed to the minute.

141 days · retreats 6.66°

14 March → 2 August 2015 in Sagittarius

Stations retrograde 14 Mar 2015, 12:17 UTC at 4.7° Sagittarius

Stations direct 2 Aug 2015, 04:17 UTC at 28.04° Scorpio

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

Computed from the actual motion

The nearest Saturn retrogrades either side of 2015

2014 Ended 20 July 2014 after 140 days, moving back 6.68° through the zodiac.

2016 Begins 25 March 2016 and runs 141 days.

Gap across 2015

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.

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