Saturn retrograde 2016

1 period, 141 days inside the year — 38.5% of 2016. Station times below are UTC and computed to the minute.

141 days · retreats 6.64°

25 March → 13 August 2016 in Sagittarius

Stations retrograde 25 Mar 2016, 08:14 UTC at 16.18° Sagittarius

Stations direct 13 Aug 2016, 09:43 UTC at 9.54° Sagittarius

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

Computed from the actual motion

The nearest Saturn retrogrades either side of 2016

2015 Ended 2 August 2015 after 141 days, moving back 6.66° through the zodiac.

2017 Begins 6 April 2017 and runs 141 days.

Gap across 2016

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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