Saturn retrograde 2017

1 period, 141 days inside the year — 38.7% of 2017. Station times below are UTC and computed to the minute.

141 days · retreats 6.63°

6 April → 25 August 2017 in Sagittarius

Stations retrograde 6 Apr 2017, 03:58 UTC at 27.57° Sagittarius

Stations direct 25 Aug 2017, 11:29 UTC at 20.94° 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 2017

2016 Ended 13 August 2016 after 141 days, moving back 6.64° through the zodiac.

2018 Begins 18 April 2018 and runs 141 days.

Gap across 2017

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.

← 2016 Saturn retrograde in 2016. All Saturn retrogrades Averages, shadow periods and the sign distribution over fifty years. 2018 → Saturn retrograde in 2018.