Saturn retrograde 2018

1 period, 141 days inside the year — 38.7% of 2018. Station times below are UTC and computed to the minute.

141 days · retreats 6.63°

18 April → 6 September 2018 in Capricorn

Stations retrograde 18 Apr 2018, 00:45 UTC at 8.92° Capricorn

Stations direct 6 Sep 2018, 10:38 UTC at 2.3° Capricorn

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

Computed from the actual motion

The nearest Saturn retrogrades either side of 2018

2017 Ended 25 August 2017 after 141 days, moving back 6.63° through the zodiac.

2019 Begins 29 April 2019 and runs 141 days.

Gap across 2018

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.

← 2017 Saturn retrograde in 2017. All Saturn retrogrades Averages, shadow periods and the sign distribution over fifty years. 2019 → Saturn retrograde in 2019.