Saturn retrograde 2020

1 period, 141 days inside the year — 38.6% of 2020. Station times below are UTC and computed to the minute.

141 days · retreats 6.64°

11 May → 29 September 2020 in Aquarius

Stations retrograde 11 May 2020, 02:15 UTC at 1.73° Aquarius

Stations direct 29 Sep 2020, 05:39 UTC at 25.09° Capricorn

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

Computed from the actual motion

The nearest Saturn retrogrades either side of 2020

2019 Ended 18 September 2019 after 141 days, moving back 6.63° through the zodiac.

2021 Begins 23 May 2021 and runs 141 days.

Gap across 2020

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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