Saturn retrograde 2021

1 period, 141 days inside the year — 38.6% of 2021. Station times below are UTC and computed to the minute.

141 days · retreats 6.66°

23 May → 11 October 2021 in Aquarius

Stations retrograde 23 May 2021, 09:15 UTC at 13.29° Aquarius

Stations direct 11 Oct 2021, 03:55 UTC at 6.63° Aquarius

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

Computed from the actual motion

The nearest Saturn retrogrades either side of 2021

2020 Ended 29 September 2020 after 141 days, moving back 6.64° through the zodiac.

2022 Begins 4 June 2022 and runs 140 days.

Gap across 2021

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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