Saturn retrograde 2023

1 period, 140 days inside the year — 38.3% of 2023. Station times below are UTC and computed to the minute.

140 days · retreats 6.71°

17 June → 4 November 2023 in Pisces

Stations retrograde 17 Jun 2023, 16:38 UTC at 6.97° Pisces

Stations direct 4 Nov 2023, 07:57 UTC at 0.25° Pisces

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

Computed from the actual motion

The nearest Saturn retrogrades either side of 2023

2022 Ended 23 October 2022 after 140 days, moving back 6.68° through the zodiac.

2024 Begins 29 June 2024 and runs 139 days.

Gap across 2023

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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