Venus retrograde 1940

1 period, 43 days inside the year — 11.8% of 1940. Station times below are UTC and computed to the minute.

43 days · retreats 16.52°

5 June → 18 July 1940 in Cancer

Stations retrograde 5 Jun 1940, 09:20 UTC at 14.13° Cancer

Stations direct 18 Jul 1940, 12:24 UTC at 27.61° Gemini

Shadow opens 2 May 1940 (34 days before)

Shadow closes 21 Aug 1940 (34 days after)

Full window including shadows 111 days

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

Computed from the actual motion

The nearest Venus retrogrades either side of 1940

1938 Ended 10 December 1938 after 41 days, moving back 15.36° through the zodiac.

1942 Begins 13 January 1942 and runs 41 days.

Gap across 1940

3.1 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.

← 1939 Venus retrograde in 1939. All Venus retrogrades Averages, shadow periods and the sign distribution over fifty years. 1941 → Venus retrograde in 1941.