Venus retrograde 1948

1 period, 43 days inside the year — 11.8% of 1948. Station times below are UTC and computed to the minute.

43 days · retreats 16.52°

3 June → 16 July 1948 in Cancer

Stations retrograde 3 Jun 1948, 01:53 UTC at 11.88° Cancer

Stations direct 16 Jul 1948, 04:44 UTC at 25.36° Gemini

Shadow opens 30 Apr 1948 (34 days before)

Shadow closes 19 Aug 1948 (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 1948

1946 Ended 8 December 1946 after 41 days, moving back 15.38° through the zodiac.

1950 Begins 10 January 1950 and runs 41 days.

Gap across 1948

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.

← 1947 Venus retrograde in 1947. All Venus retrogrades Averages, shadow periods and the sign distribution over fifty years. 1949 → Venus retrograde in 1949.