Venus retrograde 1980

1 period, 43 days inside the year — 11.8% of 1980. Station times below are UTC and computed to the minute.

43 days · retreats 16.52°

24 May → 6 July 1980 in Cancer

Stations retrograde 24 May 1980, 20:13 UTC at 2.86° Cancer

Stations direct 6 Jul 1980, 21:54 UTC at 16.34° Gemini

Shadow opens 21 Apr 1980 (34 days before)

Shadow closes 9 Aug 1980 (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 1980

1978 Ended 28 November 1978 after 41 days, moving back 15.47° through the zodiac.

1981 Begins 31 December 1981 and runs 40 days.

Gap across 1980

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.

← 1979 Venus retrograde in 1979. All Venus retrogrades Averages, shadow periods and the sign distribution over fifty years. 1981 → Venus retrograde in 1981.