Venus retrograde 1987
No retrograde period falls inside 1987. That is not an omission — the loop lands either side of the year boundary.
Why a year can have none
A retrograde recurs every 583.92 days — the synodic period of Venus. Because that does not divide evenly into 365.25 days, the loops drift through the calendar. For the slower planets a single loop can start in one year and finish in the next, leaving a calendar year with nothing inside it.
Check 1986 and 1988 — the period you are looking for will be in one of them.
Computed from the actual motion
The nearest Venus retrogrades either side of 1987
Gap across 1987
1.5 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.
Computed for 1987
Venus through the zodiac in 1987
Every sign Venus occupies during 1987, with the dates it enters and leaves. A sign that appears twice means the planet backed into the previous sign during a retrograde and crossed again.
16 segments in 1987. Dates from JPL orbital elements, good to about a day at sign changes.
1987 at a glance