Venus retrograde 1988

1 period, 43 days inside the year — 11.8% of 1988. Station times below are UTC and computed to the minute.

43 days · retreats 16.52°

22 May → 4 July 1988 in Cancer

Stations retrograde 22 May 1988, 12:50 UTC at 0.61° Cancer

Stations direct 4 Jul 1988, 14:09 UTC at 14.09° Gemini

Shadow opens 19 Apr 1988 (34 days before)

Shadow closes 7 Aug 1988 (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 1988

1986 Ended 26 November 1986 after 41 days, moving back 15.49° through the zodiac.

1989 Begins 29 December 1989 and runs 41 days.

Gap across 1988

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.

← 1987 Venus retrograde in 1987. All Venus retrogrades Averages, shadow periods and the sign distribution over fifty years. 1989 → Venus retrograde in 1989.