Venus retrograde 1996

1 period, 43 days inside the year — 11.8% of 1996. Station times below are UTC and computed to the minute.

43 days · retreats 16.52°

20 May → 2 July 1996 in Gemini

Stations retrograde 20 May 1996, 05:26 UTC at 28.35° Gemini

Stations direct 2 Jul 1996, 06:22 UTC at 11.83° Gemini

Shadow opens 16 Apr 1996 (34 days before)

Shadow closes 5 Aug 1996 (34 days after)

Full window including shadows 110 days

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

Computed from the actual motion

The nearest Venus retrogrades either side of 1996

1994 Ended 23 November 1994 after 41 days, moving back 15.52° through the zodiac.

1997 Begins 26 December 1997 and runs 41 days.

Gap across 1996

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.

← 1995 Venus retrograde in 1995. All Venus retrogrades Averages, shadow periods and the sign distribution over fifty years. 1997 → Venus retrograde in 1997.