Venus retrograde 1997

1 period, 5 days inside the year — 1.4% of 1997. Station times below are UTC and computed to the minute.

41 days · retreats 15.48° · crosses the year boundary

26 December → 5 February 1998 in Aquarius

Stations retrograde 26 Dec 1997, 21:08 UTC at 3.98° Aquarius

Stations direct 5 Feb 1998, 21:00 UTC at 18.5° Capricorn

Shadow opens 25 Nov 1997 (32 days before)

Shadow closes 9 Mar 1998 (32 days after)

Full window including shadows 104 days

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

Computed from the actual motion

The nearest Venus retrogrades either side of 1997

1996 Ended 2 July 1996 after 43 days, moving back 16.52° through the zodiac.

1998 Begins 26 December 1997 and runs 41 days.

Gap across 1997

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.

← 1996 Venus retrograde in 1996. All Venus retrogrades Averages, shadow periods and the sign distribution over fifty years. 1998 → Venus retrograde in 1998.