Venus retrograde 1999

1 period, 43 days inside the year — 11.8% of 1999. Station times below are UTC and computed to the minute.

43 days · retreats 16.34°

30 July → 11 September 1999 in Virgo

Stations retrograde 30 Jul 1999, 02:21 UTC at 5.14° Virgo

Stations direct 11 Sep 1999, 00:50 UTC at 18.79° Leo

Shadow opens 26 Jun 1999 (34 days before)

Shadow closes 14 Oct 1999 (33 days after)

Full window including shadows 110 days

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

Computed from the actual motion

The nearest Venus retrogrades either side of 1999

1998 Ended 5 February 1998 after 41 days, moving back 15.48° through the zodiac.

2001 Begins 9 March 2001 and runs 42 days.

Gap across 1999

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.

← 1998 Venus retrograde in 1998. All Venus retrogrades Averages, shadow periods and the sign distribution over fifty years. 2000 → Venus retrograde in 2000.