Venus retrograde 2014

1 period, 31 days inside the year — 8.5% of 2014. Station times below are UTC and computed to the minute.

41 days · retreats 15.43° · crosses the year boundary

21 December → 31 January 2014 in Capricorn

Stations retrograde 21 Dec 2013, 22:43 UTC at 28.8° Capricorn

Stations direct 31 Jan 2014, 21:34 UTC at 13.36° Capricorn

Shadow opens 20 Nov 2013 (32 days before)

Shadow closes 4 Mar 2014 (32 days after)

Full window including shadows 104 days

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

Computed from the actual motion

The nearest Venus retrogrades either side of 2014

2013 Ended 31 January 2014 after 41 days, moving back 15.43° through the zodiac.

2015 Begins 25 July 2015 and runs 43 days.

Gap across 2014

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.

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