Venus retrograde 2017

1 period, 42 days inside the year — 11.5% of 2017. Station times below are UTC and computed to the minute.

42 days · retreats 16.23°

4 March → 15 April 2017 in Aries

Stations retrograde 4 Mar 2017, 08:43 UTC at 12.91° Aries

Stations direct 15 Apr 2017, 10:19 UTC at 26.68° Pisces

Shadow opens 30 Jan 2017 (32 days before)

Shadow closes 18 May 2017 (33 days after)

Full window including shadows 108 days

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

Computed from the actual motion

The nearest Venus retrogrades either side of 2017

2015 Ended 6 September 2015 after 43 days, moving back 16.38° through the zodiac.

2018 Begins 5 October 2018 and runs 42 days.

Gap across 2017

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.

← 2016 Venus retrograde in 2016. All Venus retrogrades Averages, shadow periods and the sign distribution over fifty years. 2018 → Venus retrograde in 2018.