Venus retrograde 2021

1 period, 13 days inside the year — 3.4% of 2021. Station times below are UTC and computed to the minute.

41 days · retreats 15.41° · crosses the year boundary

19 December → 29 January 2022 in Capricorn

Stations retrograde 19 Dec 2021, 11:23 UTC at 26.2° Capricorn

Stations direct 29 Jan 2022, 09:48 UTC at 10.79° Capricorn

Shadow opens 17 Nov 2021 (32 days before)

Shadow closes 2 Mar 2022 (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 2021

2020 Ended 25 June 2020 after 43 days, moving back 16.51° through the zodiac.

2022 Begins 19 December 2021 and runs 41 days.

Gap across 2021

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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