Why can one phase appear more than once?
Saturn sometimes crosses a sidereal sign boundary, reverses its apparent geocentric direction, and crosses the boundary again. The table shows each continuous sign interval rather than smoothing these dates into one uninterrupted “seven and a half years.” The first and last rows may be cut off by the chosen 35-year window.
All ingress timestamps are UTC. Birth location and time zone are unnecessary once the natal Moon sign is supplied, but birth details and ayanamsa matter when determining that sign. Read the rule and method →
