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Venus’ retrograde cycle is part of its synodic cycle, which lasts around 19 months.
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Valerie Mesa, People.com, 18 Mar. 2025
The complications include a tourbillon, perpetual calendar, minute repeater, and a complex celestial and astronomical system that indicates three lunar month displays that include the synodic, draconic, and anomalistic cycles.
—Sophie Furley, Robb Report, 5 Nov. 2024
On Tuesday, April 11, the Sun and Jupiter form an exact alignment, which is an annual occurrence that marks the beginning of Jupiter’s synodic cycle.
—Kirah Tabourn, Condé Nast Traveler, 27 Mar. 2023
This astrological event is inspiring self-love and new heights of awareness
Love planet Venus will form an exact conjunction with the sun on June 4, marking the end of one synodic cycle and the beginning of another.
—Valerie Mesa, Peoplemag, 4 June 2024
This prograde-to-retrograde cycle is known as a synodic period, and Mercury takes roughly 115 days to complete it.
—Phil Plait, Scientific American, 17 Aug. 2023
Researchers have long believed this calendar was associated with planetary movements, especially the synodic periods—when a planet appears visually to return to the same location in the sky, as seen from Earth—of key planets.
—Tim Newcomb, Popular Mechanics, 21 Apr. 2023
With a 780-day synodic period, 21 periods match exactly to 16,380, or 20 cycles of 819.
—Tim Newcomb, Popular Mechanics, 21 Apr. 2023
Mercury was always the starting point for the tricky timeline because its synodic period—117 days—matches nicely into 819.
—Tim Newcomb, Popular Mechanics, 21 Apr. 2023
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Valerie Mesa, People.com, 18 Mar. 2025
The complications include a tourbillon, perpetual calendar, minute repeater, and a complex celestial and astronomical system that indicates three lunar month displays that include the synodic, draconic, and anomalistic cycles.
—Sophie Furley, Robb Report, 5 Nov. 2024
On Tuesday, April 11, the Sun and Jupiter form an exact alignment, which is an annual occurrence that marks the beginning of Jupiter’s synodic cycle.
—Kirah Tabourn, Condé Nast Traveler, 27 Mar. 2023
This astrological event is inspiring self-love and new heights of awareness
Love planet Venus will form an exact conjunction with the sun on June 4, marking the end of one synodic cycle and the beginning of another.
—Valerie Mesa, Peoplemag, 4 June 2024
This prograde-to-retrograde cycle is known as a synodic period, and Mercury takes roughly 115 days to complete it.
—Phil Plait, Scientific American, 17 Aug. 2023
Researchers have long believed this calendar was associated with planetary movements, especially the synodic periods—when a planet appears visually to return to the same location in the sky, as seen from Earth—of key planets.
—Tim Newcomb, Popular Mechanics, 21 Apr. 2023
With a 780-day synodic period, 21 periods match exactly to 16,380, or 20 cycles of 819.
—Tim Newcomb, Popular Mechanics, 21 Apr. 2023
Mercury was always the starting point for the tricky timeline because its synodic period—117 days—matches nicely into 819.
—Tim Newcomb, Popular Mechanics, 21 Apr. 2023
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“Synodic.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/synodic. Accessed 22 Jul. 2025.
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