Saturn in astrology
Saturn is the planet of limits, time and work that lasts. It shows where you are hard on yourself, and where you get strong because of it.
What Saturn means
Saturn stands for structure, duty, fear, age and mastery. Its sign shows the kind of pressure you feel most. Its house shows where life asks for patience. What comes slowly under Saturn tends to stay.
Then he is profound in Imagination, in his Acts severe, in words reserved, in speaking and giving very spare, in labour patient, in arguing or disputing grave.
Saturn in your chart
Saturn spends about two and a half years in a sign and goes around the zodiac in about 29.5 years. It comes back to its place in your chart around ages 29 and 58. That is the Saturn return. On the way, it squares and opposes your natal Saturn about every seven years.
Where Saturn is now
On Nov 6, 2026, Saturn is at 8°57′ Aries, retrograde. Next, Saturn turns direct on .
Times are in UTC.
Saturn in each sign
- Saturn in Aries: Learning to act on your own.
- Saturn in Taurus: Learning what security means.
- Saturn in Gemini: Learning to trust your own mind.
- Saturn in Cancer: Learning to make a home inside yourself.
- Saturn in Leo: Learning to shine without fear.
- Saturn in Virgo: Learning that good enough is enough.
- Saturn in Libra: Learning to be fair to yourself in relationships.
- Saturn in Scorpio: Learning to trust and to let go.
- Saturn in Sagittarius: Learning what you believe.
- Saturn in Capricorn: Learning to carry responsibility well.
- Saturn in Aquarius: Learning to belong and stay yourself.
- Saturn in Pisces: Learning to give shape to your dreams.
Saturn transits
- Saturn conjunct Sun: A year of focus and limits, every 29 years.
- Saturn opposite Saturn: Around 44, the half-way check.
- Saturn opposite Sun: The half-way check, often through other people.
- Saturn square Saturn: Every seven years, a test of the structure.
- Saturn square Sun: Friction that shows which plans are yours.
- Saturn return dates by birth year: The exact passes for each birth year, 1960 to 2010.
In the app
- Saturn. Saturn is structure, discipline, time. Where you build slowly. Often felt as a hard teacher early in life and a wise one later. The placement describes the ladder you are quietly climbing.
Calculated with the Swiss Ephemeris, tropical zodiac. Updated Nov 6, 2026.
Where is Saturn in your chart?
Saturn’s sign is only half of it. Its house and the planets it touches come from your birth time and place. Solstice works them out and talks with you about what they mean.
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