Saturn return: born in 1982

If you were born in 1982, Saturn comes back to its birth place between Dec 2010 and Oct 2012. That year Saturn was in Libra and Scorpio. Find your birthday below.

Your Saturn Saturn

Saturn comes back to the degree it held when you were born.Your Saturn where it was when you were bornSaturn 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.Saturn where it is nowSaturn 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.

Your first Saturn return comes at age 28 or 29. Saturn crosses your birth degree 1 or 3 times, depending on your birthday. The first pass asks the question. The last pass wants an answer.

Your dates by birthday

Birthday	Natal Saturn	Exact passes	Age at first pass
Jan 1	21°26′ Libra	Oct 24, 2011	29
Jan 15	22°00′ Libra	Oct 28, 2011	29
Feb 1	22°14′ Libra	Oct 30, 2011	29
Feb 15	22°03′ Libra	Oct 29, 2011	29
Mar 1	21°32′ Libra	Oct 24, 2011	29
Mar 15	20°44′ Libra	Oct 18, 2011	29
Apr 1	19°32′ Libra	Oct 8, 2011	29
Apr 15	18°27′ Libra	Sep 29, 2011	29
May 1	17°17′ Libra	Sep 19, 2011	29
May 15	16°26′ Libra	Dec 27, 2010 Feb 25, 2011 Sep 12, 2011	28
Jun 1	15°44′ Libra	Dec 15, 2010 Mar 9, 2011 Sep 6, 2011	28
Jun 15	15°30′ Libra	Dec 12, 2010 Mar 13, 2011 Sep 4, 2011	28
Jul 1	15°37′ Libra	Dec 14, 2010 Mar 11, 2011 Sep 5, 2011	28
Jul 15	16°04′ Libra	Dec 21, 2010 Mar 4, 2011 Sep 9, 2011	28
Aug 1	17°01′ Libra	Jan 11, 2011 Feb 10, 2011 Sep 17, 2011	28
Aug 15	18°05′ Libra	Sep 26, 2011	29
Sep 1	19°40′ Libra	Oct 9, 2011	29
Sep 15	21°09′ Libra	Oct 21, 2011	29
Oct 1	23°00′ Libra	Nov 6, 2011 Jun 8, 2012 Jul 12, 2012	29
Oct 15	24°41′ Libra	Nov 21, 2011 May 5, 2012 Aug 13, 2012	29
Nov 1	26°45′ Libra	Dec 11, 2011 Apr 8, 2012 Sep 6, 2012	29
Nov 15	28°24′ Libra	Jan 2, 2012 Mar 15, 2012 Sep 21, 2012	29
Dec 1	0°09′ Scorpio	Oct 7, 2012	29
Dec 15	1°31′ Scorpio	Oct 18, 2012	29
Dec 31	2°49′ Scorpio	Oct 29, 2012	29

If your birthday falls between two rows, your dates fall between theirs. Solstice uses your exact birth time and gives you your own dates.

Saturn return in Libra

When Saturn returns to Libra, the audit is about partnership. Marriages start or end, business partners change, contracts get signed or torn up. You find out which relationships are agreements you chose and which ones you drifted into. Fairness stops being a wish and becomes a rule you set.

Saturn return in Scorpio

When Saturn returns to Scorpio, the audit is about trust and shared things. Intimacy, joint money, debt, inheritance, power inside a relationship. Old secrets may need to be told. The return rewards the person who looks at the hard numbers and the hard feelings with open eyes.

In the app

When Solstice mentions your Saturn return, you can tap the phrase. This is what the card says:

Saturn return. Saturn returns to its natal position every ~29.5 years (so around ages 29 and 58). The years on either side feel like a structural audit — what to keep, what to outgrow, who you are becoming.

Calculated with the Swiss Ephemeris, tropical zodiac. Updated Nov 6, 2026.

What does Saturn return mean for you?

The dates above come from your birthday alone. What the transit brings depends on the rest of your chart: the house Saturn crosses and the planets it touches on the way. Solstice reads them with your birth time and place, and talks with you about it while it lasts.

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Also see the Saturn return for people born in 1981 and born in 1983, or every birth year.