Saturn in Aries

What Saturn in Aries means, the traditional facts behind it, and when Saturn is actually in Aries.

The sign: Aries

Element
Fire
Modality
Cardinal
Polarity
Yang: outward, active
Ruler
Mars

Essential dignity

Saturn is in its fall in Aries, the sign opposite its exaltation. The tradition reads this as its most muted expression.

The four major dignities, from Ptolemy's table as Lilly gives it (1647).

When Saturn is in Aries

Every stay of Saturn in Aries between 1900 and 2100, useful for checking a birth year.

EntersLeaves
Mar 19, 1908May 17, 1910
Dec 14, 1910Jan 20, 1911
Apr 25, 1937Oct 18, 1937
Jan 14, 1938Jul 6, 1939
Sep 22, 1939Mar 20, 1940
Mar 3, 1967Apr 29, 1969
Apr 7, 1996Jun 9, 1998
Oct 25, 1998Mar 1, 1999
May 25, 2025Sep 1, 2025
Feb 14, 2026Apr 13, 2028 · now
Mar 22, 2055May 20, 2057
Nov 29, 2057Jan 31, 2058
May 1, 2084Oct 2, 2084
Jan 24, 2085Jul 28, 2086
Aug 25, 2086Mar 28, 2087

Dates in UTC, to the day: a slow planet takes hours to cross a sign boundary.

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How this page is made

Sign facts and dignities follow the traditional tables; dates come from our own ephemeris engine. Exact about the astronomy, honest that astrology is a symbolic language.