Saturn in Cancer
What Saturn in Cancer means, the traditional facts behind it, and when Saturn is actually in Cancer.
The sign: Cancer
- Element
- Water
- Modality
- Cardinal
- Polarity
- Yin: inward, receptive
- Ruler
- Moon
Essential dignity
Saturn is in its detriment in Cancer, the sign opposite one it rules. The tradition reads it here as working against the grain.
The four major dignities, from Ptolemy's table as Lilly gives it (1647).
When Saturn is in Cancer
Every stay of Saturn in Cancer between 1900 and 2100, useful for checking a birth year.
| Enters | Leaves |
|---|---|
| Aug 24, 1914 | Dec 7, 1914 |
| May 11, 1915 | Oct 17, 1916 |
| Dec 7, 1916 | Jun 24, 1917 |
| Jun 20, 1944 | Aug 2, 1946 |
| Aug 1, 1973 | Jan 7, 1974 |
| Apr 18, 1974 | Sep 17, 1975 |
| Jan 14, 1976 | Jun 5, 1976 |
| Jun 4, 2003 | Jul 16, 2005 |
| Jul 14, 2032 | Aug 27, 2034 |
| Feb 15, 2035 | May 11, 2035 |
| Sep 1, 2061 | Nov 24, 2061 |
| May 16, 2062 | Jun 28, 2064 |
| Jun 27, 2091 | Aug 9, 2093 |
Dates in UTC, to the day: a slow planet takes hours to cross a sign boundary.
See where Saturn falls in your own birth chart
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.