Saturn in Leo

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

The sign: Leo

Element
Fire
Modality
Fixed
Polarity
Yang: outward, active
Ruler
Sun

Essential dignity

Saturn is in its detriment in Leo, 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 Leo

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

EntersLeaves
Oct 17, 1916Dec 7, 1916
Jun 24, 1917Aug 12, 1919
Aug 2, 1946Sep 19, 1948
Apr 3, 1949May 29, 1949
Sep 17, 1975Jan 14, 1976
Jun 5, 1976Nov 17, 1977
Jan 5, 1978Jul 26, 1978
Jul 16, 2005Sep 2, 2007
Aug 27, 2034Feb 15, 2035
May 11, 2035Oct 16, 2036
Feb 11, 2037Jul 7, 2037
Jun 28, 2064Aug 16, 2066
Aug 9, 2093Sep 26, 2095
Mar 14, 2096Jun 12, 2096

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.