Saturn in Sagittarius
What Saturn in Sagittarius means, the traditional facts behind it, and when Saturn is actually in Sagittarius.
The sign: Sagittarius
- Element
- Fire
- Modality
- Mutable
- Polarity
- Yang: outward, active
- Ruler
- Jupiter
Essential dignity
Saturn holds none of the four major dignities in Sagittarius: no rulership or exaltation, no detriment or fall.
The four major dignities, from Ptolemy's table as Lilly gives it (1647).
When Saturn is in Sagittarius
Every stay of Saturn in Sagittarius between 1900 and 2100, useful for checking a birth year.
| Enters | Leaves |
|---|---|
| Oct 27, 1897 | Jan 21, 1900 |
| Jul 18, 1900 | Oct 17, 1900 |
| Dec 2, 1926 | Mar 15, 1929 |
| May 5, 1929 | Nov 30, 1929 |
| Jan 12, 1956 | May 14, 1956 |
| Oct 10, 1956 | Jan 5, 1959 |
| Nov 17, 1985 | Feb 13, 1988 |
| Jun 10, 1988 | Nov 12, 1988 |
| Dec 23, 2014 | Jun 15, 2015 |
| Sep 18, 2015 | Dec 20, 2017 |
| Feb 21, 2044 | Mar 25, 2044 |
| Oct 31, 2044 | Jan 24, 2047 |
| Jul 11, 2047 | Oct 22, 2047 |
| Dec 6, 2073 | Dec 3, 2076 |
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.