Saturn in Scorpio

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

The sign: Scorpio

Element
Water
Modality
Fixed
Polarity
Yin: inward, receptive
Ruler
Mars (traditional), Pluto (modern)

Essential dignity

Saturn holds none of the four major dignities in Scorpio: 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 Scorpio

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

EntersLeaves
Dec 20, 1923Apr 6, 1924
Sep 13, 1924Dec 2, 1926
Oct 22, 1953Jan 12, 1956
May 14, 1956Oct 10, 1956
Nov 29, 1982May 6, 1983
Aug 24, 1983Nov 17, 1985
Oct 5, 2012Dec 23, 2014
Jun 15, 2015Sep 18, 2015
Nov 11, 2041Jun 21, 2042
Jul 14, 2042Feb 21, 2044
Mar 25, 2044Oct 31, 2044
Dec 25, 2070Mar 27, 2071
Sep 18, 2071Dec 6, 2073
Oct 26, 2100Jan 17, 2103

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.