Saturn in Taurus
What Saturn in Taurus means, the traditional facts behind it, and when Saturn is actually in Taurus.
What Saturn in Taurus means
Saturn in Taurus puts your sense of duty into a fixed earth sign — practical, steady, slow to shift. You tend to measure worth in what holds: savings, skills, a body fed and rested. Security here is built, not assumed, and you may feel responsible for the material floor everyone stands on.
With other people
Taurus belongs to Venus, the planet of pleasure and worth, so Saturn in Taurus meets closeness through the senses and through reliability. Love often looks like turning up, covering the bill, keeping the routine intact. Trouble starts when someone wants warmth sooner than you give it, or mistakes your steadiness for distance instead of devotion.
The growth edge
Tradition gives Saturn in Taurus no dignity, so the sign doesn't make its weight lighter or heavier; how you carry it is your call. Ask yourself: when does holding steady protect what you love, and when is it fear of loosening your grip? One small release after another is a fair way to find out.
A sign placement reads the same in every house system.
These interpretations are drafted with software assistance and edited by our writers. Astrology is a symbolic language, not a science — take what's useful and leave the rest.
The sign: Taurus
- Element
- Earth
- Modality
- Fixed
- Polarity
- Yin: inward, receptive
- Ruler
- Venus
Essential dignity
Saturn holds none of the four major dignities in Taurus: 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 Taurus
Every stay of Saturn in Taurus between 1900 and 2100, useful for checking a birth year.
| Enters | Leaves |
|---|---|
| May 17, 1910 | Dec 14, 1910 |
| Jan 20, 1911 | Jul 7, 1912 |
| Nov 30, 1912 | Mar 26, 1913 |
| Jul 6, 1939 | Sep 22, 1939 |
| Mar 20, 1940 | May 8, 1942 |
| Apr 29, 1969 | Jun 18, 1971 |
| Jan 10, 1972 | Feb 21, 1972 |
| Jun 9, 1998 | Oct 25, 1998 |
| Mar 1, 1999 | Aug 10, 2000 |
| Oct 16, 2000 | Apr 20, 2001 |
| Apr 13, 2028 | Jun 1, 2030 |
| May 20, 2057 | Nov 29, 2057 |
| Jan 31, 2058 | Jul 12, 2059 |
| Nov 21, 2059 | Mar 31, 2060 |
| Jul 28, 2086 | Aug 25, 2086 |
| Mar 28, 2087 | May 15, 2089 |
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.