Saturn in Taurus

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

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.

EntersLeaves
May 17, 1910Dec 14, 1910
Jan 20, 1911Jul 7, 1912
Nov 30, 1912Mar 26, 1913
Jul 6, 1939Sep 22, 1939
Mar 20, 1940May 8, 1942
Apr 29, 1969Jun 18, 1971
Jan 10, 1972Feb 21, 1972
Jun 9, 1998Oct 25, 1998
Mar 1, 1999Aug 10, 2000
Oct 16, 2000Apr 20, 2001
Apr 13, 2028Jun 1, 2030
May 20, 2057Nov 29, 2057
Jan 31, 2058Jul 12, 2059
Nov 21, 2059Mar 31, 2060
Jul 28, 2086Aug 25, 2086
Mar 28, 2087May 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.