Saturn in Virgo
What Saturn in Virgo means, the traditional facts behind it, and when Saturn is actually in Virgo.
The sign: Virgo
- Element
- Earth
- Modality
- Mutable
- Polarity
- Yin: inward, receptive
- Ruler
- Mercury
Essential dignity
Saturn holds none of the four major dignities in Virgo: 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 Virgo
Every stay of Saturn in Virgo between 1900 and 2100, useful for checking a birth year.
| Enters | Leaves |
|---|---|
| Aug 12, 1919 | Oct 7, 1921 |
| Sep 19, 1948 | Apr 3, 1949 |
| May 29, 1949 | Nov 20, 1950 |
| Mar 7, 1951 | Aug 13, 1951 |
| Nov 17, 1977 | Jan 5, 1978 |
| Jul 26, 1978 | Sep 21, 1980 |
| Sep 2, 2007 | Oct 29, 2009 |
| Apr 7, 2010 | Jul 21, 2010 |
| Oct 16, 2036 | Feb 11, 2037 |
| Jul 7, 2037 | Sep 5, 2039 |
| Aug 16, 2066 | Oct 11, 2068 |
| Sep 26, 2095 | Mar 14, 2096 |
| Jun 12, 2096 | Nov 29, 2097 |
| Feb 22, 2098 | Aug 18, 2098 |
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.