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Saturn return calculator

Saturn comes back to its birth position about every 29.5 years. Enter your birth date and get the exact dates of your first, second and third return, one pass or three, from real orbital positions rather than an age estimate.

What a Saturn return is

Saturn orbits the Sun in 29.46 years, so around your 29th birthday it arrives back at the degree of the zodiac it occupied when you were born. That is the first Saturn return; the second comes near 58 to 59, the third near 88. Astrology treats it as the point where the structures of a life get load-tested: the job, the relationship, the self-image, whatever was built on someone else’s expectations rather than your own. It has a reputation for being hard. It is more accurate to say it is honest.

Because Saturn appears to move backwards for about four and a half months every year, the exact return is sometimes one pass and sometimes three: forward over your degree, back across it, forward again. The calculator shows whichever your chart actually gets, because it searches Saturn’s real position across your life rather than adding 29.5 years to your birthday.

Saturn’s sign dates, 1950–2060

Every sign Saturn has entered or will enter, with the exact ingress dates. Find your birth date to see your natal Saturn sign; rows marked R are retrograde re-entries, when Saturn slipped back into the previous sign for a few months.

Saturn inFromUntil
Libra20 November 19507 March 1951
Virgo7 March 195113 August 1951R
Libra13 August 195122 October 1953
Scorpio22 October 195312 January 1956
Sagittarius12 January 195614 May 1956
Scorpio14 May 195610 October 1956R
Sagittarius10 October 19565 January 1959
Capricorn5 January 19593 January 1962
Aquarius3 January 196224 March 1964
Pisces24 March 196416 September 1964
Aquarius16 September 196416 December 1964R
Pisces16 December 19643 March 1967
Aries3 March 196729 April 1969
Taurus29 April 196918 June 1971
Gemini18 June 197110 January 1972
Taurus10 January 197221 February 1972R
Gemini21 February 19721 August 1973
Cancer1 August 19737 January 1974
Gemini7 January 197418 April 1974R
Cancer18 April 197417 September 1975
Leo17 September 197514 January 1976
Cancer14 January 19765 June 1976R
Leo5 June 197617 November 1977
Virgo17 November 19775 January 1978
Leo5 January 197826 July 1978R
Virgo26 July 197821 September 1980
Libra21 September 198029 November 1982
Scorpio29 November 19826 May 1983
Libra6 May 198324 August 1983R
Scorpio24 August 198317 November 1985
Sagittarius17 November 198513 February 1988
Capricorn13 February 198810 June 1988
Sagittarius10 June 198812 November 1988R
Capricorn12 November 19886 February 1991
Aquarius6 February 199121 May 1993
Pisces21 May 199330 June 1993
Aquarius30 June 199328 January 1994R
Pisces28 January 19947 April 1996
Aries7 April 19969 June 1998
Taurus9 June 199825 October 1998
Aries25 October 19981 March 1999R
Taurus1 March 199910 August 2000
Gemini10 August 200016 October 2000
Taurus16 October 200020 April 2001R
Gemini20 April 20014 June 2003
Cancer4 June 200316 July 2005
Leo16 July 20052 September 2007
Virgo2 September 200729 October 2009
Libra29 October 20097 April 2010
Virgo7 April 201021 July 2010R
Libra21 July 20105 October 2012
Scorpio5 October 201223 December 2014
Sagittarius23 December 201415 June 2015
Scorpio15 June 201518 September 2015R
Sagittarius18 September 201520 December 2017
Capricorn20 December 201722 March 2020
Aquarius22 March 20201 July 2020
Capricorn1 July 202017 December 2020R
Aquarius17 December 20207 March 2023
Pisces7 March 202325 May 2025
Aries25 May 20251 September 2025
Pisces1 September 202514 February 2026R
Aries14 February 202613 April 2028
Taurus13 April 20281 June 2030
Gemini1 June 203014 July 2032
Cancer14 July 203227 August 2034
Leo27 August 203415 February 2035
Cancer15 February 203511 May 2035R
Leo11 May 203516 October 2036
Virgo16 October 203611 February 2037
Leo11 February 20377 July 2037R
Virgo7 July 20375 September 2039
Libra5 September 203911 November 2041
Scorpio11 November 204121 June 2042
Libra21 June 204214 July 2042R
Scorpio14 July 204221 February 2044
Sagittarius21 February 204425 March 2044
Scorpio25 March 204431 October 2044R
Sagittarius31 October 204424 January 2047
Capricorn24 January 204711 July 2047
Sagittarius11 July 204722 October 2047R
Capricorn22 October 204721 January 2050
Aquarius21 January 205016 April 2052
Pisces16 April 20529 August 2052
Aquarius9 August 205211 January 2053R
Pisces11 January 205322 March 2055
Aries22 March 205520 May 2057
Taurus20 May 205729 November 2057
Aries29 November 205731 January 2058R
Taurus31 January 205812 July 2059
Gemini12 July 205921 November 2059
Taurus21 November 205931 March 2060R

Computed with astronomy-engine, tropical zodiac, geocentric positions. Ingress instants are accurate to the minute; the table shows the UTC date.

Common questions

What is a Saturn return?

The moment transiting Saturn comes back to the exact degree it occupied when you were born. Saturn takes about 29.46 years to orbit the Sun, so the first return lands around age 29 to 30, the second around 58 to 60 and the third around 88 to 89. Astrology reads it as a maturation checkpoint: whatever in your life is not built to last gets tested.

Why does the calculator give three dates for one return?

Because Saturn appears to move backwards for about four and a half months each year. If your natal degree falls inside that loop, Saturn crosses it going forward, again going backward, and a third time going forward. If it falls outside the loop, there is a single exact pass. Both cases are a full return; the three-pass version simply runs longer.

Do I need my birth time?

No. Saturn moves about two arc-minutes a day, so the time of birth shifts the return dates by hours at most. The date is enough.

How long does a Saturn return last?

The exact passes are days; the felt period is usually taken as the year or so around them, and traditionally the whole time Saturn is in your natal Saturn sign, about two and a half years.

Where is Saturn now?

At build time Saturn was in Aries. The table below shows every sign change from 1950 to 2060, computed from the same ephemeris as the calculator.

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