How long does a Saturn transit last?

At the 3° envelope, a median 60 days per contact, with the longest tenth running past 167 days. Duration depends on how fast Saturn is moving when it arrives, not on which aspect it is — a Saturn square and a Saturn trine take the same time to cross the same 6° of orb.

How often does Saturn retrograde?

Once a year, for about 137 days, retracing 6.8° of zodiac. That loop is why 50% of Saturn's contacts perfect three times instead of once.

How long does Saturn stay in one sign?

About two and a half years — 29.5 years divided by twelve. The ingress table below is computed, and it includes the re-ingresses a retrograde produces when Saturn crosses back over a sign boundary.

Which Saturn transit is most important?

The tradition treats the Saturn return — Saturn back to its own birth position — as the anchor of the cycle, with the conjunctions, squares and oppositions to personal points as the tests within it. Cosmic KPI does not rank them for you; it measures how concentrated the sky is during each and dates them exactly.

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Saturn transits

♄ — every contact transiting Saturn makes to a natal point, with the dates computed.

Saturn transits are the contacts transiting Saturn makes to the points of your birth chart as it moves through the zodiac at roughly 12° a year, completing one orbit every 29.5 years. Saturn is at 14.0° Aries as of 2026-08-24, retrograde since 2026-07-26 and direct again 2026-12-10.

14.0° Aries

position · retrograde

℞ since 2026-07-26 · direct 2026-12-10

29.46 yr

one orbit

≈ 2 yr 5 mo per sign

60 days

median contact (3° orb)

p90 167 days. Duration is a function of how fast Saturn is moving when it arrives, not of which aspect it makes.

50%

contacts perfect 3×

55 of 109 sampled conjunctions; the rest perfect once

Computed 2026-08-24 · Swiss Ephemeris 2.10.03 (pyswisseph) via POST /api/scan · 3° canonical envelope (CANONICAL_PRESSURE_ORB). Recomputed on every deploy.

Saturn's retrograde periods

Saturn retrograde periods, computed
Stations retrograde	At	Stations direct	At	Days	Arc retraced
26 Jul 2026	14.7° Aries	10 Dec 2026	7.9° Aries	137	6.8°
9 Aug 2027	27.8° Aries	24 Dec 2027	21.0° Aries	136	6.9°
22 Aug 2028	11.3° Taurus	5 Jan 2029	4.4° Taurus	136	6.9°
6 Sep 2029	25.0° Taurus	19 Jan 2030	18.0° Taurus	135	6.9°
20 Sep 2030	8.9° Gemini	2 Feb 2031	1.9° Gemini	134	7°
5 Oct 2031	23.0° Gemini	16 Feb 2032	16.0° Gemini	134	7°

Saturn's sign changes

Saturn sign changes, computed
Date	Enters	Motion
14 Apr 2028	Taurus	moving direct
2 Jun 2030	Gemini	moving direct
15 Jul 2032	Cancer	moving direct
28 Aug 2034	Leo	moving direct
16 Feb 2035	Cancer	crossing back while retrograde
12 May 2035	Leo	moving direct
17 Oct 2036	Virgo	moving direct
12 Feb 2037	Leo	crossing back while retrograde

Saturn to each natal point

Each page carries its own computed windows, recurrence interval and retrograde-pass distribution.

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How Saturn appears in Cosmic KPI

Saturn is the slowest-moving personal-scale signal in the chart, so it shows up on the pressure timeline as a wide plateau rather than a spike — months of raised baseline with sharp exact hits inside it. The transit terminal lists every Saturn contact currently in orb with its live orb reading and whether it is applying or separating.

The Cosmic KPI transit terminal listing live transit contacts with their orb readings.

Common questions

How long does a Saturn transit last?: At the 3° envelope, a median 60 days per contact, with the longest tenth running past 167 days. Duration depends on how fast Saturn is moving when it arrives, not on which aspect it is — a Saturn square and a Saturn trine take the same time to cross the same 6° of orb.
How often does Saturn retrograde?: Once a year, for about 137 days, retracing 6.8° of zodiac. That loop is why 50% of Saturn's contacts perfect three times instead of once.
How long does Saturn stay in one sign?: About two and a half years — 29.5 years divided by twelve. The ingress table below is computed, and it includes the re-ingresses a retrograde produces when Saturn crosses back over a sign boundary.
Which Saturn transit is most important?: The tradition treats the Saturn return — Saturn back to its own birth position — as the anchor of the cycle, with the conjunctions, squares and oppositions to personal points as the tests within it. Cosmic KPI does not rank them for you; it measures how concentrated the sky is during each and dates them exactly.

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