Saturn governs discipline, time & karma. A Saturn transit is its movement through the sidereal zodiac — each sign change, retrograde and combustion colours how discipline, time & karma plays out for everyone. Below are Saturn's 4 moves in 2026; pick another year to the right.
| Date | Planet | Transit | Rāśi (sign) | Nakshatra · pada | Status | What it means |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| March | ||||||
| Sun8Mar | Saturn | Combust begins | Pisces | Uttara Bhadrapada · 2 | ☀ Combust | Saturn slips into the Sun's glare — its themes dim and turn erratic for a while. |
| April | ||||||
| Sun12Apr | Saturn | Combust clears | Pisces | Uttara Bhadrapada · 3 | — | Saturn steps clear of the Sun — its light, and its significations, return. |
| July | ||||||
| Mon27Jul | Saturn | Retrograde | Pisces | Revati · 2 | ℞ Retro | Saturn turns retrograde — a spell to revisit and refine discipline, time & karma, not to begin. |
| December | ||||||
| Fri11Dec | Saturn | Direct | Pisces | Uttara Bhadrapada · 4 | — | Saturn turns direct — discipline, time & karma picks the thread back up and moves forward. |
Every ingress (from → to), retrograde/direct station and combustion begin/end — computed from full-precision VSOP87B ephemerides with the Lahiri ayanamsa. The Status column carries a planet's ongoing retrograde / combustion until it changes. Dates are IST and may shift a day for your timezone.
The live transit board shows where every planet — the Moon included — is right now, on a gochar chart, and lets you step to any month or year.
Open the live transit board →It's Saturn moving from one rāśi (and nakshatra) to the next in the sky. Because Saturn rules discipline, time & karma, its transits time shifts in those areas for everyone — sharpened when it stations retrograde or direct, or moves in and out of the Sun's combustion.
A transit is where a planet is in the sky at a given time, as opposed to where it was at your birth. Vedic astrology reads these moving positions — which sign and nakshatra each graha occupies, and whether it is retrograde or combust — to time the texture of a period.
A planet stays retrograde from its retrograde station until its direct station, and combust while it is within a few degrees of the Sun. The Status column flags that ongoing state on every event in between — so a sign change that happens while a planet is still retrograde is marked as such.
Positions use the Lahiri ayanamsa from full-precision VSOP87B ephemerides. The eight non-Moon grahas are listed (Sun, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Rahu, Ketu); the Moon changes sign every ~2¼ days, so it is shown on the live board instead.