♄ Saturn rules discipline, time & karma. In 2024 it makes 4 notable moves (no sign change this year). Every date, the nakshatra it lands in, and whether it's still retrograde or combust is below.
| Date | Planet | Transit | Rāśi (sign) | Nakshatra · pada | Status | What it means |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| February | ||||||
| Mon12Feb | Saturn | Combust begins | Aquarius | Shatabhisha · 3 | ☀ Combust | Saturn slips into the Sun's glare — its themes dim and turn erratic for a while. |
| March | ||||||
| Sun17Mar | Saturn | Combust clears | Aquarius | Shatabhisha · 4 | — | Saturn steps clear of the Sun — its light, and its significations, return. |
| June | ||||||
| Sun30Jun | Saturn | Retrograde | Aquarius | Purva Bhadrapada · 2 | ℞ Retro | Saturn turns retrograde — a spell to revisit and refine discipline, time & karma, not to begin. |
| November | ||||||
| Fri15Nov | Saturn | Direct | Aquarius | Shatabhisha · 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 →Saturn does not change sign in 2024 — it stays in the same rāśi all year. See the table for its stations and combustion.
Yes — Saturn turns retrograde and later direct in 2024; the exact station dates are in the table, and the Status column shows how long it stays retrograde.
A transit is where a planet is in the sky now versus at your birth. Vedic astrology reads these live positions — sign, nakshatra, retrograde and combustion — to time events.