♄ Saturn rules discipline, time & karma. In 2026 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 →Saturn does not change sign in 2026 — it stays in the same rāśi all year. See the table for its stations and combustion.
Yes — Saturn turns retrograde and later direct in 2026; 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.