Transit · Saturn in Capricorn
Saturn in Capricorn: 2047 → 2050
Saturn transits by structuring: it slows things down, tests, demands proof. What’s solid gets stronger; what isn’t cracks, and that’s useful information. In Capricorn (Earth, Cardinal), this passage takes on the colour of ambition, endurance and structure. Saturn stays about 2 and a half years in a sign: here are the exact dates, what this transit changes for everyone, and what it asks of each sign.
The dates of Saturn in Capricorn
Entries and exits computed to the minute (Times in UTC.). The back-and-forth comes from retrogrades: Saturn enters, backs out, then returns for good.
| Entry | Exit | Length | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Monday, January 5, 1959 | Wednesday, January 3, 1962 | 3 years | past |
| Saturday, February 13, 1988 | Friday, June 10, 1988 | 4 months | past |
| Saturday, November 12, 1988 | Wednesday, February 6, 1991 | 2.2 years | past |
| Wednesday, December 20, 2017 | Sunday, March 22, 2020 | 2.3 years | past |
| Wednesday, July 1, 2020 | Thursday, December 17, 2020 | 6 months | past |
| Thursday, January 24, 2047 | Thursday, July 11, 2047 | 5 months | upcoming |
| Tuesday, October 22, 2047 | Friday, January 21, 2050 | 2.3 years | upcoming |
What Saturn in Capricorn changes for everyone
Saturn transits by structuring: it slows things down, tests, demands proof. What’s solid gets stronger; what isn’t cracks, and that’s useful information. What this transit asks: taking on responsibility, sorting out what stays, building to last.
The risk: fatigue, discouragement, rigidity. The gift: real maturity, a structure that holds, hard-earned respect.
Saturn takes twenty-nine years to circle the zodiac: this transit returns about every seven years under a different aspect, and the Saturn return (around ages 29 and 58) is its peak.
And for you, sign by sign
Saturn in Capricorn crosses a different house depending on your Sun sign (or your rising sign, if you know it: that is even more precise). Find yours.
For Aries: solar house 10
Saturn in the 10th house, at home: peak or fall depending on what you’ve built; heavier responsibilities, well-earned recognition.
Read Saturn transiting house 10 →For Taurus: solar house 9
Saturn in the 9th house: beliefs get tested, advanced studies come to fruition, and life abroad demands paperwork and effort.
Read Saturn transiting house 9 →For Gemini: solar house 8
Saturn in the 8th house: debts, taxes, inheritances, intimacy: a clean-up; a period of mourning or serious transformation.
Read Saturn transiting house 8 →For Cancer: solar house 7
Saturn in the 7th house: your relationship is tested or made official; partnerships get formalized, and the ones that can’t hold up come to an end.
Read Saturn transiting house 7 →For Leo: solar house 6
Saturn in the 6th house: a heavy workload and health to discipline; you build routines that will carry you for years.
Read Saturn transiting house 6 →For Virgo: solar house 5
Saturn in the 5th house: love and creativity call for commitment; less lightness, more depth, sometimes a child to provide for.
Read Saturn transiting house 5 →For Libra: solar house 4
Saturn in the 4th house: home, family and roots are tested; a move, renovations, responsibility for a parent.
Read Saturn transiting house 4 →For Scorpio: solar house 3
Saturn in the 3rd house: serious training, demanding writing, sibling relationships to clarify; your words become rarer and more exact.
Read Saturn transiting house 3 →For Sagittarius: solar house 2
Saturn in the 2nd house: a tight budget and income to restructure; you learn what you’re really worth and how to get paid for it.
Read Saturn transiting house 2 →For Capricorn: solar house 1
Saturn in the 1st house: you rebuild yourself from the ground up; tiredness at first, then a stronger, more sober version of you.
Read Saturn transiting house 1 →For Aquarius: solar house 12
Saturn in the 12th house: withdrawal, reckoning, the end of a cycle; a solitary stretch that prepares Saturn’s arrival on your Ascendant.
Read Saturn transiting house 12 →For Pisces: solar house 11
Saturn in the 11th house: friendships get sorted, group projects need structure; fewer friends, but real ones.
Read Saturn transiting house 11 →
In your natal chart
If you have planets in Capricorn, Saturn passes over them by conjunction: that is where the transit is felt most. The signs in square, opposition, trine and sextile are touched too.
Your planets in Capricorn: conjunction
Your planets in Cancer: opposition
Your planets in Aries or Libra: square
Your planets in Taurus or Virgo: trine
To know which planets and which house are concerned for you, calculate your free chart: the “current transits” section lists what Saturn touches today.
Calculate my chart (my transits)The other slow planets in Capricorn
Frequently asked questions
When is Saturn in Capricorn?
January 5, 1959 → January 3, 1962 · February 13, 1988 → June 10, 1988 · November 12, 1988 → February 6, 1991 · December 20, 2017 → March 22, 2020 · July 1, 2020 → December 17, 2020 · January 24, 2047 → July 11, 2047 · October 22, 2047 → January 21, 2050
What does Saturn in Capricorn mean?
Saturn transits by structuring: it slows things down, tests, demands proof. What’s solid gets stronger; what isn’t cracks, and that’s useful information. In Capricorn, this passage colours ambition, endurance and structure for everyone; each person lives it in the house of their chart that Capricorn occupies.
How do I know which house Saturn is crossing for me?
With your rising sign: house 1 starts at the Ascendant and Capricorn falls in one of your twelve houses. Without a birth time, take your Sun sign as house 1 (solar houses): that is the sign-by-sign reading above.