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Saturn in Aries

Saturn in Aries is where Saturn sat in the zodiac at the moment of birth, the part of a chart read for discipline, doubt and what takes years. Saturn stays in a sign for about two and a half years, so a Saturn sign is shared with everyone born in the same stretch of years. Aries is a cardinal fire sign.

Of the 6,194 well-known people in StarMap's dataset, 508 have Saturn in Aries for the whole of their birth date. Sung Jae-gi, Akira Kurosawa and Celine Dion are among them. Their commonest Sun signs are Pisces (51), Gemini (45) and Libra (45); every Sun sign appears with Saturn in Aries.

Sung Jae-gi and Akira Kurosawa both have Saturn in Aries.Is your Saturn in Aries?Find out with the free Saturn return calculator

What Saturn in Aries means

Read for discipline, doubt and what takes years. If this is your placement:

You build discipline around learning to act with patience instead of pure impulse. The doubt is second-guessing: did you move too fast, or not fast enough? Confidence in your own initiative comes slowly, and it arrives once you stop rushing every decision.

One placement is one part of a chart; the Sun, the Moon, the rising sign and the planets around them change how it plays out. Draw your whole chart to see the rest.

Famous people with Saturn in Aries

All 508 people with Saturn in Aries, A to Z

Saturn in Aries, 1920 to 2060

  • 25 April 1937 to 18 October 1937
  • 14 January 1938 to 6 July 1939
  • 22 September 1939 to 20 March 1940
  • 3 March 1967 to 29 April 1969
  • 7 April 1996 to 9 June 1998
  • 25 October 1998 to 1 March 1999
  • 25 May 2025 to 1 September 2025
  • 14 February 2026 to 13 April 2028
  • 22 March 2055 to 20 May 2057
  • 29 November 2057 to 31 January 2058

A short return to the neighbouring sign, when Saturn turns retrograde close to the boundary, shows as two stays a few months apart. Anyone born in one of these stays has Saturn in Aries, and meets their first Saturn return at about 29.

Questions people ask

How do I know if I have Saturn in Aries?

From your birth date: the Saturn return calculator works it out from the real sky. Saturn stays in a sign for about two and a half years, so most birth dates settle it; on a day it changed sign, the time decides.

Which famous people have Saturn in Aries?

Sung Jae-gi, Akira Kurosawa, Celine Dion, Will Smith and Kylian Mbappé all have Saturn in Aries. StarMap's dataset of 6,194 well-known people has 508 with it for the whole of their birth date, each with a birth chart.

When was Saturn in Aries?

Between 1920 and 2060, Saturn is in Aries from 1937 to 1940, 1967 to 1969, 1996 to 1999, 2025 to 2028 and 2055 to 2058, with short returns to the neighbouring sign when it turns retrograde near the boundary.

More of Aries

Positions are computed from each person’s birth date and place with the astronomy-engine ephemeris, checked against Swiss Ephemeris. Birth data comes from Wikidata; a placement is listed only when it holds for the whole birth date, and a rising sign only with a birth time Astro-Databank records. Readings describe tendencies, for entertainment and self-reflection; StarMap predicts nothing. Every planet in every sign.

Photo credits (48 photos from Wikimedia Commons)

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