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Saturn in Leo

Saturn in Leo 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. Leo is a fixed fire sign.

Of the 6,194 well-known people in StarMap's dataset, 426 have Saturn in Leo for the whole of their birth date. Nelson Mandela, Shakira and Hillary Clinton are among them. Their commonest Sun signs are Cancer (46), Libra (43) and Gemini (39); every Sun sign appears with Saturn in Leo. 3 more were born on a day Saturn moved into or out of Leo and are left out, because the hour decides and StarMap has no birth time for them.

Nelson Mandela and Shakira both have Saturn in Leo.Is your Saturn in Leo?Find out with the free Saturn return calculator

What Saturn in Leo means

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

You build discipline around self-expression, often held back at first by a fear of being laughed at or overlooked. You play down your own achievements before anyone else can. The confidence you end up with is hard-won and unshowy, and it arrives once you stop waiting for permission to be seen.

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 Leo

All 426 people with Saturn in Leo, A to Z

Saturn in Leo, 1920 to 2060

  • 2 August 1946 to 19 September 1948
  • 3 April 1949 to 29 May 1949
  • 17 September 1975 to 14 January 1976
  • 5 June 1976 to 17 November 1977
  • 5 January 1978 to 26 July 1978
  • 16 July 2005 to 2 September 2007
  • 27 August 2034 to 15 February 2035
  • 11 May 2035 to 16 October 2036
  • 11 February 2037 to 7 July 2037

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 Leo, and meets their first Saturn return at about 29.

Questions people ask

How do I know if I have Saturn in Leo?

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 Leo?

Nelson Mandela, Shakira, Hillary Clinton, Freddie Mercury and Steven Spielberg all have Saturn in Leo. StarMap's dataset of 6,194 well-known people has 426 with it for the whole of their birth date, each with a birth chart.

When was Saturn in Leo?

Between 1920 and 2060, Saturn is in Leo from 1946 to 1949, 1975 to 1978, 2005 to 2007 and 2034 to 2037, with short returns to the neighbouring sign when it turns retrograde near the boundary.

More of Leo

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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