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Saturn in Pisces

Saturn in Pisces 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. Pisces is a mutable water sign.

Of the 6,194 well-known people in StarMap's dataset, 533 have Saturn in Pisces for the whole of their birth date. Jimmy Wales, Pope Francis and Jean-Paul Sartre are among them. Their commonest Sun signs are Aquarius (60), Capricorn (54) and Taurus (48); every Sun sign appears with Saturn in Pisces. 1 more were born on a day Saturn moved into or out of Pisces and are left out, because the hour decides and StarMap has no birth time for them.

Jimmy Wales and Pope Francis both have Saturn in Pisces.Is your Saturn in Pisces?Find out with the free Saturn return calculator

What Saturn in Pisces means

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

You build discipline around boundaries, often after a habit of taking on more feeling than was ever yours to carry. The doubt is guilt for protecting your own time and energy. What arrives in the end is a quiet, mature compassion, once you learn that a boundary and a closed heart are not the same thing.

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 Pisces

All 533 people with Saturn in Pisces, A to Z

Saturn in Pisces, 1920 to 2060

  • 14 February 1935 to 25 April 1937
  • 18 October 1937 to 14 January 1938
  • 24 March 1964 to 16 September 1964
  • 16 December 1964 to 3 March 1967
  • 21 May 1993 to 30 June 1993
  • 28 January 1994 to 7 April 1996
  • 7 March 2023 to 25 May 2025
  • 1 September 2025 to 14 February 2026
  • 16 April 2052 to 9 August 2052
  • 11 January 2053 to 22 March 2055

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

Questions people ask

How do I know if I have Saturn in Pisces?

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 Pisces?

Jimmy Wales, Pope Francis, Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir and J. K. Rowling all have Saturn in Pisces. StarMap's dataset of 6,194 well-known people has 533 with it for the whole of their birth date, each with a birth chart.

When was Saturn in Pisces?

Between 1920 and 2060, Saturn is in Pisces from 1935 to 1938, 1964 to 1967, 1993 to 1996, 2023 to 2026 and 2052 to 2055, with short returns to the neighbouring sign when it turns retrograde near the boundary.

More of Pisces

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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