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Saturn in Virgo

Saturn in Virgo 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. Virgo is a mutable earth sign.

Of the 6,194 well-known people in StarMap's dataset, 457 have Saturn in Virgo for the whole of their birth date. Charles III, Isaac Asimov and Federico Fellini are among them. Their commonest Sun signs are Aries (43), Cancer (42) and Libra (42); every Sun sign appears with Saturn in Virgo. 2 more were born on a day Saturn moved into or out of Virgo and are left out, because the hour decides and StarMap has no birth time for them.

Charles III and Isaac Asimov both have Saturn in Virgo.Is your Saturn in Virgo?Find out with the free Saturn return calculator

What Saturn in Virgo means

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

Competence is what you build discipline around, often driven by a fear that you have not yet done enough to deserve rest. You can feel like a fraud even when your track record says otherwise. You become quietly excellent at something long before you will admit it out loud.

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 Virgo

All 457 people with Saturn in Virgo, A to Z

Saturn in Virgo, 1920 to 2060

  • before the period shown to 7 October 1921
  • 19 September 1948 to 3 April 1949
  • 29 May 1949 to 20 November 1950
  • 7 March 1951 to 13 August 1951
  • 17 November 1977 to 5 January 1978
  • 26 July 1978 to 21 September 1980
  • 2 September 2007 to 29 October 2009
  • 7 April 2010 to 21 July 2010
  • 16 October 2036 to 11 February 2037
  • 7 July 2037 to 5 September 2039

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

Questions people ask

How do I know if I have Saturn in Virgo?

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 Virgo?

Charles III, Isaac Asimov, Federico Fellini, Robin Williams and Satyajit Ray all have Saturn in Virgo. StarMap's dataset of 6,194 well-known people has 457 with it for the whole of their birth date, each with a birth chart.

When was Saturn in Virgo?

Between 1920 and 2060, Saturn is in Virgo from 1948 to 1951, 1977 to 1980, 2007 to 2010 and 2036 to 2039, with short returns to the neighbouring sign when it turns retrograde near the boundary.

More of Virgo

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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