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Saturn (Shani) in Indian astrology
Saturn moves slowly, spending about two and a half years in each sign, and tradition treats it as the planet that teaches through limits.
- Sanskrit
- Shani (शनि)
- Weekday
- Saturday
- Nature
- a natural malefic, slow and stern
- Rules
- Capricorn, Aquarius
- Exalted
- Libra (20°)
- Debilitated
- Aries (20°)
- Dasha length
- 19 years of the 120-year Vimshottari cycle
- Signifies
- discipline, time, labour, delay, endurance and the elderly
- Rules the stars
- Pushya, Anuradha, Uttara Bhadrapada
It is associated with patience, responsibility and the results of long effort. Its transit over the Moon's sign is the well-known Sade Sati period. Saturn is read with care, not fear: its lessons are said to be fair.
In the dasha cycle
In the Vimshottari order, Saturn is followed by Mercury. The period of Saturn lasts 19 years when it runs in full. Read more about the system on the dasha page.
See it in your own chart
The terms on this page appear in every birth chart report, explained for your own planets and dates.