Justice, built to last
Returns about every 29½ years. What the transit means, then what was in the news and who was born each time it passed through Libra since 1900, so you can test the teaching against the record, and against your own life.
Next visit
Not until after 2040
Last time it was here from November 2011 to November 2014.
Right now Saturn is in Pisces →
Justice, built to last
Saturn is the planet of time, limits and work. Libra is a cardinal air sign ruled by Venus: balance, fairness, contracts and partnership. This is the sign where the tradition calls Saturn exalted, at its strongest, because fairness and patience belong together.
The theme is justice given structure. Agreements get written down and enforced. Partnerships are tested for whether they are fair, not only pleasant. The lesson is that balance is work, and that the agreements worth having are the ones that survive a hard year.
Which agreements made in these years were still standing a generation later?
Three questions, in this order. They work for every planet and every sign.
Pick a visit to read its record. The most covered stories come first; the kinds of story show as colours.
14 years ago
November 2011 to November 2014
Anyone born under a transit carries it in their birth chart. Those with a chart in our library open straight into it.
Too soon to tell. People born during this visit will appear here once they are grown and well known.
The same transit, a generation apart. Pick any two of Saturn's visits to Libra and read them against each other.
Born then: Basshunter, Cristiano Ronaldo, Kim Jong Un.
1982–85 leaned to science and space, 2011–14 to culture and sport. The same transit set the backdrop both times; what played out in front of it differed.
What made the news. Every story in the record for Saturn's visits to Libra, 179 in all, by kind, next to the usual mix across every transit since 1900.
| Kind of story | These visits | Usual |
|---|---|---|
| Conflict and disaster | 28% | 35% |
| Politics and society | 28% | 29% |
| Science and space | 15% | 13% |
| Culture and sport | 29% | 24% |
| Treaties and agreements | 9% | 10% |
Gold numbers differ from the usual mix by five points or more. Wikipedia covers some kinds of story more than others, and a few visits are a small sample, so treat a difference as something to notice and check, not a rule.
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