Saturn Transit in Gemini
Saturn in Gemini (Mithuna). Times are Nepal Time (GMT +5:45).
- Next entry
- 31 May 2032, 03:16, leaves 13 Jul 2034, 04:39
- Last stay
- 23 Jul 2002 to 26 May 2005
- Typical stay
- about 2 years 1 month (median of 5 stays)
Saturn in Gemini: every entry and exit
Saturn returns to Gemini about every 29 years. That makes 9 stays between 1900 and 2100, each one below to the minute.
| Enters | Leaves | Duration | Year page |
|---|---|---|---|
| 13 Jan 2005, 15:20 | 26 May 2005, 07:39 | about 4 months | 2005 |
| 31 May 2032, 03:16 | 13 Jul 2034, 04:39 | about 2 years 1 month | 2032 |
Show the other 7 stays, 1900 to 2100
| Enters | Leaves | Duration | Year page |
|---|---|---|---|
| 21 Jun 1914, 07:32 | 2 Aug 1916, 04:19 | about 2 years 1 month | 1914 |
| 5 Aug 1943, 18:40 | 17 Dec 1943, 02:52 (retrograde, re-enters) | about 4 months | 1943 |
| 23 Apr 1944, 15:03 | 22 Sep 1945, 18:18 | about 1 year 5 months | 1944 |
| 22 Dec 1945, 10:20 | 8 Jun 1946, 16:13 | about 6 months | 1945 |
| 10 Jun 1973, 19:20 | 23 Jul 1975, 16:42 | about 2 years 1 month | 1973 |
| 23 Jul 2002, 08:25 | 8 Jan 2003, 14:08 (retrograde, re-enters) | about 6 months | 2002 |
| 7 Apr 2003, 20:28 | 6 Sep 2004, 04:50 | about 1 year 5 months | 2003 |
What Saturn in Gemini means
Gemini is a sign of Mercury, Saturn's friend, and Saturn is at ease in its airy, thinking quality. The stay runs about two and a half years, and Saturn slows the Gemini mind and turns quick talk into careful study. Trade, writing, teaching, accounts and contracts come under Saturn's rule for the period. Each rewards the person who takes the long way.
The nakshatras of Gemini are Mrigashira, Ardra and Punarvasu. Saturn in Ardra, the nakshatra of Rahu, is the heaviest part of the transit, with restlessness and worry in the mind. Punarvasu, ruled by Jupiter, brings the ease of return and recovery at the end of the stay.
Read from the Moon, Cancer, Gemini and Taurus Moons are in Sade Sati, with Gemini in the middle phase. Pisces Moons have Saturn in the fourth house and Scorpio Moons in the eighth. The favourable transit houses in Phaladeepika, the third, sixth and eleventh, fall to Aries, Capricorn and Leo Moon signs and lagnas. A strong natal Mercury makes the transit productive, since the sign lord and the transiting graha are friends.
What the transit reveals is the person's habit of scattering. Gemini takes many things up, and Saturn allows one or two and demands that they be finished. Siblings, neighbours and short travel carry more duty than usual. Nervous strain and sleeplessness are the common complaints, and both ease when the number of commitments falls.
The remedy fits the sign. Study one text slowly, keep written accounts, and hold to a fixed daily schedule. Saturday service to labourers, a sesame oil lamp and the sesame and oil that Parashara prescribes as Saturn's dana answer the graha directly. Recite the Shani mantra and keep the counting of the mala steady, since that discipline is itself the remedy for a Gemini mind.