Saturn Transit in Mula
Saturn in Mula nakshatra. Times are Nepal Time (GMT +5:45).
- Next entry
- 8 Dec 2046, 00:30, leaves 5 Jan 2048, 09:45
- Last stay
- 26 Jan 2017 to 27 Nov 2018
- Typical stay
- about 1 year 10 months (median of 5 stays)
Saturn in Mula: every entry and exit
Saturn returns to Mula about every 29 years. That makes 11 stays between 1900 and 2100, each one below to the minute.
| Enters | Leaves | Duration | Year page |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5 Jun 2018, 06:45 | 27 Nov 2018, 18:31 | about 6 months | 2018 |
| 8 Dec 2046, 00:30 | 5 Jan 2048, 09:45 | about 1 year 1 month | 2046 |
Show the other 9 stays, 1900 to 2100
| Enters | Leaves | Duration | Year page |
|---|---|---|---|
| before 1900 | 16 Dec 1900, 03:46 | — | 1900 |
| 25 Dec 1928, 00:08 | 22 Jan 1930, 23:24 | about 1 year 1 month | 1928 |
| 5 Aug 1930, 22:11 | 14 Oct 1930, 18:55 | about 2 months | 1930 |
| 8 Feb 1958, 11:57 | 2 Jun 1958, 10:28 (retrograde, re-enters) | about 4 months | 1958 |
| 7 Nov 1958, 15:31 | 24 Mar 1959, 15:28 | about 5 months | 1958 |
| 10 May 1959, 10:05 | 7 Dec 1959, 22:16 | about 7 months | 1959 |
| 17 Dec 1987, 03:08 | 13 Jan 1989, 14:31 | about 1 year 1 month | 1987 |
| 26 Jan 2017, 19:47 | 21 Jun 2017, 04:54 (retrograde, re-enters) | about 5 months | 2017 |
| 26 Oct 2017, 15:44 | 2 Mar 2018, 23:50 | about 4 months | 2017 |
What Saturn in Mula nakshatra means
Mula opens Sagittarius, Jupiter's sign, where Jupiter is neutral toward Saturn. The lord is Ketu, whom the tradition treats like Mars, an enemy of Saturn. The deity is Nirriti, the goddess of dissolution, and the symbol is a bundle of roots. The first degrees are gandanta, and Saturn enters the nakshatra through the knot it left in Jyeshtha.
Mula pulls things up by the root. Its themes are the search for causes, destruction of what is false, medicine from roots, and the removal of an unsound foundation. Saturn does the pulling slowly and completely. A career, a belief, a family arrangement or a long treatment is examined to its base, and what has no root is taken out.
The hips, the thighs and the sciatic nerve need care. Saturn takes about a year over the nakshatra, and the retrograde usually returns it for a second or third visit. Each return goes a little deeper into the same root.
What is shown is the person's own root. Saturn in Mula asks what one would be if the position, the belief and the family name were removed. The person of practice has an answer, and the person without one is given the year to find it.
The remedy is the sadhana that goes to the root: japa at a fixed hour, and honest inquiry into one's own motives. Give sesame or oil on Saturday, recite Om Sham Shanaishcharaya Namah, and offer a blanket or food for dogs on Tuesday for Ketu. Serve the destitute, whom Nirriti governs.
Capricorn, Sagittarius and Scorpio Moons are in Sade Sati, with Sagittarius in the middle phase and Scorpio in the last. Virgo Moons have Saturn in the fourth, the Kantaka position, and Taurus Moons in the eighth. Libra, Cancer and Aquarius Moons and lagnas, with Saturn in the third, sixth and eleventh, have Phaladeepika's favourable placement.