Saturn Transit in Purva Bhadrapada
Saturn in Purva Bhadrapada nakshatra. Times are Nepal Time (GMT +5:45).
- Last stay
- 6 Apr 2024 to 20 Jan 2026
- Typical stay
- about 1 year 9 months (median of 5 stays)
Saturn in Purva Bhadrapada: every entry and exit
Saturn returns to Purva Bhadrapada about every 29 years. That makes 11 stays between 1900 and 2100, each one below to the minute.
| Enters | Leaves | Duration | Year page |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 Oct 2025, 23:57 | 20 Jan 2026, 11:09 | about 4 months | 2025 |
Show the other 10 stays, 1900 to 2100
| Enters | Leaves | Duration | Year page |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 May 1906, 12:56 | 24 Aug 1906, 06:35 (retrograde, re-enters) | about 4 months | 1906 |
| 24 Jan 1907, 22:30 | 27 May 1907, 05:56 | about 4 months | 1907 |
| 23 Aug 1907, 20:14 | 14 Feb 1908, 18:11 | about 6 months | 1907 |
| 5 Mar 1936, 01:03 | 25 Mar 1937, 05:33 | about 1 year 1 month | 1936 |
| 18 Apr 1965, 05:03 | 12 Sep 1965, 18:05 (retrograde, re-enters) | about 5 months | 1965 |
| 12 Jan 1966, 11:21 | 11 May 1966, 04:52 | about 4 months | 1966 |
| 13 Sep 1966, 23:32 | 3 Feb 1967, 02:01 | about 5 months | 1966 |
| 24 Feb 1995, 08:38 | 15 Mar 1996, 08:17 | about 1 year 1 month | 1995 |
| 6 Apr 2024, 14:26 | 3 Oct 2024, 15:12 (retrograde, re-enters) | about 6 months | 2024 |
| 27 Dec 2024, 20:38 | 28 Apr 2025, 06:37 | about 4 months | 2024 |
What Saturn in Purva Bhadrapada nakshatra means
Purva Bhadrapada belongs to Jupiter, neutral toward Saturn. The deity is Aja Ekapada, the one-footed, counted among the Rudras in some lists. The symbols are the front legs of a funeral cot and a sword. Three padas lie in Aquarius, Saturn's own sign, and the fourth in Pisces, the sign of Jupiter.
The themes are austerity, intensity, penance, the fire that burns impurity, and the passage from the ordinary to the ascetic. Saturn agrees with austerity. A vow of tapas holds for the length of the stay, an expense is cut, and a difficulty draws the person toward practice. The feet, the ankles and the liver need care, and anger turned inward shows in the body.
A single visit runs about four months, and the retrograde usually brings Saturn back for a second or third stay. The whole passage fills about a year. Muhurta Chintamani counts the nakshatra among the fierce ones. The Pisces pada at the end is the softer part, where the sword is put down.
- Aquarius padas: Sade Sati for Pisces, Aquarius and Capricorn Moons; Kantaka for Scorpio; Ashtama for Cancer.
- Pisces pada: Sade Sati for Aries, Pisces and Aquarius Moons; Kantaka for Sagittarius; Ashtama for Leo.
- Favourable by Phaladeepika: Sagittarius, Virgo and Aries Moons and lagnas in Aquarius, then Capricorn, Libra and Taurus in Pisces.
Heat, and where a person directs it, is the matter here. Intensity turned on one's own impurities is tapas, and the stay then passes as a gift. The same intensity turned on other people lengthens it.
The remedy is a chosen austerity, kept quietly: a fast on Saturday, a fixed hour of japa, or a month without a favourite comfort. Give sesame oil on Saturday, recite Om Sham Shanaishcharaya Namah, and honour the guru on Thursday for Jupiter. Water offered to Shiva at dawn suits the deity.