What Saturn in Virgo means
Saturn and Virgo share a taste for craft and for getting things right. Virgo is mutable earth ruled by Mercury, devoted to work and to being useful. Saturn holds no special rank there, so the tradition counts it as peregrine, which means it works on ordinary terms, and the fit still feels natural. On a Sunday evening someone is at the kitchen table, correcting the monthly budget in pencil for the third time. The total hasn't changed since the first pass.
An inner critic comes with this Saturn. If mistakes got noticed faster than successes at home, you learned to catch your own before anyone else could. Now you proofread emails twice and keep a mental list of what still needs doing. Sleep and food turn into numbers, and a bad week feels like a failed exam. A friend's text arrives with two typos and a heart, and you notice the typos don't bother you in them.
The jobs nobody wants land on your desk, the spreadsheet that needs cleaning or the handbook that never got written. They get done well, so more of them arrive, and a reputation for reliability turns into a workload. Asking for something back, a raise or a Friday afternoon off, feels awkward, and that request is the one you keep postponing. Across our data, 7.48% of birth dates carry this Saturn, eighth of twelve, and 21.6% of the births of the 2000s.
Saturn in Virgo in love
You remember the allergy and the name of the cousin who just had a baby, and you use both at the right moment. Care shows up as logistics, the ride arranged and the charger packed for the weekend trip. You notice the dripping tap on the first night at their place and say nothing until the second visit. Unplanned, unscored affection comes harder, like lying on the couch with nothing to fix. A partner can hear criticism when you're only trying to help. Commitment comes after a long stretch of watching how someone handles deadlines and their own mistakes. You answer doubts about yourself with more effort, and it eases when a partner tells you that you are already enough. Years in, you keep the household running, and you notice every time someone thanks you for picking up the dry cleaning.
What they take seriously
Competence earns your respect. You take seriously a skill practiced for years and a promise delivered on the date. Regular sleep and training count too, and the person who keeps them gets your attention. Showy confidence with nothing under it makes you wary, and a contractor who promises a written estimate and never sends one is a small insult you remember. Someone who says "I fixed the file you flagged and added a note about the other two" gets your trust faster than someone who says "I've got it." A colleague who admits what they don't know, and asks for your expertise where you have it, gets careful, usable advice back.
Men and women with this placement
Saturn in Virgo man
A man with Saturn in Virgo changes the furnace filters and files the taxes in February. He speaks sparingly about worry, then rechecks the same detail at noon the next day.
Saturn in Virgo woman
A woman with Saturn in Virgo holds herself to a standard she would never apply to a friend. She keeps color-coded calendars and is proud of the systems she built. Praise embarrasses her and an unfinished task keeps her up.
Find your Saturn sign
Enter your birth date. The calculator places every planet on the zodiac wheel for that day and tells you whether your Saturn is in Virgo. If Saturn changed signs on your birthday, add your birth time.
| Planet | Sign | Degree | Stands for |
|---|---|---|---|
| ☉ Sun | ♑︎ Capricorn | 11°01′ | core identity |
| ☽ Moon | ♒︎ Aquarius or ♓︎ Pisces | depends on time | emotional needs |
| ☿ Mercury | ♑︎ Capricorn ℞ | 25°36′ | how you think and talk |
| ♀ Venus | ♒︎ Aquarius ℞ | 6°11′ | love and taste |
| ♂ Mars | ♐︎ Sagittarius | 10°08′ | drive and anger |
| ♃ Jupiter | ♋︎ Cancer ℞ | 5°07′ | growth and luck |
| ♄ Saturn | ♑︎ Capricorn | 15°40′ | duty and limits |
| ♅ Uranus | ♑︎ Capricorn | 5°47′ | change and rebellion |
| ♆ Neptune | ♑︎ Capricorn | 12°02′ | dreams and ideals |
| ♇ Pluto | ♏︎ Scorpio | 17°05′ | power and renewal |
| ☊ North Node | ♒︎ Aquarius | 18°25′ | life direction |
| ⚸ Black Moon Lilith | ♏︎ Scorpio | 6°29′ | what you refuse to tame |
Without a birth time we check the whole day in US time zones. If a planet changed sign that day, both signs are shown; add your time to settle it. ℞ marks a planet that looked like it was moving backward (retrograde). North Node and Lilith are the mean positions.
Saturn in Virgo in numbers
- Share of birth dates
- 7.48%
- Typical stay in Virgo
- 3 years
- Retrograde at birth
- 36% of them
- Element · quality
- Earth · Mutable
Our count of all 35,064 birth dates, January 1, 1930 to December 31, 2025, at noon UTC.
Work, money and responsibility
Precision and service are where you excel, in editing or nursing. You're the colleague who finds the error before the client does, and the one who reaches for a checklist first when something goes wrong. With money you keep detailed records and avoid debt, to the point of denying yourself. A stray hardcoded number in a spreadsheet bothers you more than the deadline does. The belief that everything falls apart if you stop checking is what wears you down. The laptop closes at six, even when one cell in the sheet is still red.
Your Saturn and your Sun sign
With the Sun in Virgo too, two editors share one head and argue about whether anything is ready. A Libra or Leo Sun brings charm or pride to a Saturn that notices flaws. A Pisces Sun, across the wheel, sets dreamy ideals against exacting standards and ends up the practical pair of hands behind someone else's vision. A Taurus or Capricorn Sun shares this Saturn's habit of overworking and needs the same reminder to stop for dinner.
When Saturn is in Virgo: dates and Saturn return
Saturn won't enter Virgo again before the end of our data in 2035, so every stay is in the past. The first came in three pieces between September 19, 1948 and August 13, 1951. Saturn slipped back into Leo in the spring of 1949 and ahead into Libra over the winter of 1950 to 1951. The second, the group above, came in two pieces split by a spell back in Leo in the first half of 1978. The third ran from September 3, 2007 to October 29, 2009, with a last pass from April 8 to July 21, 2010. The 1948 to 1951 babies had their return in the 1977 to 1980 stay, and the 1977 to 1980 babies in the 2007 to 2010 one. The 2007 to 2010 babies meet theirs after 2035. About 36% of Virgo Saturn birth dates have Saturn retrograde.
Find the exact date of your own return, and your age at it, with the Saturn return calculator.
| Entered Virgo | Left Virgo | Note |
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Dates in UTC: days when Saturn stood in Virgo at noon UTC. In US time zones a change can fall a day earlier; on the first and last day the exact time matters, and the calculator above checks it for your birthday.
Share by decade of birth. It rises and falls with the planet's cycle, not with fashion.
Saturn in Virgo compatibility
Two charts meet in the details here. If a partner's Mercury or Moon sits in Virgo, this Saturn gives their habits discipline and can make them feel graded. Pisces is the sign opposite. People born with Saturn there, in 1964 to 1967 or 1993 to 1996, soften your edges with imagination, and you hand them the practical skills that make a dream real.
Both partners with the Sun in Virgo: Virgo and Virgo compatibility.
Famous people and celebrities with Saturn in Virgo
- Kobe Bryant, American basketball playerAug 23, 1978
- Sigourney Weaver, American actressOct 8, 1949
- Robin Williams, American actor and comedianJul 21, 1951
- Haruki Murakami, Japanese writerJan 12, 1949
- Richard Branson, British business magnateJul 18, 1950
- George R. R. Martin, American writer and television producerSep 20, 1948
Birth dates from Wikidata, only entries with a single sourced date. We list a person only if Saturn was in Virgo for the whole of their birthday in every time zone. A placement describes a style in the astrological tradition; it does not explain anyone's success.
More Saturn signs
How common each Saturn sign is, and where Saturn is today: Saturn signs.
In tarot, the Golden Dawn gave Saturn the card The World: its meaning upright, reversed and in love.
Other planets in Virgo: ☽ Moon in Virgo · ☿ Mercury in Virgo · ♀ Venus in Virgo · ♂ Mars in Virgo · ♃ Jupiter in Virgo · ♅ Uranus in Virgo · ♆ Neptune in Virgo · ♇ Pluto in Virgo · ☊ North Node in Virgo · ⚸ Black Moon Lilith in Virgo. Three or more of them together: stellium calculator.
Virgo elsewhere on the site: Virgo zodiac sign (the Sun in Virgo: traits, dates, love) · Midheaven in Virgo · Virgo compatibility by birth date · Moon sign calculator · earth signs · The World (the tarot card of earth) · in tarot, The Hermit (the Virgo card) · The Magician (the tarot card of Mercury, ruler of Virgo).
Saturn in the sky now: where every planet is today · transit chart calculator (today's planets against your birth chart) · Virgo horoscope 2027 (the year ahead for the Sun sign) · all planet sign calculators.
Saturn in Virgo in a full chart with a birth time on record: Robin Williams's birth chart · Meryl Streep's birth chart · Kourtney Kardashian's birth chart · Kevin Hart's birth chart · Usher's birth chart · Ian Somerhalder's birth chart · Bruce Springsteen's birth chart · Kurt Russell's birth chart.
Questions people ask
What does Saturn in Virgo mean?
Limits and discipline come through work and standards. Exactness and dependability come with it, along with a habit of auditing oneself that has to be unlearned.
Is a Virgo Saturn a good placement?
It is neutral in traditional terms, since Saturn is peregrine in Virgo. The fit is comfortable, though perfectionism and worry tend to come along with it.
When was Saturn in Virgo?
Three times, beginning in 1948, each in two or three pieces. There is no further stay before 2035.
Have I had my Saturn return if my Saturn is in Virgo?
Yes, if you were born before 2007. The 1948 to 1951 group had it in the late 1970s and the 1977 to 1980 group in 2007 to 2010. For the 2007 to 2010 group it falls after 2035.
Does a Virgo Saturn make someone a perfectionist?
Astrologers read it as a pull toward exactness. How much of that hardens into perfectionism depends on the rest of the chart.
What is a Virgo Saturn like in love?
Practical and attentive. It shows care through errands and repairs, and it needs to hear that it's already enough.
What does a Virgo Saturn mean in the 6th house?
Virgo's natural house is the 6th, which covers daily work and health habits, so Saturn there turns the working day into the main project of your life. In the 10th it points to a career built on skill and a reputation for reliability.
What careers suit a Virgo Saturn?
Careers that reward precision, like editing or nursing.
Sources
- Astronomy Engine: the open-source ephemeris library behind our planet positions, dates and statistics
- Wikidata: birth dates of the famous people listed
- How we create our readings: our own calculation of sign dates, positions and the 1930 to 2025 statistics
Written by The Zodiac Atlas editorial team with the help of AI and edited by a person. Planet positions come from the astronomy-engine ephemeris (tropical zodiac), and the statistics from our own run of every birth date from 1930 to 2025. Astrology is a symbolic tradition, not a science; read a placement as a set of questions about yourself.