vakri Shani 2030
Saturn Retrograde 2030: Dates, Signs and Stations
One window opening in 2030 · 134 days between stations · Taurus
Saturn turns retrograde once in 2030, on 21 September 2030, and turns direct again on 2 February 2031. Counting only the calendar days of 2030, Saturn is retrograde on 121 of them, including the tail of the window that opened on 6 September 2029 and runs into 2030 until 19 January 2030.
21 September to 2 February 2031, in Taurus
Saturn stations retrograde on 21 September 2030 at 14°43′ Taurus, in Rohini, and stations direct on 2 February 2031 at 7°46′ Taurus, in Krittika. Between the two stations it travels back 6.9° of the zodiac over 134 days.
14°43′ Taurus, the 21 September station, is in Rohini pada 2, the Taurus navamsa. 7°46′ Taurus, the 2 February station, is in Krittika pada 4, the Pisces navamsa. The arc between them spans 3 padas, from Krittika pada 4 up to Rohini pada 2, and Saturn crosses every degree of it three times: forward before 21 September, backward until 2 February, and forward again afterwards. Saturn is in a friend's sign in Taurus.
The whole 6.9° lies inside Taurus, so for the 21 September retrograde of 2030 there is no sign change to date: Saturn in Taurus covers all 134 days.
The site’s ingress, nakshatra and conjunction tables run from 2026 to 2028, so for the 2030 window they have nothing to add, and this page adds nothing in their place.
It begins 380 days after the previous Saturn retrograde began on 6 September 2029, and 245 days after that one ended.
How 2030 Compares With Saturn’s Other Windows
Across the 8 Saturn retrogrades the site computes from 2024 to 2031, a window lasts 134 to 139 days between stations and retraces 6.8° to 7.0°. The 2030 window, at 134 days and 6.9°, is the shortest of them by length.
Every date here is a day, never a time. A planet at a station is barely moving, so the minute it turns is the least stable figure in the table; for Saturn in 2030 the day is what two careful sources will agree on.
More on Saturn’s Retrogrades
Every Saturn window from 2024 to 2031 is tabulated on the Saturn retrograde page, including 2029 and 2031. To see whether Saturn is retrograde on a given day, use the retrograde checker; for how a retrograde graha is read in a birth chart, see retrograde planets explained and astrology for beginners. In Hindi: शनि वक्री 2030.