Saturn in Aries 2027 to 2029: kakshya timing by Ashtakavarga sub-periods

Every date Saturn enters and leaves the eight bands of Aries between 23 May 2027 and 7 April 2030, computed to the minute in IST, and how to read those spans against the points in your own Saturn Ashtakavarga.

What a kakshya is, mechanically

Ashtakavarga is the eight-source point system of Vedic astrology. For each of the seven classical planets, the method asks eight contributors, the seven planets and the ascendant, whether they favour that planet in each of the twelve signs, and records a point, a bindu, for every yes. Saturn's own table therefore holds between zero and eight points per sign, 39 across the whole zodiac in every chart. The sign total is the headline number most readers meet first, and the Ashtakavarga score explainer covers how to read it. The page on Saturn's Ashtakavarga gives the full contribution table for Saturn specifically.

The kakshya is the method's second, finer layer. Each sign of 30 degrees is divided into eight equal bands of 3 degrees 45 minutes, and each band is assigned to one of the eight contributors in a fixed order from the start of the sign: Saturn, Jupiter, Mars, Sun, Venus, Mercury, Moon, ascendant. The order is the same in every sign and in every chart. The Ashtakavarga chapters of the Brihat Parashara Hora Shastra and the compendia that follow them then give the transit rule: when a planet passes through a kakshya whose lord contributed a point to that sign in the planet's own Ashtakavarga, the pass is read as supported, and when the lord gave no point, the pass is read as unsupported. The sign total says how the sign as a whole fares for Saturn in your chart; the kakshya says which contributor's vote is in force at a given moment of the transit.

This is why the method is applied almost only to Saturn and Jupiter. A kakshya is 3 degrees 45 minutes wide. The Moon crosses one in about seven hours, the Sun in under four days, and nobody reads a transit at that grain. Saturn covers the same arc in a month to six weeks when moving directly, and far more slowly near its stations, so a single kakshya can describe a season. The sixteen stays below range from 29 days to 136 days, which is the right scale for a reading that claims to describe texture over weeks.

The dated table: Saturn through the eight kakshyas of Aries

Every boundary below was computed with Swiss Ephemeris under the True Pushya Paksha ayanamsa, scanning Saturn's sidereal longitude day by day at midnight IST and then narrowing each crossing to the minute. Dates are given in IST. Six crossings fall between midnight and 05:30 IST, which is still the previous calendar day in UTC, so a UTC-based listing shows them one day earlier: 23 May 2027, 11 February 2028, 18 May 2028, 24 October 2029, 12 December 2029 and 26 February 2030. One crossing runs the other way: Saturn leaves Aries for Pisces at 23:31 IST on 3 November 2027, 29 minutes before midnight, which is why that boundary appears as 4 November on most listings, including Tempora's own transit hub, which dates to the day. Sites that compute with the Lahiri ayanamsa place every one of these boundaries days to weeks away, and near a station the gap can reach months; True Pushya Paksha versus Lahiri explains the anchor difference once so this page does not have to.

All times IST (UTC plus 5 hours 30 minutes). Sidereal longitudes under True Pushya Paksha via Swiss Ephemeris; boundaries found by daily scan and bisection to the minute. Stations: retrograde 9 August 2027 at 4°46' Aries, direct 24 December 2027 at 27°54' Pisces, retrograde 23 August 2028 at 18°11' Aries, direct 5 January 2029 at 11°17' Aries, retrograde 6 September 2029 at 1°53' Taurus, direct 19 January 2030 at 24°57' Aries. Reproducible from the generator script that accompanies this page in the Tempora repository.

The shape of the pass: three loops, sixteen stays

Saturn retrogrades for about four and a half months every year, and each loop in this pass happens to straddle a boundary, which is what turns eight kakshyas into sixteen stays. The first loop belongs to 2027. Saturn enters the first kakshya on 23 May, moves into the second on 6 July, turns retrograde on 9 August at 4 degrees 46 minutes, falls back into the first kakshya on 13 September and leaves Aries altogether late on 3 November. It then turns direct in the last kakshya of Pisces on 24 December 2027 and returns to Aries on 11 February 2028. The first kakshya, Saturn's own, is therefore crossed three times and the second twice before the transit has properly begun. Anyone whose chart marks the Saturn kakshya as supported or unsupported gets that verdict delivered for 131 days spread over nine months, with a Pisces interlude in between. The Saturn transit 2027 dates page treats that ingress sequence on its own.

The second loop is the body of the transit. From 11 February 2028 Saturn runs directly through kakshyas one to five, reaching the Venus kakshya on 21 June 2028 and turning retrograde inside it on 23 August at 18 degrees 11 minutes. It drops back into the Sun kakshya on 27 October 2028, stations direct there on 5 January 2029 at 11 degrees 17 minutes and does not re-enter the Venus kakshya until 12 March 2029. That is why the Sun kakshya holds Saturn for 170 days in total and the Venus kakshya for 159, while the Mars kakshya before them and the Mercury kakshya after them each see a single direct pass of 29 days. From 14 April 2029 Saturn moves cleanly through the sixth, seventh and eighth kakshyas and first touches Taurus on 21 July 2029.

The third loop closes the pass. Saturn turns retrograde in the first kakshya of Taurus on 6 September 2029, re-enters the eighth kakshya of Aries on 24 October, drops into the seventh on 12 December, stations direct there on 19 January 2030 at 24 degrees 57 minutes and crosses back into the eighth on 26 February 2030. Its final exit from Aries into Taurus comes at 15:47 IST on 7 April 2030. The ascendant kakshya is therefore crossed three times and the Moon kakshya twice, with the Moon kakshya's retrograde stay of 76 days being the long one. In all Saturn spends about 855 days in Aries, and the table above accounts for every one of them.

How to use the table against your own chart

The table is the same for everyone. What differs is which rows are supported, and that comes from one line of your own Ashtakavarga. The procedure has four steps.

1. Find Saturn's points in Aries. Open Saturn's Ashtakavarga, sometimes labelled Bhinnashtakavarga of Saturn or Saturn BAV, for your chart. It is a row of twelve numbers, one per sign, summing to 39. Read the Aries figure. By the usual convention a sign with four or more points is read as a comfortable transit for Saturn and a sign with three or fewer as a demanding one. Kaal Imprint computes this table for free from your birth details, and any Ashtakavarga calculator will show it.
2. Find who gave those points. The same table, expanded, shows which of the eight contributors said yes in Aries. A chart with three points in Aries might have them from Mars, Sun and Mercury, as the worked example below does, or from Saturn, Moon and the ascendant. The count is identical; the kakshya pattern is completely different.
3. Mark the matching rows. Each contributor rules the kakshya of the same name in the table above: Saturn the first, Jupiter the second, Mars the third, Sun the fourth, Venus the fifth, Mercury the sixth, Moon the seventh and the ascendant the eighth. The rows ruled by your contributors are your supported stays; the rest are unsupported.
4. Lay the result over the house. Aries occupies one house in your chart, counted from the ascendant, and that house names the life area the transit touches. For an Aries ascendant it is the first house, for Taurus the twelfth, for Gemini the eleventh and so on round the wheel. The 2027 by ascendant series walks through all twelve. The kakshya verdict describes how the Saturn work in that area feels across each span; the house says what the work is about.

Two points of reading discipline. First, do not read the kakshya pattern on its own. A chart with six points in Aries from six contributors has two unsupported kakshyas, but the transit as a whole is read as comfortable, and the two unsupported stays are at most a rougher patch inside a good season. A chart with one point in Aries has one supported kakshya, and that supported stay is a lighter month inside a pass that stays demanding. Second, the dasha running underneath the chart decides whether Saturn's transit is live at all in a given year. A Saturn transit through a house whose matters are not activated by the running mahadasha and antardasha tends to pass as background. The Vimshottari dasha calculator table gives the period dates.

Worked example: the India 1947 chart

Tempora's worked examples use public anchor charts so the arithmetic can be checked. The Indian independence chart, cast for 00:00 IST on 15 August 1947 at New Delhi, has a Taurus ascendant with the Sun, Moon, Mercury, Venus and Saturn all in Cancer, Mars in Gemini and Jupiter in Libra, under the same True Pushya Paksha calculation as the table above. Aries is the twelfth house from that ascendant. Running the chart through the engine's Ashtakavarga routine gives Saturn 3 points in Aries, which puts the sign in the demanding band on the sign-total reading. The three points come from Mars, the Sun and Mercury; Saturn, Jupiter, Venus, the Moon and the ascendant gave none. The chart's running period on the day of the first Aries entry, 23 May 2027, is the Mars mahadasha with Saturn's antardasha, so the transit planet is also the sub-period lord, which is one of the conditions under which conventional practice treats a transit as live.

Marking the table for this chart gives three supported kakshyas (the third, fourth and sixth) and four dated supported stays:

The supported stays add up to about 228 of the 855 days, a little over a quarter of the pass, and they cluster in one stretch: from 18 April 2028 to 13 May 2029 Saturn is in a supported kakshya for every day except the Venus stay of 21 June to 27 October 2028. The whole of the 2027 ingress sequence and the whole of the 2029 to 2030 exit sequence fall in unsupported kakshyas. Read with the sign total of 3, the conventional statement for this chart would be: a demanding Saturn pass through the twelfth house, with the heaviest texture at its two ends and a lighter year from spring 2028 to spring 2029. That is a statement about texture. It is not a statement about whether anything happens, and the mundane reading of a national chart would need the national dasha sequence and the other transits before it said anything more.

The classical basis, in plain words

Ashtakavarga's underlying idea is that a planet's transit through a sign is not judged by the sign alone but by how the whole chart is arranged relative to that sign. Each of the eight contributors has a fixed list of positions, counted from where it sits in the birth chart, in which it favours Saturn; Saturn itself, for instance, favours the third, fifth, sixth and eleventh signs from its own natal position. The twelve-sign row of totals is the sum of eight such lists laid over each other, and it is the chart-specific part of the method: two people with Saturn transiting the same house get different totals because their other planets sit in different places.

The kakshya rule takes this one step further by saying that the eight votes are not cast all at once. As Saturn moves through the sign it passes, in turn, through a band belonging to each contributor, and the texts read the contributor's vote as the one in force during its band. A sign with five points is still a five-point sign throughout, but within it there are five bands where the ruling contributor said yes and three where it said no. The order of the bands, Saturn first and the ascendant last, is given by the texts and is not derived from anything in the chart. The later compendia that build on Parashara repeat the rule, and modern Ashtakavarga practice treats it as the standard way of timing within a Saturn or Jupiter transit. Tempora presents it here as what it is: a classical rule with internal logic, stated precisely enough to be dated and checked. It has not been validated against outcomes.

Limits

The sign total comes first. Every classical statement of the kakshya rule assumes the sign total has already been read. A supported kakshya in a one-point sign is a lighter month inside a hard pass, and an unsupported kakshya in a seven-point sign is a rougher month inside an easy one. Readers who skip the total and go straight to the bands are reading the smaller signal as if it were the larger.

Texture only. The method describes how Saturn's work in a house feels across a span of weeks: more or less friction, more or less return per unit of effort. It does not say that something happens in a supported span or that something fails to happen in an unsupported one. Event timing in the Vedic system runs on the dasha sequence, with transits as the surface layer, and Vimshottari is only one of several dasha systems used for that purpose. No span in the table above should be read as a date on which anything is due.

Sade sati readers need the Moon count too. Sade sati is the seven and a half year window when Saturn transits the sign before the natal Moon, the Moon sign and the sign after it. For Moon signs in Pisces, Aries and Taurus the 2027 to 2030 pass is a sade sati phase, and the Moon count carries the emotional register of the transit while the ascendant count carries the concrete life area. The kakshya table applies to both counts, since it is a property of Saturn's position, but the sign total to read it against is Saturn's points in Aries whichever count you are using. Sade sati 2027 to 2030 by rashi dates the phases by Moon sign, and the Moon's Ashtakavarga is the companion table for anyone reading the Moon's own condition through the pass.

Ayanamsa moves the boundaries. Every kakshya boundary is a sidereal longitude, so it inherits the ayanamsa choice. True Pushya Paksha and Lahiri differ by roughly a tenth of a degree in the current era; Saturn covers that in about three days of direct motion, and near a station the same offset can shift a boundary by weeks. The six dates in this table that fall between midnight and 05:30 IST also shift by a day on UTC listings. None of this makes one listing wrong; it means a kakshya date is best read as a span of a few days around the stated moment.

The rule has not been tested statistically. Tempora has not run a backtest on kakshya-level transit outcomes, and we are not aware of a published one with a stated base rate. The classical sources give the rule and its logic, and the engine can date it to the minute, but dating a rule precisely is not evidence that it works. Treat the supported and unsupported spans as a structured hypothesis about texture, hold them against what actually happens in your own year and weight them below the dasha and the house.

Where this sits on the Saturn shelf

This page is the kakshya layer of a larger Saturn in Aries treatment. The Saturn transit hub carries the sign-level dates and the ayanamsa explanation; Saturn transit 2027 treats the ingress year; the 2027 dates page lists every boundary of that year; and the sade sati table by rashi dates the Moon-count phases. On the Ashtakavarga side, Saturn's Ashtakavarga gives the contribution rules this page relies on, the Venus table and the Moon table cover the two planets most often read alongside Saturn in this pass, and the score explainer covers the sign totals. For a reading of the whole chart across 2027 to 2030, with Saturn's pass through your Aries house set against the dasha you are running, the Full briefing is the long form; the free Imprint is where to start.

Frequently asked

Read next

• Saturn transit 2025 to 2028: the sign-level dates and why they differ from Lahiri listings.
• Saturn transit 2027 dates: every boundary of the ingress year in one list.
• Saturn's Ashtakavarga: the eight contribution rules behind the points this page reads.
• Ashtakavarga score explained: how to read sign totals before reading kakshyas.
• Sade sati 2027 to 2030 by rashi: the Moon-count phases for the Aries pass.
• The Moon's Ashtakavarga: the companion table for sade sati readers.
• Venus Ashtakavarga: the second planet most often read against this pass.

This page applies the classical Ashtakavarga kakshya rule to Saturn's 2027 to 2030 passage through Aries, computed sidereally with the True Pushya Paksha ayanamsa via Swiss Ephemeris and dated in IST. Boundary dates depend on the ayanamsa convention and differ from Lahiri-based listings by design. The supported and unsupported spans describe conventional transit texture. They say nothing about events, and the rule has not been validated statistically. Individual charts vary in ways a method page cannot capture. This page does not constitute financial, medical, legal or personal advice. First published 7 November 2026 by Tempora Research.