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Saturn return dates for people born in 1996: first exact pass February 18, 2025 to final pass April 16, 2026 by birth month, solved from the Swiss Ephemeris. Saturn in Aries or Pisces, one or three passes, and your second return.
Transiting Saturn re-crosses the natal Saturn of 1996 births between February 18, 2025 and April 16, 2026. Each row gives the earliest and latest date for that birth month, solved from the Swiss Ephemeris for every birthday in the month at noon UTC (a birth time moves natal Saturn by a fraction of a degree, so it can shift a pass by a day or two). 124 of the 366 birthdays in 1996 get the full three-pass return (first pass, retrograde pass, final pass). The calculator above solves your own passes to the minute.
Saturn changed sign during 1996, so 1996 births carry natal Saturn in Aries or Pisces depending on the birthday, and the month rows above mark the months that straddle the change. Astrologers read a Aries Saturn return as a test of self-reliance and initiative: building your own authority instead of borrowing it, and learning to act without waiting for permission, and a Pisces Saturn return as a test of boundaries and faith: compassion that does not dissolve you, and giving form to what resists measurement. The house it occupies in your own chart, which needs a birth time, is where the return shows up.
Saturn spends roughly four and a half months of every year retrograde. When the retrograde loop falls on your natal degree, transiting Saturn crosses it three times: forward (the first exact pass), backward (the retrograde pass, which astrologers read as the review), and forward again (the final pass, when the structure sets). When the loop falls elsewhere, Saturn crosses once and keeps going. Both are real Saturn returns; the three-pass version simply stretches the lesson across most of a year. The rows above say which kind each 1996 birth month gets.
The second return for 1996 births runs between March 25, 2054 and February 18, 2056 across the cohort, around age 58 to 60. Saturn's orbit is eccentric enough that real returns drift months either side of the 29.5-year average, so these are solved crossings, not birth year plus thirty. Enter your birth details above and the calculator dates every return you will live through.
The first Saturn return for 1996 births landed between February 18, 2025 and April 16, 2026, depending on the birthday: the earliest date is a first exact pass for January birthdays, the latest a final pass for July birthdays (Saturn's retrograde loop means the order does not simply follow the calendar). The month table on this page narrows it to your birth month; the calculator above solves the exact passes for your birthday.
No. Saturn moves roughly a degree a month through the year you were born, so a January and a December 1996 birthday carry natal Saturn positions up to about twelve degrees apart, and transiting Saturn reaches them months apart. Within one birth month the spread is usually a few weeks, which is why each row shows an earliest and a latest date instead of one day.
It depends on the day: Saturn changed sign during 1996, so 1996 births carry Saturn in Aries or Pisces. The month rows above note which months straddle the change; the calculator resolves it exactly from your birth date.
Not for the dates. Saturn moves at most about an eighth of a degree a day, so the birth date alone fixes each exact pass to within a day or two. The birth time decides the house natal Saturn sits in, which is the part astrologers use to say which area of life the return works on, so enter it if you have it and leave noon if you do not.
Counting from the day transiting Saturn first comes within one degree of natal Saturn to the last day it leaves a degree after the final pass (between passes it wanders farther out and comes back), the first return for 1996 births spans February 10, 2025 to April 24, 2026 across the whole cohort; for one birthday it is typically nine to twelve months when there are three passes and a few weeks when there is one. 124 of the 366 birthdays in 1996 get the three-pass version.
The second return for 1996 births runs between March 25, 2054 and February 18, 2056 across the cohort, around age 58 to 60. Saturn's orbit is not a perfect 29.5-year clock: eccentricity shifts real returns by months either side of the average, which is why these dates are solved rather than added up.