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Graha
Saturn
शनिShaniDiscipline, karma, delay, longevity, labour.
Where Saturn is now
Meen 20°23', in Revati pada 2Retrograde
- Sign lord
- Jupiter
- Western sign
- Pisces
- Dignity here
- Neither exalted nor debilitated
Computed for Sat, 8 Aug, 2026, 5:30 pm IST, sidereal Lahiri.
Classical attributes
From the standard texts. These do not change.
- Exalted in
- Tula (deep exaltation at 20°)
- Debilitated in
- Mesh (deep debilitation at 20°)
- Moolatrikona
- Kumbh 0°–20°
- Aspects (drishti)
- 3rd, 7th, 10th house from itself — the 7th plus its special aspects
- Natural friends
- Mercury, Venus
- Neutral toward
- Jupiter
- Natural enemies
- Sun, Moon, Mars
- Karaka of
- Longevity, discipline and karma, labour and service, delay, detachment and old age.
- Presiding deity
- Shani
- Weekday
- Saturday
- Gemstone
- Blue sapphire (Neelam)
- Metal
- Iron
- Direction
- West
- Beeja mantra
- Om Praam Preem Praum Sah Shanaischaraya Namah
- Vimshottari mahadasha
- 19 years
Saturn in the Vimshottari cycle
Discipline, karma, hard work and endurance; slow, testing, but deeply maturing years.
Saturn rules three of the twenty-seven nakshatras, evenly spaced through the zodiac. A birth Moon in any of them starts life in a Saturn mahadasha of 19 years.