Shani Rashi & Nakshatra Peyarchi — 2025

Shani Rashi Calendar 2025 — what this timeline shows

This is the complete Saturn sign-change calendar for 2025 — every rashi entry, retrograde loop, combust window, and peak-dignity moment for Saturn (Shani) laid out chronologically. The same underlying calendar is known by several regional names:

• Shani Rashi Peyarchi 2025 — the primary name we use across the site; combines the Sanskrit "Shani Rashi" (Saturn sign) with "Peyarchi" (transit) into one clear label.
• Shani Rashi Calendar 2025 / Saturn Rashi Calendar — pan-Indian generic name emphasising sign changes.
• Shani Peyarchi 2025 (சனி பெயர்ச்சி) — Tamil / South Indian name; Peyarchi literally means “moving” or “transit”.
• Shani Gochar 2025 (शनि गोचर) — North Indian Hindi name; Gochar means “movement across the sky”.
• Shani Rashi Parivartan 2025 — Sanskrit name emphasising sign transformation.
• Saturn Yearly Transit 2025 — English name used in Western Vedic astrology.

All refer to the same event set: each Saturn sign visit for 2025 as a card, ordered chronologically. Because Saturn retrogrades roughly about once a year and can re-enter the previous sign, 2025 may contain more sign-visit cards than the signs it actually visits — each retrograde re-entry counts as its own visit with its own entry and exit times.

Shani Nakshatra Peyarchi 2025 — the second half of this page

Below the sign timeline you'll find the complete Saturn Nakshatra calendar for 2025 — also called Shani Nakshatra Peyarchi or Shani Nakshatra Gochar. Both journeys live on one page because Saturn is slow: it spends about 2.5 years in a sign and roughly a year crossing a Nakshatra, so a year holds only one to three sign visits — and three or four Nakshatra cards, since each retrograde loop splits a passage into separate visits. Split across two pages, each would read as nearly empty.

• Nakshatra name, ruling planet and deity — e.g. Pushya is ruled by Saturn with Brihaspati as its deity.
• Entry and exit times in your local timezone, computed to the second.
• Pada breakdown — each Nakshatra spans four ~3.3° padas, and each pada carries its own start and end moment. Because Saturn is slow, a single pada can run for weeks.
• ♄ Saturn-owned badge — visible on Pushya, Anuradha and Uttara Bhadrapada, the three Nakshatras Saturn rules in the Vimshottari Dasha scheme.
• ↺ Retrograde and ☼ Combust badges — flagged when the visit begins in retrograde motion or overlaps a combustion window.

There are deliberately no dignity filter chips on this page. With so few cards in a year, filtering would hide more than it reveals — every sign visit and every Nakshatra visit is shown in full, in chronological order.

The three Saturn-owned Nakshatras

In the classical Vimshottari Dasha order, three Nakshatras have Saturn (Shani) as their ruling planet — called “Saturn-owned Nakshatras” here:

• Pushya (पुष्य) —
  • 3°20′ to 16°40′ Cancer.
  • Deity: Brihaspati, priest of the gods.
  • Its name means “nourishment”. Classically the most auspicious of all 27 for most undertakings — the traditional exception being marriage. Saturn in Pushya favours patient, sustaining work.
• Anuradha (अनुराधा) —
  • 3°20′ to 16°40′ Scorpio.
  • Deity: Mitra, god of friendship and covenant.
  • Associated with devotion, loyalty and success reached through cooperation. Saturn in Anuradha favours alliances meant to endure.
• Uttara Bhadrapada (उत्तर भाद्रपदा) —
  • 3°20′ to 16°40′ Pisces.
  • Deity: Ahir Budhnya, the serpent of the deep.
  • Associated with depth, endurance and quiet wisdom; the most contemplative of Saturn’s three.

Because the Vimshottari lords repeat every ninth Nakshatra, a planet’s three sit exactly 120° apart — a trine. Saturn’s three all fall in water signs, and unlike Jupiter’s each sits wholly inside its sign (3°20′–16°40′) rather than straddling a boundary. When Saturn transits one, classical Muhurta considers Saturn-signified affairs — long-term commitments, property tenure, service, and disciplined work meant to last — strengthened. A lord owns only three of the 27, so many years contain no such visit at all; when one does fall in the year shown, the Nakshatra timeline below marks it with a ♄ Saturn-owned badge and a subtle blue card tint.

Common questions this page answers

Between the retrograde badges, combust badges and peak-dignity sub-events, most Saturn-timing questions can be answered in one or two clicks. Common examples:

• When is Saturn exalted in 2025? — click Exalted. The Libra card(s) show the full sign-wide exaltation window plus the nested Peak Exaltation (the exact 20°00'00" Libra crossing, about three minutes).
• When is Saturn debilitated in 2025? — click Debilitated. The Aries card(s) show the full window plus nested Peak Debilitation moment.
• When is Saturn in its own sign (Capricorn / Aquarius) in 2025? — click Own Sign. Both Capricorn and Aquarius visits appear together with entry, exit, and duration.
• When is Saturn retrograde (Shani Vakri) in 2025? — scan for the red Retrograde badge on cards. Nested station-retrograde and station-direct moments give the exact ~138 day window. Saturn retrogrades about once a year, so every year carries one, and it often spans two sign visits.
• When is Saturn combust (Shani Asta) in 2025? — scan for the red Combust badge. Saturn meets the Sun once per ~12.5-month cycle, so a combust window falls roughly once a year. Nested entry and exit moments give the exact window.
• When is Saturn in Libra / Capricorn / Aquarius / Aries in 2025? — use the dignity filter for a one-click answer, or scroll the timeline to the relevant month.
• When is Saturn in Taurus / Gemini / Cancer / Leo / Virgo / Scorpio / Sagittarius / Pisces in 2025? — click Neutral. All neutral-dignity visits are shown with entry and exit dates.
• When are the best long-term commitment Muhurta Saturn days in 2025? — classical rule: Saturn direct + uncombust + in Libra, Capricorn or Aquarius. Filter Exalted or Own Sign, then rule out any window that overlaps a retrograde or combust badge.

What's inside each sign-visit card

• Sign & entry / exit times in your local timezone, plus the total duration.
• Sign-wide dignity — Exalted (whole Libra visit), Own (Capricorn and Aquarius), or Debilitated (whole Aries visit) — the badge names the strongest dignity the visit reaches. Aquarius is not uniform: see the band breakdown below.
• Retrograde sub-events — if Saturn goes retrograde during this sign visit, the exact station-retrograde and station-direct moments are listed as nested rows.
• Combust sub-events — if Saturn enters and/or exits the Sun's combustion range during this visit, both boundary moments are listed.
• Peak Exaltation / Debilitation sub-events — the moment Saturn crosses the exact peak degree (20°00'00" Libra or 20°00'00" Aries). Not a range: roughly three minutes, and longer still when the crossing falls near a station.
• Dignity band sub-events — Aquarius changes dignity partway through, so every Aquarius card lists both windows with their own entry and exit times: moolatrikona 0°00'00"–20°00'00", then own sign 20°00'01"–29°59'59". Saturn moves slowly enough that a single Aquarius visit spans years and its retrograde loops can re-cross that boundary several times, so the bands alternate. Hover any band badge for its exact bounds.

How to use the 2025 timeline

The colored year-progress bar above the cards shows the whole year at a glance, with each colored segment representing one sign visit. Hover any bar segment to preview its start and end dates. Cards below give the full readout. Practical use cases for 2025:

• Long-term commitment timing — find every window when Saturn is direct, uncombust, and in Libra / Capricorn / Aquarius during 2025. These are the classical preferred Muhurta windows for Saturn-signified undertakings.
• Retrograde awareness — every Saturn retrograde in 2025 is called out. Vedic tradition considers these periods less favorable for beginning long-term commitments, property tenures, or structural work.
• Combust awareness — combust windows in 2025 are called out for Saturn-signified matters like long-term agreements and foundational work.
• Peak dignity moments — the 2025 peak-exaltation windows in Libra are the strongest Saturn moments of the year and are prized for contracts, long-term commitments, and work meant to endure. Saturn reaches Libra only about every 29 years — last from 2011 to 2014, next around 2040 — so most years have none.

How the 2025 events are calculated

Every sign entry, retrograde station, combust boundary, and peak-dignity boundary in the 2025 timeline is computed via Swiss Ephemeris with Lahiri Ayanamsha, resolved to the exact ephemeris instant via binary search. Retrograde stations are found by tracking when Saturn's sidereal speed reverses sign; combust boundaries by tracking the Sun-Saturn angular distance against the classical 15° threshold from the Surya Siddhanta; sign, nakshatra, and peak-dignity boundaries by tracking Saturn's sidereal longitude. No analytical formulas, interpolation tables, or approximations are used.

Related tools

Use the year arrows in the timeline header to page to 2024 or 2026 — or click the year itself to type any past or future year. This yearly timeline captures every Saturn retrograde loop and peak-dignity moment; for finer-grained views or other Saturn queries, use one of these companion tools:

• Live Tracker — Saturn's current sidereal longitude, sign (Rashi), Nakshatra, Pada, sign lord, and current motion state (Direct / Retrograde / Combust). Auto-updates through the day.
• Date Lookup — Saturn's complete readout at local sunrise for any past or future date. Useful for verifying a specific date rather than scrolling the timeline.
• Find Saturn Transit Dates — reverse lookup. Pick a nakshatra or rashi and get every Saturn window in the next 730 days — wide enough to span a Saturn retrograde and the visits around it, including retrograde re-entries as separate rows.
• Sade Sati Check — the personal version of this page: Sade Sati and Dhaiya depend on where transiting Saturn sits relative to your natal Moon, not on Saturn's sign alone. Enter your birth details for your own verdict and its start / peak / end dates.