Speaker 1: Welcome back to another episode of Astrology with Alice. I'm
your host, Alice Bell, and today we're doing a whole
episode just on Saturn. So I wanted to consolidate all
the information about Saturn, like Saturn in your birth charts,
Saturn through transits, Saturn return, Saturn square, Saturn oppositions into
one singular episode because I get so many questions about
this planet and like just people in my DMS asking
what they can expect with a Saturn return, or people
that might be older than that asking what they can
expect with a Saturn square, and so in the future,
anytime I get asked this question about Saturn, I just
want to be able to refer people to this helpful
guide to this planet. And also it feels time relevant
because Saturn just changed signs a few weeks ago, as
it finally left Pisces and moved into Aries on February thirteenth,
twenty twenty six, until April of twenty twenty eight, so
we're in a new Saturn cycle for the next two years.
That applies to everyone because Saturn's now activating a new
house in your chart, so we'll get into what that means.
Of course, throughout this episode. But I just also love
Saturn as a planet. It might be my favorite planet
out of all of them. And it doesn't mean I
don't know Saturn. I don't love a Saturn transit in
the moment, but I really appreciate it for what it
accomplishes and how it pushes you to actually get stuff
done in the part of your chart that it's moving through,
unlike let's say Jupiter, which can tend to overpromise and
not deliver as much concrete action in a certain house.
So I love Saturn because it shows concrete results and
it urges you to level up in these various areas
of your life as it moves through all the twelve
houses of your chart over a thirty year period. And
after the last five years or so, I feel like
I know a lot more about how Saturn works because
I've had Saturn transit over basically every planet in my chart.
So when it was an Aquarius from twenty twenty one
to twenty twenty three, Saturn crossed over my son, my Mercury,
my descendant line. I had my Saturn return in twenty
twenty two exactly, and then from twenty twenty three up
until this past month when Saturn was in Pisces, I
had it go over my Moon and Venus and Pisces,
so some of those transits were harder than others. I'm
going to go over what it's like to have Saturn
aspects specific planets in your chart in addition to the houses.
But yeah, I want to talk on this because I
just feel like I came out of a huge cycle
of Saturn and I want to share about what other
people entering into this might expect with this transit. So
run of show today will be first talking about Saturn
in your berth chart, what it means when it falls
in a certain house, also what it means when it's
an aspect with natal planets in your birth chart. Then
we'll spend some time talking about transit Saturn, Saturn transiting
through different signs and houses in your chart, and also
making aspects to natal planets along the way. And then
I want to wrap up with talking about the various
phases of Saturn as part of its whole twenty nine
year cycle as it makes its return at the end
of the twenty nine years in your life every twenty
nine years in your life, but also in seven year increments,
we get Saturn square, Saturn oppositions, Saturn square again and
then another return. So those are really key in understanding
just phases you go through at specific ages. Also, if
you want to go deeper with transiting Saturn, I did
put out two episodes last May and June twenty twenty five.
If you search back in this podcast, those episodes are
called Saturn Transit Stories Part One and Saturn Transit Stories
Part two, and I had listeners write in examples of
what exactly has happened in their life with Saturn that
Saturn transit and Pisces through that Pisce's world house of
their chart over the last couple of years, And if
you have one that's coming up, you can listen to
what someone ahead of you with the rising sign ahead
of you has just experienced. And before we fully get
into it, I just have a few announcements for the week.
I just wanted to remind you of where you can
find other astrology teachings for me if you're enjoying this podcast,
I have a whole sub stack Astrology with Alice that
has a mix of free and paid articles where I
also do in depth monthly horoscopes and yearly horoscopes, and
I teach monthly workshops on niche astrology topics. I think
the one we're going to do this month, I'm pretty
sure I'm planning it for March twenty second, but stay
tuned for more details. We'll be on career timing with
and looking at different techniques to show major breakthrough moments
in your career. Also, I have my book Trust Your Timing.
I feel like I never promote my book just because
it came out a couple of years ago, but it's
still I feel like astrology books are timeless in that way.
So if you want to understand the basics of your
birth chart like houses, signs, planets, aspects more, as well
as get like a basic foundation of what transits are,
specifically looking at relationship oriented transits and when you can
expect a more dating activity, reach a major relationship milestone,
or possibly go through a breakup or something challenging in
a relationship that can be I mean that book is
it teaches you how to start timing those things to
your own chart. So again it's called Trust Your Timing.
It's out wherever you buy books. And also I have
a whole foundation course on learning transits also on my
website Alicebellastrology dot com, and that's where you can find
the rest of my offerings as well. So, yeah, I
just wanted to share some other resources for where you
can find me. But yeah, with that being said, let's
get into talking about Saturn. So we're first starting off
with looking at Saturn in your birth chart, and everyone's
going to have Saturn in a specific sign and house
of your chart. Saturn takes about two and a half
years to move through one sign of the zodiac, so
everyone in your similar age group is going to have
Saturn in the same sign. And it's interesting to look
at that, like if you're wanting to study the astrology
of different generations and even like looking at a fifteen
year generation and breaking it down into even more micro
age ranges within that bigger generation, that's when you look
to Saturn, because people in that same Saturn age group,
like I'm born under Saturn and Aquarius, and everyone from
nineteen ninety one to very early nineteen ninety four, with
the exception of a couple in the summer of nineteen
ninety three, we all have Saturn and Aquarius. So we
may approach work and responsibility and innovation for the future
and what type of structures we want to build in
a similar way. And then the next kind of micro
generation beneath me would be the Saturn in Pisces, which
is nineteen ninety four until nineteen ninety six. So because
the Saturn sign applies to such a wide range of people,
I really prioritize its house placement in your chart over
the sign, and when you're looking at where Saturn falls
in your chart, it's important to identify what are the
house topics of where it's located, and how might that
area of your life just feel a bit more challenging
than other areas, especially earlier on in your life. I
really do feel like Saturn's placement tends to bring up delays,
greater challenges, and more opsticles to overcome in that part
of your life. And even if it doesn't, it just
can be an area that you take super seriously and
it may be harder to venture out and take risks
there or fully trust your own intuition. It's almost like
you need a guide book on that area, Like it's
hard for you to trust your own instincts and go
off and do your own thing. You kind of need
to see, Okay, how have people done this before me?
Or you're just more cautious about maybe fully being yourself
in that part of your life or taking a bigger risk,
like I said. But the good news is that confidence
builds with age where you have that Saturn placement, And
if you start off the first part of your life
in your teens and your twenties, maybe even carries into
your thirties a bit just feeling low confidence or kind
of like there's just like a lot of fear or
inhibition in that area. As you get older, that Saturn
placement can become an area that you have gained a
lot of wisdom on over the years and you can
speak confidently about those topics because you've had those challenges
come up and you really know what that part of
your life is about. It's just super necessary to overcome
this lack mentality in the house where Saturn is located,
or just a fear like how do you hold yourself
back in that area and maybe not even realize it. So,
just to give a few examples, Saturn in the seventh house,
I have this. I know a lot of people message
me about having Saturn in the seventh and what that
means for their love life. It can make it harder
to date, Like maybe it's just harder to open up
and be yourself, Like you act so naturally around friends,
but then maybe when it comes to romantic relationships, it's
just harder to put yourself out there and there may
be a great fear of rejection, or you could just
be a bit more shy when it comes to meeting
people or letting your guard down and being vulnlnerbal in
those one on one situations. I would also say Saturn
brings I think I mentioned this at the start, but
Saturn brings a delay often with the house topics in
which it's placed. So with Saturn and the seventh, maybe
there's just a bigger delay on finding committed partnership or
having experience with long term partnerships in your life. And
that's something that comes more naturally as you get older.
So it's not worth comparing timelines to what other people
are experiencing in relationships because that's just something like I
just find there needs to be more self discovery first
and greater self confidence built before the relationship area gets unlocked. Meanwhile,
having Saturn in the tenth House. These similar fears or
hesitancy to put yourself out there and be fully seen
comes through in the realm of career and public image.
So maybe it's harder to take career risks and it
feels like you have to follow a very traditional set
path for what success should look like, and maybe that
doesn't make you totally happy, and there's something you feel
like is missing. But it's just harder to trust yourself
with those career decisions, and that's something you're able to
have greater confidence around. Maybe at the time of your
Saturn return or in the years that follow that there's
just more of a knowing yourself and knowing more fully
what you want to do with your overall life calling
or your long term career path. Or it could be
that you put a lot of pressure on yourself to
have it all figured out with work or take on
a lot and always be seen as more of a leader.
So maybe at the time of your Saturn return you
learn to take a step back and not be so
critical of yourself when it comes to work and life
responsibilities and find a greater balance in that area of
your life. To give another example, Saturn in the fifth
House might make you more hesitant to share yourself, createatively,
or speak up about your unique point of view. This
can function similarly to Saturn in the seventh when it
comes to love life stuff too. Maybe that just feels
like an area that you have more difficulty with and
it could be harder to be vulnerable about your feelings
with people. But like I said with Saturn in the seventh,
dating just becomes you start to know yourself more as
you get older in that area, and also maybe that
you end up dedicating a lot of work and structure
to building some type of creative venture of your own.
It's just about getting past that fear of people criticizing
your art or your point of view. A similar Saturn
transit that has a lot to do with like recognizing
that your perspective and your skills are valuable would be
Saturn in the second house. And this tends to have
more of a business oriented slant, but it can be
that maybe it's just harder to speak up about what
you want at work or ask for more money, and
there may be this feeling of like I don't deserve
to make more money or I don't deserve to be
respected in a bigger way in my career, or maybe
there's a lot of fear with starting your own business
or going out it alone at work, but that may
become unlocked or become an easier part of your life
again as you get older and learned how to speak
up and recognize that you do bring valuable skills to
work and people need to recognize that and pay you
a certain rate or respect you in a way that
maybe you didn't accept in the first part of your life.
And also with Saturn in the second and eighth I
notice there's a lot of fear surrounding money and trying
really hard to hold tightly onto money and just being
fearful of spending money. So getting past that block can
be very important of like, Okay, I'm spending this money
on myself and or on my business or whatever it
might be. It just needs you need to like welcome
in this more like flowing aspect with finances rather than
try to hold on to it so tightly and fear
that you'll never make enough money again. And if Saturn
falls on an angle in your chart, like let's say
you have Saturn on the ascendant, Saturn on the mid heaven,
it may be that other people see you in a
very Saturnian way. So like with Saturn on the Ascendant,
it could influence your literal appearance, like maybe you like
to dress in a more minimal way, or you just
come across as maybe on more no nonsense, like get
to the point type of person. It affects like what
the image you project out into the world, and it
can intensify Saturn in a bigger way, Like going back
to Saturn on the Ascendant, maybe there's just like a
lot of self criticism. You need to overcome fears of
putting yourself out there being seen by people. I would
say that would both be associated with Saturn on the
mid Heaven and Saturn on the Ascendant. Learning how to
take care of yourself better and prioritize your body and
your health would be a Saturn ascendant or just Saturn
first house key theme. Saturn on the mid Heaven may
even bring in themes related to like the fourth House
and the family and the icy angle, like having a
sense of duty to family, or maybe a more strict
parent that has high expectations of you and what you
should be doing with your life, or maybe a lot
of your Saturn return is kind of learning how to
rise to the occasion and become more of a leader
in your own right, whether that's in your career or
maybe taking on the new role of becoming a parent.
I see that a lot with like a Saturn return
in the tenth house, becoming a first time parent and
having this new status where you're suddenly in charge of
a human being where you weren't before. Okay, I didn't
mean to talk so much about Saturn return because we're
saving that till the end. But one other thing I
wanted to say about just Saturn and its house placement
in your birth chart is in addition to the literal
house that Saturn is in, you'll also want to check
what houses are ruled by Capricorn and Aquarius in your chart,
because even if you don't have Saturn in Capricorn or Aquarius,
Saturn still rules those houses and those houses in those
areas of your life. You may also feel the influence
of Saturn there. Like, for instance, let's say you have
Saturn in Pisces in your eleventh house, but you have
your mid heaven is in your ninth house and it's
ruled by Capricorn, and then maybe your tenth house or not.
Maybe yes, your tenth house is ruled by Aquarius, so
you have your mid heaven and then your literal tenth
house both ruled by Saturn as well. You could feel
all of those themes with Saturn placed in the tenth
house very literally too, in that career gets easier as
you get older, you take work super seriously or just
striving for greater leadership positions at work are That's just
a relevant theme throughout the entirety of your life. You
also want to look at does Saturn aspect any natal
planets in your chart? And for this I mainly want
to focus on if it aspects inner planets like Saturn
conjunct the moon or Saturn square your venus or Saturn
opposite or conjuncture Sun. That would bring the influence of
Saturn and all those the key themes we went over
at the start, like maybe delays or taking longer to
have confidence in that area, know yourself in a bigger way,
or move past certain fears or anxieties. All of that
influence of Saturn gets incorporated into that planet. So having
Saturn conjunct or square Venus in your birth chart, maybe
it feels kind of similar to having Saturn in the
fifth or seventh house, where relationships may feel more difficult
for you, or it's just a part of your life
that you take super seriously and you don't open up
and commit to just anyone, and maybe it does take
longer in your life to find like the right partner
that you're looking for, or with Saturn conjuncture Moon, maybe
it's just harder to open up emotionally or even get
in touch with your own emotions. But that ends up
being like a key strength of yours, like really learning
about your inner self and then maybe learning how to
share what emotions mean with other people. And then let's
say you have like Saturn opposite Mercury, Saturn square conjunct Mercury.
Maybe it was harder for you to communicate, or you
were a bit shyer when you were younger, just harder
to speak and or write or learn there were some
challenges to overcome there, or gaining confidence and speaking up
about your opinions. But then maybe later on in life
that's like a great placement to have for being really
thorough with writing and editing and anything that involves communication.
It just gives you that greater determination and focus. So
I guess the point I really want to hit home
with Saturn is that it is a hindrance and an
annoyance earlier on in your life, and it can feel
like this huge obstacle, but as the years go on
and you learn more about that part of yourself, it
can become your greatest strength that you have the most
wisdom on. So I mean, that's just like what I
love about Saturn. It's like this ongoing journey of constantly
having these harder lessons associated with those parts of your
chart that are influenced by Saturn, but then knowing so
much more about that area because you had those constant
challenges or learning lessons pop up over time. Okay, let's
not pivot a bit and talk about Saturn in transit,
which I find to be fascinating. Like I said, transiting,
Saturn gets stuff done in a way that other planets
in transit don't. So first I want to go over
Saturn transiting houses in your chart, Because every twenty nine
years or so you get a Saturn return. It means
it takes about twenty nine to thirty years for Saturn
to make its way through all twelve signs in all
twelve houses of your chart, spitting about two and a
half years in a sign and a house, and as
I mentioned at the start, Saturn just moved into Aries
as of the middle of February, where it's going to
remain for the next two years still, so that Aries
ruled house of your chart. Keep those themes in mind
as I go through what Saturn in transit signifies. So
typically when Saturn first enters a new sign and house
of your chart, those house topics can suddenly start to
feel a lot more difficult than they have in the
lead up to this point, like maybe that was just
an easier area for you, or things were flowing more easily,
or there was greater growth going on, and Saturn comes
in and slows things down and makes you think more
deliberately about that part of your life. So the first
year of a Saturn transit can feel the most challenging,
where it's almost like, wait, what am I meant to
do here now? Why does what once brought me joy
in this part of my life no longer resonate anymore?
Or why do I suddenly feel very stuck and frustrated
and uncertain? That topic of uncertainty in the areas world
house of your chart is also coming in super strongly
at the moment because of Neptune also being there, so
you could feel that influenced too, just confused or uncertain
about what comes next. And because Saturn yes moved into
ares in that area's world house of your chart in
mid February, we can't forget that it was first there
from the end of May of twenty twenty five until
September one, twenty twenty five. So you can also think
back to that time period last year of the same
area of your chart and how suddenly you wanted to
do things differently there and maybe we're seeking greater answers
to that part of your life, and now that Saturn
has returned there for good, this time you're building upon
maybe whatever realizations came up six seven, eight months ago.
And with Saturn transiting a house of your chart, you
spend those two two and a half years mastering those
house topics and really taking that area on, taking it
a lot more seriously, finding greater structures in that part
of your life. Saturn also helps you to see the
reality of certain situations that have been ongoing in that area.
So when Saturn enters the seventh House, maybe it makes
it a lot more clear what types of partnerships you're
involved in, and that can be platonic and romantic. And
maybe if you haven't felt happy in a certain friendship
or business partnership or romantic relationship, and the lead up
to Saturn moving into the seventh this can be a
point where you decide, Okay, I actually no longer want
this person in my life. This is not who I
want to commit to. Like that topic of who and
what deserves my time and energy, Who do I want
to commit to in the long term, what brings me
fulfillment in the long term. That's a huge theme with
Saturn transiting a house. So in addition to the seventh house,
like Saturn transiting the eighth house, the third house, the
eleventh house, those are also other houses I would associate
with taking stock of relationships in your life, like who
do I want to share my life more with? What
friendships feel most fulfilling, Who do I want to commit
more to, Who do I want to put some distance?
Like what relationships do I want some distance on? And
then I would say Saturn through the second six or
tenth houses, or Saturn moving over the mid heaven line.
That'll bring up the topic of career and like what
type of work feels the most fulfilling? How can I
restructure what I'm doing in my career so that if
is it more in line with my interests? And I
brought this up in a past podcast episode, But like
Scorpio pisces and cancer risings, I'm repeatedly noticing they're like
the most confused or uncertain about what's going on with
career at the moment. I mean, that's not going to
apply to every single person that has that rising sign,
Like some of you may feel better about what's going
on with work, but for the most part, those rising
signs because Saturn has now entered a more career focused
part of the chart, you're learning how to have a
different relationship with what you do for work, or maybe
different career goals are coming up that you want to
commit to in the long term, and that might be
completely different than what you've been doing up until now.
And it could be this process of feeling very frustrated
at first, like why is it so hard for me
to change jobs? But as you get closer to the
end of that Saturn transit, I just see by like
the second half of twenty twenty seven more moving into
twenty twenty eight as this transit wraps up, having new
structures laid down with what you want to be doing
with career moving forward. Another theme that comes up with
transit Saturn is this theme of no more procrastinating in
that part of your life. Saturn brings up this concept
of time and since that time is running out, I
need to go for something, I need to do something
different here. It brings a sense of urgency, but at
the same time, Saturn slows things down, which is where
frustration comes in, because you want to do something different,
but then it's like there's you can't you can't get
some more quickly. Like Saturn doesn't allow you to make shortcuts,
and you just have to be very deliberate with the
decisions you're making in that part of your life and
put in a lot more hard work and effort there
for about two and a half years to get the
results that you want. And like I just said, like
those results are more likely to really kick in at
the tail end of Saturn moving through a house in
your chart. One other thing I wanted to say about
transitting Saturn in a specific house is that anything that
is not meant to be in your life and the
long term will fall away. So talked about that in
the context of relationships, maybe it's people naturally just leaving
your life, or if it's in the context of career,
sometimes it can be being let go of a job
that just isn't meant for you anymore. And then I'm
trying to think of another area. I would say, like
Saturn in the six or twelve house, could be a
lot of eliminating habits that just aren't working in your
best interest anymore, like working on improving your diet or
drinking habits or drug use like those things. Anything that
just isn't serving you is a hindrance to your everyday
success has to go with a Saturn transit. And in
addition to Saturn transit in a specific house in your chart,
sometimes you'll have natal planets in that house and sign
in which Saturn falls. Like if you have Aris planets,
Saturn's going to cross over those planets in your chart
between now and twenty twenty eight at some point, or
if you have other cardinal sign placements cancer, Cavicorn, Libra,
Saturn will while it's in arees, it'll either oppose or
square those natal placements in your chart, and you'll really
want to pay attention to the exact year in which
Saturn covers that exact degree of a natal placement. It'll
spend about a year moving back and forth in aspect
to that natal placement because of its retrogrades. So Saturn
will often move across a natal placement one time, like
the initial time in the year, and that time can
feel very unsettling, like why is this planet suddenly a
greater focus? Why does it feel so hard at the moment?
And then Saturn will at a certain point in the
year retrograde back and either get very close to that
natal placement again or move back across it, and that
can be a time of really learning how to integrate
that planet and what it means into your life in
a bigger way. And then Saturn will make one last
cross over that natal placement as it's direct again, and
by that point usually there's more movement and you have
a better handle on what that planet represents and what
it's asking of you. And you'll also want to check
what natal houses in the chart does that planet rule,
So if you have Saturn moving over your Moon, You'll
also want to check, Okay, what house in my chart
is ruled by cancer because that house is likely going
to see the Saturn influence too, Or if you have
Venus and Ares and Saturn's moving over your venus in
the next few months, you can also look at, okay,
what houses are ruled by Taurus and Libra because that
might feel the heavy influence of Saturn as well. I
personally find Saturn aspecting the Moon to be the hardest
transit in astrology. I don't want to scare anyone that
has that coming up, but just to validate people that
have had that transit. It is so tough on mental
health and it can feel I don't know how I
felt with Saturn to the Moon. I had that in
twenty twenty four, just very stressed out and mental health
was not in a good place. And you can also
feel kind of like isolated from people and like there's
there's something strained that's going on with the topics of
what that planet represents. Also, when I had Saturn crossover
the Moon, there were a lot of delays with moving
homes and being uncertain about my living situation for several months,
and that part of my life just was contributing to
the mental health stuff because the moon is so much
about living situation and emotions and your literal home. Saturn
transiting the Sun and moon, these are both key transits
for health too. I personally found Saturn crossing over my
moon to be more about mental health, while Saturn crossing
over my son had a lot more to do with
physical health and really needing to take care of my body.
But again it comes back to like my individual chart
in that instance, like the Sun is my chart ruler,
so it rules the first house of my chart, which
does have a lot to do with like your vitality,
your physical self. So that might be why with Saturn
to the Sun it came out as more of a
physical health type thing that felt more difficult, whereas the
Moon rules my twelfth house. So it actually makes a
lot of sense that mental health was a huge focus then.
But even like if those planets rull other houses in
your chart, I would always keep that key theme of
health in mind with when Saturn aspects the Sun or Moon.
You may just feel lower energy in general, or there's
something that needs to be addressed health wise, and that
can feel very frustrating, like going back to the theme
of like how Saturn just feels frustrating at first, but
then you're learning greater lessons there and just learning how
to take things slower in that part of your life,
and like lay back structures for the future. Like if
I hadn't had those mental health issues in twenty twenty
four when Saturn was across my moon, or in twenty
twenty one when Saturn was moving across my son, I
wouldn't have changed how I eat in a healthier way,
or I wouldn't have gone back to therapy and like
address certain emotions. So it all serves a purpose, even
if it just feels like you're totally stuck. And I
like in a Saturn transit to Groundhog Day, because when
Saturn's hitting upon an exact angle, an exact planet in
your chart, the weeks that it's hovering right at that
degree of a natal placement, it can feel like you
wake up and every single day feels the same and
you feel so stuck and it feels like there's no
light at the end of the tunnel. But it does
lift eventually. And then to throw in Saturn aspecting a
few of these other planets Saturn to Venus, I just
had just came out of having this one last year.
Finances can feel tighter like off and there's just more
spending that goes on, and maybe there's no like improvements
with money, but you're like your income's on improving, but
your expenses are going up, which makes it just your finances.
You have to be more mindful of them and have
better financial structures, because that's a big Venus theme. I
would also say another big one I noticed is and
I noticed this a lot in people I give readings too.
When Saturn conjunct squares are opposes Venus, there can be
tension that's brought up in friendships and often a scaling
back on who you want to associate with and getting
more selective about what friendships you want in your life.
And then with Saturn conjunct Mercury, this was great for
writing in my opinion, although it felt the act of
writing and putting out content, which is very Mercury themed,
felt very tedious. Like I remember I had my first podcast.
I started that first podcast when Saturn was conjunct Mercury,
and it felt like it was hard to be casual
with that podcast. It felt like all the information I
shared had to be so drawn out and so teacherly,
and it was just harder to put out like quick light,
casual types of conversations, I guess, but also things like come,
I think I wrote my whole book proposal when Saturn
was conjunct to by Mercury, Like it just required a
lot more mental focus, And before that time I had
never like sat down and fully committed to a longer
piece of writing. So that felt tedious in the moment,
and it was like, Okay, we cannot cut corners here,
like you have an actual deadline, you want to get
this done. So I would say Saturn to Mercury brings
up themes involving definitely writing communication based projects, having to
really explain yourself more fully in that way. As I
talked about with Seth on the last podcast episode, he
mentioned mercury is associated with the nervous system, so it
could be that Saturn aspecting Mercury maybe does make you
look at health things involving your nervous system at that time.
And then just because I've talked about all the other
inner planets, I can't leave this one out. Saturn to Mars,
I would associate this one with health too. Like decreased
energy maybe or needing to be more selective about where
you are putting your energy. I would also say maybe
a need to address anger issues or having greater feelings
of frustration come up, especially regarding the topics of the
Mars ruled houses in your chart. Like, for instance, Mars
rules my fourth house, but it's placed in my twelfth.
Every single time Saturn aspects that Mars in my chart
I have, I've had issues with roommates, I've had family
issues like that. Stuff just becomes more strenuous. So again,
always important to look at what other houses do these
planets rule that are being affected by a transit like Saturn.
Those houses will very much become relevant for that year
long period. Okay, and then last area I wanted to
cover with Saturn is just the various cycles that Saturn makes.
So we've gone over Saturn returns quite a bit in
these examples, but I wanted to go over Saturn return
Saturn squares, and Saturn oppositions. These happen in seven year
increments throughout the entirety of your life. So these phases
of Saturn occur when transit Saturn makes a hard aspect,
So a conjunction a square or an opposition to natal
Saturn in your chart. So let's say you have your
natal Saturn in Pisces. You can know that when Saturn
is in Pisces again, you're getting a Saturn return. When
Saturn's in Gemini, it will square the natal Saturn and Pisces,
so you'll get a Saturn square. When Saturn moves to Virgo,
you'll get a Saturn opposition, and when Saturn is in Sagittarius,
you'll get another square in the lead up to that
next Saturn return as it gets back to Pisces again.
So I wanted to give the age ranges when this happened,
so Saturn return. If you're lucky to live to old age,
most of us will get three of the Saturn returns
in our lifetime. The first one happens at age twenty nine,
then you get a second one around the age of
fifty eight, and then the next one is around your
mid to late eighties. It was so funny because when
Saturn was an Aquarius, I realized that me, my stepmom,
and my grandfather all have Saturn and Aquarius. So we
all went through our Saturn returns at the same time.
Which was it was cool to trade notes. It's like, Okay,
what's happening at your second Saturn return, what's happening at
your third Saturn return? But at these Saturn returns, which
happened roughly every thirty years twenty nine to be more exact,
it's a bigger time of really looking at where your
commitments lie. What do you want to be putting energy
towards for the next several decades of your life. And
so at that first Saturn return at age twenty nine,
you often establish certain interests, new goals, new opportunities get
formed that then you spend the next couple of decades
building upon. Like it's often a time of making a
name for yourself in a certain area that then you
continue to develop over the coming years. Other themes that
come up at a Saturn return. And also I want
to bring in the Saturn square in opposition because you'll
feel these themes surface again in seven year increments. So
looking at the Saturn square. The ages for this are seven,
twenty one, thirty six, slash, thirty seven, fifty and sixty seven.
And then a Saturn opposition will occur at age fourteen
forty three and about seven seventy three years old. So
not only of the Saturn return, but at these other
key ages you will feel similar themes to maybe what
was going on at your Saturn return. And these are
often years where you are being called to put more
effort into something and you can be working diligently away
at a project, an opportunity of relationship, whatever it may
be that has this long term payoff. It may feel
very slow at the moment, like why is what I
want to have happened not happening right now? Why does
everything feel slowed down? But again, like to bring up
a theme I've kept reiterating throughout this episode, no shortcuts
can be taken with Saturn. So it's it's all about
hard work and being patient and knowing that the foundations
you're laying at these specific ages are helping you to
pivot in a different direction that ultimately feels more fulfilling
and in line with who you're becoming as a person
for the years that follow. And looking at the houses
where the return the Saturn return is happening, looking at
that house or the houses that are involved in a
Saturn square or in opposition, how might there be a
greater restructuring happening in those areas, or how might you
need to put a lot more effort in those particular
areas of your life to see what you want to
have happen. And it can also be a time of
like refining skills in that part of your life, just
overall getting more clear on what is worth committing to
and where you want to direct your energy. Themes that
we've already been over with transit Saturn, but they almost
get intensified at the Saturn return, where it becomes this
bigger period of needing to change certain elements of your
life so that you are on like a greater path
of like, Okay, this is what I want to be doing.
I hate that there's so much fear surrounding the Saturn
return because I found it a really fulfilling point in
my life. Like I found it the stuff I had
wanted to happen in my career. I was finally getting
those opportunities at the Saturn return. And yes it required
a lot more war, but I gained such valuable skills
and my Saturn return that have carried into these years
that have followed now that I'm about four years out
from it. So curious to see what comes up at
the Saturn square that I'll get in the next three years,
because it could feel very similar of Okay, a need
to make an adjustment here to whatever I've been doing
since the Saturn return. I would just think of these
Saturn periods that happen every seven years as these necessary
readjustment times, like, Okay, we've been living my life in
a certain way up until this point. Now certain elements
aren't working anymore. Let's take stock of my commitments again.
Another huge theme with Saturn is I mentioned this earlier,
but definitely gets brought up a lot more at the
return and the square and the opposition is the passing
of time and mortality and understanding that you are getting
older and that your parents might be getting older, and
that time is not unlimited, and that you need to
make these changes or you need to put effort into
something now to get where you want to be and
not put things off so much anymore. But as I said,
it's like, on the one hand, you're aware of the
passing of time and you want to do something about
it and make changes, but also on the other hand,
those changes are slower to go into effect, which is
just why patience is so key with this planet and
also with something like a Saturn return. Not only do
you want to look at where is where is that
exact house that the return is occurring in, but also
what other houses are ruled by Capricorn and Aquarius in
your chart, because those two houses will become very relevant
at the time of a Saturn return too, and even
at the time of a Saturn square in opposition, like
because you're it's it's a transiting planet Saturn making an
aspect to your natal Saturn. So when a natal planet
is activated by a transit, you're always taking into account
what other houses does it rule. Yeah, I brought that
up a lot of times in this episode. It's just
so important, like ruling planets of the houses, you cannot
forget it when it comes to interpreting transits to your chart.
But yeah, that is all I had on Saturn for today.
Thank you again for listening and reminder you can always
go back to those past episodes Saturn Transit Stories Part
one and Part two if you want more examples on
what it's been like for other people having Saturn transit
through specific houses of their chart. And I'll see you guys.
Back here next week for already the airy season forecast.
So I'm so excited. I cannot believe airy season is
almost here. But yeah, have a good week everyone, Bye.