Retrogrades sometimes get a bad name. After all, no one likes retracing their steps, feeling as though time has stalled. However, sometimes we need that time to go back over the details. Saturn, the planet that rules over time, is no exception. A Saturn retrograde doesn't take place too often, happening about once a year. But when it does, Saturn gets us to examine the 'obstacles' it may have sent our way (in order for us to mature and grow) and the methods we've employed to manage them.
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For Aries, the main theme of Saturn's retrograde in Pisces will be to embrace your softer side. Look within to address the hurts that are deep-seated.
It's time to reexamine your beliefs, and any changes you've been implementing in terms of higher learning and your morals, Cancer.
Even though your default state is to put on a brave face and tough out your circumstances, it's time to access your vulnerability to gain greater insight about yourself.
You've probably been learning lessons about how to best structure your daily work, fitness, and nutrition routine over the past year, Libra.
You might find your life philosophy, or sense of adventure, tested during Saturn's retrograde through Pisces, but feeling out of your comfort zone will encourage new growth.
Saturn's retrograde will be taking you back into these areas of life to double-check if you're still following the rules you put in place for yourself. If not, you may need to make some adjustments.
Capricorn has been learning how to communicate in more mature, responsible ways throughout this transit of Saturn in Pisces. Now it's time to go back over the changes you've made.
For Taurus, this Saturn retrograde is bringing your attention to friendships and alliances that might no longer align with who you are and where you're going.
Taking back control over your finances will help you feel more empowered, and the lessons you learn now will set you up for the future.
This redo is getting you to appreciate the impact your words can have, whether written or spoken, and how you communicate to your close network of neighbors, as well as siblings.
Now, the planet of boundaries is making sure you've learned those lessons, by getting you to revisit how much you access the space you've made for play. Make sure those weekly date nights are still happening!
Sometimes we outgrow people, and that's okay. Saturn also favors our lifelong connections: remember, the people who aren't meant to leave your life, won't.
If you've been avoiding looking at a sticky area of finances up to now, Leo, prepare to revisit it with a fine tooth comb. Saturn is encouraging your maturity in this area of life.
Self-belief is the first step to unlocking the potential of your earning power. You might miss opportunities if your approach so far has been too restrictive. Prepare to revisit any lessons you've been learning about how you accumulate resources.
The lack of movement may make you feel stuck, but it's supposed to draw your attention back to your purpose, and how the path you're on is serving your higher calling.
During retrograde, you have a new opportunity to assess how home and family responsibilities are being shouldered. Make sure they're being shared as fairly as possible.
Have you structured your resources of late, Aquarius? If so, it's time to make sure you have a practical, workable strategy. If not, now's a new chance to do so.
Does your life have enough organized fun, Scorpio? It might sound dull, but Saturn has been asking you to assess how you enjoy yourself, responsibly, since March last year.
If your career life has been experiencing fast, long-awaited changes over the past year, this retrograde might see a slowdown, Gemini: take a few months to breathe!
You've been making changes to the way you present yourself to others, Pisces, since Saturn entered your sign. However, now is the time to make sure you haven't become too restrictive during this transit.
Your family and home life has been under Saturn's spotlight during its transit through Pisces. You've probably enforced boundaries for yourself here since March last year.
Your romantic and business partnerships may have been tested to the extreme in the past year, and during this retrograde expect to revisit the same themes.
Saturn's retrograde is not here to punish you, Virgo, but to make sure the contractual relationships in your life are in good shape. If not, it's better you walk away sooner rather than later.
Saturn stationed retrograde on June 29 at 3:06 pm ET, at 19 degrees of Pisces. It will moonwalk back to 12 degrees of the sign, before moving forward again on November 15, 2024.
Saturn has been moving through the sign of Pisces since March 2023. Saturn is about rules and structure, while Pisces is about dissolution, merging, and the unseen/untouched realms. It makes for an interesting combination of energies!
As an outer planet, we don't tend to feel the influence of Saturn so acutely on a personal level outside of our Saturn return, unless it's making an aspect to one of the planet's in our birth chart.
Saturn will remain in Pisces until February 2026. The last time it was here was between 1994-1996, and people born during this time period are experiencing their Saturn return, i.e. when Saturn reaches the place in the sky where it was when you were born (occurring every 29.5 years).
Saturn is associated with karma, the passage of time, our sense of duty, the imposition of boundaries and restrictions, maturity, and our sense of authority. Wherever Pisces is in your birth chart, you might find yourself revisiting these themes.
You can self-improve without falling into self-flagellation. Enjoy who you are, now, without being too hard on past versions of yourself. Maturity is realizing our identity is in a constant state of flux.
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Retrogrades sometimes get a bad name. After all, no one likes retracing their steps, feeling as though time has stalled. However, sometimes we need that time to go back over the details. Saturn, the planet that rules over time, is no exception. A Saturn retrograde doesn't take place too often, happening about once a year. But when it does, Saturn gets us to examine the 'obstacles' it may have sent our way (in order for us to mature and grow) and the methods we've employed to manage them.
Curious? Click on to learn more about Saturn's retrograde, and what it means for your star sign.