How to Benefit from Saturn's Move Direct
Build or Rebuild Something New, Stop the Victimization, Do the Work: Explainer, Outlook and Timing - Astrology Stories by Susan Inspired
Walking the Fine Line Between Our Mastery and Wounding
It’s time, friends, to bring our ‘castles in the sky’ to ground.
For those most effected by Saturn’s retrograde, its effects have been big, voracious, seemed never-ending, felt emotional, and vast in influence, as Saturn was sextile exact with Jupiter, and in close orb sextile with the North Node, as the retrograde period began.
Saturn was also really oriented to creating an environment that would assist those most impacted personally by Pluto, with its at times exact trine to asteroid Sedna (the victimized wounded child who transmutes to fertility goddess).
Pluto gets to the heart of woundings, and traumas, but most of all our sense of victimization. While Saturn brings the processes, framework and fortitude to rebuild, to be better, in a revitalized form.
We’ve got a lot to consider.
Was Sedna really the victim, or just a raging ‘bitch on wheels’ that no one could tolerate? And if she did act out, where is the source of that pain?
Oh oh! Now we’re talking about what is in the subconscious, and maybe even deeper, in unconscious territory, being suddenly brought to light.
With Saturn square, whatever it is, it’s not pretty, but we do have the strength to deal with what is revealed.
With Pluto in shadow semi-sextile, it’s very, very likely to be some of the ugliest sh*t you can imagine:
Utterly awful. Crushing in spirit. Offering to take you back down, to the depths of misery, and stay there and just take it, just give up, just re-abuse what the hell, just f*ck everyone else and the horse they rode in on.
And it’s your choice. It’s your life. It’s your drama. It’s your experience.
But, let me offer this: If you give in, the next 2 1/2 years are going to be some of the toughest to bear, as Saturn will simply grind the parts that aren’t ‘built right’, whether in the psyche, in the physical, emotional, mental, spiritual. Then in coming retrogrades, you will get the offer to shift again and again, until it finally leaves Pisces in February 2026.
Meanwhile, now through Saturn’s next retrograde in June 2024, Pluto presses in from the depths of semi-sextile the next few months, and Neptune at its most mature degrees offers to deepen your delusion. Plus, Jupiter and Uranus are up to something in Taurus, and it could shock us.
Yeah, that all can seem like… forever.
However, there is hope and even favor:
If you can gather yourself,
If you can get back up,
If you can take your shame, and
Your embarrassment, and
Your frustration, and
Your fears, and
Your past angers, and
Give it all to God,
then you might just be setting yourself up to ‘clear your slate’, to build something good for you, to build something better, for yourself and your life.
Are you willing to give up everything that’s in your way, that created the resistance in the first place?
You probably want justice of some sort, given what you’ve been through, or wish for a rectification (to put something right) in your life, or you long for some enduring change to happen.
Perhaps you wish to preserve, or enhance, or uplift your spirit, your resources, your happiness, your joy out of the depths of individual experience, in a primal way, and you are emotional about it, or deeply engaged with this experience.
I say this because Saturn was tight quincunx with asteroid Varuna (Hindu god of the sea, justice bringer) as the retrograde began.
With Saturn at the helm, only you are the one with the ability to make this happen, and it won’t be simply given to you. And it won’t be easy.
But, if you apply yourself, if you give effort, honestly and truly, the rewards will come.
In this post we will unwind steps and ways to work with these circumstances, with the idea of maximizing your benefit and blessings, and coming through the challenges and difficulties as well as you can.
3 Foundational Steps are Integral to Making a Change in Your Life
When you ‘give it to God’, you ‘let it go’ to be taken and recycled by the Divine into a new form of energy, without ‘any effort’ by you but to:
Make the choice to move forward,
Have the willingness to let the old go, including all your victimhood, and
Exercise your willingness to get back up from your fallen state, and to stand.
6 Steps that Initiate from Inner-Action and Build Your Resilience to Keep Going as You Ground Your Actions in Real Life
Well then, my friend, once making the choice, having the willingness, and exercising your will to stand, then you look down, or look out, from within the walls you previously had around you, and you may find yourself standing on the edge of the precipice -
but…
the beneficence of Saturn is here to assist to lift you up:
If you are willing to do the work in your life,
If you are willing to turn your willingness into action in the physical world,
If you make the effort to look inside and reassess, or reorient back to your center, with each new step or action,
If you commit to loving yourself better and then take the actions in the physical world that support and make the details of this happening for you,
If you trust in the Divinity within you each time you feel like you are falling again, and,
If you to get back up each time you do fall, and keep going.
What is the Reward of Doing the Work?
If you do the work, whatever that is for you, then each low will be a little higher, and as you move forward each height will be a little higher, and friends, this is what we all have to look forward to.
These are the rewards of the spiritual warrior (Saturn in Pisces).
These are the rewards of the living Human Being - You - that is also a living Soul in the Divine temple that is your living physical Human body.
Astrology Stories by Susan Inspired
This article will focus on potential personal effects for you, and what you can do about them, although I do address societal effects in the last section.
I’m writing the post this way, with general themes rather than focusing ‘on your sign’, because I feel it might help you focus on how to use this Saturn forward motion in your life to your best benefit.
You can figure out for yourself how any particular astrology energy is effecting or influencing you, without knowing your Sun, Ascendant, Moon sign or any other astrology details.
Astrology is About Frequency
That’s because astrology is about frequency, and you have the ability to assess the frequencies you engage in, in your life, and make determinations and decisions.
The astrology energies are ‘offers of frequencies’ to us, and how we respond is our choice.
There are effects in the ‘external world’ beyond your life, and you can use your assessment of the personal frequential experience and effects to chart your own course as you determine it and as you see fit.
Take what resonates, in this article, and leave the rest.
Use My Astrology Stories to Know the Frequencies that Influence & Effect You
I feel this approach is potentially a very accurate way to use astrology information to benefit yourself, because:
You empower yourself by assessing and applying the trends to yourself,
You can have significant planetary aspects besides traditional Sun, Ascendant, and Moon that may be very influenced by the energy with meaningful influence,
Specific degrees matter for the intensity of how the energy presents for you, and most people don’t know their degrees.
Thus, using story form is a way to strengthen yourself and sidestep the issues, since it presents the frequency picture to you through the story. Because stories are so Human and so relatable, sensing the prominent frequencies is second nature to Humans.
Use what information works for you, as it resonates with you for your life.
By looking, by applying care, and through love for yourself and your own personal experience, you make the effort and bring your focus and attention to what’s going on within you, and in your experience with others.
In this way, you can significantly benefit your experience of life, enhance your opportunities, and diminish potential negatives or distractions.
How to Figure Out How Saturn Retrograde Effected You
You know that Saturn’s almost 5 month retrograde effected you if:
You have been feeling the pressure to shift something in your life,
You have been subject to high self criticism or criticism from close, work or community relationships,
You have the strong desire to take something you’ve been working on in a new direction, or shift the direction so that the project better reflects your Soul,
Some experiences or relationships have had such intensity that you wonder what happened, or you feel there’s a ‘karmic’ flavor to events.
How You Can Use the Timing of Saturn Retrogrades and Saturn in Pisces to Build or Renew Something for Yourself
This Saturn retrograde had big power on how it influenced our relationship with ‘structures’ in our lives.
It is the first of 3 retrogrades to come in Pisces through 2025.
It’s likely that there are insights you intuited, or there are key experiences you went through, since mid-June 2023.
You may have a sense or ‘vision’ of a new direction, and a feeling of determination, You may feel the call to put effort, discipline and work in to building, shifting, restructuring or uplifting work you have already been doing, or new versions of it.
As Saturn completes the retrograde cycles in November of 2025, exits Pisces in February 2026, and settles in Aries, this will give a ‘lift off’ to the work you do now and over the next 2 years.
The Mars energy of Aries will lift some structures and help bring a crushing ignoble end to others.
Success in this area of life comes from the following:
Your own inner alignment with your true self,
The resonance of your ‘structure’ with the truth of who you are, and
The hard work, discipline, and determination you’ve put into this structure that you value and chose to create, work on, rebuild, or revitalize.
This gives you the next 3 years to benefit from what you’ve experienced initially in the last about 5 months from June 17-18 through November 4, 2023.
What Did You Experience Since Mid-Summer 2023?
An Opportunity for Personal Review
What you experienced the last 5 months will give you some insight into what Saturn has taught you so far, what you have learned, what you can choose, and can help you better understand what you may have already decided, within yourself.
If you were unaware or haven’t brought attention to these matters, you can use your time now through February 7, 2024, as Saturn moves through the retrograde window (territory it was in prior to retrograding) to now have some insights, make some determinations, consider the influence and how it effect you, and perhaps make some decisions for your life.
Here are key influences of the retrograde over the last 5 months:
It signaled a big shift coming in relation to ‘structures’ built on Earth.
It signaled a potential renewal of the spiritual seed housed within these structures.
It signaled the ‘beginning of the end’ for structures that no longer serve.
It signaled the beginning of a potential fall or dissolution of structures at that time, or during or initiating in the next 2 retrograde cycles, that no longer had/have spiritual life in them or that were begun with false premises, promises or intentions.
What Does this Mean for you Personally?
In your personal life ‘structures’ could mean:
Your home,
Your family,
Your community,
All types of relationships,
Your business,
Your work, and
Your thoughts about how you live and interact in each of these areas of life.
Your interaction and relationship with big financial, governmental or other societally oriented organizations, bodies, service groups and control structures.
With Saturn moving direct within the retrograde territory, we have a unique opportunity to change our lives for the better.
Where the spiritual seed has gone off into a distorted direction, these structures will be energetically and actually reviewed, and the review will result in opportunities to realign or restructure.
What does not have a spiritual seed will be contracted.
What does have a spiritual seed and comes from love will be reorganized, re-experienced, rethought, remade, renewed.
New structures initiated will succeed if grounded with a pure spiritual seed, and it will be important, and there will be a drive within these structures to often or periodically check back with ‘are we in alignment with the mission we started with’.
In a Saturnian environment, success means being willing to do the work.
Some will have experienced a harsh environment, some will have seen where lack of discipline caused bitter results, loss or failures.
Some will have gained insights into how to make life better, into how to reorganize your life, into how to renew something like an old or long term project that was stuck, work that did not bear fruits in the past, or that had not yet succeeded.
Relationships may have encountered tough times and challenges, but coming from love, you will find the seeds of restoration, renewal, and participation at new levels, especially when these relationships are based in Divine principles and spiritual resonance with the truth of who you are.
We Get Some Renewing Energy and Insight from Saturn in Early 2024
As Saturn moves through the retrograde territory (0˚ to 7˚12’ of Pisces) from November 4, 2023 to February 7, 2024, it will bring newness to the experiences you have, as you work on the structures you’ve chosen to focus on.
This might be a time when you get insight and clarity about what to focus on, and how to move forward, if you haven’t already.
This might be a time when you get insight into how to shift, adjust, ‘tweak’, or realign what you’ve started as you look out into the new year of 2024.
Saturn’s Retrograde Influences in Society and Globally
In the greater world outside yourself and your home, ‘structures’ can mean two things with Saturn:
Big organized structures, businesses, service organizations, and agencies that you interact with, that may both offer to serve and attempt to control.
Ideas, theories, ways of thinking that influence our society and how we interact in community with each other.
New technologies and innovations that are utilized by collective Humanity.
The potential of big shifts in some of these ‘structures’ have clearly been initiated in the last 5 months.
You might recognize these actions happening in the world around you including government structures, agencies, and authorities, societally focused organizations of all kinds; basically, large structures and organizations that effect society, offer structure and control and are Capricorn-like.
We have seen questioning of here-to-for previously accepted, respected, and even loved and appreciated big structures and concepts over the last 5 months:
Government: Speaking of the USA, something clearly seems ‘wrong’ with the governing structure of the United States of America, although it may not be clear to everyone what exactly that is.
The legislative, judicial and executive branches seem ‘out of whack’ with what we all learned in school about civics (if we learned it) and their alignment with our founding documents.
Medicine: The previously hallowed field of medicine has taken severe hits as people suffer endlessly from one medical crisis after another, with sometimes very poor results, with poor outcomes for families, and with excessive fatalities beyond anything we could ever have imagined.
Is there a single individual in the country who has not been effected by the failures of the medical field, including medically focused mandates, regulations, and policies, over the last 3 years of pandemic (2020-2022)?
Each of us has been touched personally in our lives, in our families, extended families, friends, work and community.
We have gained deep personal experienced that is asking to be sorted through.
Science: Correspondingly, the way science in general is conducted and the funding of scientific research has come under significant scrutiny.
This previously utterly respected area is coming under uncomfortable questioning that could change the core of how research is funded, completed and carried out.
Law: The application of law fairly and equally in the entire country has come into question as news of significant variations in results for similar crimes is broadcast across social media through video, visuals and examples, one after another in cascading motion.
Basic questions about how we treat each other lawfully are being asked, reviewed, studied, and debated.
Education: The basic structure of school, what should be taught and what should be under parental control, even basic subjects themselves are being questioned, reviewed, and debated.
Many have even changed the application of education itself through significant supplementation, online courses, or home schooling.
Politics: The basic structure of political parties themselves are under question. How does their structure really operate? What do they really achieve? Do they represent ‘the People’? Does one’s vote count?
The entire structure of our political system is under question.
Food: Should food be real or natural? Is synthetic food acceptable? What is a healthy diet? How were ‘healthy diets’ of old actually poor recommendations? What are good foods to eat? How does this vary by individual? Is it acceptable to disagree about what foods a person should consume?
The dramatic shifts in perception of what is health and what is not has been stunning.
Technology: The structure and aims of established technology companies has come into question, with the technology made subservient to political aims and goals rather than highlighting service to the customer or emphasizing good business practices.
The beginning of questions related to the use of technology, and the direction of technological innovations like ‘artificial intelligence’, is now waiting in the wings of mass consciousness to be grappled with at a later time.
Pluto’s Influence versus Saturn’s Energy
Pluto: Both the light bringer, and the destroyer of worlds.
Of course, there are other key planetary influences at work here too, notably Pluto in Capricorn, shining a light deep into our personal experiences with governing bodies, into laws, rules and regulations, and so much more.
Pluto almost revels in showing us the ugly truths, in revealing the ruthlessness, in detailing the horrors, in amplifying the extremes, in forcing our eyes to look. It penetrates to the truth of these structures like nothing else can.
The revelatory process causes us to question existing structures in society and in our lives.
Saturn: The assessor and builder of structures.
It’s Saturn that asks us to review the structure, to reimagine it, to find the seed, to assess its value, to reinforce or revitalize it, or to complete or end it.
It is Saturn’s energy that will assess whether the hard work has been done, and whether the new form is worthy.
Along the way, Saturn then brings extremes of crushing contraction (like a building falling inward) or uplifting expansion (like the planned successful execution of growth of plans) for the structures under review.
The intensity of the experience will be personal, because some Human Beings have Saturn in important positions in their chart, and some Humans do not.
Saturn Retrograde Astrology Technicals
First Saturn retrograde in Pisces:
Saturn’s retrograde of June 18, 2023 at between 1-2 am pacific time (June 17 for the rest of the USA and Europe).
Saturn retrograded at 7˚12'38” of Pisces and proceeded to 0˚ Pisces, staying in Pisces for the entire retrograde period.
Happening now - end of Saturn retrograde:
Saturn moved direct on Saturday November 4, 2023 at 8:57am Pacific time (11:57am Eastern).
He proceeds forward from 0˚ Pisces, and will move out of retrograde territory on the morning (pacific time) of February 7, 2024.
This was the first of 3 retrogrades Saturn will have in Pisces.
The influences discussed above are ongoing between now and the next retrograde in June of 2024. They will be primary early on in the cycle, then wane in influence as the next retrograde draws closer.
Saturn will retrograde 2 more times, from June 2024 through 2025. It will exit Pisces in February of 2026, and then move into Aries.
Love,
Susan Inspired ✨
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