I wrote this piece last October when Saturn was exiting it’s retrograde phase. I was brought back to it yesterday, and decided to revise and update it to fit the current astrological energies as Saturn stations to go direct today.
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I hope you’re ready to rise higher into actualising your greatness….as this is what Saturn has been preparing you for all along.
Please enjoy today’s article!
As Saturn has been retrograding, the energy has felt like an arrow being pulled back in its bow. I can’t help but feel that as it stations to go direct today, it is preparing us for some swift, forward movement that will start to come into big time effect come Sagittarius season.
Whenever Saturn retrogrades, it tends to go back through 7 degrees of a sign. This is no coincidence. Seven is a divine number of completion, and it also connects us to the way we measure energy, time and cycles. We have seven days of the week, seven main chakra centres, seven colours of the rainbow, seven musical notes etc.
This Saturn retrograde period has taken us from 19 degrees Pisces back to the 12 degree point - astrological degrees of Leo and Pisces respectively. In that stretch, we have taken a journey backwards in the tarot from “The Sun” card to “The Hanged One” - receiving deeper insights on what we were entertaining still that was hindering and sabotaging our ability to be our fully expressed selves in truth.
Saturn stationed to go retrograde back in June - one week after that first Full Moon in Capricorn that book ended Cancer season, and one week before the New Moon in Cancer. It is no small twist of fate, or coincidence, that this planet that rules over Capricorn, went retrograde smack in the center of two full moons in the sign.
Capricorn is the sign that is over our contracts here on the Earth planes, as well as the legacies we establish by way of showing up here in our purpose. Capricorn is also the sign that is energetically connected to certain portals in the Earth that establish our soul memory here across lifetimes and timelines.
It is through Capricorn that we learn how to balance our position on the material planes, in ways that honour our human experience without getting lost and bound to traditions and customs happening on the Earth that would take us away from the purity of our true soul’s expression and lasting impression.
Saturn is stationing to go direct on today - on the same day that the Moon is reaching her fullness in Taurus. As we moved through the last days of this retrograde, we were being disciplined and made ready for this next chapter.
This week, you may have felt this tightness in your reality all the more. Saturn was ready for us to climb higher into our potential, and it challenged us to put certain things on ice as we developed new mindsets, skills, and behaviours that facilitated our impending “level up.”
Many mistakenly label Saturn as a “hard taskmaster,” but neglect to realise that Saturnian discipline is what sets the energetic tone needed to receive our rewards. For as long as we humble ourselves, and accept that we may need to address some behaviours and mindsets that are keeping us back from climbing higher….we’re good.
It is when we become prideful and stubborn, and reject the guidance Saturn wants to bestow upon us that we make life more difficult for ourselves. It is at this point - when we reject the gift of Saturnian wisdom - that we open the door to another karmic lesson.
This lesson will inevitably bring us to a place where we cease sabotaging ourselves, and finally accept the change that Saturn keeps showing us is necessary. We can of course avoid unnecessary suffering by accepting the constructive guidance Saturn brings the first time She speaks.
So, this week especially, was a time when Saturn was challenging us to establish different habits, experiment with new methods or approaches, and stretching us in order to hold the rewards that we profess to want the most.
Whenever change is introduced, resistance often follows. This was a week to pay attention to where and why we may have been resistant to the shifts that seek to elevate us. As we utilise the Scorpio medicine of soul interrogation, we may have found that we’ve been pushing against Saturn leading us into the unknown, when this is the only way to arrive where we’ve been saying we want to be.
The focus of energy of Saturn retrograde lends us the insight and courage to walk away from those habits, people, circumstances, mindsets, and places that are out of alignment with our heart’s truth. “The World” is the card of Saturn, and “The High Priestess” and “The Hanged Man” are the major arcana cards of Pisces. The 12-19 degrees of Pisces are “Nine of Cups” energies, which is the card of personal emotional fulfillment.
This Saturn retrograde period has been assisting us in wrapping up cycles - even eras - with energies that are not going to serve us as we move forward into higher states of awareness.
It has been showing us the way out of the karmic timelines that have kept us trapped in the illusions of the matrix – ever chasing and desiring, but never attaining. These are timelines that hold themes we have repeated across incarnations, and go beyond the people we’ve had karmic cycles with.
As this Saturn retrograde draws upon its completion at the 12 degree mark, it is beckoning us higher into the opportunities we lost out to playing small for acceptance. It is helping us close the door to themes we have dragged across lifetimes that have not only kept us out of our power, but have also locked us out of our divinity and ability to ascend past these cycles.
As such, we may be required to embrace higher aspects of ourselves that we have long abandoned and forgotten. We may be challenged to reach for goals that once felt too lofty due to the low expectations we had for ourselves. We may be chastened anytime we try to stay in frequencies that still support these lower narratives, or keep company with people who further enforce those old tired lies. And all this is because it’s time to go higher.
Everything about this period in time is screaming that a new day is dawning. And we are the ones bringing in the energies that this new day will be founded upon.
So, if you’ve been feeling stretched, you’re in a prime place. On today, as the moon reaches Her fullness, ask Saturn tohelp you step into this new position that She knows you’re ready to occupy. Ask your guides to help you align with the energies you need to believe deeper in yourself, and walk in the fullness of this higher resonance and reality.
Doors and windows are closing as new gates are opening. To get to the new gates, we must rise in our estimations of self, our power, and our intrinsic value. We must climb and reach that version of ourselves that the planets are calling us into, and karmic cycles tried to lock us out of across several timelines.
And, like a diligent coach, who sees the limitless potential in their student, and knows how and when to push them deeper into obtaining it….Saturn has been calling us higher.
Will we answer the call today, or resist our own greatness?
Asé
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