Big daddy Saturn gets a bad rep!

That’s mainly because Saturn represents hard lessons, authority, reality, commitment, discipline, boundaries, fear, restriction, time and hard work.

Your Saturn return is when the transiting Saturn (where Saturn currently is), returns to the exact position it was at the time of your birth.

This time period is one where you start to realize— no one is going to save you but yourself.

You could feel more frustrated, restricted, lonely, realistic, and somber.

Challenges such as delays, relationship conflicts, career changes could come up for you, having you contemplate your life’s structure. For example, people tend to break up in relationships that no longer serve them, or get married to commit to a stable partnership.

Yet your Saturn return can also be a beautiful time of intense growth!

We’ll dive deeper into how these themes can appear in your birth chart based on your Saturn sign, the house its in, and aspects your Saturn sign has to other planets in my upcoming course, Shining as your Authentic Self.

During someone’s Saturn Return, people tend to make serious decisions such as:
+ Get married
+ Break up
+ Get divorced
+ Go through friendship break ups
+ Have a kid
+ Get a pet
+ Publish a book
+ Move
+ Teach
+ Start a business
+ Change jobs
+ Go back to school
+ Purchase a home

Your Saturn Return is the coming of age chapter of your story.

You as the hero, start to understand—you need to take responsibility for your life.

Your first Saturn Return usually occurs between the ages of 29-31, yet this really depends on your Saturn sign and it’s degree.

You’ll have your second Saturn return around the ages of 56-60, and your third Saturn Return around the ages of 84-90.

Themes change base on which Saturn Return you are going through, and it’s important to note that if you have not learnt the lessons from your first Saturn return, things will feel a lot heavier in your second.

SATURN RETURN CALCULATOR

You can find out when your Saturn Return is using this Saturn Return calculator from Astro Seek!

There are two time periods to pay attention to:

1) When Saturn returns into the same sign it was at the time of your birth. For example, if you have Saturn in Pisces, you’re experiencing your Saturn Return now. Saturn usually stays in a sign for approximately 2.5 years.

2) When Saturn returns to the exact degree it was at the time of your birth— this is the peak of your Saturn return. For example, if your Saturn in Pisces is at 5 degrees, you would check on a transit chart which date Saturn in Pisces reached 5 degrees. It’s important to note that Saturn does retrograde, meaning that you can have 2 or 3 peaks of your Saturn Return.

Your Saturn Return is the time to wake the f*ck up.

The harsh reality that we can experience during our Saturn Return has us contemplating our lives in new profound ways.

What we once thought was structurally sound, may fall apart and tumble down if it was not stable at all.

If, for example, you’re in a job that doesn’t align— your Saturn return will make this known, may this be through internal conflict or external conflict.

It is therefore, a time to build, and rebuild.

During my Saturn Return in Aquarius, I documented my reflections on Youtube.

I share the most challenging things that were happening to me, and what they taught me.

Check out the playlist here!

A common theme of your Saturn Return is the act of reparenting yourself.

Saturn represents authority—and in your birth chart, can show you your relationship to your father. (Yes really!) This can show you how your father acted around you, and how you felt about him.

For example, if your Saturn is in Sagittarius— Perhaps your father was a bit distant, thrill-seeking, and loved learning. He might have traveled a lot, or may not have been present or as available as you’d like. He could have encouraged you to seek more knowledge and helped you develop a grow-oriented mindset. Depending on your aspects to Saturn and the house it’s placed in for you, this would describe your relationship to him, and how you saw him.

I’ll be exploring family dynamics and patterns in my upcoming course.

In traditional Astrology, Saturn is known as a malefic planet— meaning that it is challenging.

Both Mars and Saturn are considered malefic planets.

If you have a night chart instead of a day chart, your Saturn sign would be more challenging than your Mars sign. I’ll be going through this in-depth and what this means for you in my Astrology Foundations course: Shining as your Authentic Self.

Yet it’s good to take note that there are quite a few beneficial things Saturn can bring you. For example, a well-aspected Saturn transit in a relationship can be a sign of marriage, an engagement, or just getting serious in a relationship!

Saturn can show you what you are mastering this lifetime, and where you are an Authority figure! This can greatly help you in your career, as it’ll show you what you can focus on in terms of building your legacy.

It’s not bad to have a hard Saturn return— we all experience difficult transits.

Yet it’s how we react to those difficult situations that really define our lives.

You shouldn’t fear your Saturn return!

It ultimately will help you build a life you LOVE— if you put in the work to create it for yourself.

For myself, I had a difficult Saturn return—even though my Saturn is in Aquarius, which is its home rulership. I thought my Saturn return would be easier because I went to therapy, and did everything that was told to me.

Boy was I wrong.

I realized I was self abandoning myself, and doing what other people wanted me to do, instead of doing what I WANTED to do. Yet it helped me realize that I needed to finally launch my astrology practice, which I did at the peak of my Saturn return.

I invested in a few Astrology Mentors and Coaches, took lots of courses, joined a few communities, and really did “the work”.

Having a home rulership for your Saturn (if you have Saturn in Capricorn, Aquarius) or in its exaltation (Libra) is said to be a lot easier, because Saturn enjoys being in that sign. Yet this is not necessarily the case if you have difficult aspects to your Saturn to begin with!

I’ll be going through rulerships of the planets and how to read aspects in your birth chart in my Shining as your Authentic Self: From misunderstood to highly appreciated course.

Just know that, even if you have a hard Saturn return—you can transform that energy into wonderful opportunties by thinking of the long-game!

And it gets to be so so much better!