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This week asks you to explore your relationship with self-responsibility with Saturn stationing direct after being retrograde in Pisces. Could responsibility be a doorway into your empowerment, freedom, self-mastery, creation, and fulfillment? What about discipline? What are the narratives of discipline existing within you? How true to you are they? And how up to date are they?
Saturn Direct
In March of this year, Saturn entered Pisces for the first time in more than 27 years. With such a major shift, space and time for integration always follows. This integration began on June 17, the beginning of Saturn’s first retrograde since moving into the esoteric water sign. After almost five months, this retrograde comes to an end this week on November 4, 2023.
Retrogrades in astrology represent “re-” words such as review, revise, reconsider, realign, revisit, and so on. They are the one step backward that allows for many future steps forward. They are a sacred pause inviting us to look around, review who we are, assess the path we are walking upon, integrate our lived experiences, consider past journeys that were left behind, and bring closure to what needs it. Only then can we become present, centered, and aligned before continuing forward.
Retrogrades remind us that life, no matter how we try, is not linear. Our journey is cyclic. We move up and down and every other direction possible. And our inner world is no different.
Saturn desires self-mastery from each and every one of us. Saturn reminds us that mastery cannot be given, rushed, or perhaps even reached unless we are challenged over and over. Mastery isn’t something we reach only through the mind. Rather, its journey is learned through repeated experience and integration. Saturn is both the challenges inherent in the climb and the gift of who we become through reaching the summit. It calls on our inherent need to realize and fulfill our potential so that we may become who we are here to be.
Pisces represents everything that exists beyond time and space. It is the intangible realms of imagination, spirituality, emotion, compassion, and creativity, whereas Saturn is the boundaries of time and space, where everything tangible exists within.
Although seemingly opposite in nature, Saturn and Pisces complement one another. Saturn’s invitation is to create or become the form, structure, and doorway through which our Piscean dreams, imaginations, visionings, and creativity can move from the intangible to the tangible.
It is only when Saturn stations direct that we will begin to experience the results of our efforts these last several months.
Your Invitation
Throughout these next two to three years of Saturn direct in Pisces, you are invited to cultivate responsibility for your emotions and imaginations, heal your relationship to structure, and find creativity, focus, clarity, and freedom while living within boundaries.
Retrogrades invite review so that we may see where we need to rewrite our stories, identities, and narratives. Retrogrades incur a sacred pause so that we may look around, so that we may notice where we need to realign before walking forward once again. Reflect on your relationship with your dreams and imaginations and whether you feel confident and trusting in yourself to bring them into your lived experience. Look to your emotional and energetic health, your sense of boundaries, and how a sense of separation can actually allow you to create deeper connections.
You are also asked to understand what boundaries mean to you on a physical, emotional, and energetic level and then take this insight and build resilience in your creative practice so you can relate to self-discipline as a love language instead of punishment. It is through the lens of Pisces that you will find your next journey into self-mastery throughout the next two years.
This week is your opportunity to begin rewriting your story and realigning your way forward. You are invited to take practical steps and tangible action toward all that you have been integrating from the underground of the retrograde, which will all be brought into clarity as Saturn stations direct.
Learn more about the influence of astrology in your life, including astrological events the Moon cycles, your Sun and Moon and rising signs, how journaling can help you connect with the current influences, and more with Jordane Maree at Girl and her Moon.
About Our Contributor
Jordane Maree is the founder of Girl and Her Moon, a platform and community exploring Soul through the lens of astrology, tarot, and energy healing. She is a writer, intuitive astrologer, energy and soul guide, and host of Girl and Her Moon, The Podcast. She is inspired, every single day, to be the mirror for you to see all that you truly are, you in all your infinite abilities, in total expansion, in infinite opportunity and love.
