2023 marks a big year but astrological terms. Change is in the Air! Thank goodness after the last few years things are actually looking a bit smoother with no hard aspects of outer planets this year. If it’s felt it’s been a little rough over the last several years, you can probably take a little breather!
While things are looking smoother there’s some major shifting going on this year. Long term cycles are governed by the outer planets, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune and of course, Pluto, who astrologicallly definitely packs enough punch to still be considered a planet.
Saturn is about to complete a a 5 year cycle of being in his two home signs, Capricorn and Aquarius. This means that the themes of Saturn have been quite dominant over the past several years. While over the long term, working with Saturn can bring long lasting gains, in the short term, he’s strict dad, who just kicked you out the house to go get a job. While in his rulership, the themes of limitation, grind and the development of grit are at the fore. So congratulate yourself for the hard work you have put in over the last while. If it’s been in the houses Saturn rules in your chart, fabulous! What’s survived has stood the test of time!
In March this year Saturn shifts into Pisces. Pisces and Saturn are at odds at first glance. Pisces is boundless and Saturn is boundary. Pisces is sweet and forgiving, Saturn demands accountability. Pisces is chaotic and Saturn is structured. Wherever Saturn is in the skies he is testing solidity and integrity.
So if we look at those things together one of the things we start to see is that this period will be about bringing the boundless into form. Periods of Saturn in Pisces are wonderful for the arts and at long last bringing creative expression into structured form, which is completely necessary for the process of making things real on a material plane like earth. If you have something brewing the next two and a half years will help you birth it into the third dimension.
So that’s been an uplifting version of Saturn in Pisces but remember Saturn is always a grind and a test. Prepare to be resilient! This is especially true if you have planets in Pisces which will directly affected by Saturn’s transit through the sign. If you were born in the years 1993-1995 or 1964 – 1966, you will be having your Saturn Return, which is an important time astrologically.
