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ESOTERIC ASTROLOGY AS NEWSEsoteric Astrology as news for week July 3 – 9, 2024
Saturn Retrogrades – Slow Time Begins
Planet of (slow) time, the time keeper, the teacher teaching structure, boundaries and above all life lessons that must be learned. This is the planet Saturn, which retrograded this past week in Pisces (note: Neptune, Pisces’ ruler, also is retrograding in Pisces). Saturn, retrograde 1/3 of the year, is a lovely pale yellow in the sky, shining through the night, hiding during the day. Perhaps Saturn is bashful!
Some people are afraid of Saturn. When hearing the name Saturn people back away with unneeded fear, wondering will bad things happen to me with Saturn?
No! we say. Saturn calls us to work, to task, to states of awareness of time, to responsibility, to structure our lives. When retrograde, Saturn asks that we review these life issues. Are we on time, are we responsible and aware, is our life planned and structured and what relationships need remembrance and/or closure and what tasks have we left undone? Saturn calls us to set priorities, to see time as a useful tool and to lessen our sense of expectancies. Saturn really wants us to be happy!
As in all retrogrades, especially Saturn, it is not a time to initiate new projects. We don’t borrow money or purchase large, important items. We can dream and plan but no implementation should be done. We are being called to be our own authorities in our lives, to make our own inner decisions. And above all Saturn calls us to cultivate the virtue of patience, which is really Saturn’s ultimate domain.
Saturn retrograded Saturday (its own day), June 29th (19 degrees Pisces) and will continue its retrograde until November 14 (back to 13 degrees Pisces). Simultaneously, Neptune, on Tuesday, July 2, began its retrograde (29.56 degrees/minutes) in Pisces. The two, Saturn and Neptune, are linked via their retrograde in Pisces (further ending the Pisces Age, preparing for Aquarius).
With the two retrograde in Pisces for months on end, it’s like entering a dreamtime, where past, present and future blend, unsolved issues can be solved and we put everything in understanding order once again. Retrogrades are valuable times. We learn discipline, patience, the value of time, and inner responsibility. Things hiding over incarnations come to light. “Hello,” we say, “fancy meeting you once again. Well let’s get to work! There’s lots of reconnecting, rekindling and healing to be done!” And Saturn, pleased and looking on, smiles!
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