• SATURN’S 5-MONTH RETROGRADE PERIOD STARTS 12-13 JULY 2025

  • Saturn Rx in AriesSATURN’S 5-MONTH RETROGRADE PERIOD STARTS 12-13 JULY 2025

    Isn’t it time to question the warfare and aggressiveness that’s all around us?

    Saturn will station retrograde at 01°56’ Aries (antiscion 28°04’ Virgo) on the 12-13th July to station direct at 25°09’ Pisces on 27-28th November. It is still in tight orb of a conjunction to Neptune and will remain so until late next Spring.

    Saturn is the planet of restriction and order which rewards hard work and perseverance. Aries is known for being action-oriented (a Cardinal sign), courageous, aggressive, opinionated and impulsive. It’s hardly a wonder that Saturn finds its fall in the sign of Aries.

    We’ve already seen the effects of Saturn in Aries in the form of intentional warfare and cruelty for its own sake. Now we all have the chance to ponder on whether this kind of behaviour is to be further tolerated or if we need to direct these energies into a more controlled way of laying down the rules.

    Once back in Pisces again, together with its pal Neptune, we could have to face the guilt of having been gullible during the last 2.5 years of Saturn’s recent stay there. Is it a good idea to continue to believe everything we hear or read (and sometimes even see) or should we be fact-checking everything in order to get to a truth that resembles fact and not fiction?

    At the start and at the end of each retrograde period the planet gradually slows down almost to a halt. Mainly affected by this retrograde will be those charts having planets or angles between 4-0° degrees of the Cardinal signs (Aries, Cancer, Libra, Capricorn) and 21-30° of the Mutable signs (Gemini, Virgo, Sagittarius and Pisces).

    When Saturn turns retrograde it will slow down the normal speed of everyday things in order for us to be able to develop better procedures and tactics in our lives. Saturn provides us with the rules and regulations with which we guide ourselves, our sense of responsibility and our limits. Saturn defines boundaries, so what better time than its annual retrograde period to determine the possible from the impossible in our lives? Look to the house axis that this retrograde involves.

    In fact, this is an excellent moment to assess and correct any commitments that you may have unrealistically taken on, a time to refine any projects or consider any responsibilities undertaken in the past and also to process and overcome any fears we might have in that sector of our chart where Saturn is transiting. Saturn retrograde gives us the opportunity to say NO to the burdens that prove too heavy for us or to address fears that have been tormenting us. So, during this period, re-assess past responsibilities without taking on any new ones and likewise postpone any possible long-term commitments that might come now until after the retrograde period is over because you might just realize that they are, in fact, too heavy for you.

    The Sabian symbol for 02° Aries: “A comedian reveals human nature.” Indicating the capacity of look objectively at oneself and at others.

    For its antiscion point at 29° Virgo: “A seeker after occult knowledge is reading an ancient scroll which illumines his mind. Indicating that after a crisis one should seek to realign the renewed consciousness with the primordial Revelation of the Truth of Man.

    “To misunderstand the nature and the threat of evil is to risk being blindsided by it.” Joel C. Rosenberg

    Bibliography

    Rudhyar D. (1974) “An Astrological Mandala: the cycles of transformations and its 360 symbolic phases”. p. 51 and 168, Vintage Books Edition, Random House Inc., New York, USA

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