Do you feel the tension?
Saturn retrograde gives us an opportunity to re-visit, re-consider and re-shuffle.
The slowest moving planet considered in Vedic Astrology, Saturn, has slowed and started to reverse his movement in his own sign of Aquarius, on June 29th, 2024 and until November 15th, 2024. Basically, all the lessons we were trying to learn in the end of 2023 and the beginning of 2024 will be presented again to us in the next 4.5 months, checking in where more work might be required in order for us to keep thriving along our life's path.
Saturn, being the planet that is responsible for old age, order and structure as well as time itself, tends to slow things down when it goes retrograde, giving us a chance to re-think and re-process things fully. The next 4.5 months is not the time to run away from the shadows, responsibilities and duties, at work, at home, within your own self & body.. Instead, it is time to dig in, do the work, be serious and present, all the while remembering that the body stores the tension, if we don’t regularly release it.
When we are aligned with Saturn and his wisdom, life if smooth and easy, everything happens in the flow. However, when there is an imbalance with this energy, life is tough and hard, ridden with obstacles, harsh lessons and dis-ease, figuratively and literally.
The next few months can prove to be rather tense, especially if one is not equipped with the tools of grounding and rooting, necessary to harmonize the period of weakened support from Saturn.
Spending time in nature, meditation, quiet listening, favorite hobbies, serving others, especially elderly - are all excellent points of focus when the going gets tough and to prevent it from doing so. Another great way to harmonize Saturn is all kinds of body work.
I distinguish between active and passive forms of body work. Examples of active body work are all forms of exercise where we exert energy, such as running, walking, yoga, dancing, general fitness, trampoline jumps, etc, while passive body work treatments are delivered through a specialist, such as masseuse giving you a massage, cranio-sacral therapist re-balancing the flow of the cranio-sacral fluid in your body, or reiki guide helping you balance and restore your energetic resources.
This temporary moment of seeming stagnation, associated with the slow down of Saturn in retrograde, can really assert a great amount of pressure, if one does not regularly release it, so both forms of body work are going to be needed more than ever in the upcoming months.
Saturn helps us ripen. When we embrace his guidance, it helps us grow better with age. When we resist his slow, methodical ways, suffering, pain and grief increase.
Saturn likes consistency. He wants us to be in tune with the cycles and rhythms of nature and the cosmos- not man made cycles and rhythms.
How will you know Saturn is asking you to re-evaluate your actions? You will feel a pinch, some unpleasant situation, anxiety, depression, fear or grief.
A retrograde planet has innovation to offer and wants you to try something new. Pay attention to what is coming up and make the necessary adjustments before you are forced to.
Additional ways how to harmonize Saturn can be found here.
Or discover the power of aligning your everyday life with cosmic insights in my training "OWN your WEEK" aka “Astro Week” for even more information and how to harmonize not just Saturn, but the other planetary energies as well.
In the meantime, may we all use this time wisely, learning our lessons gracefully and letting go of everything no longer serving us with kindness and ease.
XOXO,
Ox