Saturn transits to your natal Saturn are some of the most karmic transits. They show you the results of the past. They mark the most important periods of life, and they also activate any other natal planets with natal aspects to Saturn.
This is an identity crisis that makes you define the meaning and significance that you give to your life, as well as what your individual contribution to society is, and your ability to be responsible for your own existence. It provokes you to make a review of everything that is important to your life and what is not.
These transits always mark a critical period in which they test your experience, the maturity that your sufferings have taught you, and your progress towards becoming a more realistic and at the same time more spiritual being.
Saturn is the master of your own life and teaches you to have more control and dominion over yourself, discarding everything that does not help you grow and mature. It can cause periods of conflicts with the government or authorities.
It always makes the things to be overcome, and lessons to be learned, very clear. You constantly see reality as it is. This is why these are times to consolidate and structure your professional life, making important decisions that have a trial period of seven years, until Saturn makes another transit in its cycle.
Everything that is not valid is lost or disappears. You must also incorporate into your life everything that will help you find a more transcendent meaning for your existence. Saturn judges all your actions, punishing and rewarding you. It is an inner search of the soul.
Transit Saturn Conjunct Saturn
The transit of Saturn conjunct your natal Saturn is the most important period of life since it always happens around the age of 29, when you begin to be older and totally responsible for your destiny. This is your first Saturn return. The second time this transit happens will be at age 56, and it is also significant because it marks the beginning of a more spiritual personal surrender.
From the first to the second return of Saturn, you are in your individual cycle, where you have to contribute to society with your particular vision on how to do things and improve the world where you live. You must correct and change everything, both in yourself and around you, which does not allow you to be realized as unique and different from all other human beings.
You must evaluate your experiences and sufferings to establish the meaning they have had in your individual growth. You will have to change all those aspects of your life that you have been tolerating but that did not bring about any reward.
Likewise, you must do everything possible so that your life can be more satisfying, even if this period is somewhat gloomy and enduring. Consciously or unconsciously, you are removing from your life what is not relevant, and you feel a series of losses that are often painful, because it is like leaving the little child behind and becoming an adult.
The first Saturn return usually coincides with the moment you break with your parents’ patterns. The second Saturn return coincides with the moment you understand your own patterns and give them a transcendental meaning.
Transit Saturn Sextile Saturn
The transit of Saturn sextile your natal Saturn indicates that you have reached a stable understanding of who you are, and that you can take more control over your own life and prepare to reach your goals. You can now have realistic and conscious control over the circumstances of your life, not merely as an intellectual understanding, but born of direct learning from past experiences.
You have reached a point of balance and can now make things work well. You can also count on the things, situations, and people that have survived through your past crises.
You have to reflect on how to obtain more independence, efficiency and stability in your work and social obligations, and in improving your public image. It is a good time to obtain public recognition for your merits. It is also a favorable time to obtain the respect of others, which can help smooth over any other conflict caused by other transits.
You can work with order and efficiency and plan long-term projects. You can now protect yourself and prepare against future threats.
Transit Saturn Square Saturn
The transit of Saturn square your natal Saturn begins with an identity crisis where you question what you have been doing and you have to decide to make the necessary corrections to make life more satisfying and fulfilling. At a professional level, you can suffer from a lack of confidence, and you now realize everything you have done wrong.
If you do not succumb to this self-examination, you can also find solutions to fix your lack of inner satisfaction. You can recognize your weaknesses and see how you have been influenced by other people instead of taking on more responsibilities. You can be more self-sufficient.
This is a period to test everything that is valid in your life, and to know that everything that does not pass the test was not worth it, or is no longer useful for future growth. Now is a good time to readjust and change what is necessary with respect to the goals and projects that you started seven years ago.
It is a time to make an inner commitment and recognize your real obligations and responsibilities to achieve your goals. Do not get carried away by guilt or suffering, because this prevents you from taking control and taking responsibility for your own path in life.
Any conflict or crisis with the outside world are now indications of things that you have not been doing well and that should be corrected.
Transit Saturn Trine Saturn
The transit of Saturn trine your natal Saturn indicates that you have reached a stable understanding of who you are, and that you can take more control over your own life and prepare to reach your goals. You can now have realistic and conscious control over the circumstances of your life, not merely as an intellectual understanding, but born of direct learning from past experiences.
You have reached a point of balance and can now make things work well. You can also count on the things, situations, and people that have survived through your past crises.
You have to reflect on how to obtain more independence, efficiency and stability in your work and social obligations, and in improving your public image. It is a good time to obtain public recognition for your merits. It is also a favorable time to obtain the respect of others, which can help smooth over any other conflict caused by other transits.
You can work with order and efficiency and plan long-term projects. You can now protect yourself and prepare against future threats.
Transit Saturn Opposite Saturn
The outcome of the transit of Saturn opposite your natal Saturn depends on how you have handled your life in the past fourteen years and what you have done with the decisions you made when Saturn was conjunct Saturn at your Saturn return. You will receive abundant evidence now of whether what you have done since then has been worth it or not.
You can find yourself at the moment with a series of doors that open for you to continue growing or, on the contrary, with many blockages that constantly make you question what has gone wrong, either with work, love, or family responsibilities.
This represents the material summit of your life, the result of the last fourteen years, when you have told the world “This is who I am,” and now the world responds to you with the consequences of what you are.
If you must do something else and realize that your chosen path is wrong, do not despair. Invest your time and money in seeing realistically what you really should have done. If you have previously been too cowardly to take on greater challenges and are now not satisfied, you will now be better prepared to take on these challenges.
It’s never too late, the important thing is to do it and feel fulfilled and satisfied. Your life can now have a more real and profound meaning. This transit causes you to make the impact that you had to make on others and on your environment.
Excellent explanation. Thank you for these insights.
Amazing and beautiful interpretation. Wow.
Transiting Saturn square to natal Saturn here, coming up in a few weeks.
Thank you for making this information and advice easy to find!
I’m having transit Saturn sq Saturn. Last several years I recovered from lymphoma . I’m in complete remission . Doctors astounded. I feel clueless. Unsure what to do. Been 7 years since last treatment and have no idea what to do. I also have transit Neptune conjoin sun. Trine uranus!!!
I have experienced the first Saturn return, and there was an extremely close station. Not surprisingly I got very depressed at the time. At least part of it was something that was praying on my mind.
During the course of it I suddenly had a brainwave re how to deal with the issue – to discuss it on an anonymous website. That really helped.
Awful as the transit felt at the time, I do believe it strengthened me in the long run.
Unrelated to the above, and to be very pedantic, I would take this opportunity to point out that a fair number of people experience a 3rd Saturn return. I have no experience of this myself, but (following on from the interpretations given) the mid/late 80’s must mark a period when you gain an even deeper understanding of your own patterns and give them even more of a transcendental meaning.
What a cool explanation. Right on point.
Thank you really appreciate it.