SATURN LEAVES PISCES! some thoughts on healing

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Greetings friends,

Today is a monumental day—it’s the final day of Saturn’s stay in Pisces, at least for another thirty years or so. This has been a tumultuous transit for many, even if it hasn’t been their Saturn return. Saturn reveres boundaries, restrictions, rules, and order, all things that Pisces has no real need for. Pisces is the sign of eternity, infinity, boundlessness, the immaterial plane, and invisible matters. Through this transit, we have been urged to place boundaries around matters that feel too big to comprehend; for a lot of us, this has involved mental health matters and emotional experiences, both intending to help us define what each of our capacities are. The axis that Pisces and Virgo share teaches us about suffering and healing, and Saturn’s stay in Pisces has likely made us reckon with the fact that our pain can go on forever if we allow it to. It has confronted us with the ugly reality that horrible things happen…and the world keeps spinning. The day your life changes forever is just another Tuesday to someone else.

This transit has emphasized the importance of discernment, discernment toward ourselves, our dreams, and everything we interact with. This transit has demanded that we look at life with more realism, as our dreams cannot materialize if we keep avoiding the hard truths. Our dreams will remain what they are: dreams, idealizations, visions that we escape to when reality dissatisfies us.

Saturn has been asking us to define the undefinable, to contain the uncontainable, to render an image that couldn’t possibly represent the vastness of its subject. How do you quantify the impact of a childhood of neglect? How do you measure suffering that has no physical evidence to show for it? If your 10 is someone else’s 4, is the pain even valid? Many of us have likely realized how we have clung onto our pain as a way of validating the impact it had on us. If we’ve felt it for all of these years, then it must be real. If it’s impacted us for so long, then we must not be crazy; it must be significant or worth looking at, right?

Throughout this transit, I’ve found this especially pointing to the pain of the emotional, mental, and sexual abuse I endured for two years. I got out of the relationship nearly five years ago, and yet, my body remembers and reacts as if everything happened yesterday. The way pain is metabolized by the nervous system and psyche doesn’t always make logical sense, but that doesn’t mean it is any less valid. But with Saturn’s movement into Aries today, we are likely changing our response to that immeasurable hurt. We are likely recognizing that we can have this pain and things to do. We have perhaps spent Saturn in Pisces hoping that the world will slow to give us the understanding we are hoping will help soothe the pain. It won’t. And so, Saturn in Aries is likely infusing us with a breath of courage to endure the hardship of healing, as many of us have perhaps reached a place where we simply don’t have time to keep sitting in our suffering. If we want our dreams to become real, we have to get up and make today a better day. We have to see above the haze of hopelessness, grief, and anguish and look to the opportunity that today grants us access to. This is not to dismiss the experiences we’ve endured; it’s to not let them get the best of us.

We didn’t deserve that, but we DO deserve happiness.
We shouldn’t have to heal from harm, but the wound is there, so we must tend to it.
If we want things to be better, we not only have to want them to be better, we have to MAKE them better.

As Saturn prepares to bid Pisces farewell, I encourage you to consider how you have grown in these past few years, especially when it comes to how you manage and respond to your pain. How has your suffering kept you from achieving your dreams? What more have your misfortunes taken from you by you prolonging your stay in the pain? What are you gonna do about it?

I’ll be sharing more soon about this topic, but for now, I hope this offered you something to ponder.

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I’m getting ready to hold my Eclipse Season seminar—Eclipse Season starts in just FOUR days! It starts at 1:00 pm PST today; if you want to grab a seat last minute, you can get that here. This eclipse season is going to be pretty spectacular and transformative, as it will be hosting the first eclipse on the Aquarius-Leo axis since 2019. That nodal cycle will be starting at the end of July this year.

In the seminar, I’ll be discussing the North and South nodes’ significance, astrologically speaking, as well as their influence in both the Pisces-Virgo axis and the Aquarius-Leo axis. I’ll also be breaking down the two eclipses of this eclipse season—it’s gonna be juicy!

Anyhow, I hope you can join, and if not, purchasing a ticket will still grant you access to the recording, so you won’t be missing anything.

Talk soon.
xx, Aspen