In the Daily Mystic for Wednesday, I said that the Saturn Direct times are on the Moon Calendar but they’re not!!! I am so sorry.
I recall now that I only put the Mercury, Venus and Mars Retrograde/Direct times on there. Why? Because they tend to have the most impact. But this Saturn Retrograde has been such a punish that I think many people are tracking it more avidly than usual.
So I am going to change up the calendar and in the meantime, here are the times! You should be able to quickly calculate the time for Saturn Direct in your location from these.
Auckland – Wednesday 20.47
Sydney – Wednesday 18.47
Hong Kong – Wednesday 16.47
Dubai – Wednesday 12.47
London – Wednesday 09.47
New York – Wednesday 04.47
Los Angeles – Wednesday 01.47
Why are the Saturn Direct times important? It’s been the most potent Saturn energy in decades. But while Saturn remains in his home sign and near Pluto for several more weeks, it is easier to work with when Direct.
So, what have you learned since late April? How are your Clarity-Hope-Tax-Dental-Serotonin metrics these days? Or do you just wish the old devil would take his gloomy self off for an extended holiday someplace out of your galaxy?
Share here and again, sorry about saying the times were on the Moon Calendar when they’re not!
Y’all I had true nodes on my charts from a while back. So today i had mercury opposite my sun, and read that it was square the nodes. So I’d been waiting for that nodal opposition, I have North node at 12.something cap natally, and though I had a minute. (So I just, switched to mean node…oops,no minute) Im an arcminutes only gal at this phase of aluminium hat wearing, so BOOM the Saturn funfest on the south node was ON my north node square my sun. Thank you mercury for what I ever exactly know but might as well… Read more »
“Don’t look back !”. This is what the SBS CHILL radio channel is singing to me. This morning it is sending me messages that are so personal.
Which direction to take? I wait on the feelings and ideas that pop into my head after a good nights rest. And they are very viscerally Taurus aligned. No left brain to analyse and over rationalise.
Ooh aah. I just read my report for the next new moon.
It says:
Evolve forward. DON’T LOOK BACK !
I didn’t think it was possible but Saturn neck expanded it’s effects to more of my being yesterday resulting in on helluva physically painful day that had to be endured on the job and in ridiculous traffic. Emerging tentatively today…. but with lots less ouch but a heat pack and some homeopathic arnica for good measure. Ugh!!
Hey x I had excruciating intermittent neck pain some years ago that was triggered by stress, usually at the worst possible time. In my case it turned out to not be a mechanical / muscular / nerve issue. It was blocked lymph nodes at the back of the neck. It was identified by an associate who knew the method to drain them. They used their finger to apply pressure from the top of the gland and ran it down, draining the gland and giving me immediate and permanent relief. Have a look on the web for the technique, you can… Read more »
Hi David. That’s very interesting and something I’d not thought of and I’m definitely going to explore it. TY xx On another fun note I was woken up in the middle of the night with stomach cramps from hell and a dose of what I can only imagine was food poisoning so I’m on a roll. A bit mystifying as I can’t imagine anything I ate yesterday causing it but someone said that their doctor said it doesn’t always react quickly and I did have sushi Friday. I still don’t think that fits with the way I know my body… Read more »
I’ve had horrid neck head pain for ages which I was putting down to menopause and possible virus because it’s so different from anything I’ve experienced before But it’s still plaguing me so I’m looking this up !! Thanks david
Saturn retro coincided with my move out of the city I’d been living in for the past nine years. It’s been a much more rough transition to a new place than I thought it would be, even though I’m only a one hour drive north of where I was, and have faced a lot of old ‘stuff’ in entirely new circumstances and people. It’s been a real a$$ kicker, during which I’ve felt more alienated and depressed than ever. I’ve been in very dark-side, uncomfortable and crazy-making work, household and neighbor situations/environments since coming here and with no respite, though… Read more »
Frankly, I have had more than enough.
So, since April? That sounds about right. My town very stupidly and enragingly started this MASSIVE rip-up-every-single-major-artery-and-highway project around then to repave everything (not a priority) but maybe if we’re lucky, widen everything too (HIGH priority) and it has destroyed the city. My commute to and from work has gone from a 30 minute breeze to an hour and fifteen minute white-knuckle high-stress network of patched together shortcuts I’ve been calling “driving parkour.” I am praying that that was all Saturnine in nature and that some of these projects – as the Dept. of Transportation website alludes to as well… Read more »
Oh my goodness, do you live near me because the same thing is happening here! I would take different roads and time myself, and also look on maps to see where certain roads connected to try to find the fastest way home. Just this week one road opened and it’s a game changer. Saturn in the third for me.
I have learned that you barely need to breathe in a smidge of sugar to make your blood sugars dance wildly! An illicit carrot. That no sugar alt sugar drink? It will take you three times higher than normal sugar.. just slooooower. Now I know Saturn is like the Piper. You have to pay him. You get what you asked for, but you need to pay up using time from the Bank of the Power of Now. And some people’s Pipers want to be paid in Carbs. All your carbs. Till your shopping list is meat, greens & ingredients for… Read more »
I screenshot this and sent it to myself for when I do my sugar detox next. Thank you. My endocrine system thanks you.
Saturn had crossed into my 11th but has just retro’d Back into 10th so I figure he’s doing the last bits of tidy up no going back in the career and legacy department before stepping into get it right with my new circle and net work. Got to admit although I’ve been offered this job next year and find out I’m on an indefinite contract ?!?! So I know I’m safe but another post landed in my inbox and I’ve applied. Before I could even think about it, it had me written all over it. You know when you sit… Read more »
Yipee emg !
Saturn retro in my 7th has meant 2x long term enforced separations from my partner. News of the second came an hour after Saturn turned direct at the same degree as when he left the first time. I am tired of this transit.
I’ve learned that I don’t do things until I have absolutely no other option. It doesn’t matter how much I want something, if there’s an easier way, even if the easier way leads to the opposite thing, I’ll take the easy option every time. Then when I’m broken and it’s that or basically starve, end it once and for all or just give it a try already, I try, realise it’s way harder than it looks, keep trying every day for six months to a year until it either becomes routine or I relinquish the desire because I don’t want… Read more »
I found this place on April 4th and had signed a lease and moved in by the 5th (no deposit and first month free, it’s not like I was in a position to refuse) the women’s shelter was closing and it was beyond urgent the house reminds me a lot of the Tyler’s place in Fight Club and so I’ve associated it more with the decent/ Hades vibe of Pluto transiting my 2nd than I’ve thought of Saturn. Saturn moved into my 1st in June tho and the hag transit has been fairly bog standard. Swimming every morning has helped… Read more »
This and your post above. I don’t think we give ourselves enough credit,I’m learning how little I do, but holy shit woman, the things we’ve gone through and the stuff that’s bubbled up has been so similar these last few years. It’s like,
Fuq I can’t articulate anything anymore, but gahhhhh, words…words that convey gratitude and are the equivalent of hushed high fives? I don’t even know.
peeps-would pluto aporoaching someones ic mean a move-say to a diff country?
i’ve been messaging someone who is currently in dubai, but grew up where im living now, so has links here.
he will be coming back here soon but lives in sweden…aargh
thankyouuuu
may have to order a soulmating report on this…
pluto ic is home but not like just the four walls / roof / paying the rent, but your internalised concept of Home, which can often be intimately / complicatedly interwoven with other core ideations of Mother – Father – the home environment – who you are behind the last set of closed doors – how you feel safe, secure, or not (and the planet can help you understand that mechanism) – who you let in or keep out – what you deeply need to feel At Home… that kind of thing. astro.com has an excellent article about the 4th… Read more »
thankyou Pi-its crossing his ic, not mine…his moon is cancer…his mum isnt here anymore, she died when he was…funnily enough…the same age as my son now
sounds like I mis-read you 🙂
well, i guess transits to the IC can for sure indicate some pretty clear activity on the ‘home and family’ front, either way..
Imo, it’s seldom only one transit or one aspect. If your friend has Moon in Cancer, it’s probably in his 10H, since his IC is in Cap. The Moon rules real estate, and with the transiting North Node in Cancer, it may indicate that he’s ready to leave behind familiar places and structures (South Node in the 4H transit) and (re)build somewhere new.
YAYYYY thankyou ICPluto…although im pretty sure his moon is in the nineth xx
was reading about kronos eating his babies and wondering (not) how he got such a bad rep
Talk about killing your darlings
After having castrated his tyrannical father no less. I see it as Cronus trying to control time: the past (his father) and the future (his progeny).
My natal Saturn is in Scorpio, and depending on which house system you choose, either in the 2nd or 3rd house. (3rd makes more sense to me personally.) So this 5th-house transit action had me looking at how I felt unfulfilled creatively in my job/life, and beginning the early explorations of a career change. Ended up leaving my job to get into freelance work and to begin taking classes; that was in June. I’m still living off savings I’d set aside for this purpose and may need to go back to regular-job-land within a few months, but the insights I’ve… Read more »
I can’t even begin to describe the ways that working with, not against Saturn, has changed my life since April. I feel like a new person (sure that’s Pluto involved too!). I had a literal epiphany, like a boulder being moved in my psyche, on the Virgo new moon at the end of August, and though it has been extremely painful to integrate all of my new understanding (esp of my childhood), it has been so so freeing. Hoping that Saturn direct makes the weight a little less heavy
Somehow, I knew SAturn was retrograde, but the April start didn’t ping! Started a new job in April that is satisfying and less-stress, but takes up a lot of my time!
Well, I couldn’t find the last Merc and Venus Retro/Direct times in the Calendar, but kept going back to realise it is now called a MOON CALENDAR, so like a Piscean i just went ah, ok i am meant to look everything non-Moon up because this calendar is about the Moon, lunar portals etc. Nearly emailed, but didn’t want to create a drama. Sheesh! Sorry, Mystic, could have offered some user-end insight but just thought it was end-user crap.
I have ambiguous feelings about this. Ever since April, I have been on fire. Uranus sextile my Venus, Neptune trine my Mars, Uranus trine my Jupiter and so on. I started dating again via dating apps, I have made progress in my EMDR sessions, taken care of old wounds and made progress at work too. Plus when the Saturn retro started it was trine my natal Moon in Taurus. So no, I haven’t been feeling stuck ever since. But then this September restart after the summer holiday hasn’t started at all. All of my old fears came back to haunt… Read more »
I. Can. Feel. It! Twinges of relief and hope…excitement even
Oh my goddess, effin finally. That bugger has been trine my moon and conjunct my venus for all of this.
The trine to the Moon is precious. I am happy it’s gonna trine mine toward the year end (19 degree). It’s super supporting.
Not so much the conjuction to Venus though, I agree.
here’s an antidote: its my venusian return later (5 libra)
bugger off saturn!
I had not known Saturn was retrograde and I am in my Saturn Return to add to this. But from April, I was just feeling so off, physically and emotionally. I felt like I was on another planet! I can feel the difference of Saturn going direct already! Thank God!
been working hard, started new lind of work, facing my demons re posting timesheets electronically (not a big deal for some, but for me it held fear),
dealing with debt, AND had a root canal lol
yes, ive been doing saturn..oh and a whole load of relationship rubbish/lessons
it is productive though!
A brief compendium of Saturn lessons, writing for myself more than anyone else: – WRITE IT DOWN. All of it. The feedback. the agreement, the money. the instructions. the food you ate, the evil thoughts you need to purge healthily. – Double check it. Twice. There are embarrassing errors, critical oversights, unfinished or fuzzy thinking and things where they don’t belong. – Get up. Early. Often. – Do the work. It doesn’t matter that you don’t want to. – Listen more than talk. Why? See bullet two. – Mess infects. Clean that $@#% up. It doesn’t matter that you don’t… Read more »
So brilliant esp your last point. xx
I just saved all of these insights. Spot on.
Wow. I have been gone for a few weeks now. Real life has consumed me. But I felt so significantly today that I delved back into astrology. I read that Saturn turning direct was entering a new phase of one’s life, to let go of all that is necessary. I had met someone who was very significant to me and a very close friend and confidante of mine. And I had been very anxious because I felt as though this person was not keeping my secrets nor being loyal to me. I heard from another source that they were spreading… Read more »
Good on you.
x
It’s been a PUNISH, but engaging Saturn Protocol (wearing a watch, following a plan, dogged determination etc etc) has achieved miracles and moved mountains!!
Well, I have spent most of my life fossicking around in the past 5000 years of this epoch of Earth’s evolution – (Saturn on south node 27 degrees Virgo). I decided to spin things around a bit this time – 2019 – with all the personal planets edging through Virgo. I am coming in from 5000 years from the future and telling peeps that the future is here now – and what is that future zeitgeist? “We can no longer live in separatist consciousness mode, if we plan to be forward moving. Please see another person’s point of view from… Read more »
Oooh Saturn. Saturn is strong in my chart – two houses with cap on the cusp (9 and 10), two more ruled by my Cap moon, saturn in Sag in my 7th, that under-nurtured Cap moon. I am so familiar with Saturn it, well, makes my teeth and jaw hurt. Things have been hard since April and I feel 2000 years old. Want to quit my job and take the chance that someone else will find my 62-year-old, weary self interesting or useful, but am terrified. Will I end up a cashier at Target with no health insurance in my… Read more »
My 53 year old self is wondering the same thing.
I’ve just made the leap into a new world. It’s eye opening.
Yes it is emg.
YIPPPPPPEEEEEEEEE !
x.
I can relate to everything you have said here, especially the 3am freak-outs. What degree is your Cap moon? I am nourishing mine by being disciplined (some around me think dour, but potato/potahto) as much as I can with everything. Not always succeeding but giving it a red hot go. x
My moon is 19 Cap – so pluto is on the other side of it, marching toward my midheaven at 25 cap. Discipline, yes! I’ve just forgotten what pleasure and relaxation are. Also find myself trying too hard with people.
My Sun is 19 Libra so Pluto has been angled for sometime- face to face with the true price- hidden treasures and consequences of life decisions.
I’m sorry you’re going through this. What do you really want to do? We believe in you.
Haha I saw the headline and thought you meant Saturn Direct Times as in the Sunday Times. Well here is Chrysalis reporting from the front line of Saturn-Pluto-SN on 5th house moon (pauses to reapply lipstick and fix hair that has been blown around in the blast) Ended going-nowhere relationship because of mismatched values and financial situations. Spent a lot of weekends alone due to unwillingness to go out with non-me friends or blokes. Focused on depth-trawling of family of origin issues, unhelpfully crying in the middle of the night at realisation after realisation about related self-worth issues and how… Read more »
Wow that feels very me too.. didn’t even mention my contracting rubbish where I am struggling to find a permanent role that accepts me and my slightly fluffy ways .. and wonder how much age has to do with those vague go no where interviews where they took one look at me and think she is too old to be creative.
yes yes to this
me three
xxx
All I can say is, WooHooo we’re almost there!
Just learned that I live in a 4 numerology/feng shui home, which is a Saturn home. Lots of natural wood, foundation building, structure and privacy. It sounds accurate and kind of boring bc I want the structures to get there already sigh. Part of the journey is to dismantle the known structures that don’t work for me, and to dream up my own structure (nep conj sat). It was so freeing to learn from human design that I’m best living without strategy or rigid societal structure!
Falling behind with an important deadline on a project that could make or break the following several years of my career (or so I think now). A simultaneously difficult and healing relationship establishing with a very Pluto person – feels more stable and nourishing with every passing week, but still triggers old traumas and brings out ingrained unwholesome patterns of thought and behaviour that I thought I’d ditched years ago. Money, plans for old age, status ambitions and past failures got discussed a lot, suitably for a SATURN BLASTED RETURN WHILE SATURN SITS ON THE BLASTED SOUTH NODE. Tax &… Read more »
Oh, and – as a tribute to the aforementioned Saturn Return, I’m getting braces installed in two days. For health, not aesthetic reasons. I just want to hold onto my natural teeth longer, haha
Interesting, my periodontist just suggested I consider braces again (at 62) because of a few teeth now crowding..yikes.
Please try to get a second opinion! I’m not sure how serious or medically necessary braces are in your condition, but if it’s more for aesthetic reasons… let’s say, it’s going to take you way, way longer to fix it than for a person of 22 who gets braces; also, it’s going to cost gazillions; and last but not least, the process of getting used to braces is really unpleasant, and the complicated hygiene procedures for the years while you wear them – really onerous. The problem has to kind of be serious/dangerous enough to be worth all the bother.… Read more »
Libraries how do braces help to hold onto your teeth longer?
My teeth, especially the bigger ones (sorry don’t know the right English for stuff like types of teeth, haha), are at the wrong angles and don’t exactly join at the right facets. Apparently, teeth have a designated surface for biting and all the remaining surface is more delicate. If you keep biting and grinding them at these wrong angles, they tend to wear down faster, become weaker and are more prone to cavities, cracking and so on. If your bite is correct and the teeth are not too badly compressed together, it also helps heaps with keeping up the good… Read more »
i had the same issue..but i used “invisalign” its much easier and works wonders.check it out. you just have to wear the retainer every night after you get your teeth straightened
Mine were too complicated for Invisalign, though i fully went in with Sag Rising optimism! Definitely check all the research but do not get super excited until your ortho brings you back down to earth. I spent three adult years in shitty braces, but true Sag Rising style, got to “smilingly encourage” peeps at the bar (i.e. to the side of me) trying to pick me up with dumb pick-up compliments my Merc Aries would’ve shot down in flames. I just turned to face them with a BIG GRIN and a sweet thank you, how you doin’? Braces were shitty… Read more »
Me too… got the whole unpleasant wiry deal the year I took a senior corporate power-suit job. Spent two years in braces plus had jaw surgery. Absolutely the best thing I’ve ever done for my appearance and probably for my dental health. (Must check what Saturn was doing when I did that).
I don’t know, I find braces sexy, LOL. On both, or all, genders – and I thought so even before I knew I’d had to wear them myself. Mine won’t be metal but ceramic – the white barely-there kind of modern thingy. I think Libra Rising me pulls off a lot and can pull off braces, too, haha. Pluto-Saturn intensifying my plutonian first house with all kinds of squares: first thing to google was “blowjob with braces”. People swear it’s possible
Haha that’s brilliant! I was so self-conscious about my looks and at that time terrified of drawing attention to myself in any way. Every single person who talked to me about it commented on my ‘bravery’ and guts for doing it. Saturn was in my 10th at the time – public image – go figure!
I’ve left a community I have been a member of and leader in for 16 years under very unpleasant circumstances; and I’ve had a ten year relationship collapse underneath me. I am SO READY for Saturn to %^&* OFF!
Pisces Sun, Libra Moon, Cancer Rising
Yep totally done with it..
Omg, the exact same thing (leaving a community) has happened to me when my Saturn Return started! For a combination of several equally shitty reasons I had to leave an NGO I co-founded and was in the strategic board of. I had volunteered for it several years before starting to officially work there, and lost a lot in the process – self-respect, public profile, friends, a cause I was devoted to, connections, career options etc. I survived and feel now like I would have needed to leave anyway, even if the circumstances wouldn’t have been so naff. Stay strong!
I have learned so much! I can only describe it as if you’ve been running for say 8 years straight & then you stop but the the next day or say… for the next 5 months you can’t move because your body has completely stiffened up… oh, wait. 😐
Seriously though, I’ve learned how to deal with things that aren’t so great & still achieve a lot in the meantime.
Natal Virgo Saturn conjunct Mars in 6th House
I don’t even know where to begin but March was when I started house sitting to get out of the apartment I was paying for but sharing with my ex husband.. Friday we discuss what to do with the flat and my fear is that I will be forced to sell at a loss.. talk about Saturn stuff. Making life work for me hasn’t worked.. Its been a grind of pet tending, house minding, job hunting (to get out of contracting) and questioning my life choices thus far… sure I have realised a lot about myself and my relationships including… Read more »
The whole Saturn retro scene has been so incredible and enlightening..cap rising.scorp moon
But I would prefer to NEVER have to do that again thanks universe ..
Ouch..
This little fish has swum under a large rockshelf and is staying there until 18.47 this evening!