What Is Your Saturn Placement Teaching You?
Where do you feel limited? What makes you feel angry/frustrated/bitter/disappointed? When you feel constrained, what themes usually come up? Surely there are many answers to these questions, but it can be helpful to consider them through the lens of your Saturn placement. The planet of discipline, rules, guardrails, restraint, responsibility, and maturation, Saturn holds a lot of useful information about what sort of challenges we may come across in this lifetime. You can think of Saturn as a tough, but effective, teacher for us here in Earth School, and their curriculum requires us to come face to face with the choices we’ve made and whether or not those serve our highest interest or not.
It takes 28 years for Saturn to transit the sun and when it returns to the place it was when you were born, the lessons of your placement tend to bubble to the surface. If you’re around the age of 30, 60, or 90, you may be familiar with the feeling that you’ve got to “get it together” but have no idea where to share – if this is you, I would love to talk you through your Saturn Return themes in a session or you can check out this handy post about Saturn Returns.
Though it takes nearly three decades for Saturn to journey around the sun, it moves through zodiac signs every 2 1/2 years – give or take when it retrogrades. This means the themes that show up in Saturn’s curriculum will be consistent for anyone born within this window (broadly speaking – remember it is personalized based on what house it inhabits in your chart). In my view, having insight into the focus of your Saturn placement gives you the tools you need to prepare, build some confidence, or at the very least release some fear.
Are dealings with Saturn always fun? Maybe not! But they don’t have to be NOT fun – ya dig? The aim of this post is to give you a little taste of what themes are associated with your Saturn sign and bring a little levity to the conversation. Growing and evolving is part of life and while I don’t always LOVE change, being a Cancer Sun/Rising, I have found adding language and a framework to my experience with Saturn’s changes to be an extremely comforting experience.
Saturn Through the Signs
Sagittarius
Timeframe: 1956-1959/1985-1988
Themes: Living according to personal truths and beliefs. Practical applications to personal philosophy. Creating freedom and expansion despite social constraints.
Capricorn
Timeframe: 1959-1962/1988-1991
Themes: Growing the F up by developing resilience, stamina, and perseverance to build the life you want. Understanding if you desire something, you need to put in effort to make it reality.
Aquarius
Timeframe: 1962-1964/1991-1994
Themes: Focus on the collective, socializing, community, and friendships. Contributing to society in a meaningful way that benefits the whole. Breaking the mold and letting your freak flag fly.
Pisces
Timeframe: 1964-1967/1994-1996
Themes: Embracing spirituality. Getting comfortable with vulnerability and learning to express depths of emotional experience. Connecting to something larger than oneself and building intuition.
Aries
Timeframe:1967-1969/1996-1998
Themes: Owning your identity and learning to stand up for yourself. Honoring your inner fire and breaking the limiting beliefs that hold you back from getting what you truly desire.
Taurus
Timeframe: 1969-1972/1998-2001
Themes: Building a healthy relationship with material resources. Learning to not externalize security and overthrowing fears of loss and abandonment that are keeping you from embodying your power.
Gemini
Timeframe: 1971-1974/2000-2003
Themes: Celebrating the fun, flirty, social parts of yourself may be challenging. Embracing your voice and giving yourself permission to not take yourself so seriously. Letting go of the fear of being imperfect.
Cancer
Timeframe: 1973-1976/2003-2005
Themes: Understanding what it means to be taken care of and being able to communicate your needs and vulnerabilities. Not over-nurturing others without filling your cup. Learning to set clear boundaries.
Leo
Timeframe: 1975-1978/2005-2007
Themes: Hiding away from the limelight because you’re too afraid to shine. Balancing your pride with your insecurities so you can fully step into and embody your personal authority. Learning to ask for the attention you need and owning it.
Virgo
Timeframe: 1977-1980/2007-2010
Themes: Creating a healthy relationship with perfection and breaking through the internal rules you’ve set that are holding you back. High standards are important but they may limit you from finding ways to serve yourself and others in the magical ways only you can.
Libra
Timeframe: 1980-1983/2009-2012
Themes: Getting comfortable with making decisions that align with your wants and needs over other people’s. Investigating your fear of commitment and balancing the need to be in relationships/social with your inner drive for independence.
Scorpio
Timeframe: 1982-1985/2012-2015
Themes: Owning your complex desires and emotions, especially when it comes to change or transformation. Releasing old patterns of being withholding and resentful of those around you when they can’t read your mind about how you’re feeling. Learning to communicate your emotional depths and needs.
Putting it all together
Now that you have a little taste of your Saturn themes, are you ready to learn more? Personalizing this information based on your unique chart and placements can help you understand exactly what lessons are coming up around Saturn. This information can help you make more informed decisions, healing the shadow fears of your Saturn placements, release limiting beliefs, and step into the badass person you are at your core. Book a session to learn more about what Saturn means for you and how Saturn Returns can manifest in your life. I can’t wait to talk to you!